Giant toilet raises eyebrows in Berlin
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A giant plastic toilet bowl on Berlin's swank Unter den Linden boulevard, the work of a French artist, has been raising more than a few eyebrows in recent days.
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The globe Adolf Hitler gazed upon while contemplating world domination is in remarkably good condition but for one blemish &amp;#151; the bullet hole directly through Berlin, inflicted by a Soviet soldier after the Nazi dictator&#039;s defeat in 1945.
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Beijing is flush with delegates from across the globe for the World Toilet Summit, a three-day event that got underway Wednesday. Although many may pooh-pooh the idea of a toilet summit, the founder of the
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EU climate meeting foreshadows German G8 push A man signs a huge EU star placed in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate by members of the German environmental group BUND European Union leaders will put ...Comment
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Fifteen years after the reunification of Germany, how is the new cultural Berlin faring?
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BEIJING -- In the downtown Environmental Sanitation Bureau, 100 public toilet cleaners sat at rapt attention in neat rows, red armbands pinned to the sleeves of their immaculate purple jumpsuits.
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Continental Airlines has apologized to passengers who had to put up with the stench and discomfort of overflowing toilets on a plane during a two-day flight from Amsterdam to Newark, New York, this month.
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Patrons of Berlin's Deutsche Oper were greeted by metal detectors, police and the media on Monday at an opera previously canceled over fears Muslims may be offended by a scene featuring Prophet Mohammad's severed head.
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A show of modern art belonging to the millionaire grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist opened in Berlin on Tuesday, and stoked a row over whether the owner had done enough to atone for his family history.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Reuters Life!) - Think you deserve a throne? A U.S. plumbing firm has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV which it plans to give away in an online sweepstake.
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Germany&#39;s papers report extensively on the opening in Berlin of a controversial exhibition featuring artworks bought by the grandson of a top German industrialist who worked for the Nazis.
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The first of 20 pay toilets opened today in Manhattan's Madison Square Park. Costing only 25 cents, it will give a user 15 minutes of private time and automatically self-clean between uses.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A university that has been searching for more effective ways to get out student information is taking their message to the toilets.
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Taking a page from Marcel Duchamp, Davis & Warshow will display its toilets, bathtubs and other kitchen and bath accessories as artworks in a gallery.
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Shop signs in Arabic and Turkish, storefront mosques and women wearing headscarves in the streets are evidence of how new arrivals have found a slice of home in Berlin's heavily immigrant Neukoelln neighborhood.
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The massive cranes that towered over Berlin for much of the past decade, an omnipresent symbol of the city's renaissance, no longer dominate the skyline.
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German animal rights activists have launched a campaign against plans to put up a giant ferris wheel in Berlin, saying it would disturb the sex lives of rhinos in a nearby zoo.