Annual German Festival Kicks Into High Gear
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With the traditional cry of O'zapft is! _ It's tapped! _ Munich's mayor cracked a barrel of Bavarian beer at noon Saturday, opening the southern city's 171st Oktoberfest festival for a crowd of some 500,000. ...
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The world's biggest beer festival, the Munich Oktoberfest, has broken with tradition to allow the sale of mulled wine to warm up drinkers during an unusually cold spell.
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The German economy, Europe's biggest, is currently running up one record after another.
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, is currently in party mood, with business confidence at its highest level since unification 16 years ago.
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The German language isn&#39;t normally thought of as being pretty, but that hasn&#39;t stopped the Goethe Institute from holding a competition for German&#39;s most beautiful world.
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Germany is holding a year of events to celebrate the centenary of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity despite the Jewish scientist being forced to flee the Nazi regime.
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Drunken revellers at the world's biggest beer festival this year can purchase a stiff linguistic pick-me-up for when their brains get addled - a beer- and mustard-proof guide to Bavarian slang.
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Pornography has been elevated to an art form as never before at the Berlin Film Festival, which has spotlighted the industry and its commercial success.
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Germany's carnival capital,  Cologne, has announced a steep rise in fines against urinating  in public before this year's festivities that doubles the size  of the country's fourth-largest city to over two million.
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City Centerâs festival features a such a wide range of dancers, companies and choreographers that itâs unlikely that many people will end up feeling their money was ill spent.
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An upsurge in far-right attacks is causing concern in Germany as the soccer tournament nears
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German Elvis Presley fans clad in jean jackets, hats and T-shirts bearing the name of The King flocked to this spa town to celebrate his 70th birthday with a series of shows and events.
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Tens of thousands of music fans are making their way to Scotland's largest music festival T in the Park.
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Carnegie Hall, whose mission to create programming looms even larger than its role as a stage for musicians to rent, has taken to creating festivals featuring events in various disciplines around the city.
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Tens of thousands of revellers are at the Reading, Leeds and Creamfields music festivals at the weekend.
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Ceremonies to mark the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be held in the German capital on Tuesday.
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With the traditional cry of "O'zapft is!" &#151; "It's tapped!" &#151; Munich's mayor cracked a barrel of Bavarian beer at noon Saturday, opening the southern city's 171st Oktoberfest festival for a crowd of some 500,000.