Tegel Airport was built when Berlin was a divided city and has been scheduled to close after the opening of a new international airport called Berlin Brandenburg, farther from the city center.
On Sunday — the same day as the German national election — Berliners will vote on whether to keep their city airport when a new one opens just south. Tegel Airport has fierce defenders — and critics.
Cityhostel Berlin offers cheap rooms and spotty Wi-Fi in a large, gated 1970s building redolent of the Communist era. But its ownership violates a U.N. Security Council resolution passed in November.
The German capital is experiencing growing Jewish immigration, despite a rise in anti-Semitism. Organizers of the city's first Jewish food festival are hoping it can help foster unity and pride.
For years, Philippe Mora wondered how his father earned this nickname. A new documentary reveals the answer: He slathered passports in mayo and hid them in messy, hard-to-inspect baguettes.
Last week, police in Milan killed the man suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. Now police are questioning a man whose number was stored in the suspect's phone.
Italian police say during a normal ID check in a Milan suburb, a suspect pulled a handgun and fired at officers. Police returned fire and killed the man. They have identified him as Anis Amri.