News Politics France and Germany say they’re better off without Facebook after Zuckerberg’s threat by Chloe Maddren European leaders are calling Meta’s bluff after the social media conglomerate warned that they would shut down Facebook and Instagram across the EU. Germany’s Economy Minister Robert Habeck and French…
News House and techno are music, German court declares by Brendan Neville German courts have ruled that techno is officially music, and venues that host it should have the same reduced tax rates as concert halls. If you’ve ever left a club,…
Lists Music Coumarin reveal the 10 songs that helped them through quarantine by Emily Elvish Lockdown has been an advent for songwriters, Coumarin know all too well. Fresh off the release of their latest single, we caught up with the band to chat through the…
News Want to go walkies? Germans must walk dogs twice a day under new law by Jayden Collins A new German law contains guidelines for dog owners in the hope of ensuring the nation’s 9.4 million dogs get enough exercise. A new law is set to be instated…
News Berlin transport operators are asking people to stop wearing deoderant by Samara Louise The BVG, a transport operator in Berlin is calling for its commuters to forgo deodorant in an effort to entice people to cover their noses with face masks. In Germany,…
News Germany to ban the sale of single-use plastic items by Manning Patston It’s always a pleasure to report on positive environmental progress. Today, we see Germany take a step towards a cleaner future. Germany has just agreed to ban the selling of…
News Man breaks into Australian museum to take selfie with dinosaur skull by Kayla McNicoll So we get that social distancing and lockdown has driven us to do some strange things in order to combat boredom. You know, like TikTok-making kinda strange. Or, sourdough bread-making…
Film and TV News Big Brother Germany to announce coronavirus to contestants on live tv by Max Gundy Germany has revealed that contestants on their Big Brother series still don’t know about coronavirus and the havoc it’s wreaking across their own country. Currently, Germany has seen 9,200 cases…
News ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ is the most perfect pop song ever, science proves by Patrick McKinnon According to a new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles out-ranked other famous pop singles, recorded between 1958 and 1991, as being…
News Remembering the time Kraftwerk made a calculator to promote their new single by Luke Saunders Everyone loves a good old blast from the past. And boy have we got some eighties nostalgia from the legendary Kraftwerk calculator. Kraftwerk began as part of West Germany’s experimental…
News Artist replicates the Greek Parthenon with 100,000 banned books in an act of political defiance by Freya McGahey A 74 year old Argentinian artist called Marta Minujín has created a monumental replica of the Parthenon, using only a collection of around 100,000 banned books from across the world….
News Rammstein are gearing up to record first album in six years by Emily Mathison German hard-hitting, flame-throwing outfit Rammstein are back in the studio recording the follow up to their 2009 album Liebe Ist Für Alle Da. The band took to Facebook yesterday to give fans…
