https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A study by the Bertelsmann Stiftung has come to the conclusion that a billion more people live under dictatorship now than was the case 15 years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20180322/ever-more-people-worldwide-living-under-dictatorship-german-study-finds Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:15:49 +0100 ever-more-people-worldwide-living-under-dictatorship-german-study-finds A wide-ranging demographic study released on Wednesday projects that large sections of Germany's more peripheral populations are set to disappear by 2030. https://www.thelocal.de/20150708/germany-regions-being-strangled-of-life-study Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:25:44 +0200 germany-regions-being-strangled-of-life-study German media giant Bertelsmann said Thursday it will cut its stake in Luxembourg-based television and broadcasting giant RTL by selling shares on the stock exchange. https://www.thelocal.de/20130404/48923 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:58:00 +0200 48923 German media giant Bertelsmann said Tuesday the best-selling "Fifty Shades" trilogy of S&M books helped whipped overall group sales and profits into shape last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20130326/48771 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:49:00 +0100 48771 German media giant Bertelsmann said on Monday that it was going to merge its English-language division Random House with Penguin books, owned by British publisher Pearson. Bertelsmann is to be the main share-holder. https://www.thelocal.de/20121029/45835 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0100 45835 Leading European television group, RTL, a unit of Germany's Bertelsmann, is ready to spend more than €1 billion ($1.44 billion) for control of the Polish company TVN, press reports said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110825/37183 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:36:00 +0200 37183 German media group Bertelsmann and investment fund KKR want to buy the US company Warner Music for up to $3 billion, a press report said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110330/34061 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:47:00 +0200 34061 Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann from a family printing and publishing business into one of the world's largest media companies, has died at the age of 88, the firm said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091004/22347 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:37:00 +0200 22347 Sony on Tuesday agreed to buy the 50 percent it does not already own in music giant Sony BMG from German media group Bertelsmann. https://www.thelocal.de/20080805/13515 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:41:00 +0200 13515 German media group Bertelsmann is in talks with Japanese partner Sony to sell its half in their jointly owned music company Sony BMG, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20080610/12397 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:24:00 +0200 12397 Publishing giant Bertelsmann will release a bound version of 50,000 entries from the German edition of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia this September. https://www.thelocal.de/20080423/11471 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:16:00 +0200 11471