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 UPDATE: A fisherman who found the world's oldest message in a bottle tossed into the sea in northern Germany has failed in his attempt to sell it on eBay. The auction was stopped at the last minute. https://www.thelocal.de/20140728/german-fisherman-auctions-worlds-oldest-message-in-a-bottle Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:49:00 +0200 german-fisherman-auctions-worlds-oldest-message-in-a-bottle The trial of six German naval sailors accused of mutiny by writing racist slurs on a superior officers legs after tying him to a table opened on Tuesday with a confession - it had all been a revenge prank. https://www.thelocal.de/20130924/52073 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:58:00 +0200 52073 After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg's harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month. https://www.thelocal.de/20130517/49777 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:00 +0200 49777 Troubled German regional bank HSH Nordbank has reached a deal with Greek shipping company Navios enabling the bank to cut its exposure to bad shipping loans in a deal it says could become a blueprint for the industry. https://www.thelocal.de/20130423/49311 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:12:00 +0200 49311 The wreck of a German World War II submarine that was sunk with 48 people on board has been found off Norway's coast during work on an oil pipe, a maritime museum official said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130326/48757 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:10:00 +0100 48757 Watching a muscular train of shipping containers thunder endlessly by while sleet falls from grey skies could be just another wintry weekend in Bremen. But for Hannah Cleaver, the city holds hints of the North Sea and distant destinations. https://www.thelocal.de/20130322/48239 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:40:00 +0100 48239 A group of German naval sailors have been accused of mutiny - attacking a superior officer, tying him half-naked to a table and writing racist slurs on his legs. https://www.thelocal.de/20130227/48225 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:16:00 +0100 48225 German scientists have observed a group of sperm whales who seem to have adopted a deformed dolphin in a rare example of cross-species friendship. https://www.thelocal.de/20130130/47631 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:44:00 +0100 47631 Three shipwrecks dating back centuries have emerged off northern Germany's shallow coast, offering marine archaeologists the unique chance to examine them before storms cover them up again. https://www.thelocal.de/20130116/47369 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:18:00 +0100 47369 Two German tourists and an Australian have been rescued following two days in the sea in the central Philippines after their boat capsized while they were island hopping, the coast guard said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20121221/46905 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:02:00 +0100 46905 An international tribunal in Hamburg on Saturday called on Ghana to immediately release an Argentine navy tall ship, which it has held for more than two months in a debt dispute. https://www.thelocal.de/20121216/46795 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:02:00 +0100 46795 The biggest cargo ship in the world pulled into Hamburg harbour for the first time on Wednesday morning to unload 4,000 containers, signalling the beginning of regular visits for the giant vessel. https://www.thelocal.de/20121212/46719 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:12:00 +0100 46719 The northern city of Hamburg is planning to build the tallest lighthouse in Europe, with a tower nearly 100 metres tall for its busy harbour. https://www.thelocal.de/20121204/46547 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:47:00 +0100 46547 A burning cargo ship which has been floating around the Atlantic for several weeks is heading for Germany after an international row over where it could dock. But a politician says the German MSC Flaminia is a "ticking time-bomb." https://www.thelocal.de/20120824/44565 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:27:00 +0200 44565 The captain of ill-fated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia had crashed a luxury liner before while sailing too fast into a German port, according to leaks from an investigation published on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120302/41103 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:18:00 +0100 41103 Germany’s herring fleet is netting record catches, pulling in five times as many fish than normally seen at this time of year, despite complaints from fishermen about hungry seals. https://www.thelocal.de/20120228/41011 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:45:00 +0100 41011 A controversial submarine soon to be delivered to Israel – the largest produced in Germany since World War II – has made an appearance at the northern port city of Kiel. https://www.thelocal.de/20120221/40881 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:05:00 +0100 40881 A German couple and their nine-year-old son drowned off the Red Sea coast of Egyptian holiday resort Hurghada on Thursday, after their glass-bottomed boat hit a coral reef and splintered. https://www.thelocal.de/20120210/40653 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:56:00 +0100 40653 A man had to be rescued from the frozen River Elbe in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday after his canoeing trip in sub-zero temperatures turned out not to be such a good idea. https://www.thelocal.de/20120206/40561 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:01:00 +0100 40561 German railway operator Deutsche Bahn is apologising after a conductor refused to allow a couple to board a train home, despite the fact their tickets and money had been destroyed in the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. https://www.thelocal.de/20120124/40299 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:54:00 +0100 40299