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Munich police release suspects after terror probe

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:35:11 +0200

UPDATE: Police have released two men arrested in Munich on Thursday after they found no evidence of a terror plot.

German cities struggle with housing shortage

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:37:52 +0200

Too few new flats are being built in Germany's largest cities even as oversupply looms in rural areas, experts at the Institute for the German Economy (IW) in Cologne warned on Wednesday.

Artists create baby hatch for unwanted plants

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:15:00 +0100

A new receptacle for unwanted plants debuted in Schöppingen in North Rhine-Westphalia this week. It’s called a Pflanzenklappe, or plant hatch, in a play on the German word Babyklappe, where parents can safely deposit their unwanted infants.