GenevaLunch » Berlin http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Strauss-Kahn, likely French candidate, arrested in NYC (update 2) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/15/strauss-kahn-likely-french-candidate-arrested-in-nyc-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/15/strauss-kahn-likely-french-candidate-arrested-in-nyc-update/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 07:59:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57649 GenevaLunch.com IMF head to appear before judge Sunday to hear sexual assault charges Update 2, 11:00  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), has been formally charged in New York Sunday with sexual assault, sequestering a person and attempted rape, charges filed after a maid in his New York City [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/15/strauss-kahn-likely-french-candidate-arrested-in-nyc-update/feed/ 2 Four Bern students arrested in Berlin for assault http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/06/four-bern-students-arrested-in-berlin-for-assault/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/06/four-bern-students-arrested-in-berlin-for-assault/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:50:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=53523 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – In the third such incident in two years, a group of Swiss students have been arrested for violence while on a school trip abroad. Four young men, age 18, were arrested by police in Berlin, Germany after knocking down a couple and stealing money and a cell phone from them. Police [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/06/four-bern-students-arrested-in-berlin-for-assault/feed/ 0 “Hitler and the Germans” exhibit opens in Berlin http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/15/hitler-and-the-germans-expo-opens-in-berlin/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/15/hitler-and-the-germans-expo-opens-in-berlin/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:39:43 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=48651 GenevaLunch.com An exhibition that explores the complex relationship between Adolf Hitler and German society in the 1930s and 1940s opens Friday 15 October at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, Germany. Some 600 pieces are being shown, some for the first time, with 400 photos and posters. The exhibition’s curators have tried to show how Hitler [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/15/hitler-and-the-germans-expo-opens-in-berlin/feed/ 1 Bus crash near Berlin kills 13, injures 19 others http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/27/bus-crash-near-berlin-kills-13-wounds-19-others/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/27/bus-crash-near-berlin-kills-13-wounds-19-others/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:11:19 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=47671 GenevaLunch.com A bus carrying Polish holiday-makers on their way home from Spain careened out of control on the A10 motorway south of Berlin, killing 13 people and seriously injuring 19 others. The bus drove into the column of a bridge in the morning of 26 September after colliding with a car which was entering the motorway. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/27/bus-crash-near-berlin-kills-13-wounds-19-others/feed/ 0 Berlin (Chappatte cartoon) gets graphic journalism treatment http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/berlin-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/berlin-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:14:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31213 GenevaLunch.com Update 18:35  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Patrick Chappatte, whose political cartoons regularly appear in GenevaLunch, is commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall by inaugurating a new online product, graphic journalism, sometimes called comics journalism. A section of his Globe Cartoon web site now carries his Berlin wall story as well as illustrated reports of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/berlin-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 Tourists, political figures flock to Berlin to remember the Wall http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/tourists-political-figures-flock-to-berlin-to-remember-the-wall/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/tourists-political-figures-flock-to-berlin-to-remember-the-wall/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:06:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31207 GenevaLunch.com Berlin Monday 9 November is recalling the fall of the wall that divided East from West, politically if not necessarily geographically. Thousands of tourists are in the city for celebrations and commemorative events on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. Key figures at the time, including Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/09/tourists-political-figures-flock-to-berlin-to-remember-the-wall/feed/ 0 Berlin, 20 years later (Chappatte cartoon) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/07/berlin-20-years-later-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/07/berlin-20-years-later-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:43:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31133 GenevaLunch.com © Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/07/berlin-20-years-later-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 International sports, athletics: Bolt in Zurich meet tonight http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/28/international-sports-athletics-bolt-in-zurich-meet-tonight/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/28/international-sports-athletics-bolt-in-zurich-meet-tonight/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:08:08 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=26252 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Zurich Weltklasse meet promises a feast of athletics this evening. The fun starts at 18:15 with junior races,  the opening ceremony will be at 19:15 and the main programme begins at 20:00. The mens’ 400 metres is at 21:00 followed by the real highlight of the evening when Jamaican superstar [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/28/international-sports-athletics-bolt-in-zurich-meet-tonight/feed/ 0 International sports, athletics: Bolt strikes again! Second new world record http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/international-sports-athletics-bolt-strikes-again-second-new-world-record/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/international-sports-athletics-bolt-strikes-again-second-new-world-record/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:57:49 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=25545 GenevaLunch.com Berlin, Germany (GenevaLunch) – Usain Bolt matched his performance in the 100 metres with another record-smashing race in the 200 metres. He broke his own world record of 19.30 seconds by 0.11 to register a 19.19 time. He also broke his 100m record by 0.11. He is the first athlete to hold the Olympic and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/international-sports-athletics-bolt-strikes-again-second-new-world-record/feed/ 1 International sports, athletics: South African teen in gender controversy http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/international-sports-athletics-south-african-teen-in-gender-controversy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/international-sports-athletics-south-african-teen-in-gender-controversy/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:21:49 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=25463 GenevaLunch.com Berlin, Germany (GenevaLunch) – Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African winner of the 800 metres at the World Championships in Berlin, has  been asked to take a gender test. The South African Athletics Federation say that it is confident she is female, but there have been doubts based on appearance and the rapid improvement in [...]

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