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Rejuvenated or infantilized? - the debate over cross-over books
Hamburg - It is increasingly becoming regarded as cool and youthful for an over 40-year-old to read a fantasy novel aimed at the teenager market. Whether it is the vampire Edward in the Stephanie Meyers series or the Inkworld trilogy from Cornelia Fu...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-22 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Cultural interpreter opens minds about other religions, people
Hamburg - Ayhan Cantay calls himself a culture opener. The job he does in a public school district in Hamburg, Germany might be more accurately described as cultural interpreter. Who among you knows Christianity? Cantay, 31, asks a classroom of ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-22 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

The Sacred Made Real - Spanish religious art seen anew - Feature
London - When 17th century Spanish sculptor Gregorio Fernandez created his life-like sculpture Dead Christ, he is reported to have intended that the work should shock and stir the soul. The haunting figure, depicting Christ's body as it is prepared ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-22 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Nostalgia drives comeback for Communist-era hits - Feature
Warsaw - Many Communist-era products disappeared from store shelves in Eastern Europe post 1989, unable to compete with Western imports after the Iron Curtain fell. But others have survived, and some have even managed to thrive in the past two decade...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-21 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Chinese dissidents watched Europe pick up their movement - Feature
Beijing - The fall of the Berlin Wall told the world what a beautiful country meant, what freedom and democracy meant, says Chinese dissident Qi Zhiyong, comparing the events of Eastern Europe in 1989 with those of China that same year through the ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-21 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Prescription for Rudolf Hess' sleeping pills sold at auction
London - A prescription for sleeping pills issued to former Nazi deputy leader Rudolf Hess during his brief custody in Britain was Tuesday auctioned for 750 pounds (1,200 dollars). The mixture to help insomnia was prescribed while Hess was imprisoned...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Leaving East Germany - as easy as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie? - Feature
Berlin- In the winter of 1962, just months after the Berlin Wall was built, bus driver and war veteran Hans Weidner decided he was fed up with life in East Germany. Weidner equipped his passenger bus with metal plates and, on a bitterly cold Christma...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Twenty years on, (n)ostalgia for East Germany lingers - Feature
Berlin - Sometimes women sit down and cry when they come in here, says Frank Arndt, gesturing to shelves in his store, creaking under the weight of toys, school books, cleaning products, and crockery - all from a time when the German Democratic Rep...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Days before the end, East Germans dreamt of a new start - Feature
Berlin - There had never been anything like it before in East Germany. On November 4, 1989, half a million people - factory workers, teachers, students, artists and writers - streamed into Berlin's Alexanderplatz to make a stand for a renewed East Ge...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

The Berlin Wall: a victim of bananas - Feature
Hamburg - On Thursday evening, November 9, 1989, West German public TV stations signed off the air at about midnight, as usual. Residents of Hamburg, a mere 50 kilometres from the East German border, went to bed, dreaming of little than the next work...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Washington Post shutters its remaining bureaus outside US capital

EXTRA: Netanyahu: Israel to implement 10-month settlement suspension

US welcomes Netanyahu freeze on West Bank settlements

Sluggish Serb Djokovic hammered by on-form Soderling

EXTRA: Palestinians reject Netanyahu's settlement freeze offer

Berlusconi agrees to boost Italian support of Afghan mission

Jordan reports three new swine flu deaths raising total to 14

Poland reiterates support for Ukrainian integration in Europe

Obama to travel to Copenhagen climate summit - Summary

ElBaradei sceptical about Iran's nuclear counterproposals - Summary

EXTRA: Israeli cabinet approves 10-month settlement moratorium

International stock market quotations 25 November 2009

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations 25 November 2009

Obama's first presidential pardon: Turkey named Courage to be spared

British officials reject Iraq link with terrorism, weapons - Summary

EXTRA: ElBaradei sceptical about Iranian nuclear deal ideas

Sluggish Serb Djokovic hammered by Soderling

German home-schoolers avoid jail, given token fine

Google removes offensive image of Michelle Obama

Netanyahu asks cabinet to okay settlement building halt - Summary