German News Service | 15.02.2018, 18:00 UTC

German News Service 15.02.2018 | 18:00 UTC

How Deniz Yücel's year in prison affects German-Turkish relations

	There's rarely a discussion about German-Turkish relations in which Deniz Yücel's name does not come up. The imprisoned journalist has been effectively held hostage in Turkey by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a year.

Germany averaged four anti-Semitic crimes per day in 2017, report says

	Police logged over 1,400 crimes targeting Jews in Germany last year, according to a newspaper report. The vast majority of the crimes were carried out by right-wing extremists or people with far-right tendencies.

Can Hamburg deal with its Nazi past during a property boom?

	A row is stirring over a planned public-private memorial in Hamburg's luxury quarter. Relatives of people tortured by the Nazis there have protested commemoration plans put forward by the city and the private investors.

Estate of Hitler's filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin foundation

	A German cultural foundation has been bequeathed photos, films, manuscripts and letters that belonged to the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, best known as the director of several Nazi propaganda movies.

Everything you need to know about the 2018 Berlinale

	Are you ready? The 68th edition of Germany's largest film festival starts this Thursday and will showcase almost 400 new productions. Here are a few highlights of the rich program.

Could soils help save the climate?

	Soils are a double-edged climate sword. They are huge reservoirs of organic carbon and can act as a carbon sink. But they can also release CO2 into the atmosphere when used unsustainably.

Fast food causes 'infection' in mice

	Gorging on salts, sugars and fats doesn't just expand our waistlines. Eicke Latz tells DW what happened inside the bodies of his lab mice when he fed them a Western-style diet.

Missing German dog survives monthslong trek to Switzerland

	A German shepherd who vanished from her home in western Germany last August has resurfaced hundreds of kilometers away. Rapunzel was found in bad shape on a Swiss highway, but paramedics say she'll survive.

Germany's Savchenko and Massot win pairs figure skating gold with world record score

	German figure skaters Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot have won gold at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, setting a new free program world record in the process. It's Germany's first pairs gold since 1952.

Germany sees another record year for tourism

	German tourism had its eighth record year in a row in 2017, figures released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Thursday showed.

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