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Berlinale Celebrates with 400 Films

“The birthday cake of nearly 400 films has been baked,” announces festival director Dieter Kosslick. The 60th Berlin International Film Festival begins on 11 February. The flurry of flashbulbs, the red carpet, the film stars: the Berlinale promises ten days of great cinema in the German capital. The 60th birthday of the festival, which first saw the light of the film world in 1951, is also being celebrated by Hollywood greats like director Martin Scorsese, who is presenting his new film Shutter Island with the two actors Leonardo de Caprio and Ben Kingsley.

"Fasching", "Fasnacht", "Karneval" 2010

"Fasching", "Fasnacht" or "Karneval" are all terms used to describe carnival, an ancient tradition which is celebrated all over Germany but particularly in the Rhineland and in the strongly Catholic regions of Germany. Mainz, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Bonn are hotbeds of carnival fun. In southern Germany the traditional Alemannic Fasnet is celebrated. The "fifth season" begins on 11 November and ends on Ash Wednesday. Carnival season reaches its climax in the week from "schmutziger Donnerstag" (literally: "dirty Thursday") to Ash Wednesday.

Robert Bosch Fellowships for Science Journalists - Euroscience Open Forum 2010

The Robert Bosch Stiftung will provide up to 10 fellowships for Chinese science journalists to participate in the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 in Turin Italy (2 - 7 July 2010). The foundation is looking for journalists who report on science, health, environment or technology and on science education or policy issues. The application deadline is March 26, 2010. 

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Energy Efficiency Award 2010

Companies from trade and industry which have implemented innovative, exemplary measures to increase energy efficiency are invited to take part in the international Energy Efficiency Award 2010 competition.The competition is being held by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - the German Energy Agency - in cooperation with Deutsche Messe. The prize money amounts to a total of 30.000 Euro.

European Capital of Culture: the Ruhr celebrates

Smoking chimneys and mines, coal and steel: for many decades these were the symbols of the Ruhr, Germany’s largest industrial belt. With 53 cities and around 5.3 million inhabitants, the third largest conurbation in Europe will be showing its new face as European Capital of Culture in 2010.

The Year of Science 2010 focuses on energy questions

The future of energy: this is the motto of the Year of Science 2010, which begins on 22 January and is organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research together with the Science Initiative. The aim of the years of science, which were launched in 2000, is to stimulate greater public interest in questions surrounding science and arouse especially the young generation’s curiosity for scientific topics by collaborating with universities and research institutions.

The Meissen Porcelain Manufactory's Bach Collection © picture alliance / dpa

Meissen Porcelain Celebrates its Tercentenary

On 23 January 1710, the Elector of Saxony, August the Strong, founded the first European porcelain manufactory in Meissen under the name “Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory”. A couple of years before, the alchemist Friedrich Böttger had been the first person in Europe to create a fine, hard-paste porcelain that closely resembled the then highly regarded porcelain imported from China.

Time and weather in Germany

Berlin:
19:14:41 -5 °

Influenza A (H1N1) ("Swine Flu")

Hong Kong's "Centre for Health Protection" is maintaining a website providing relevant information on the situation in Hong Kong, updated on a daily basis: http://www.chp.gov.hk/

You may also wish to visit the following websites for further information: Federal Foreign Office's Website on "Influenza A(H1N1) ("Swine Flu")" (in German, maintained by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany) World Health Organisation (WHO) (a coordinating organ of the United Nations responsible for international public health) Robert-Koch-Insitut (a governmental research institute based in Berlin responsible for monitoring infectious diseases across Germany)

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'Safer Internet Day' draws attention to dangers of social networking

Tuesday marks Safer Internet Day, created to encourage safer and more responsible use of online technology. A spokesman for the EU's cyber security body told Deutsche Welle how you can best protect yourself online.

German director lays foundations for opera house in Africa

Berlin director Christoph Schlingensief has begun what may be his most ambitious project yet: building an opera house in the heart of the African savannah.

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