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Some 200,000 in Germany Protest Nuclear Power

BERLIN -- Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said. In Berlin alone more than 100,000 took to the capital's streets to urge Germany's leaders to immediately abolish...

Refrigerator Igloo Warms You, the Globe

(Nov. 15) -- Ever thought of using a refrigerator to keep warm? It may not be all that efficient, but efficiency isn't exactly what German artist Ralf Schmerberg was going for when he built his "Stromfresser," or "Power Eater." The "Power Eater" is a public art piece that takes the shape of a giant igloo made from 320...

9/11 Link to Militant in Europe Terror Alert

HAMBURG, Germany (Oct. 8) -- The Islamic militant whose disclosures under U.S. interrogation in Afghanistan triggered Europe's terror alert is an old friend of a man convicted in the 9/11 attacks and, as the strikes were being planned, frequented the same mosque where the Hamburg-based plotters often met, officials...

German Mosque Where 9/11 Plotters Met Is Closed

(Aug. 9) -- German authorities today closed the Hamburg mosque that the Sept. 11 plotters used as a meeting placing, fearing that it was again attracting Islamic radicals. The Taiba mosque, which used to be known as the al-Quds mosque, was raided and shut down, according to Spiegel Online. The cultural association that...

German Could Be Jailed for Hitler Ring Tone

(July 1) -- All ring tones from a cell phone can be annoying if you're traveling on a train. But the one that passengers in Germany heard was more than a nuisance, it was illegal: a speech by Adolf Hitler. As a result, the 54-year-old man who had the Nazi leader's words programmed into his Nokia could be jailed, according...

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Hamburg signs Latvia striker Artjoms Rudnevs

Hamburger SV has signed Latvia striker Artjoms Rudnevs from Polish side Lech Poznan.

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Trashcam Project Shows A Different Side Of Hamburg

Called the Trashcam Project , Hamburg's sanitation workers have equipped standard 1,000-liter garbage containers with pinhole cameras.

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THE VIEW FROM THE TRASH

By installing pinhole cameras into 1.1 liter dumpsters, the group captured stunning black-and-white photographs of the city of Hamburg.

hamburg News From the Web

06/01/12 Farmer's market ready to kick off second year Source: Berks-Mont News Last year, the market hosted between four to seven vendors each week.
06/01/12 Hamburg students find inspiring stories close to home... Source: Reading Eagle - Reading PA Middle schoolers turn visits to a local cemetery into an opportunity to learn about early veterans.
05/31/12 Hamburg Cruise Days and Blue Port: the European cruise... Source: Go Dubai Hamburg, 31 May 2012 (HHT) Hamburg is one of Europe's hotspots for cruise liners.
05/31/12 Ministerium partners with Red Robin to fund heating... Source: Berks-Mont News Heating costs are high, and for when those costs would hit hardest, efforts are being made.
05/31/12 [Report] High-Resolution Protein Structure... Source: Science 1 Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. 2 Max-Planck-Institut fÃ¼r Medizinische Forschung, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. 3 Max Planck Advanced Study Group, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. 4 Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. 5 Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. 6 Particle Physics and Astrophysics, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. 7 Department of Physics, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 8 Wilson Laboratory, Cornell University, CHESS, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 9 Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, USA. 10 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA. 11 Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Science Park 105, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 12 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France. 13 Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. 14 PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. 15 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287â1604, USA. 16 University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany. 17 Joint Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, and Institute of Biochemistry, University of LÃ¼beck, at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. 18 Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3 (Box 596), SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.

Background on hamburg

Hamburg (; , local pronunciation ; Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany, the thirteenth largest German state, and the sixth-largest city in the European Union.

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