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Star Dancers Leave the World as They Arrived—Together
They Were Born, Danced,
and Died Together
OBITUARY
Nov 18, 2025 1:06 PM CST

They Were Born, Danced, and Died Together

Kessler twins die at 89 in what authorities say was a 'joint suicide'

(Newser) - Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their career in the 1950s and performed with Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, and Harry Belafonte among others, have died at age 89, police in Germany said Tuesday, per the AP . The death of the twins in Grünwald, a prosperous...

Famed Gilded Cross Taken Off Peak— for Sticker Removal

Cross on Germany's Zugspitze is being restored after visitors repeatedly put their little stamp on it

(Newser) - Visitors to Germany's highest peak will have to do without the landmark gilded cross at its summit for the next few weeks. A helicopter on Tuesday lifted the cross from the 9,718-foot peak of the Zugspitze—a mountain shared between Germany and Austria in the Bavarian Alps—for...

Citing Persecution, German Far-Right Influencer Seeks Asylum in US

Naomi Seibt cites death threats, surveillance in Germany as motivation

(Newser) - A far-right German activist with ties to the Trump movement is seeking asylum in the United States, claiming political persecution at home, the Washington Post reports. Naomi Seibt, a 25-year-old social media influencer linked to Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, says she faces surveillance, state media criticism, and...

German Rats Are Busted Attacking Bats Midair
Bats in Germany Had Better
Watch Out for the Rats
NEW STUDY
Oct 29, 2025 10:30 AM CDT

Bats in Germany Had Better Watch Out for the Rats

Urban rodents are recorded hunting bats that are flying by or on the ground

(Newser) - Rats are now on record as bat hunters. Infrared and thermal cameras set up at hibernation sites in two northern German towns captured brown rats in the act, with footage showing the rodents standing upright to snatch bats out of midair or ambushing them on the ground. This marks the...

Lift Maker Turns Louvre Heist Into Viral Ad Campaign

'When you need to move fast,' says a new slogan from German company

(Newser) - It's a new contender for the funniest—or at least timeliest—ad of the year. The German company whose furniture lift was used in last weekend's audacious heist at the Louvre is out with a new advertising campaign that's quickly going viral, reports the Guardian . "When...

The Countries With the Most American Expats

Mexico tops the list of nations hosting the most Americans

(Newser) - Millions of Americans live outside of the United States, according to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, which recently updated its stats to see which countries host the most former residents of the USA. AARO's analysis used census data culled by the UN and from the US Census Bureau,...

'Trial Living' in German City Comes With a Nice Price Tag

Program in eastern Germany's Eisenhuettenstadt hopes to lure skilled workers with rent-free living

(Newser) - Eisenhuettenstadt, a town in eastern Germany once envisioned as a socialist ideal, is now serving as a real-world laboratory in the country's effort to reverse decades of population decline. Once called Stalinstadt and built around a steelworks, the town's population has shrunk by more than half since...

Drones Shut Down Another European Airport

Munich airport temporarily shut down late Thursday

(Newser) - Munich airport was temporarily shut down late Thursday after a string of drone sightings in the area, airport, officials said. Germany's air traffic control restricted flights at the airport shortly after 10pm and then halted them altogether, airport operators said. Officials said 17 flights were unable to take off,...

Germany's Oktoberfest Shut Down After Bomb Threat

German cops shut down Oktoberfest Wednesday to investigate after explosion in another part of city

(Newser) - German police closed the Oktoberfest fairgrounds on Wednesday morning following a bomb threat from the suspected perpetrator of an explosion in northern Munich, city officials said. At least one person's death was believed to be connected to the blast at a residential building early Wednesday, which Munich police said...

Scientists Found Marine Life Where They Didn't Expect It

Thriving on World War II explosives in the Baltic Sea, specifically

(Newser) - An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms, and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. At a former weapons dump site in the Baltic Sea, scientists found more creatures living on top of warheads than in the surrounding seabed. "...

Man, 2 Kids Die While Trapped Inside Burning Tesla

Rescuers unable to open doors after car hits tree, bursts into flames

(Newser) - A tragic crash in Germany has renewed concerns about Tesla's electronic door handles after a 43-year-old man and two nine-year-old children died when their car slammed into a tree and caught fire. According to police and local reports, bystanders who rushed to help—including a nearby shop owner—...

2 NATO Nations Scramble Jets to Monitor Russian Plane

Germany, Sweden say the surveillance flight over Baltic Sea stayed incommunicado

(Newser) - Fighter jets from Germany and Sweden were scrambled Sunday to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying unidentified over the Baltic Sea, military officials said. Two Swedish Gripen jets and two German Eurofighter jets deployed in international airspace to monitor and photograph the Russian IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft,...

'Tinder Swindler' Nabbed After Years on the Lam

Shimon Hayut, accused of defrauding Berlin woman, faces extradition from country of Georgia

(Newser) - The man featured on Netflix's The Tinder Swindler , accused of conning women out of millions of dollars , has been arrested in the country of Georgia after years on the run. Shimon Hayut, an Israeli national who gained notoriety for allegedly scamming women he met online, was detained at...

Suspect in Madeleine McCann's Disappearance Leaves Prison

Christian Brueckner to be fitted with ankle monitor

(Newser) - The prime suspect in the disappearance of British 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal has walked free from a German prison, where he was serving time for the 2005 rape of a woman at the same hotel where Madeline vanished two years later, per the Independent . Christian Brueckner, 48, left...

Germany Dumped Piles of WWII Ammo in the Sea. It's Trying to Recover Them

1.6M tons of ordnance are poisoning the Baltic and North seas, and it's tricky to get them out

(Newser) - Slowly, Dirk Schoenen dives down to a huge pile of ammunition from World War II at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. He removes some of the top pieces and carefully puts them into a basket, as a team of engineers, divers, and seamen watch his every move from a...

In Survey, 93% of Pilots Admit to Naps on the Job

Though the naps are controlled, the fatigue triggering them raises safety concerns

(Newser) - There's a new norm in the skies: snoozing pilots. A survey from Vereinigung Cockpit, a German pilots union, reveals that nearly all participating German pilots have dozed off during flights in recent months—a habit the union calls a "worrying reality" amid mounting fatigue in the aviation...

The Prankster Ringing Doorbells Wasn't Human

Bavarian cops find a slug was making apartment complex doorbells go off, not kids

(Newser) - A doorbell "prankster" terrorizing an apartment complex in Bavaria has been nabbed—but it's not who anyone thought it was. Citing German media , the Guardian reports that residents of the building had called the cops after their doorbells kept ringing late at night, with no one at the...

Tesla's European Sales Slump Is No Blip

Company sees 8th straight month of year-over-year declining registrations in some markets

(Newser) - Tesla's troubles in Europe stretched into an eighth straight month in August, as the electric vehicle maker faced a combination of rising competition, political controversy, and weakening brand loyalty. Fresh registration data from France, Denmark, and Sweden shows Tesla's revamped Model Y failed to reverse the sales...

Report: Russian Drones Are Tracking Supplies to Ukraine

Surveillance flights raise alarms over potential sabotage on European routes used by US

(Newser) - US and European officials say Russian surveillance drones are being flown over key military supply routes in eastern Germany, gathering intelligence that could help Moscow's sabotage efforts in its war in Ukraine. The activity along routes used by the US and its allies, described as "straight-up espionage"...

Germany Moves Closer to Conscription
Germany
Moves Closer
to Conscription
Aug 27, 2025 10:45 AM CDT

Germany Moves Closer to Conscription

New plan would require 18-year-old men to answer questions on health, willingness to serve

(Newser) - As tensions with Russia intensify and doubts grow over US military support for Europe, Germany is taking cautious steps toward bringing back compulsory military service for the first time in more than a decade. On Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Cabinet backed a plan to reintroduce a version of...

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