From: sevenload on Wed, Aug 18 2010 7:09 PM

In this edition: Free diver Guillaume Néry French free diver Guillaume Néry has set world records with his plunges not using any equipment. Now, a new video of one of his recent spectacular dives is fascinating viewers on the web and winning over more fans. The Salzburg Festival’s 90th Anniversa...

From: sevenload on Wed, Aug 18 2010 7:06 PM

The city of Constance is located at the western end of the lake by the same name in the south of Germany. It is a university town of 82,000 inhabitants, and its location makes it a popular destination for both mountain and water sport lovers. But it also packs a real cultural punch.

From: sevenload on Wed, Aug 18 2010 7:05 PM

The Hamburg-based Meiner publishing house specializes in books on eastern philosophy. For company director Manfred Meiner, money has never been a key factor. He took over the business from his father, due to his love of books.

From: sevenload on Wed, Aug 18 2010 7:03 PM

Teacher training courses has traditionally focused on the subject matter, whether mathematics, Latin or religious studies. Often the issue of how to convey this knowledge to students was neglected. Now the School of Education at the Technical University of Munich is introducing a new approach to...

From: sevenload on Tue, Jul 27 2010 10:06 AM

July’s record high temperatures aren't keeping people away from the German capital's cultural hot spots - especially if those places are air conditioned - or at least cool and shady.

From: sevenload on Tue, Jul 27 2010 10:06 AM

In the days of the Great Renaissance and Baroque Masters, young painters learned their trade by copying the works of others. This is still practiced at many art schools around the world - but copying as such can be interpreted as forgery. Adam Lowe is an artist who reproduces faultless replicas ...

From: sevenload on Tue, Jul 27 2010 10:06 AM

In this edition: Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture - Still Life EventTwenty thousand tables were set up on a closed off section of road in the Ruhr region on Sunday July 18th. The 60 kilometer section of motorway links Duisburg and Dortmund. Instead of road traffic it was open to pedestrians,...

From: sevenload on Sun, Jul 25 2010 12:53 PM

A lakefront mansion is a dream for many people. But for some who can afford to live the dream, don’t want to share. In the German city of Potsdam, just outside Berlin, house owners have closed off a previously public lakeside path in front of their properties. A row between citizen action groups...

From: sevenload on Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:26 AM

The European Commission has the EU’s coal mines in its sights. It wants to close all unprofitable collieries by 2014. And that could throw a spanner in the works for the German government. Berlin wanted to extend coal subsidies for a further four years after that date. But now the pits could clos...

From: sevenload on Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:26 AM

Not content with just splashing around? Then you could try one of the latest trends in water sports: Walking on water! The see-through ‘Water Walking Ball’ is 2 meters in diameter and, once you’re inside, is pumped full of air and sent across the waves.

From: sevenload on Wed, Jul 21 2010 10:33 AM

'Discover Football' is a week-long soccer tournament with a difference. In the German capital Berlin, eight women’s teams will compete as part of a multicultural women's congress. The players are not professional, rather part of teams which promote inter-cultural understanding thr...

From: sevenload on Thu, Jul 15 2010 10:15 AM

With only 188,000 inhabitants, Geneva is one of the smallest cosmopolitan cities in Europe. It’s a major financial center and home to numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross. It's situated on Lake Geneva at th...

From: sevenload on Thu, Jul 15 2010 10:14 AM

The German labor market is looking relatively healthy these days, but closer study reveals that more than 50 percent of new jobs are on short-term contracts. One in 10 Germans - and among the under-30s, one in three - now have fixed-term as opposed to permanent jobs.

From: sevenload on Sun, Jul 11 2010 9:45 AM

Willy Rizzo has long been one of France’s most acclaimed celebrity photographers. He's best known for his photographs of Hollywood and fashion icons. But what's less known is that he also designed his own furniture, producing a neoclassical range which is evocative of a glamorous era. ...

From: sevenload on Fri, Jul 09 2010 10:16 AM

Hassen Chalghoumi is the only imam in France who publicly supports the government’s plans to ban full facial veils. And he's paying a high price for it.

From: sevenload on Wed, Jul 07 2010 9:44 AM

Business executives undergo a reversal of roles and experience taking directions from a different boss as they join with professional musicians to perform Brahms in Leipzig.

From: sevenload on Mon, Jul 05 2010 9:59 AM

German-Jewish author Benjamin Stein is not only a novelist, but also a computer specialist and management consultant. Born in East Berlin, Stein’s new novel "The Canvas" can be read from the front or the back - with the two narrators meeting in the middle - and is a literary discovery about Germ...

From: sevenload on Mon, Jul 05 2010 9:58 AM

In this highlights edition: Award–winning club Sankeys in Manchester, famous marble from Carrara, an iconic hotel in Copenhagen, fashion designer Michael Michalsky presents a new collection in Berlin and finally, our reporter Anne-Katrin Gottschling takes us along Germany’s Romantic Road.Sankeys...

From: sevenload on Sat, Jul 03 2010 10:04 AM

The festival in the small Austrian town of Erl was founded in 1997 by Gustav Kuhn. This year, he is staging Richard Wagner’s "The Flying Dutchman." The 64-year-old Austrian has many talents, having been an opera director, composer, conductor, author and teacher.

From: sevenload on Thu, Jul 01 2010 10:01 AM

Marble from Carrara, Italy, is beloved by sculpturers who come from all over the world to personally pick out their marble and then work on it in one of the many studios available in the area. This year sees the 16th sculpture biennial in Carrara with the theme "Postmonument".