Germany Opens 171st Annual Oktoberfest
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With the traditional cry of "O'zapft is!" &#151; "It's tapped!" &#151; Munich's mayor cracked a barrel of Bavarian beer at noon Saturday, opening the southern city's 171st Oktoberfest festival for a crowd of some 500,000.
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Annual Passenger Traffic Exceeds 51.1 Million for the First Time - Airfreight Volume Soars FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany, Jan.
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, is currently in party mood, with business confidence at its highest level since unification 16 years ago.
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Two years after the royal wedding of King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1810, the first Oktoberfest took place in Munich, Bavaria.
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Munich's mayor joyously hammered a tap into Oktoberfest's first barrel of beer, opening the annual drinking spree Saturday with the traditional cry of "It's tapped!"
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Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.7 percent in 2004 after three years of stagnation, the Federal Statistic Office announced Thursday.
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MUNICH, Germany  - The world's biggest beer  festival, the Munich Oktoberfest, has broken with tradition to  allow the sale of mulled wine to warm up drinkers during an  unusually cold spell.
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For the 15th consecutive year, a German festival will make its home in Eastern Jackson County.
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BERLIN Nearly 15 years since masses of demonstrators swelled the streets of East Germany, toppling the Berlin Wall and uniting Germany, a new wave of protests is rolling through eastern towns and cities from ...
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue, which survived the horrors of the Nazi holocaust and the oppression of communist rule, reopened on Friday as a symbol of the rebirth of the Jewish community.
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Germany's economy is back on a stable path of growth after three years in stagnation and is not immediately threatened by the surge in oil prices, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Wednesday.
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One of Europe's biggest pop music trade fairs and festivals opened against a backdrop of calls for German music to be promoted by forcing quotas on radio stations.
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Berlin's annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf &#151; part of a strong French contingent at this year's event.
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Thousands of people in costume took to the streets of western Germany on Thursday as the annual carnival season started with a series of events that will go on until February.
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His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to Horst Koehler, president of the Federal Republic of Germany, on his country's National Day.
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Germans marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, with high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense that the nation has not yet fully reunited.
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Germany has commemorated the country&#39;s 1990 unification as debate raged about continued east-west divisions, the financial cost of the process and whether the federal state even has a future.