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'Allah Is the Best'
Inside the Structured World Of Salafists' Wives Salafist men wear beards, hand out copies of the Koran and cause headaches for Germany's domestic intelligence agency. But how do the women feel? SPIEGEL spends a weekend with two veiled women and learns about their vision of a perfect world. |
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Integration Debate
Merkel Urges More Tolerance Towards Muslims German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on her fellow citizens to exercise more tolerance toward the country's 4 million Muslims, stating that Islam is part of Germany. People, she said, need to be careful to differentiate between extremists and the religion itself. |
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Letter from Berlin
SPD Still Looking for a Leader to Challenge Merkel Not long ago, Germany's center-left Social Democrats looked in good shape to challenge Angela Merkel for the Chancellery in 2013 general elections. But with just a year to go before the vote, the party has yet to settle on a candidate. The delay could prove harmful to the party. |
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Tough Sell
EADS Pitches Merits of BAE Merger to Berlin Franco-German company EADS is facing significant resistance in Berlin to its plan to merge with British defense giant BAE Systems. German politicians fear a loss of jobs and power in the new company, which if created would become the global market leader in defense. |
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SPIEGEL Interview with J.K. Rowling
'I've Really Exhausted the Magical' J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," was published on Thursday. In a SPIEGEL interview, the best-selling author talks about life after Harry Potter, describes her paranoia about losing everything she had gained and dispenses a few parenting tips. |
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The Dark Side
Exhibition Peers into Romanticism's Realm of Evil A new exhibition in Frankfurt focuses on the dark side of the Romantic movement. Works from artists including Dalí, Goya and Munch examine themes of good and evil, sanity and madness and suffering and lust. Just the thing for the long winter evenings. |
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Nazi Discovery
Scientists Say Buddha Statue Made of Meteorite The statue was first discovered by the Nazis in Tibet as they were searching for the origins of the Aryan race. Now, scientists have established that an ancient Buddha statue known as the "Iron Man" was carved from the remains of a meteorite. |
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Modern-Day Noah's Ark
French Village Offers Refuge from Apocalypse Only residents of Bugarach, a tiny French village at the foot of the Pyrenees, are supposed to survive the end of the world when the Mayan calendar ends on December 21. According to New Agers, the local mountain has magical powers as a gate between different worlds. With the supposed apocalypse just months away, the mayor of Bugarach fears that his town will be overrun with visitors. |
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No Strollers, No Music, No Sugar
Berlin Café Under Fire for Über-Purist Stance To some people, a café without music, laptops, or strollers to stumble over might sound like the perfect place to relax. But parents in Berlin have complained they feel discriminated against by a new coffee shop with incredibly strict rules. |
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Doping for Bikes
Futuristic Cycles Become Today's Reality Bikes used to be seen as the preferred means of transport for the tech-resistant, but a new wave of e-bikes could prove popular with gadget geeks too. They provide chargers for smartphones, intelligent automatic transmissions, advanced theft protection and enough power to make biking up steep mountain climbs more manageable. |
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Picture This
Free Fall |
