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Bayer Leverkusen are offering fans an unusual service after winning a first Bundesliga title. Supporters can receive one of a select number of club tattoos free of charge. The campaign is entitled "Love that lasts a lifetime," a club statement said. The service will take place on three days next week and before the last home Bundesliga game against Augsburg on May 18. Tattoo artists will also be available at the fan festival before the German Cup final in Berlin on May 25 against Kaiserslautern. Leverkusen are unbeaten all season are a targeting a treble, with the Europa League final against A...
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An unknown perpetrator set off a stink bomb during an appearance by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner at the OMR Festival digital trade fair in Hamburg on Wednesday. A foul odour spread within minutes through the large hall which can hold around 7,000 people. A medical service checked the stink bomb, determined that it was not butyric acid and classified it as harmless to health, an OMR spokeswoman in Hamburg said. The hall was aired out immediately afterwards and the fire brigade did not have to be called. The perpetrator had not yet been identified, the spokeswoman said. The organize...
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A faulty dishwasher forced the interruption of an orchestra concert at the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg on Sunday. The broken appliance on the 13th floor of the concert hall triggered a fire alarm, which forced the evacuation of the building in the middle of an ongoing performance by the renowned Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, according to a fire brigade spokesman. Musicians, the audience and conductor Kent Nagano all had to leave the building. The interruption lasted for around an hour. The performance was later resumed, according to a spokesman for the concert hall.
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Dutch second-division team Roda JC Kerkrade wrongly celebrated promotion to the top tier twice on Friday. Roda went into the penultimate matchday in second place in the table, one point ahead of Groningen. Immediately after the 2-0 home win against Cambuur, jubilant fans ran onto the pitch because in the parallel game Groningen had been 1-0 down from the first minute at 17th-placed Telstar. But the players and coach Bas Sibum tried to calm the fans and stood together to watch the final seconds of the Groningen game on phones. In the fifth minute of injury time, Groningen equalized to make it 1...
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A suspected thief has been stopped by police in the German port city of Bremerhaven while transporting 84 kilograms of pickled chillies in a wheelbarrow. Officers spotted the 23-year-old suspect with the wheelbarrow full of the spicy cargo overnight on a pavement in Bremerhaven, police said on Wednesday. The chillies were packed into several canisters, but the man was unable to provide a "plausible explanation" about where he had obtained the spicy product and where he was going with it, according to police. Police have launched a criminal investigation on suspicion of theft and are now search...
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A female gorilla at the Berlin Zoo, believed to be the oldest gorilla in the world, will celebrate her 67th birthday on Saturday. Fatou, who was born in the wild and has lived at the Berlin Zoo since 1959, was given a special early birthday treat of twigs, lettuce, grapes, bananas and some melon in a basket by zookeepers on Friday. According to the zoo, however, there was no room for too much fruit since zookeepers are carefully watching her diet. At her advanced age, Fatou needs very soft food that she can chew well even without teeth. Gorillas typically live up to 35 years in the wild and no...
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The quarter-final match between Alexander Zverev and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells had to be temporarily suspended on Thursday after a swarm of bees descended on the court. Play was suspended at 1-1, 15/0 in the first set, just nine minutes into the clash, when thousands of bees swarmed Stadium 1. Alcaraz, who was serving, started to lash out and then fled to the dressing room. The official X account of the tournament showed pictures of numerous bees gathering on a television camera. "I've never seen anything like it in my 39 years of tennis. Unbelie...
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Police in Italy have stopped what is believed to be one of the oldest traffic offenders of all time with no driving licence, no insurance, but a proud 103 years old. The pensioner, born in 1920, was driving her car in the centre of the small northern Italian town of Bondeno in the middle of the night, authorities said on Tuesday. She attracted attention because she was driving quickly but repeatedly through the same streets at around 1 am (0000 GMT). During the check, a police patrol discovered that her driving licence had been expired for two years. In addition, the old lady no longer had ins...
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Hikers in southern Germany discovered 80 live fish in the grass next to a mountain trail in Bavaria on Sunday, according to police. The hikers immediately reported the carp to the authorities after spotting the live fish on the side of the trail near the town of Harburg, police said, but none of the fish survived. Investigators believe that unknown perpetrators likely threw the live fish into the grass from a vehicle. The trail runs near an electric transmission line. Police have launched a criminal investigation into violations of Germany's Animal Welfare Act. According to the local veterinar...
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A bullet fired from the revolver used in the murder of John Lennon in New York in 1980 is to go under the hammer in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £2,000 ($2,500). Auctioneers Anderson and Garland are selling the souvenir on behalf of the family of Brian Taylor, a British policeman who served with the police force of Northumbria, the region in which Newcastle is located. Taylor was permitted to fire the weapon during a 1984 visit to the New York Police Department. He himself had come under fire while travelling in a police car during the visi...
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