A German publishing group has set up a new home for 100,000 bees with a decision to put two giant hives on its Hamburg rooftop. Oetinger publishing house - which specialised in children's books - explained that the move is a part of its sustainability programme. Two women take a…
German authorities have returned a total of 179 art pieces to Nigeria after they were stolen during British colonial invasions in the former Kingdom of Benin. The decision to deliver the so-called Benin bronzes back to the African federal republic was made by the Senate of the city of Hamburg,…
A music streaming study has revealed that only hip-hop and pop artists really benefit from the system's payment model. Blues, jazz and heavy metal bands frequently end up hard done by streaming services like Apple, Spotify and Tidal, says the study. Researchers at Hamburg University and the northern German city’s…
A curious student researching historic buildings has discovered the world’s oldest functioning paternoster lift. Art history student Robin Augenstein, 32, studied construction plans of houses built in the port area of Hamburg, northern Germany, for a seminar at university four years ago. He noticed that historic blueprints of a heritage-protected…
The mystery surrounding a stolen ancient golden Egyptian sarcophagus that was sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City using forged export documents has been solved with the arrest of a German citizen in Hamburg. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has since returned the…
A watch and a ring seized by the Nazis from a resistance fighter who died in a concentration camp have been returned to his family. Josep Verges was a Catalan resistance fighter who was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg, in northern Germany, where he died in 1945,…
A new COVID-19 study conducted by the University of Hamburg has found evidence that the current pandemic started from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The study, which was carried out from January 2020 to December 2020, was based on an interdisciplinary scientific approach and…
Police in Hamburg have been forced to apologise after they tweeted a picture of a family of white swans being escorted to safety by officers and said in the caption that they would have "done it for black swans too". While they were at first impervious to netizens criticising their…