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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com Known to German locals as Forest Boy, Robin van Helsum had his 15 minutes of international fame recently as local police and Interpol sent his picture out all over the world in a last ditch effort to find any remaining family he may have left. Now, his stepmother and his friends have confirmed his identity. Helsum is actually 20 years old, hails from the Dutch town Hengelo, and has been missing for 9 months. His story was a wild one: Calling himself...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com Berlin Police have released the photo of “Ray,” a teenage boy without parents who wandered into Berlin 9 months ago. Known to Berliners as “Forest Boy,” Ray told police when he first arrived that he had been living in the woods with his father for the past 5 years. After exhausting every possible channel to find any member of Ray’s family, they’re releasing the photo in hopes someone recognizes him as family. According to Time.com, Berlin...
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LONDON, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Berlin PLC announces that its 100% subsidiary Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG ("Air Berlin") has on 26 July 2010 agreed with oneworld Management Company Ltd. on key aspects of Air Berlin's membership in the oneworld Alliance. Under the sponsorship of British Airways Plc, which is a founding member of oneworld Alliance Air Berlin, will work towards completing a full membership agreement with oneworld. Membership in oneworld...
German reunification has made better progress than reflected in the mood of the population in both the eastern and western parts of the country. Twenty years after the fall of the Wall, the standard of living in the eastern part of the country (formerly GDR) has almost reached that of the western states, according to a study undertaken by Professor Dr. Klaus Schroeder, head of the Research Center on the Socialist Unity Pary (SED) State at Freie Universität.According to this study, the...
NEW YORK, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Signaling the start of a global celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and marking two decades of freedom, change and creativity, the city of Berlin announced today it will present its top fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and artists in the first stop of a world tour themed "be Berlin." Starting today through April 2, New York City will host three eventful days called "20 Years of Change: Berlin Days in New York...
Tempelhof, once Europe's largest airport and a central player in Berlin's history, ushers its final takeoff into the sky Thursday, officials say. Its future is uncertain. Supporters of the airport tried to save it but a public referendum in April that would have called for its preservation failed to attract enough votes, Deutsche Welle said. The city of Berlin and the German government, which own Tempelhof, have wanted to close it for years, citing costs and declining passenger numbers....
By Cleveland-Peck, Patricia Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits Tempelhof which is about to close for ever as an airport. Templehof will reach the end of its life as an airport by November. Its tiny duty free shop has already gone, its main restaurant is closed and few footsteps now echo down its long corridors and across its massive passenger hall. The tranquil atmosphere is nothing like that of any modern airport. Its traffic had been much reduced for several years, because its runways are too...
Air Berlin has transported 2.85 million passengers in August 2008, a decrease of 2.4%, compared to 2.92 million in the same period of 2007. The airline's fleet capacity utilization decreased 0.6 percentage points to 82.9% in August 2008, compared to 83.5% in the same period of 2007. Revenue per available seat kilometer increased 14.4% to 5.55 eurocents from 4.85 eurocents in August 2007. For the first eight months of 2008, Air Berlin has transported 19.25 million passengers, an increase of...
By NICK HALTER A Milwaukee Common Council committee Tuesday backed the sale of additional Lake Michigan water to New Berlin. The Public Works Committee voted 4-1 to recommend a 20-year agreement to send water to the middle part of New Berlin, which has radium in its groundwater. At issue was the relatively unknown value of water, and how Milwaukee can harness that value in negotiations with suburbs in the future. Ald. Michael Murphy said the deal does not set a precedent because Milwaukee...
