Berlin Museum

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  Woman Gives Birth To 10th Child At 66, Nearly Five Decades After First Baby

  Alexandra Hildebrandt, 66, a museum director in Berlin, delivered a healthy baby boy named Philipp.

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  Egyptian Archaeologist Calls On Berlin To Return Queen Nefertiti Bust

  Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin.

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  Buglers Rob Medals, 18th Century Jewels From Berlin Secret Police Museum

  Burglars broke into Berlin's Stasi Museum, which showcases items of East Germany's hated secret police, making off with collectible medals and gold jewellery, authorities said Sunday.

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  100-Kg Gold Coin Stolen From Berlin Museum May Have Been "Cut To Pieces"

  Four Berlin men go on trial Thursday charged over the spectacular museum theft of a giant commemorative gold coin called the "Big Maple Leaf" and valued at $4.3 million.

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  Berlin To Evacuate Central Train Station To Defuse World War 2 Bomb

  Berlin's central train station, the Economy Ministry, a museum and part of the Charite hospital will be evacuated on Friday while a World War Two bomb is defused, police said on Wednesday.

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  'Big Maple Leaf' Gold Coin Worth $4 Million Stolen From Berlin Museum

  A Canadian gold coin named "Big Maple Leaf" which bears the image of Queen Elizabeth II was stolen in the early hours of Monday morning from Berlin's Bode Museum. The coin is made out of pure gold, weighs about 100 kilos and has a face value of around $1 million.

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  Replica Of Part Of Hitler's Bunker Goes On Display In Berlin

  A private Berlin museum has unveiled a replica of part of the bunker where Adolf Hitler spent the final phase of World War II, a project that hasn't been universally welcomed.

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  Robot Writes the Torah at Berlin's Jewish Museum

  The Torah-writing robot was developed by the German artists' group robotlab and was presented for the first time on Thursday.

• Robot Writes Torah at Berlin's Jewish Museum

  The robot's quill runs across the paper scroll, from right to left, scribbling down ancient Hebrew letters with black ink. It is penning down the Torah, the Jews' holy scripture, and it is doing it much faster than a rabbi could because it doesn't need to take breaks.

• Centenary Sparks Germans' Renewed Curiosity in WWI

  Widely eclipsed by the horror of the Nazi era, World War I seems to have found its way back into the minds of many Germans with a slew of new books ahead of the centenary of the war's outbreak.

• France to return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners

  France will on Tuesday return three paintings seized by the Nazis to their rightful owners, a move that is just the tip of an iceberg in a country where nearly 2,000 such artworks remain unclaimed.

• Berlin exhibition views Hitler's hold on Germans

  Bronze Hitler busts of various sizes crown austere pedestals. A red paper lantern with a swastika floats in the air. A tiny toy model of the Fuehrer stands behind a swastika-bedecked lectern.This isn't an auction of Nazi memorabilia but a major exhibition at a Berlin museum that delves into the personality cult that sprang up around Adolf Hitler --...