Leipzig News

Throughout the year, especially in Leipzig, the center of his life and musical work, Mendelssohn has been celebrated with concerts. Musicians like the world-renowned violinist Anne Sophie Mutter contributed to the celebration; Mutter, on this occasion, re-recorded Mendelssohn’s violin concertos....

LEIPZIG, Germany - A hairless female bear named Dolores stands in her space at the Leipzig Zoo. Experts say all of the female spectacled bears in the zoo have lost their hair due to an unexplained disease. Beside the loss...

The female Spectacled Bears, Dolores, 15, Lolita, 11, and Bianca, 15, are losing hair from their heads, legs and parts of their backs. Daily Bild reported late Tuesday that the animals appeared to be suffering a little-understood genetic defect that...

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, rifts between east and west Germany remain: east Germans vote differently, are earning less money, and are more pessimistic than west Germans. "Many east German people are frustrated," civil rights activist Rainer...

On 9 October 1989, the BBC's Diplomatic Editor Brian Hanrahan defied East Germany's attempts to halt reporting of one of the first big demonstrations against the communist system, in the city of Leipzig. Here, he recalls how he got the...

The eastern German state's office of archaeology announced this week that Deutsche Bahn�s construction of a new Intercity-Express (ICE) train route between Erfurt and Leipzig has proven to be a bonanza for a team of 150 experts, who have been...

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute in Seeweisen, Bavaria, have come across dead carcasses of pipistrelle bats in a cave in Hungry – these bats had been eaten by birds and, some of the dead bats had peck marks on...

The latest research reported by Discovery shows that if a male chimp shares his meat with a female chimp, chances are he's going to get laid. And only meat does the trick, fruits or grooming eachother doesn't help, said Cristina...

This image was taken during the football world cup and shows just how desperate fans can get to get tickets!