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The crime was considered one of Germany's most spectacular jewelry heists in recent history.

Waving lines appear in your field of vision, you have trouble finding words and feel a slight numbness - the sudden arrival of the so-called aura can give you quite a scare. As many as a quarter of migraine sufferers experience this phenomenon. Oliver Killig/dpaJust as the dawn heralds the start of ...

The Saxon city’s world-famous orchestras front and centre in a full programme of events. Classical music feature by Gavin Dixon

The year's most exciting discoveries include a Viking "piggy bank," a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf

IN DRESDEN, a city renowned for the picture-perfect restoration by which it looks the same and yet entirely strange, an old tale of love and deception is playing out. Since Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, c. 1657–59, arrived in the Saxon capital from Paris in 1742, a girl in a green dress has been intently studying a letter by pale daylight against a white wall. As other of the Dutch master’s pictures, and indeed many of those made by his contemporaries, tend to do, the...

Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden

The skull, made for Pope Alexander VII, is included in “Bernini, the Pope and Death,” an exhibition that went on view this week in Dresden.

news Coronavirus: New checks cause chaos at German-Czech border dw.com 15/02/2021 dw.com Some queues of lorries stretched back 20 kilometers on the Czech side. Germany had hoped stricter would stop mutant COVID variant spreading. But instead the move has sparked anger. © Oliver Killig/dpa/picture alliance Some queues were 20 kilometers long on the Czech side leading up to the German border Tailbacks stretching for several kilometers built up on Czech roads leading to the Ge...

A Nigerian Artist Has Put Up More Than 200 ‘Missing’ Posters Depicting the Benin Bronzes Throughout the City of Dresden Emeka Ogbohs latest project seeks to bring public attention to the citys role in maintaining legacies of colonialism. January 6, 2021 A "missing" poster in Dresden for one of the Benin Bronzes. The posters are a project by Emeka Ogboh. Photo: Oliver Killig. A new project by the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh aims to remind the German public about its role in his native countr...