Cologne

It’s expensive and rich in calories, but everyone wants “Dubai chocolate” this season. Even at the traditional Christmas Market in Cologne, one of the largest and most famous in Germany, visitors line up for “handmade Dubai chocolate” at the traditional stall of the food trading company Kischmisch, which means “raisin” in Pashto.

It’s a best-seller before it’s even released. The reason is the long-awaited Memoirs of Angela Merkel entitled “Freedom: Memories 1954-2021” (Freiheit: Erinnerungen 1954-2021).

Today’s sports broadcasts include the Super League’s 10th round, opening with the Olympiacos – Panserraikos and Athens Kallithea – Panetolikos matches. The schedule also highlights key games from the Basket League, qualifying rounds for Formula 1 and Moto GP, and various matchups from top European football leagues.

Detailed schedule of today’s sports events:

An explosion – the sixth since June and the third in the last ten days – occurred overnight in central Cologne, this time in a recently opened cafe on the ground floor of an apartment building.

An explosion occurred this morning in the heart of Cologne, Germany, specifically in the areas surrounding Rudolfplatz and Friesenplatz. The explosion caused significant damage to a building and left at least one person injured.

Hundreds of thousands of video game fans and industry figures were converging Aug. 21 on Germany's Cologne for the sector's biggest trade show.

It's been some 50 years since Michalis Krasakis looked inside a wooden box at an antiques store in Cologne, Germany, described by the shopkeeper as containing "some stuff from Greece." It is the moment that marked the beginning of a passion for art photography that evolved to the extent that Krasakis now boasts one of the biggest private collections of authentic and certified copies of works by

Armour-clad warriors mixed with cosplaying Super Marios and monster hunters on Thursday, as gamers braved hours of queuing at the sector's biggest trade show, Gamescom in Germany's Cologne.

"We'll have to run," said Mark Nass, a 20-year-old German who queued from 6:30 am outside the glass and steel Koelnmesse convention centre.

Yesterday, the NATO air base in Geilenkirchen, Germany, was cordoned off following suspicions of sabotage, according to a spokesperson for the German Army's Territorial Command in Berlin. The base, which is home to AWACS reconnaissance aircraft, was the target of an attempted infiltration last night, as stated by the alliance.

A German military base near the Cologne-Bonn airport has been completely isolated due to suspected sabotage, according to a report by Spiegel. Authorities are investigating the possibility of deliberate contamination of the drinking water supply at the Cologne-Bonn barracks, home to 4,300 soldiers and 1,200 civilian employees.