Status: 05.02.2023 3:20 p.m Hundreds of people gathered in the Vicelin Church in Neumünster this afternoon to commemorate the two fatalities of the knife attack on a train near Brokstedt. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also took part in the ecumenical service. In addition to family members and friends of the victims and rescue workers, Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU), Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) and numerous other state politicians also attended the church. In Neumünster, those killed in the...
Status: 02/02/2023 8:09 p.m The Holocaust survivor Sally Perel is dead. According to information from the NDR in Lower Saxony, he died on Thursday morning at the age of 97 with his family in Israel. Perel was born in Peine and survived the Holocaust under a false identity: As a Hitler Youth, he worked at the Volkswagen plant in Braunschweig, among other things. It was only decades later that the Shoah survivor began to speak about his experiences, especially in...
Status: 02/02/2023 06:12 a.m A warning strike paralyzed the entire subway system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg on Wednesday. Today, the subway and buses are to run as usual again, the elevated railway has announced. Normally around one million people use the buses and trains of the Hamburger Hochbahn every day. However, a warning strike by Hochbahn employees reduced this number to zero on Wednesday. Nothing has worked since 3 a.m.: The underground trains stayed in...
As of: 02/01/2023 9:08 p.m Anyone who becomes infected with Corona no longer has to isolate themselves at home in Lower Saxony from Wednesday. Also, a PCR test is no longer mandatory after a positive rapid or self-test. Lower Saxony had previously extended the isolation requirement several times. Corona infected people recently had to go into domestic isolation for at least five days, and longer if the symptoms persisted. With the decision to let the so-called isolation ordinance expire, Lower...
As of: 01/31/2023 6:41 p.m Sleep disorders increase the risk of obesity and serious cardiovascular diseases. Poor sleep can be triggered by shift work, depression or menopause. Many people cannot fall asleep, wake up repeatedly during the night, or find their sleep duration too short. According to opinion poll the Techniker Krankenkasse complains that every third person in the group of 40 to 60-year-olds does not get enough sleep. And in the corona pandemic, the problem of "poor sleep" has...
Status: 01/30/2023 5:55 p.m The Neanderthals were still alive when it was last seen 50,000 years ago. Comet C/2022 E3 is now approaching Earth again. Its greenish glow can be seen with the naked eye under favorable conditions. In the next few days, the comet can be seen best, because astronomically it is currently coming very close to Earth, namely up to a distance of "only" about 42 million kilometers. On February 1st it reaches its closest point to the...
As of: 01/26/2023 6:05 p.m Around 2,000 piglets died on Thursday morning in a fire in a pig farm in Neubörger in the joint municipality of Dörpen (Emsland district). According to the police, the fire probably broke out in a heating system. From there it spread to the entire barn. According to information from the NDR in Lower Saxony, around 170 emergency services were able to prevent the flames from spreading to a neighboring house and a second barn with...
Status: 01/27/2023 10:04 a.m The man who attacked other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on Wednesday is now in custody. A 17-year-old and her 19-year-old friend died in the act. Five other people were injured, some of them critically. On Thursday afternoon, the 33-year-old Ibrahim A. was brought before the magistrate at the Itzehoe district court (Steinburg district). "We are conducting proceedings on two counts of insidious murder and four counts of attempted...
Status: 01/27/2023 07:36 a.m The man who attacked other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on Wednesday is now in custody. A 17-year-old and her 19-year-old friend died in the act. Five other people were injured, some of them critically. On Thursday afternoon, the 33-year-old Ibrahim A. was brought before the magistrate at the Itzehoe district court (Steinburg district). "We are conducting proceedings for two treacherous murders and four cases of attempted manslaughter," confirmed...
Status: 01/27/2023 04:55 a.m In Grevesmühlen, the district council of Northwest Mecklenburg voted in an emergency session for the construction of container accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees in the Upahl industrial park. Around 700 people protested in front of the building - including right-wing extremists. Some tried to get into the building. There were tumultuous scenes. On Thursday evening, the committee gave the go-ahead for the construction of the controversial container village for up to 400 refugees in Upahl...
