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Holiday swimming courses for around 6,500 children
More than 6,500 children in Berlin learned to swim or improved their swimming skills in intensive courses during the school holidays this year. more
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A 15-meter antenna mast fell onto the Ringbahn in Berlin during a storm on Thursday (Feb. 17).
The fire department deployed a crane to clear the track. The S-Bahn traffic on the Ringbahn line was interrupted between Hermannstraße and Südkreuz. Tempelhofer Damm was also closed off, as was the junction of the A100 city highway. The BVG bus lines 140 and 184 were also affected. A traffic jam formed on Tempelhofer Damm.