Actress Veronica Ferres is present at the launch of "Generation Vodka", a new book about the ever more prevalent phenomenon of binge drinking among teens.
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A shop in Munich offers some unusual and very Bavarian types of ice cream.
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No emails, no texting, no internet; for many Germans this is unthinkable. The author Christoph Koch performed a self-experiment and pulled the plug for almost 6 weeks. "dpa video" met with him and asked him a couple of questions. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Baywatch mermaid and model blond Pamela Anderson opens the new VIP Club in Frankfurt.

Viva con Agua is a Hamburg-based charity that helps people around the world have access to clean drinking water. Here, a group of local kids partake in a sponsored run – RUN4WASH – in order to raise money to help others.

Celebrities Mola Adebesi and Claude-Oliver Rudolf as well as professional race drivers compete against each other at the Beetle-Fun-Cup at the Hockenheimring.

A primary vote, a secondary, vote, and the five-percent hurdle: The German election is much more than two Xs on a ballot. In this video on the ABCs of Bundestag elections, you’ll learn all about these terms and the election process overall. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Campaign commercial on behalf of the “Grünen – Bündnis 90”: Does that remind you of something? We imagined what it would be like at Angie’s and Guido’s home. It wasn’t pleasant.

This is a campaign commercial of the Pirate Party for the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 2009. The Pirate Party opposes the dismantlement of civil rights in telephony and on the Internet, and in particular Germany’s new Internet censorship law called Zugangserschwerungsgesetz. It also opposes artificial monopolies and various measures of surveillance of citizens.

A humorous take on the long-running German television series Tatort ("Crime Scene") and crime shows in general! Viel Spaß!

Rhine/Main TV reporter Thomas Raudnitzky waits for music star Rihanna in the middle of the night to interview her. Is she going to show up or will she leave him standing in the rain?

At the Waxhouse in Hamburg you can get a comfortable and painless hair removal with hot wax.

Eighteen-year-old Piet Mundry made the feature film Entropia together with amateur actors, and directed it himself. The plot: Charles returns to his childhood home town and encounters old friends and enemies who will change his future. With entropy as an alibi for his revenge, Charles begins to create chaos in Lüdinghausen.

"I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas?" I'll bet it's the first time you've heard that one! Diving instructor Werner Lambert has placed an entire life-sized Christmas diorama underwater in the Moselle town of Bernkastel-Kues. Here's to a very wet Christmas! Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Alina recites a magical Christmas poem by Joseph von Eichendorff, one of the most important poets of German Romanticism.