Toasting your friends and setting off fireworks is an essential part of the New Year celebration, but unfortunately the animals in the Berlin Zoo don't feel the same way! See how the Berlin Zoo tries to deal with the problems of inner-city fireworks and their animals. (video copyright dpa)

Before leaving for training camp, the soccer team FSV Frankfurt rang in the New Year. At the New Year's reception, they announced the contract extension of head coach Benno Möhlmann.

"Mama arbeitet wieder" (Mom’s Going Back to Work) is a German TV drama focusing on gender roles. Mark is going back to Dubai after all and Corinna decides to move out of the house.

Singer Andreas Bourani sings the song "Auf uns" ("To Us"), his way of expressing the thankfulness he feels for love and life.

Jenny and two friends take us through the conjugations for the verb wissen ("to know") in multiple tenses. Viel Spaß beim Deutschlernen!

The construction site where Jannik Sternberg fell to his death comes under scrutiny. At the station, Dirk and Lothar realize that Nicki might need a bit more supervision.

Otto reveals his true feelings about performing in Kempten with the help of a lie detector.

Legendary German band Die Toten Hosen sing their song "Europa" about the adversity faced by refugees.

"Mama arbeitet wieder" (Mom’s Going Back to Work) is a German TV drama focusing on gender roles. Mark and Corry's separation is becoming a reality, but is Mark really ready to leave his family?

Florian and Natali join divers Joop and Felicia Stahlenburg in making underwater willow tipis for the endangered cuttlefish to spawn in.

Andreas Bourani sings his song "Auf anderen Wegen" ("On Different Paths") with piano and acoustic guitar accompaniment.

Jannik Sternberg's boss offers his widow a payoff, and in return his widow offers the police evidence of Sternberg's apparent suicide.

This trailer offers a glance into the complex world of the recent film installment of the German crime series "Tatort" ("Crime Scene"), filmed this time in Franconia.

The band Silbermond performs their song "Leichtes Gepäck," in which singer Stefanie Kloß sings about freedom from material goods as a metaphor for having a clear mind and conscience.

Dressed as the schlager star Heino, Otto does a parody of Heino's cover version of the song "Junge," originally by the German punk band Die Ärzte.