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Cologne - who celebrates is proscribed: Some great Cologne's carnival associations boycott the "Kölschfest" tent on Südstadion. If a guardsman or radio there still in uniform seen again, he is reprimanded by his club board.
The waves were high even before the official Kölschfest opening on Friday: "This is Ballermann Carnival. The destroys our events, but has nothing to do with Customs to "thundered the traditionalists - and lay down for now. Wallpott Markus, president of the Civic Guard blue and gold: "There is an agreement between the presidents and commanders, that we do not support the event. We will not show up there in our uniforms, give the whole not official. Since we are all agreed. "
Prinzengarde-writer Joseph Lutter goes further: "There is only about booze. For example, a tent is not necessary at Cologne. "Do not know what the majority of clubs: In advance, the Party had been involved with the organizer Constantine Brovot that no artist, but only a chapel hall book - so that traditional meetings with admission anyway attractive for revelers remain.
The corps, however, little interested in the tradition. Old Town boss Hans Kölschbach: "We promote the tradition. The carnival has no place in a giant tent. "
Kölschbach also a fear damage to their image of his corps: "We do not yet know whether the event is the largest Boxbude Cologne." Alfred Kroll, managing director of Nippeser militia would agree with this: "We maintain the session Carnival."
The organizers of the festival Koelsch appear unaffected by the boycott: "There are different opinions about this format," said spokeswoman Tina Koch. "But the budget for the revelers are scarce. Even by the Corps tradition, we have already received some reservations. "

The new rights for rail riders

Berlin - Victory for the rail customers! Starting today, new rules apply if a train is delayed again. EXPRESS.DE shows the main changes:
• At 60 minutes late at their destination, there are long-distance back to 25 percent of the fare • For 120 minutes • 50 percent is needed for more than 60 minutes late one night to pay the German Railway Hotel • one expects a delay of 60 minutes , the traveler can withdraw from the trip and get the money back
Changes in mass transit:
• From 20 minutes late may for example an IC o. ICE be used (except as City Night Line trains requiring reservation) • at 60 Min and a scheduled arrival between 0 and 5 clock there are up to 80 euros for a taxi • Up to 80 euros, you have until the last scheduled train of the day and turns out to be the passenger on public transport is no longer up to 24 Clock at your destination can
Conditions and exceptions:
• train • debt cancellation without refund for time not as the ticket BahnCard 100 • triviality to 4 euros

Mock executions at the "Hansa Stavanger"

Hamburg - The hostage crisis on the freighter Hansa Stavanger "is for the 24 crew members more and more physical and mental hell. Since 4 April is the ship of the company, "Leonhardt & Blumberg," already under the control of Somali pirates. And their methods of torture are becoming more violent, as the second officer from Lower Saxony, Frederick E. depicted in telephone calls with his father, Christian.
In the few conversations that are allowed by the pirates, told the 27-year-old from cruel sham executions. "We had to kneel, they joined our eyes. Then they shot just over our heads," Christian's father quoted his son in the ARD magazine "Panorama".
 As an elite fighters wanted by the special unit GSG 9 stormed in May, the Hansa Stavanger, the situation threatened to escalate. "The pirates have long suspected something. They were very nervous, there were 40 heavily armed men on board," said Christian E. later on the phone.
The father of the officer now sounds the alarm: "My son is scared to death. He and the others just want to go home."
The federal government has meanwhile pulled out of the negotiations with the pirates back and leave this task alone, Frank Leonhardt. The problem of ensuring: The owner preferred to haggle the ransom, as a quick rescue of his crew. Apparently the pirates instead of 15 million U.S. dollars to "only" 2.75 million still calling. Leonhardt, however, will insist on 2.5 million U.S. dollars.
Despite the dramatic conditions of on-board closed-Secretary of Defense Thomas Kossendey a violent liberation: "It would end in bloodshed."
Not good news for the crew members, after nearly four months in captivity, have only one wish: "Get us out of here at last!"
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Lady GaGa and Madonna - a beating attack on TV

New York --
Popdiven dispute, and all were watching. Front of the cameras have Lady GaGa (23) and Madonna (51) laid upon heavily.
In the U.S. comedy show "Saturday Night Live" provided both a stage battle at its finest - the two tore at her hair, went to the throat and down on the nastiest insults.
Moderator Kenan Thompson watched in horror from the spectacle of the couch. When both joined him, he had to sit between the two.
Only at the end was clear - all just a gag. Because in the show what it is all about taking yourself to the arm.
Then gave both Popdiven even a kiss ...
Watch the video HERE ...
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Juvenile Delinquency: Police run away

Dusseldorf --
Remember! Chief of Police Herbert Schenkelberg also said in March: "In 2009, the fight will be a focus of juvenile delinquency. We have new and successful structures on the right track. "
But now there is polizeiintern anger over a new "structure". All detectives were youth clerk of the flashpoints in a new City Commissioner deducted. The police run away from juvenile delinquency!
Foci, which are particularly active adolescent Intensivtäter: Garath, Benrath or Holthausen. It was until now the motto that the perpetrators have to fight where they do the unspeakable. "We always have you in sight," was to signal that.
The police has now quietly changed. EXPRESS is a document that the "residence principle has been abandoned." Retrieved from "citizen", the author, "can be no question where the young clerk from Garath who knows his man in person, now working on a new one Youth Commissioner in the Karl-Rudolf-Strasse. A mother now has her criminal Hellerhof scion of the city. That is not in the police sense. The previous system, in which even the youth-oriented, was successful. "
Police spokesman Wolfgang Wierich: "There have been exchanged but only the desks. Youth clerk for their areas which continue to remain responsible. They are now working in a central Youth Commissioner. We are still just as effective and on-site presence as before. "
In the opinions of the police, however, vary widely. The Staff Council had been ignored. Deputy Heinz Engel (FDP): "They are clearly wrong, a huge operating loss. Necessarily requires the presence of juvenile delinquency off the ground and not miles! "