Vidal jets off for medical | Sport24

Berlin - Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal is poised to complete his switch from Juventus to Bayern Munich in the coming days after flying to Bavaria on Monday for a medical.The 28-year-old posted a picture of himself and agent Fernando Felicevich on Twitter on Monday sat on a plane with the caption: "A new stage....a new dream...Munich here we come."The Chilean international is now expected to pass a medical to complete the deal which Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed was imminent last Read more [...]

UK woman wins $5000 ‘World’s Most Beautiful Vagina’ contest

Following rigorous competition and more than 130,000 voters, the World’s Most Beautiful Vagina Contest anointed a champion this week. It was a strange, difficult-to-gauge event—but that’s why organizers turned to scientists to tell us what it all means.U.K. resident Nell, 27, won first place and $5,000 in the pageant with a vulva beauty ranking of 7.7 out of 10. Jenny, 23, of Bavaria, Germany, took second place with a 7.3; and Anita, 20, from Hungary, came in third. They each earned $2,500 Read more [...]

Refugees: Merkel faces calls for more funds – Peninsula On

BERLIN: Germany needs to double its financial support to federal states struggling with a surge of refugees and tougher rules are needed to prevent the abuse of asylum procedures, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian ally said yesterday. The comments by Bavaria’s state premier, Horst Seehofer, highlight growing tensions in one of Europe’s richest countries.  Germany expects a record-breaking flow of asylum-seekers this year as growing numbers flee conflicts and poverty Read more [...]

Germany’s Angela Merkel faces calls for more money to cope with refugees

Germany needs to double its financial support to federal states struggling with a surge of refugees and tougher rules are needed to prevent the abuse of asylum procedures, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian ally said on Sunday. The comments by Bavaria’s state premier, Horst Seehofer, highlight growing tensions in one of Europe’s richest countries. Germany expects a record-breaking flow of asylum-seekers this year as growing numbers flee conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. “We Read more [...]

Munich: Go for the Beer, Stay for the Culture

The most Latin city north of the Alps, it has been called, though those who call it that have their tongues stuck firmly in their cheeks. There are restaurants and coffee houses here that you would not necessarily find in the Rhineland or Pomerania, and there are tanned, expensively dressed people – peacocks, if you like – of the kind one sees in Italy. But there is no getting away from the fact that Munich is a German city; more specifically, a Bavarian city. And you can't get much Read more [...]

‘More help needed’ for German states to deal with asylum seekers

Horst Seehofer, who heads the Christian Social Union (CSU), Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper on Sunday that Germany's states needed "massive additional help" to manage a huge influx of refugees. "The federal government has to do significantly more than it has done so far," he said, though he admitted that Berlin had increased its support to the states by a billion euros this year ($1.13 billion). "For the Read more [...]