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Trier, Germany, the birthplace of Karl Marx, erected a statue to celebrate the founder of communism's 200th birthday Saturday, less than 30 years after communist regimes literally divided the country. The west German town, just about as far from Berlin as one can be and still be in Germany, unveiled an 18-foot-tall statue of its native son Marx - covered before the ceremony in dramatic red cloth - to both cheers and protests.
More than 54,000 Germans in the city of Augsburg must evacuate their homes Christmas morning while German authorities defuse a massive 1.8-ton bomb from World War II. Police will cut off the streets surrounding the un-exploded bomb at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, and everyone in the area must leave by 10 a.m. The discovery of left over bombs from World War II in Germany is not uncommon, but the Christmas morning evacuation is the largest since 45,000 people were evacuated from the city of Koblenz in 2011.