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• Outrage over 'prime-time racism' against Turks A Turkish newspaper and the Foreigners' Advisory Council in the German state of Hesse have expressed outrage at a televised Karneval monologue that made several jokes at the expense of Turkish Germans.
• German wins Empire State Building race - yet again German athlete Thomas Dold humiliated the competition once again this week in the race he loves the most - for the seventh year running, he climbed the 86 floors of the Empire State Building in New York City faster than anyone else.
• Berlin defies EU over copyright deal Germany on Friday defied the European Union by refusing to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), meant to unify copyright law internationally. Massive anti-ACTA protests are planned for Saturday.
• Merkel's French connection German Chancellor Angela Merkel is running for re-election - in France. The Local's Marc Young takes a closer look the "Merkozy" phenomenon.
• Shooter of US airmen in Frankfurt gets life A German court handed down a life sentence Friday to a man who has confessed to killing two US soldiers at Frankfurt Airport in what has been called Germany's first deadly jihadist attack.
• Germans don't trust Greece to tighten belt Two thirds of Germans voiced doubt in a poll published Friday that heavily-indebted Greece is serious in its commitment to pare down its spending in order to receive a bailout and avoid bankruptcy.
• Teen smoking plunges The number of teenage smokers in Germany has been more than halved over the past decade, according to governmental research published on Friday.
• Transsexual child could be sent to mental ward Transgender rights activists have taken up the cause of an 11-year-old transsexual child who wants hormone treatment to grow up as a girl but faces being sent to a psychiatric institution by Berlin authorities.
• Family dies off Egyptian coast in boat wreck A German couple and their nine-year-old son drowned off the Red Sea coast of Egyptian holiday resort Hurghada on Thursday, after their glass-bottomed boat hit a coral reef and splintered.
• Germany backs new UN mission to Syria Germany has backed a proposed joint Arab League-UN mission to monitor the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests, but other major powers were more cautious.
• Germany's best actors As the Berlin gears up for the glittering Berlinale film festival, The Local List this week is dedicated to the best actors and actresses Germany has had to offer.
• Tourists flock to Germany in 2011 Tourists spent a record number of nights in Germany last year, the country's statistics office said Thursday, with visitors from abroad registering a sharp increase despite gloomy economic conditions.
• Artist compensated for two lost French fries A Munich court on Thursday awarded an artist €2,000 in damages because a gallery lost two 22-year-old chips that were the basis of an artwork in which the fries lay across each other in a cross.
• Brutal cold triggers reserve power plants After exporting power to France earlier this week, Germany has switched on reserve energy plants amid surging demand for electricity due to the ongoing deep freeze hitting Europe.
• Star cyclist Ullrich found guilty of doping Germany's most famous cyclist Jan Ullrich was found guilty of doping and stripped of his third place in the 2005 Tour de France by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday.