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Skip next section Wacken festival honors rock legend Ozzy Osbourne<\/a><\/p>\n

08\/02\/2025August 2, 2025Wacken festival honors rock legend Ozzy Osbourne<\/p>\n

\"‘Ozzy, we love you’ was written in the sky above the Wacken festivalImage: Frank Molter\/dpa\/picture alliance<\/p>\n

The Wacken Open Air<\/a> heavy metal music festival put on a drone show honoring the late British singer Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u00a0following the closing performance on Friday,\u00a0 with the words “Ozzy, we love you” lighting up the night sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Osbourne’s song “Mama, I’m Coming Home” and the Black Sabbath anthem “Paranoid” accompanied the tribute, while images of the rock legend were shown on giant screens.<\/p>\n

\"ScreensOzzy Osbourne died in July at the age of 76Image: Frank Molter\/dpa\/picture alliance<\/p>\n

Osbourne, the co-founder and frontman of Black Sabbath, died on July 22, aged 76,<\/a> just weeks after giving a final concert with the rock band’s original line-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wacken Open Air has been held annually since 1990, except for the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic years 2020 and 2021. The event, set in\u00a0a village of just 2,000 inhabitants in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein<\/a>, is considered one of the biggest heavy metal festivals in the world.
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Skip next section Train services resume on key route after arson attacks<\/a><\/p>\n

08\/02\/2025August 2, 2025Train services resume on key route after arson attacks<\/p>\n

Train services resumed early on Saturday on the railway line between D\u00fcsseldorf<\/a> and Duisburg in western Germany after successful repairs to cable damage caused by arson attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A railway spokesman said test runs had been conducted before the resumption of services to ensure that all was functioning correctly.<\/p>\n

The suspected arson attacks<\/a> caused damage to cables vital for operating switches and signals.<\/p>\n

Police believe left-wing extremists were behind the disturbance and are treating the incident as sabotage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A leftist group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in a letter that is being examined by police.<\/p>\n

Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia<\/a>, where the attacks occurred, told a press conference that the extremist group had “carried out several acts of sabotage in the D\u00fcsseldorf area in recent years.”<\/p>\n

The route between D\u00fcsseldorf and Duisburg is one of Germany’s busiest railway connections, with more than 620 passenger trains using the line every day.
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08\/02\/2025August 2, 2025Consumer group sues budget airlines over hand luggage fees<\/p>\n

A German consumer group has launched legal action against several budget airlines<\/a>, saying that their charges for hand luggage violate existing law.<\/p>\n

Ramona Pop, the chairwoman of the vzbv consumer umbrella body, told the daily Neue Osnabr\u00fccker Zeitung\u00a0that many carriers were “charging inadmissible fees and thus misleading consumers about flight prices.”<\/p>\n

She said that while current rules obliged airlines to carry reasonably sized hand luggage free of charge, many budget airlines allowed only a small personal item in the base fare, demanding a paid upgrade for larger items.<\/p>\n

She said the vzbv had issued formal warnings to several carriers, with\u00a0lawsuits filed against Ryanair, EasyJet, Wizzair and Vueling Airlines.<\/p>\n

The vzbv’s legal action is part of a broader Europe-wide campaign<\/a>, she said.<\/p>\n

The group is basing its legal actions on a ruling\u00a0by the European Court of Justice in 2014 that hand luggage is a fundamental necessity of air travel rather than an optional extra provided by an airline.<\/p>\n

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Skip next section Domestic violence cases reach new record \u2014 report<\/a><\/p>\n

08\/02\/2025August 2, 2025Domestic violence cases reach new record \u2014 report<\/p>\n

Cases of violence within private households have reached a record level, according to a report by the weekly Welt am Sonntag\u00a0that cites statistics from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).<\/p>\n

Altogether 256,942 people were registered as victims of domestic violence in 2024, a 3.7% increase over the previous year<\/a>, the paper said.<\/p>\n

Women suffer the most from domestic violence<\/a>, making up\u00a073% of registered cases, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Violence from partners or ex-partners accounted for 171,069 victims, a 1.9%\u00a0increase over 2024.<\/p>\n

There was also a 7.3% increase in violence between family members, with 94,873 cases, according to the BKA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the past five years, domestic violence has surged by almost 14%, the BKA says.
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Skip next section Welcome to our coverage<\/a>08\/02\/2025August 2, 2025Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n

Guten Tag from the team in DW’s newroom on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn!<\/p>\n

Today, we will be looking at the latest statistics showing another worrying rise in the number of cases of domestic violence in the country.<\/p>\n

Germany’s railroad system is also in focus following what seems to have been a case of major sabotage on a key section.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in the major talking points in Europe’s largest economy, we hope we have the right stories for you here in our blog on Saturday, August 2!<\/p>\n

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