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A topless FEMEN protester with an inscription on her body that reads "Life In Plastic Is Not Fantastic" holds up a burning cross with a Barbie doll attached to it outside the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience on May 16, 2013 in Berlin.

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Protesters outside the Barbie Dreamhouse.

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BERLIN – It is possibly the German capital’s most visible new tourist attraction, but the opening of the bright pink Barbie Dreamhouse Experience was picketed Thursday by women’s groups protesting the “cliché of the female role in society.”

About a dozen activists - including a man in a pink dress and a wig and a sign around his neck that said "Do you like me now?" - gathered in front of the attraction Wednesday. Read full story

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A man in a dress protests in front of the Barbie Dreamhouse after its opening near the Alexanderplatz in Berlin on May 16, 2013.

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A Barbie doll is burned on a cross outside the Barbie Dreamhouse.

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A male protester wearing a wig and a dress.

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A life-sized house offers visitors a chance to tour the famous doll's home and even try on Barbie's clothes in her walk-in closet.

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A policeman stands next to the accident site where two helicopters crashed near the Olympic stadium in Berlin on March 21.

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Police officers work at the scene where two police helicopters crashed near the Olympic stadium in Berlin.

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The wreckage of a police helicopter is seen near the Olympic stadium in Berlin.

At least one police officer died after two helicopters collided at Berlin's iconic Olympic Stadium during a security exercise, authorities said.  -- Agence France-Presse

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With chants of "Fill the gap!" protesters attempt to bring forward a styrofoam replica of a piece of the Berlin Wall in order to fill a gap created by construction workers in the East Side Gallery, which is the longest still-standing portion of the former Berlin Wall, as police try to block the protesters on March 1, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

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Protestors are gathering in front of a part of the former Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, on March 1, 2013.

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People protest against the removal of a segment of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

Hundreds of angry protesters on Friday prevented construction workers from removing a section of one of the few remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall, part of a plan to build a road to a new luxury condominium being built on the banks of the reunited city's Spree river.

Crews only managed to remove one section from the famous East Side Gallery before about 300 protesters pressed too close for work to continue. Demonstrators then wheeled in a mock wall section they had set up in front of the gap.

The East Side Gallery is the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall and is one of the German capital's most popular tourist attractions. It was recently restored at a cost of more than €2 million ($3 million) to the city.

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Police keep watch as workers remove a piece of the former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

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Police carry away a protester's styrofoam copy of a segment of the Berlin Wall at a demonstration against the removal of several segments of the original former Berlin Wall, now known as East Side Gallery, in Berlin on March 1, 2013.

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The sculpture of polar bear Knut is exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin on on Feb. 15.

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Late polar bear Knut is on display at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, on Feb. 15. Knut was hand-raised after his mother rejected him. He rose to stardom in 2007 as a cuddly cub, appearing on magazine covers, in a film and on mountains of merchandise. He died in 2011 after suffering from encephalitis.

Reuters -- Knut, the hand-reared polar bear who captured Germans' hearts before his early death in 2011, returned to his adoring Berlin public on Friday as a life-sized model bearing the animal's real fur.

Knut will stand for a month in the entrance foyer of the city's natural history museum, which has modified its entrance for the anticipated rush of visitors, a museum spokeswoman said.

The museum is keen to stress that Knut has not been stuffed. Rather, a replica of the bear was made, based on Knut's skeleton, in one of his favorite poses, and this was covered with the creature's pelt, in a procedure known as dermoplasty.

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Knut plays with a blanket during the bear's first presentation in Berlin zoo on March 23, 2007.

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The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated during a rehearsal of the ninth Festival Of Lights in Berlin, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. During the festival which runs from Oct. 10, until Oct. 21, 2012, about 70 buildings and landmarks of the German capital will be specially illuminated.

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People walk through a light installation at the Potsdamer Platz during a rehearsal of the ninth Festival Of Lights in Berlin.

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Montgomery, Ala., 1965.

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Paul Newman sits in Malibu, Calif., 1964.

The Journal of Photography — Lying hidden away in Dennis Hopper’s home until their discovery months after the artist’s death in 2010, this collection of photographs, exhibited in 1969-70 at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum, and now in Berlin, is a testament to Hopper’s prolific and enormous talent behind the camera. These photographs are spontaneous, intimate, poetic, observant, and decidedly political. While some are portraits of figures within Hopper’s circle of actor, artist, musician, and poet friends — including Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, and Robert Rauschenberg — they also include images from his extensive travels in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico, and Peru. Hopper’s abiding support of the civil rights movement and social justice is evident in his shots from the march on Selma and Harlem street scenes. Throughout this volume Hopper’s sensitive, keenly observant eye shines through, making it clear that he was a deeply committed chronicler of the events that were unfolding around him.

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A Standard gas station sits open in Los Angeles, 1961.

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Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, Gregory Markopoulos, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith, in New York City, 1963.

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A journalist stands in front of the panorama print "The Wall" by artist Yadegar Asisi during a preview in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 21. The huge 15 meters high and 60 meters wide panorama of the Berlin Wall will be on display for the public from Sept. 23, 2012 for about a year near the former Checkpoint Charlie.

Reuters -- "When people look at history from a victor's perspective, they always talk about how terrible it was," said artist Yadegar Asisi, whose panorama depicting everyday life at the Berlin Wall will open to the public on Sept. 23.

The Iranian-Austrian Asisi, who grew up in East Germany, lived in both East and West Berlin in the 1970s.

"Many people in this city talk about the division in terms of good and evil, but people forget about the everyday compromises that were made," Asisi said, urging a non-political approach to memory. Strangers who come to Berlin can't imagine how you could have a normal life, living next to the Wall."

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People erect a panorama designed by Austrian artist Yadegar Asisi featured at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 21.

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Firemen and policemen investigate the scene where Berlin city train (S-Bahn) derailed, Aug. 21, 2012. Five people were injured as the train derailed between the Tegel and Schulzendorf train stations.

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An S-Bahn city train derailed between the Tegel and Schulzendorf train stations in Berlin, Germany, Aug 21.

At least five people were injured when a Berlin city train (S-Bahn) left the tracks. According to The Local, approximately 50 people were aboard the train when it derailed. Read the full story.

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