Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The German town where Elvis Presley was stationed while serving in the Army has immortalized the King by putting his likeness on pedestrian traffic signals.
The three crossing signals, installed in Elvis Presley Square in Fiedberg, feature an image of Elvis standing at a microphone for the red "Don't Walk" signal and the silhouette of the performer doing his signature dance moves for the green "Walk" signal.
Marion Gotz, a local politician, said the signals received the approval of the local police department and cost the city about $1,027.
Elvis was stationed in Friedberg for a time when he served in the U.S. Army from 1958 until 1960.
Jedes Jahr im Winter feiern die Menschen jüdischen Glaubens acht Tage lang das Lichterfest Chanukka. Hunderte Holocaust-Überlebende kommen nach Berlin. Für sie ist es ein Wunder, dass sie die Nazi-Zeit überlebt haben.
The Hertie School of Governance cordially invites you to a discussion between Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel and French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron with philosopher Jürgen Habermas about the future of Europe.
Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu einem Gespräch des Bundesaußenministers Sigmar Gabriel und des französischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten Emmanuel Macron mit dem Philosophen Jürgen Habermas über die Zukunft Europas.
Nous vous invitons à un entretien du ministre fédéral des Affaires étrangères Sigmar Gabriel et le candidat présidentiel français Emmanuel Macron avec le philosophe Jürgen Habermas sur l'avenir de l'Europe.
A family's attempt to win their neighbourhood Christmas lights competition ended up causing panic when a passer-by thought a man was stuck on their roof.
The Heerlein family in Austin, Texas, decided to recreate the decoration scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, complete with a hanging Clark Griswold.
The Nigerian president has denied rumours he died following a period of ill health and was replaced by a Sudanese clone.
Muhammadu Buhari addressed the speculation as he met members of the Nigerian community in Poland, where he is attending the UN COP24 climate summit.
"It's the real me, I assure you," he said, answering a question from the audience. "I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong."
On Friday, The Japan Times — the oldest English language newspaper in the that country — announced it has changed how it will describe women who were used as sex slaves and people who were forced into grueling labor in Japanese-owned companies before and during World War II.
The shift has triggered widespread criticism of the newspaper which has been accused of adopting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative political agenda, spreading propaganda to reshape Japan's wartime history.
From now on, the paper will replace the term "forced labour" with "wartime labourers" to describe Koreans, Chinese, American POWs or anyone else who was conscripted into working in Japanese mines and factories from 1910 to 1945.
Mindy Kotler, director of Asia Policy Point, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, told NPR she was outraged by the shift and called it "a very frightening and troubling development."
"It is a classic [history] denier move. It feeds into a cancer around the world where people want to change historical narratives for a political and ideological goal that depends on making the past a prettier place," Kotler said.
The first step toward accomplishing that, she explained, is by introducing the idea that there are alternative narratives and "you start playing with language."
"But Japan's wartime past is not pretty and there's too much documentation and too many records that make the case," Kotler said.
日本の戦時の記録は十分にあり、このような動きは歴史修正主義だという批判。
もうひとりは、タフツ大学のSung-Yoon Lee氏。
Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, told NPR The Japan Times' revised description of forced labor workers and comfort women omits "government involvement, or any implication of the government running the system."
"There is no government culpability" for what was "state-sponsored military slavery," Lee said, adding that that is the message Abe has been "obsessed" with promoting.
