Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of 357,022 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi), with a population of over 83 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and largest city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 294 days remain until the end of the year.
Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence. Racial profiling involves discrimination against minority populations and often builds on negative stereotypes of the targeted demographic. Racial profiling can involve disproportionate stop searches, traffic stops, and the use of surveillance technology for facial identification.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is a former centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservative, now centre-left German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. From 2015 most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. As of February 2022, LinkedIn has 830+ million registered members from over 200 countries and territories.
The University of Bremen is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategies" of the Excellence Initiative launched by the Federal Government and the Federal States in 2012. The university was also successful in the categories "Graduate Schools" and "Clusters of Excellence" of the initiative.
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator. Multiple crimes may be linked to a specific offender and the profile may be used to predict the identified offender's future actions. In the 1980s, most researchers believed offender profiling was relevant only to sex crimes, like serial rape or sexual homicide, but since the late 1990s research has been published to support its application to arson (1998), and then later terrorism (2000) and burglary (2017).
Romeo is a social network for gay, bisexual, queer and transgender people. The site was started as a hobby and was called GayRomeo in October 2002 by Planetromeo GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Initially only available in German the site and later its mobile app have evolved into an international platform.
Bernd Reinhold Gerhard Heynemann is a former German football referee and now a German politician.
DB Station&Service AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, responsible for managing over 5,400 train stations on the German railway network.
Wolfgang Stark is a German former football referee who is based in Ergolding. He refereed for DJK Altdorf of the Bavarian Football Association.
Antonio Rüdiger is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Germany national team.
Timo Werner is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Germany national team.
Jan Paul van Aken is a German biologist and a politician. He was member of German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017.
Thorsten Margis is a German bobsledder.
Katrin Albsteiger is a German politician from the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 1993. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group Qualifying Round, and the winners progressed to the quarterfinals and were guaranteed a World Group spot for 1994.
Christian Dingert is a German football referee who is based in Lebecksmühle. He referees for TSG Burg Lichtenberg of the Southwest German Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA second category referee.
Melanie Wegling is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Hubert Hüppe is a German politician, and MP from the Christian Democratic Union. He was elected to the Bundestag at the 2021 German federal election after serving previous terms in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
