A security guard at the Borssum outdoor pool overlooks the pool. One in seven of Germany's public swimming pools is in desperate need of renovations to avoid closure, the German Life Saving Society ...

German swimming pools are a metaphor for Germany — and for the challenge of integrating newcomers. Germany is one big swimming pool, trying to integrate the more than a million Middle Eastern refugees ...

Summer in Berlin is not dull this year. More than 100 police spent July 20th chasing reports of a stray lion. None turned up; it was probably a wild boar. So Berliners returned to the other big local ...

Women in Berlin can now swim topless in the city’s public pools if they choose to – just as men can. As well as being hailed as a step forward for gender equality in the German capital, the measure ...

A town in western Germany has banned male refugees from a swimming pool after complaints of harassment from female bathers and staff — news that comes as a national poll Friday showed that Germans are ...

BORNHEIM, Germany — A western German town has barred adult male asylum seekers from its public indoor swimming pool after receiving complaints that some women were sexually harassed there. It was the ...

One in seven of Germany's public swimming pools is in desperate need of renovations to avoid closure, the German Life Saving ...