The Lüttje Klaasohm is collected on the Borkum island in Germany, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 before on the evening of Dec. 6, young, unmarried men dress up as so-called Klaasohms with masks ...

The North Sea island of Borkum is reacting to a recent report looking into how a 200-year-old tradition has enabled young men to hit women on the buttocks with a cow's horn.

To many on the tiny German island of Borkum, the Christmas festival of Klaasohm is a harmless nod to their pagan roots. But the annual chasing of women down the streets with cow horns is facing ...

The German island Borkum's railway photographed in 2015. Part of a Christmas tradition on the island has been cancelled after a documentary came out about the violent acts against women that took ...

European energy company Vattenfall is building the Nordlicht wind cluster, which will have a net capacity of more than 1.6 GW ...

Six men dressed in sheepskins, bird feathers and masks took to the streets of the north-western German island of Borkum on Thursday for the beginning of a controversial festival to celebrate St ...

12/02/2024 December 2, 2024. A centuries-old tradition in Germany's Borkum in which young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn during the Klaasohm festival will be discontinued.

The Lüttje Klaasohm is collected on the Borkum island in Germany, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 before on the evening of Dec. 6, young, unmarried men dress up as so-called Klaasohms with masks ...

BERLIN (AP) — An annual festival on a German North Sea island that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow's horns passed without reports of assaults this year, police ...

The Lüttje Klaasohm is collected on the Borkum island in Germany, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 before on the evening of Dec. 6, young, unmarried men dress up as so-called Klaasohms with masks ...

BERLIN (AP) — An annual festival on a German North Sea island that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow's horns passed without reports of assaults this year, police ...

BERLIN (AP) — An annual festival on a German North Sea island that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow's horns passed without reports of assaults this year, police ...