This year's controversial Klaasohm festival on the north-western German island of Borkum was peaceful with no assaults reported, unlike in previous years, local police and city officials said early on ...

BERLIN — 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 said Friday ...

Most people in Germany associate the feast of Saint Nicholas with a harmless tradition: Children leave their cleaned shoes next to the front door on the night of December 5, and the next morning, they ...

A German festival that drew controversy after reports of women being beaten with cow horns passed without incident this year when the practice was banned, police said Friday. The annual Klaasohm ...

As the German island of Borkum prepares for its annual ‘Klaasohm’ festival, police say they will step up patrols to stop the now outlawed tradition of men beating women's bottoms with cow horns. As ...

Documentary exposes violence at festival of Klaasohm on North Sea island of Borkum James Jackson is a Berlin-based journalist, documentary maker and presenter, as well as host of the Mad in Germany ...

A centuries-old tradition in Germany's Borkum in which young men hit women on the buttocks with cattle horns during the Klaasohm festival has been discontinued and a safety plan put in place. Most ...

The Klaasohm festival on Borkum, the westernmost of a string of German islands, takes place on Dec. 5 ahead of St Nicholas' Day. A report by ARD public television aired late last month showed women ...