Berlin has become a vegan mecca, with ice cream shops like Kontor Eismanufaktur Berlin (pictured here), restaurants and even butchers catering to a plant-based diet. Now Germany's nutritionists warn that a vegan diet can't provide all a body needs. Courtesy of Susan Stone hide caption
Job consultant Saskia Ben jemaa sits in a welcome center for immigrants on Aug. 18 in Berlin. The center assists immigrants and refugees with asylum status in finding jobs, housing and qualification recognition of their previous employment and education. Carsten Koall/Getty Images hide caption
Firas Awad (left) and wife Tamam Aldrawsha, from Syria, spend hours studying German every day. Awad wants to complete the pharmacy studies he abandoned because of the Syrian war, and Aldrawsha wants to become a nurse. "I want to be useful," she says. "Useful for my family and useful for this country." Joanna Kakissis for NPR hide caption
People mourn near a shopping center in Munich on July 23, the day after a shooting spree there left nine victims dead. The attack was one of several that month in Germany. Johannes Simon/Getty Images hide caption
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (center), briefs the media in Ansbach, Germany on Monday. Bavaria's top security official says a man who blew himself up after being turned away from an open-air music festival in Ansbach was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum. Matthias Schrader/AP hide caption
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right), and British Prime Minister Theresa May (left), listen to translations during a joint news conference in Berlin on July 20. They are the two most important figures in the negotiations over Britain's departure from the European Union, the so-called Brexit. Michael Sohn/AP hide caption
A woman cries at a make shift memorial site on Saturday near the Olympia shopping center where a shooting took place leaving nine people dead the day in Munich, Germany. Sebastian Widmann/AP hide caption
A rescuer stands on a road near rail tracks in Würzburg, southern Germany, on Monday after a man attacked train passengers with an ax. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators protest in Berlin on June 27, 10 days before Germany's parliament approved tougher anti-rape laws. Jorg Carstensen /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Muhannad M. stands to get a reward of less than $5,000, after turning in some $150,000 in cash and bank documents that he found in a used piece of furniture. Minden Police hide caption
A reconfigured, high-tech shipping container houses a Hamburg refugee shelter's primary care clinic. More are planned. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson/NPR hide caption
Activists with a group that advocated for recognition of the Armenian genocide react at the German Parliament after lawmakers voted to recognize the Armenian genocide. The posters read, "#RecognitionNow says Thanks!" Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A fire truck is parked at the entrance to Monceau parc in the center of Paris, France, on Saturday, after a lightning bolt crashed down onto a Paris park, striking 11 people at a child's birthday party. Francois Mori/AP hide caption