German riot police watch the crowd as a protester gestures at a May Day demonstration in Berlin. From our gallery: May Day rallies and celebrations around the world - in pictures

Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

guardianmusic:

If you’ve not heard it yet, here is David Bowie’s first single in a decade. Crikey. The track is already available to download from iTunes (where, at the time of writing, it sits at #98 in the singles chart, 30 places below £1 Fish Man). CS

NEW BOWIE! So… what do you think?

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guardianolympics:

We ♥ the Hipster Olympics

The organisers of the Hipster Olympics competition in Berlin want to revive the hipster subculture of the 1990s in a sporting contest consisting of different disciplines such as the horn-rimmed glasses throw, skinny jeans tug-o-war, vinyl record spinning contest and cloth tote sack race

Here contestants compete in an event in which they suck sweets out of a cup of bubble tea, a drink that has become ubiquitous in Berlin. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty Images

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