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Berlin said it is losing its temper with Ankara, urging Turkey to release Germans detained on terrorism charges and "return to European values," or face shrinking investment, restrictions on tourism and curbs to EU financial aid.

547 pupils at one of Germany's most famous Roman Catholic choir schools were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 2015, an independent report has found, with some boys likening the institution to "prison, hell or a concentration camp", according to The Guardian.

Documenta 14's 100 days in Athens come to an end on Sunday. The international art event, which is based in Kassel and crossed German borders for the first time in his lengthy history to be cohosted by another European city, provoked waves of antipathy, despair from ideologically diverse camps and ridiculous amounts of criticism, but also praise and acceptance - albeit to a lesser extent.

German luxury carmaker Audi's management board, including Chief Executive Rupert Stadler, has been sharply criticized by company managers, Bild am Sonntag reported on June 25, citing an internal dossier.

It said the executive board had shown no signals of a fresh start, change or readiness for the future, and that workers were frustrated with "disastrous" indecisiveness.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was greeted by residents of Kassel, Germany on Saturday with signs saying "Never Again" in honor of the victims of the Distomo massacre, which was carried out by the Nazis on June 10, 1944, during their occupation of Greece.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis will attend Saturday's launch of documenta 14 in the German city of Kassel, the traditional home of the art exhibition, where it is to run until September 17.

For the first time in the exhibition's 60-year history, documenta was held outside its traditional home, premiering in Athens on April 8, where it is to continue until July 16.

A life-sized model of the Greek Parthenon - covered in forbidden books donated from around the world - stands in central Kassel right where Nazis once burned banned books.

It is a centerpiece of Germany's biggest contemporary art exhibit, documenta 14.

Audi's emissions scandal flared up again on June 1 after the German government accused the carmaker of cheating emissions tests with its top-end models, the first time Audi has been accused of such wrongdoing in its home country.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has shared a message to remember the victims of the 1993 Solingen arson attack, one of the most violent neo-Nazi attacks targeting Turks in Germany, urging politicians and members of the press abroad to work to prevent similar attacks.        

Artist Maria Fragoudaki staged a performance titled 'BedSheets: The Duality of Freedom' as part of the documenta 14 art exhibition, at Athens's Syntagma Square on Thursday night.