Authorities evacuated buildings around Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate today after finding an unexploded Second World War-era bomb nearby, police said.

Hundreds of thousands of techno music fans – many in fancy dress, others wearing very little at all – jammed into central Berlin today for the German capital’s annual Love Parade.

Some 3,000 right-wing extremists marched through central Berlin today for a march against an exhibition on Nazi-era crimes by the German army.