Quote of the Week

''When we married I was captain of England, good looking, plenty of money, not a care in the world. Now she is married to a fat old guy, not good looking any more, and no money.''

Former England cricket captain Adam Hollioake bemoaning his marital and financial situation after a recent court appearance.


News »

EU to jointly purchase electricity and gas

There is no end to the soaring energy prices. In European wholesale, a megawatt hour of gas cost more than 90 euros at the...

The long road to a climate-neutral ship

Normally, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (Nabu) publishes its cruise ranking every September. This...

Expats with old driver's licenses asked to drive trucks in the UK

Several Germans living in the UK with older driving licenses have received mail from the British government due to the...

The stock market celebrates the election result

The relief is palpable on the stock market. The German share index (Dax) celebrated the outcome of the Bundestag elections...

At least three dead and dozens injured in train crash in the USA

At least three people were killed and dozens more injured in a train accident in the USA. According to the state railroad...

Seven-day incidence in Germany

The seven-day incidence in Germany has fallen again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per...

Health »

Daycare educators must be vaccinated

Although children usually only contract Covid-19 mildly, more and more of them are becoming infected with the virus. Since...

Is the end of measures approaching soon?

When will we finally be rid of the coronavirus and all its measures and restrictions? That's probably what millions of...

Biden calls for third party vaccination: "Get the booster"

A large-scale campaign for Corona booster vaccinations has begun in the USA. U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that...

The nursing care insurance fund is apparently threatened with insolvency

The financial situation of the long-term care insurance fund is apparently precarious due to the additional costs caused...

Clinicians want more reliable rest periods

It will be about money when the Marburger Bund (MB) meets with the Association of Municipal Employers (VKA) on October 14...

STIKO recommends Corona vaccination for pregnant and breastfeeding women

The Standing Commission on Vaccination (STIKO) has generally come out in favor of Corona vaccinations for pregnant and...

Politics »

Masked opponent rule partly triggers conflicts at polling station

Voters in Germany were required to take their ballot papers, identification documents and masks with them to the polls -...

Number of deployable nuclear weapons on the rise

The peace research institute Sipri has identified a worrying trend in the development of nuclear weapons. Overall, the...

Afghanistan needs help most now

International donor conferences for Afghanistan have been held time and again, for example last November in Geneva, when...

Trump demands corona reparations from China

In his first major public appearance since leaving the White House in January, former U.S. President Donald Trump attacked...

State collects too much from pensioners

Millions of people can hope to pay less tax on their pensions. This is the result of a landmark ruling by the Federal...

Schools in Berlin an election issue

Teacher shortage, dilapidated school buildings, digitalization backlog: The fact that the Corona virus has highlighted the...

Business »

Many banks charge negative interest even on medium balances

Lower allowances and higher penalty interest rates on call money or checking accounts: According to the comparison portal...

How soccer clubs fleece their fans with ever new jerseys

For years, soccer fans have grumbled at the increasingly absurd excesses in the jersey trade. But now the wheel seems to...

Europe's Largest Economy Election Looms: What Europeans Should Expect Post German Election 2021

September 26, 2021, will mark the 20th postwar era election of the German parliament. Ordinarily, people do not turn to...

Evergrande announces millions in on-time interest payment

Heavily indebted Chinese real estate group Evergrande has promised to pay millions in interest on time, betting it will...

?DKB charges negative interest above 50,000 euros

The Berlin direct bank DKB, actually popular with younger and thrifty customers because of low costs, is lowering its...

Norilsk is no longer at the top of the pollutant ratings

As Norilsk Nickel intensifies its efforts to protect the environment, Norilsk Nickel falls out of the pollution ratings. In...

Science »

Google reduces the error rate of its quantum computer

Nobody's perfect - this is especially true for Google's quantum computer "Sycamore," which two years ago was able to solve...

Healthy reefs survive coral bleaching from heat waves

Relatively recently,?a heat wave in the southern summer of 2016/2017 triggered coral bleaching with devastating damage...

The brown dog tick opens up habitats in Germany

Temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius, dry and preferably a dog in the household. If the brown dog tick had to post a...

Climate protection: great goals, but no way to get there

Helmut Kohl already knew how to make politics with climate targets. In 1995, shortly before a UN climate conference in...

Horses and donkeys revive a desert biotope

A few feral horses and donkeys scratch the sand with their hooves in the Mojave Desert until they reach the groundwater at...

Pathogens, the invisible historians

Before Covid-19, it was the world's deadliest disease. In 2018, the World Health Organization estimated ten million people...

Arts »

UNESCO open exhibition "The World in Faces" at its Paris headquarters

On Thursday, July 8, at the headquarters of UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)...

German U21 wins European Football Championship

The German U-21 national team fulfilled a dream in Ljubljana on Sunday evening that not even its notoriously optimistic...

German basketball players qualify for Olympics

The German basketball players have fulfilled their dream of the Olympics with an impressive energetic?performance. The...

Konstantin Ishkhanov: "Phenomenal" MPO Concert at Gastieg

This May sees the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) visit Munich to perform at the city's world-famous Gastieg, a...

Non-GamStop casinos - a sense of freedom

Never has there been a greater range of exciting casino games available for people to play with a touch of a button....

Positive Corona test in the DFB national team

Ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Iceland, there is a corona case within the German national soccer team. This was...

Travel »

Italy starts vacation season despite Corona

"Book now, we look forward to seeing you!" With these words, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi is now courting tourists....

Holiday returns: these are the new rules of entry

For vacation returnees and other entrants to Germany, uniform Corona rules will apply nationwide starting this Thursday....

Mallorca attracts tourists with corona insurance

This summer, it's a matter of survival for Mallorca, Europe's most visited vacation island. In the last Corona year, the...

The curfew also applies to BER Airport

For a good two weeks now, many counties and cities have been enforcing a nighttime curfew when the incidence exceeds 100....

Munich top 10 tourist questions and answers

While the pandemic has hit hard, Germany like all other nations has taken measures to stave off its spread. Bavaria's...

Is Denmark vacation allowed?

Restaurants, museums, cinemas: After a very tough Corona lockdown, Denmark is now planning a long-term return to normalcy....

Opinions »

Post Corona Blues

Like many husbands I have a pretty small suitcase. Well, small, anyway. All the better in this day and age, I hear you...

A Shot in the Arm

Until a few minutes ago, I thought the letters VHS meant Video Home System, one of the two competing video systems of my...

Facing the Future

In the olden days, before coronavirus, robbers used to wear masks when they made their way into banks to make off with the...

V is for Vaccine

My arm has often felt like a pincushion. A good example of this was during the SARS epidemic in 2002, when both myself and...

Corona policy highlights Germany weakness

When faced with the threat of a new pandemic, ministers huddled together and etched ut their plans. The resolution they...

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-COVID world: an indian perspective

We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global...