Embellished with a gilded iguana and a bouquet of fruits topped with a pineapple, an ostentatious piece of queer history was sold on April 24 for €300,000 ($350,000) at the Berlin branch of Germany's Lempertz auction house.
Pensions have been a hot-button issue in Germany for many years, but this week, Chancellor Friedrich Merz himself reignited the controversy. "Statutory pension insurance alone will, at best, still provide only basic coverage for old age.
The "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom has survived a revolution. Now the British government is working to ensure it can withstand Donald Trump. Despite deep economic and social ties and unparalleled intelligence sharing, the US president has chosen to repeatedly attack the UK and its Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said his country is ready to hold talks with Russia in Azerbaijan, where he is currently visiting. This announcement was made after the Ukrainian leader met with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday where he said he held a "very productive meeting" with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "There is a strategic security arrangement that we are actively developing across three key areas," Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
In January 2024, Bavarian school principal Roland Feucht publicly urged people to join a demonstration for democracy and social diversity at his school. But his call had consequences.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday said he was "not worried" after a report suggested the US is considering expelling Spain from NATO for failing to support American operations in the war with Iran.
German Federal Economy Minister Katherina Reiche of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had only bad news to deliver in Berlin. She expects the war in the Persian Gulf to limit Germany's economic growth to just half a percentage point this year. "The escalation has set us back economically," the minister said. "The situation remains highly volatile."
A UK government minister told Parliament on Thursday that data from a health charity, UK Biobank, was briefly listed for sale by at least three vendors on the Chinese Alibaba e-commerce platform.
The German Bundeswehr has for the first time officially adopted a military strategy, citing an increasingly dangerous international situation. The strategy defines the future focus of the German armed forces and analyzes how the Bundeswehr can counter potential threats.
In autumn 2024, Russia launched massive aerial assaults on Ukraine, pounding its energy system and raising fears about the safety of its nuclear power plants. Several reactors were disconnected from the grid. One shut down entirely. "It wasn't that we were scared," says Shaun Burnie, recalling that night. "It was that we were terrified."
Skip next section Ritter Sport to made first ever redundancies April 23, 2026 Ritter Sport to made first ever redundancies German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport is set to make redundancies for the first time in the company's 110-year history, a spokesman confirmed on Thursday, with just over 10% of jobs affected.