Videos of Germans who have moved to Russia seeking "traditional values" garner hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok and YouTube. These new residents are regularly invited to appear on state television, while the Kremlin speaks of mass immigration from the West.
The rule of the strongest is back: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke of a "new world of great powers" at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. There was much talk of armament, economic might, power plays — and of course US President Donald Trump.
"With a four-day week and an exaggerated work-life balance, prosperity cannot be maintained," Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in early January, despite OECD data that shows Germans work even more than they did in previous years.
In a classroom in Chennai, India, around 20 nurses are learning German at breakneck speed. They have six months to become fluent enough to work in Germany. Ramalakshi, one of the nurses, says her family struggled financially, but still managed to pay the equivalent of several thousand euros for her nursing college.
Germany has no equivalent of the specialized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in the United States, though that would change if the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had its way.
Green Party co-chair Franziska Brantner seemed very uncomfortable when she held a press conference in Berlin this week.
As the gavel came down to seal the Paris Agreement in 2015, tears fell, world leaders joined hands and attendees of the UN COP21 climate summit erupted in a standing ovation. Just over a decade later on January 27, 2026, the withdrawal of the US — the world's second-largest emitter — from global climate pact has come into effect.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it sealed the fate of East Germany. People wasted no time and started hacking away at the monstrosity with hammers and chisels. Those people chipping away at the former border barricade were known as "Mauerspechte," or wall woodpeckers.
When the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB) named Harold Kreis as the men's national team head coach three years ago, many observers saw his appointment as something of a no-brainer. By then, he'd simply seen and done it all in German hockey.
Anyone who has had the displeasure of finding a parking spot in a major city knows it can take a very long time to strike gold.
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Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied on Sunday to support President Petr Pavel in his dispute with the country's foreign minister. In an escalating rift with the government, Pavel last week accused Foreign Minister Petr Macinka of attempted blackmail over a cabinet post.