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Skip next section Dresden to evacuate 18,000 people after discovery of WWII bomb March 10, 2026 Dresden to evacuate 18,000 people after discovery of WWII bomb Around 18,000 people in Dresden will have to leave their homes and workplaces by 9 a.m. on Wednesday, after a Second World War bomb was discovered near the Carola

The husband-and-wife founders of German vaccine company BioNTech announced on Tuesday they would step down to pursue new innovations at a brand new firm. BioNTech's CEO Ugur Sahin and chief medical officer Özlem Türeci pioneered mRNA vaccine technology in collaboration with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Their efforts resulted in the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved

One in eight people living in Germany has experienced discrimination at least once in 2022. That is the alarming finding of the study "How Discrimination is Experienced in Germany," which was presented on Tuesday in Berlin by Ferda Ataman, the Independent Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination. Put simply, nine million people in Germany know what

AFP via Getty Images and U.S. Air Force/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR Wladimir van Wilgenburg stands in a residential neighborhood in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and points out incoming drones high in the sky. "The U.S. defense systems, as you can see, are taking down the drones," he says in a video recorded

Volkswagen's top executives on Tuesday said the vast automotive empire suffered a 44% reduction in net profits in 2025, with gains after tax dropping to €6.9 billion (roughly $8 billion) from 12.4 billion in 2024. That's the company's worst annual overall performance since 2016, at the height of the financial fallout from the so-called "Dieselgate" scandal. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America When Sarah Lindbo's 14-year-old daughter Greta is thriving, she is playful, engaged and not in pain.

The price of oil soared to nearly $120 a barrel on Monday after Israel struck Iran's energy infrastructure over the weekend and Tehran announced Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new supreme leader. The attacks, which marked a major escalation in the 10-day-old conflict, sent fresh fears throughout global energy markets, with Brent crude reaching $119.50 (€103.30) a

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) (L), accompanied by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) (R), speaks during a nomination hearing for Dr. Casey Means, for the medical director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service and U.S. surgeon general during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic filed suit on Monday challenging a move by the Pentagon last week officially designating the company as a "supply chain risk" after it refused to allow unrestricted military use of its AI system, Claude.  The US Defense Department had demanded Anthropic remove guardrails blocking its AI for functions like autonomous ​weapons or

An attendee holds a U.S. and Israeli flag at an October 7th memorial rally near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images From New Jersey to North Carolina to Tuesday's primaries in Illinois, Israel has risen as an issue in Democratic primaries.