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After nearly a decade of stop-start negotiations, the EU-Australia free trade deal has finally crossed the finish line.   "Australia used to have Europhobia — now we have at least some Eurovision," Tim Harcourt, of the University of Technology Sydney, told DW. As recently as 2023, talks collapsed at the last hurdle, derailed by fierce opposition from Australian

Soaring World Cup ticket prices have pushed European fans to file a complaint against FIFA. "The cheapest openly available final tickets now start at $4,185," the Football Supporters Europe (FSE) group said. That's around €3,400 — and "more than seven times the cost of the cheapest 2022 World Cup final ticket," the group said in statement

A military drone that crashed on a frozen lake in Lithuania hailed from Ukraine and was aimed at attacking Russian oil assets before going astray, Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Tuesday.  The drone crashed near the border to Belarus the previous day, with the military first reporting that a suspected military drone had entered

"People believe all sorts of things about how the world's going to end," said Matthew Billet, social psychologist at University of California, Irvine, US, in conversation with Science unscripted hosts, Conor Dillon and Gabriel Borrud. "Some people mean human extinction," Billet said. "Some people mean the collapse of civilization or some sort of transformation of

The state election in Rhineland-Palatinate was a success for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party: With 19.5% of the vote, the AfD more than doubled their result from the previous state election five years ago. That number was even slightly higher than the percentage the AfD got in the Baden-Württemberg election two weeks ago. Among

If you spend a day soaking up the Cypriot sun, you'll notice a few subtle signs that this Mediterranean island was once a British colony. You have to drive on the left side of the road here. Power outlets have three holes, unlike most other parts of the EU. On the beach or high in

The Lebanese flag is waved amid the rubble of a Lebanese Civil Defence post destroyed in an IDF airstrike in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, on March 24, 2026. Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Fabio Bucciarelli/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty As the war approaches the one-month mark the Trump administration keeps its options

Violeta Encarnación for NPR The alarming phone call came from Jane's daughter, away at college. Her debit card had suddenly stopped working. Something was wrong with their shared bank account. What happened to all the money? Jane's heart sank as she dialed her bank. The funds were still there, the bank said, but frozen —

ICE is among the government agencies that buy commercial data about Americans in bulk. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use

The 1944 film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer dramatizes the concept of gaslighting. Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images You're not imagining it. The word "gaslighting" is everywhere. During a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host said President Trump was "gaslighting" Americans