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Berlin's new airport? Planned for 5 years, finished in 14. Stuttgart's central station? Still under construction after 16 years. Hamburg's concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie? Nine years instead of three. And the costs? Sometimes 10 times higher than promised. Or take Cologne's opera house. Built in the 1950s as a symbol of modern democracy, it was a

Is Netflix really making us less intelligent? I don't mean in the old school, "TV rots your brain" sense; that hours spent binging episodes of "Bridgerton" or "Squid Game" could be better spent dusting up on your Dostoevsky. I mean: is Netflix dumbing down the dialogue and storytelling in its films and TV shows to suit an

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced it's decision on Friday evening, after an ad hoc division of the Swiss-based court had heard his appeal earlier in the day. "The CAS ad hoc division has denied an application by skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych (Ukraine) against the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) and the International

In what the White House has described as the "largest deregulatory action in American history," President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of United States efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years. Speaking at the White House on Thursday, the president officially rescinded a 2009 Obama-era government declaration known as the endangerment finding. It has served

The Berlin International Film Festival is no stranger to political controversies, but the first one to hit this year's event happened hours before the Berlinale officially kicked off on February 12 with its opening film, "No Good Men," during a press conference introducing the international jury in the morning. The conference brought together festival director Tricia Tuttle

Heads of state and government from the EU gathered at an "informal retreat" at the Alden Biesen Castle in eastern Belgium on Thursday, in lieu of a full monthly leaders' summit in Brussels. The talks will focus on reviving and streamlining Europe's economy, with the leaders also set to discuss ways to counter threats from China, Russia and the US. 

Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have managed a large part of his assets through around 40 accounts at Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest bank, which has come back to haunt the Frankfurt-based institution. According to the German page of Wall Street Online, Deutsche Bank stock fell by 5.49% on February 4 after additional Epstein files detailing his criminal activities were made public. After the

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday for refusing to wear a different helmet than the one that honors athletes killed in the war with Russia. Heraskevych has since taken his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which was hearing his case on Friday morning. 

Who is Vladyslav Heraskevych? In Pyeongchang in 2018, the Kyiv native became the first Ukrainian to compete in skeleton at the Winter Olympics. Heraskevych also competed in Beijing in 2022. After the third of four runs there, he held up a sign with the English inscription "No war in Ukraine" for the cameras at the

A trade union member was detained by police at Tesla's Gigafactory in Grünheide on Tuesday, with the company accusing him of being caught in the act recording a private meeting.  The IG Metall trade union, however, disputed this account of events, amid tensions between Germany's main metalworkers' union and the US carmaker in the run-up to