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The insidious path of COVID-19 across the planet is a blunt reminder of how small the world has become. For the coming weeks, Worldcrunch will be delivering daily updates on this crisis from the best, most trusted international news sources — regardless of language or geography. To receive the daily Coronavirus global brief in your […]
With traders spooked, physical gold that you can hold in your hands is being traded for a high mark-up compared to the market price for gold.
Public discourse seems to be dominated these days by political polarization and extreme positions, but it’s largely an illusion.
The debate about Angela Merkel’s successor shows that her CDU party is lacking in powerful women to take the party forward. As strange as it seems, her party still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality.
After the killing of nine in the western German town of Hanau, it is clear the state must do more to crack down. But the responsibility extends much farther.
Allowing Beijing to have a hand in the new, faster mobile network would entail significant risks. But in Germany, debate about 5G is also a question of who you like more: China or the U.S.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she will not run for Chancellor and will step down as leader of Germany’s ruling CDU party. It was a slow implosion over the past year, with Angela Merkel’s mixed messages partly to blame.
Welcome to Thursday, where the UK has begun a trial of mixing vaccines, Facebook is blocked in Myanmar and German singles try to find love in the local supermarket. We also hear from a Belgian bioengineer working against the tech consensus of “smart cities.” • COVID-19 latest: Germany flies in doctors, ventilators, and beds to […]
Ephroim “Johnny” Jablon’s entire family was gassed to death. At 94, he can’t forget the smells and so many other details of the camps. Such memories are dying away.
Environmentalists and beer companies have common cause to oppose new tax rules that may reduce the level of recycling.
Welcome to Friday, where it’s been a year since the first COVID lockdown began in Wuhan, ISIS is back in Iraq and James Bond fans get a license to kill some more time. Die Welt also takes us on a typographic journey through the infamous story of the Gothic typeface, a.k.a. the “Nazi font.” Biden […]
For areas like the Mediterranean basin, tourism is huge business. But it’s also an inordinate source of plastic pollution.
Men do not do their fair share of housework and childcare. And companies still discriminate against female employees. And it’s not looking any better for the digital economy.
Hundreds of air-raid shelters are still standing in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, witnesses to a bygone era. The last ones are now being sold off.
New tech may soon be able to predict future political problems and independently develop solutions before issues even arise. But what does that mean for democracy?
An independent commission is shedding light on years-old allegations of abuse by priests, swim coaches and others.
By Dec. 10, one third of German employees have already mentally switched off for the holidays — even though they still have to show up for work.
It marked the end of an epoch: on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell — and seemingly in an instant, the decades-long Cold War was over. Built in 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) to keep the different sectors of Berlin separated, the wall became the singular symbol of the Cold War divide, and a concrete example of the limits and repression of the communist system. The final chapter of the Cold War began when East Berlin’s Communist Party announced that, from midnight, citizens of the GDR could cross the Iron Curtain. “Tor auf!” (“Open […]
Global warming may eventually force Homo sapiens to again seek cover from the elements. A global tour of the history of humans living underground.
China’s ‘social scoring’ system, with punishments for nonconformist actions and rewards for good behavior, changes human interaction. Germans know a thing or two about the high stakes of privacy protection.
We can only solve our traffic problems if we stop idealizing car and bike sharing, and focus on how people behave and what they want.
It has become fashionable to blame the climate crisis on the economy, but it’s important to fight against this misconception, and the trivialization of the problem.
Air travel is booming despite the current climate debate. But vacationers have to rethink their summer breaks — not only for the environment, but also for the sake of people.
Italy reached a preliminary agreement with other EU countries on rescuing migrants at sea. But Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has not shared the news at home, and has kept attacking his supposed partners, especially Germany.
Germany’s Bosch and Daimler are teaming up to achieve a high level of success in autonomous parking, becoming the first to have a marketable system far from Silicon Valley.
Skylines evolve over time, but that doesn’t mean cities like Bremen, Germany should let developers erect whatever kind of tower block they want.
Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we program them into binary systems? It is tempting, but it is also dangerous.
The murder of a local politician has put new attention on the kinds of verbal hate and periodic harassment that was largely repressed until recently.
Democratic systems offer little incentive for long-term thinking. But unless we can implement true, forward-looking policies, problems like climate change will only multiply.
Today, young women like Carola Rackete and Greta Thunberg have the power to conquer hearts and instill idealism into politics. But ultimately, their admirers have to act themselves if they want change.
Google and Facebook’s power endanger democratic discourse. It is time to design an infrastructure for European social media platforms.
Record temperatures are likely to be broken this week as a brutal summer heatwave hits large swathes of the European continent. As mercury rises, so do our concerns about climate change, with France’s health minister Agnès Buzyn warning that “we are going to have to change our habits and stop thinking these episodes are exceptional.” From above, this OneShot captures these dog days — in the heat of the moment. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/qoFkqb8db4w expand=1] Heatwave and Waves (©Hauke-Christian Dittrich/DPA/ZUMA) | OneShot OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow […]
When it comes to human health and the planet’s well-being, certain activities are simply untenable. Researchers also know that self-regulation never works.
A new study shows Germany must look for other ways to convince automobile buyers to switch to electric cars. Shall we say: quota?
Germany’s first post-War generation had cause for optimism. But their descendants have a different, darker outlook, poll numbers suggest.
Against a tide of right-wing nationalism, Germany’s Basic Law — with its emphasis on fundamental rights — is as relevant now as it was 70 years ago, when it first appeared.
The recent EU election results show that younger voters in particular are sick and tired of slow-motion climate policies.
Some leftists are screaming racism because of a conference on the pros and cons of the headscarf in Frankfurt. One can only wish these people that they never have to live in the society that they are rooting for.
In this martial arts where competitors are in knight armor, the athletes beat each other with axes and swords — until someone falls.
It is telling that parents in Silicon Valley, who would know, are restricting and even banning screen time for their children. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has just released a new set of guidelines on how much time parents should allow young children to spend with screens: Kids younger than 1 year old should have […]