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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke again on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, exchanging views on the current military and humanitarian situation in the war with Russia. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Scho…

SV Hamburg will bid to end their Bundesliga exile with a promotion/relegation play-off against Hertha Berlin, the side coached by their former playing legend Felix Magath. “Felix Magath and I know each other well, but we haven’t met on the pitch yet,” …

Our Twitter timelines are usually a hodgepodge of random topics from the various accounts we follow, but the social media company now wants to let users focus on one topic at a time, not unlike Reddit does with its subreddit forums. Twitter’s new Commu…

What happens when we die? Do we see a light at the end of a tunnel, sense that we are leaving our body and look down on it, or have our life flash before our eyes, as some people have reported after a near-death experience? A recent study suggests that…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he sees no sign of an imminent end to the war in Ukraine and warned that a further escalation remains possible. There had so far been no sign that people had realized the importance of ending the conflict “as quickly …

EU foreign affairs ministers failed to reach a breakthrough on new sanctions on Russia at a meeting in Brussels on Monday as Hungary continued to block a ban on Russian oil imports. Talks between ministers “clarified some issues” but no agreement was p…

In the light of recently announced bids by Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Monday that Austria had no plan to join the military alliance. “We have a completely different geographical situation,…

Our daily lives during the Covid-19 pandemic have been dominated by hygiene, hygiene and more hygiene. After over two years of battling the novel coronavirus, we’re still wearing a face mask much of the time, bumping fists or elbows instead of shaking …

Coffee raises your blood pressure? This belief may remain widespread, and yet there’s no research showing that this is actually the case. In fact, you can safely drink at least four cups of coffee a day, even if you have high blood pressure, experts fr…

Beeswax wraps seem like a good way to cover food while using less plastic and many are embracing them as a green alternative to cling film. There are lots of brightly and pretty beeswax covers in shops right now – but how helpful are they really in a b…