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A terrorism investigation was launched in Germany on Thursday after police discovered bomb-making materials in the possession of a 16-year-old boy suspected of planning an attack at a school. Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rh…

Football star Lionel Messi has been named by Forbes business magazine as the world’s top-earning athlete for the second time, reclaiming the honour from mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor. The 34-year-old Argentine forward earned 130 million dol…

Mainz on Thursday signed midfielder Dominik Kohr on a long-term contract after having him on loan from Bundesliga rivals Eintracht Frankfurt for the last season and a half. The 28-year-old Kohr joined Mainz on loan in January 2021 and has now agreed a …

In an attempt to end Apple’s dominance in the smartwatch business, Google has announced its answer to the Apple Watch, a round-faced smartwatch designed to work seamlessly with Android devices, like Apple’s watch does with iPhones. The long-rumoured Pi…

Since the coronavirus began settling in our respiratory tracts and upending our lives, we’ve practiced social distancing to reduce its spread. We’ve even kept close friends at arm’s length – two arm’s lengths – or avoided in-person interactions altoget…

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin has named “unprecedented sanctions” against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine a necessity because “the tradition of sporting neutrality is no longer tenable in 2022 in the situation of war.” Ceferin told Wednesday’s…

Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calviño refused to be in a group photo at a managers’ forum because she would have been the only woman in the picture, an act that has won her praise and condemnation. The 53-year-old was celebrated on social media by act…

Airbnb says it has introduced radical changes to how people use the platform to book a place to stay as part of an effort to adapt to how travel habits have changed during the pandemic. Until now, booking a place to stay on Airbnb started with you spec…

International broadcaster Al Jazeera accused the Israeli military of murder on Wednesday following the death of its veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in the northern West Bank city of Jenin during an Israeli army operation. Israel said it would invest…

Ford is hooking up the US market’s most important vehicle to the power grid, and says it will begin delivering the F-150 as an electric truck in the coming weeks at prices starting at $40,000. That puts the pick-up that has been at the top of registrat…