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  • Kaufhof wants to cut 2600 staff

    To the employees of the ailing Department store group in hard times to come. The company “survive able to hold” must be cut thousands of jobs, says CEO Fanderl. In the case of the ailing Department store chain Kaufhof are to be dismantled in the Wake of the merger with the rival Karstadt approximately 2600…

  • Behind the Chaos in Venezuela

    Politically and economically the Situation is coming to a head in the South American country. What lies behind the mass protests and the resistance of the Opposition against the left, national President Maduro? Anti-government protests in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas What happened in the last few years, politically in Venezuela? A good 20 years…

  • Mega spectacle DAU: Premiere in Paris postponed

    The craziest film of all time? The art project DAU by Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky should celebrate on Thursday world premiere in Paris. However, the opening could not take place. The French call DAU is a “monster project”. The whole of Paris to speak of the large-scale installation of the Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, writes…

  • My Europe: What is Davos and the Europe-links to elections

    The European policy must prepare for the consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, says the Romanian political Analyst Radu Magdin. If not, could be the worst fears come true. In this time of uncertainty, the world (and particularly the West) is faced with the difficult task to find a decisive response to blatant Anti-Democrats and…

  • Djokovic sweeps Pouille from space

    The Tennis world ranking lists-the First from Serbia is the main opponent of Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open. In the semi-finals to Novak Djokovic with the French outsider Lucas Pouille short process. It was a unique affair, the second semi-final of the Australian Open in the Rod Laver Arena of Melbourne.…

  • Frustrated agents and threatened whales

    Approximately 800,000 US government employees in the course of the budget freeze, no salary for more than a month. The impact of the so-called Shutdown are dramatic to the whimsical. An incomplete selection. In the US Etatstreit vote on two proposals for compromise after the Senate, with no solution in sight: Neither the draft of…

  • Japan and Iran in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup

    In a thrilling duel Japan continues to be the surprise team from Vietnam. Two video evidence to bring the final decision. Iran has against China in little trouble. Japan’s national football team moved in as the first Team into the semi-finals of the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. The record winners beat the…

  • Nadal wins the generation duel

    The Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal is to decide on the semi-finals of the Australian Open against the Greek shooting star Stefanos Tsitsipas. In the women’s Naomi Osaka and Petra Kvitova in the final. Rafael Nadal has reached to a new Demonstration of his class for the fifth Time in the final of the Australian…

  • Concrete as a style-forming Element

    In Poland, a house is built, for the 600 tons of concrete. The special feature: It doesn’t look it. On the contrary, The appearance of the Facade was imitated in the structure of wood. Watch the Video 04:22 Now live 04:22 Min. Share Concrete as a style-forming Element Send Facebook Twitter google+ Tumblr VZ Mr.…

  • Venezuela: the international community responds

    Of Latin America and Europe to China: more and more countries are positioning themselves in the power struggle between the Venezuelan head of state Nicolas Maduro and President Juan Guaidó. Anyone who stands behind whom? An Overview. President Guaidó announced before Thousands of supporters in Venezuela to hold free elections (archive image) After the Venezuelan…

  • Merkel and Barnier: Waiting for London

    The Countdown for the Brexit to be running. And still, it is unclear exactly what the British want. A hard Brexit, a shift soft? The EU and Germany have to wait until London finally moved. No picture, no Statement: If the chief negotiator of the European Union the Brexit negotiations, if the Frenchman Michel Barnier…

  • France and Italy: The dispute escalates

    The populists in Rome, calling for the replacement of the President in Paris. The verbal war is unleashed. The trouble between the neighbors has a certain Tradition. Bernd Riegert from Brussels. No harmony: President Macron (li.) and Premier Conte in their only Meeting in June 2018 “The political leaders of France and Italy have not…

  • Osaka in the final against Kvitova

    The Japanese Naomi Osaka and the Czech Petra Kvitova win her semi-finals at the Australian Open in Melbourne. In the final, it is not only the Grand Slam title, but also to be the number one. US Open champion Naomi Osaka reaches for her second Grand Slam title. The 21-year-old Japanese girl won in the…

  • Germany as group winners in the world Cup semi-final

    The German handball players-a draw for the home world Cup unbeaten in the K. o.-round. Against European Champions Spain get unnecessarily high number of goals. A substitutions is a convincing debut. He is the rookie, the follow-UPS: Tim Suton. His German national team colleagues are already for almost two weeks in the tournament, have qualified…

  • East Germans see democracy more sceptical

    According to a recent survey, only 42 percent of East Germans to keep the democracy is the best form of government. The reasons for the skepticism are primarily to be found in the biography of many of the East German. Almost 30 years ago, the people in East Germany went in Leipzig and many other…

  • Like the Stasi in the West German neo-Nazi scene, under the firm

    No joke: The East German secret police had informers in the extreme right-wing Milieu of the Federal Republic of Germany. In order to destabilize the class enemy? Hardly. You had other people. The real reason, apparently, was much more banal. The 1991 late neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen (2.v.l.) at a Meeting of the “action front of…

  • Banker and mystic.

    A Director of the Bank as blessed? Christian Feldmann of the Catholic Church is reminiscent of Hieronymus Jaegen, who died 100 years ago in Trier, and in its appeal, God’s presence know in the middle of the world. The Bank Director Jerome Jaegen fought against the dependence on material possessions in the interest of piety…

  • War in the workplace: Always these colleagues(pigs)!

    For most of the day we spend with our colleagues. And the can make us the life difficult. Why is that? Mostly because they are just different. And that is a good thing! If I enter in the morning, the Büroder science, it lifts my mood every Time. No matter what basement you previously had…

  • Deutsche Bank: In the crosshairs of the Fed?

    Germany’s largest money house denies misconduct in cooperation with a Danish Bank, and the Laundry in a money scandal is involved. US authorities, however, are on the case. The Deutsche Bank must in connection with the money laundering scandal at the Danske Bank’s persistent questions please. We are faced with “requests from regulatory and law…

  • Mega spectacle “Dau” – in Berlin banned in Paris celebrated

    The craziest film of all time? The art project “Dau” of the Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky celebrates on Thursday its world premiere in Paris. In Berlin, it was failed for safety reasons. The French call it “Dau”, a “monster project”. The whole of Paris to speak of the large-scale installation of the Russian Director Ilya…

  • Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, dressing up

    Neuschwanstein is the epitome of a fairytale castle and is a Top tourist attraction in Germany. The currently ongoing refurbishment of the state rooms allowed visitors an insight into probably the most beautiful building site in Bavaria. Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castles Neuschwanstein Castle Barely four years in office and 23 years young…

  • Equality at the WEF in Davos

    Only every fifth participant of the world economic forum in Davos is a woman. While female role models are urgently needed, in order to achieve more equality in politics and the economy. “I wanted to make a Statement.” If Marin is reported by Alsop in Davos, she is visibly proud of. The conductor directs typically…

  • Al-Bashir in Qatar: visiting friends?

    The Sudanese President was received in Qatar by the Emir, Prince Tamim al-Thani. Both heads of state to pursue common interests. The Sudanese eyeing the visit of their leaders with a worldly-wise skepticism. With a friendly smile, you walked across the tarmac: the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his host, Prince Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani,…

  • Why Germany is so little recycled

    Much too rarely are made of plastic packaging of new plastic materials. The representatives of the Recycling industry say. Tons of plastic waste are exported to Asia, where it is often dumped illegally. A garbage collector searches a dump on the Indonesian island of Java to the imported plastic waste “The bread spread for the…