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  • Dirk Nowitzki wins with the Dallas Mavericks house

    His operating times are short, but he hits back: Dirk Nowitzki with the Dallas Mavericks against the Charlotte Hornets and is only seven minutes on the parquet. Basketball Star Dirk Nowitzki has celebrated with the Dallas Mavericks in the North American NBA a runaway victory. The Texans won on Wednesday night against the Charlotte Hornets…

  • CNAS, NASA, ESA, Roscosmos – the race to the moon

    Eleven years ago, China sent its first Orbiter to the moon. The people’s Republic took up the ambitious moon program. The USA, Russia and Europe also want to go to the moon. More about the race to the moon. A rocket of the type “Long March” brought Chang’e-1 on 24. In October 2007, to the…

  • Bauhaus, Fontane, Berlin film festival: the culture preview in 2019

    If you are interested in culture and like to travel, then 2019 might be your year. Prado-birthday in Madrid, ESC in Tel Aviv, Biennale of art in Venice. And 100 years of the Bauhaus ‘ is almost celebrated everywhere. Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019 January The celebrations for the cultural capital of…

  • Thailand: tourists flee from holiday Islands

    Tropical storm “Pabuk” has reached Thailand. Tens of thousands of tourists have left the Islands to the South of the country on Wednesday. Red flag on the island of Koh Samui: tourist places are bracing for possibly the worst storm in decades Tens of thousands of tourists fled the Thai holiday Islands of Koh Phangan…

  • Top of the alpha animals

    Manchester City welcomes Liverpool to the Top match in the Premier League. It is also the forces of the two Trainer-alpha animals Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp measure. It is no coincidence that Pep Guardiola let go of these paeans to the large counterparties. “Liverpool is currently the best team in Europe, maybe the world,”…

  • From the poor house in Italy for the European capital of culture: Matera’s stunning conversion

    Dirt-poor of the policy, forget the southern Italian city a long time led a lonely existence. But this has changed. The European capital of culture enchanted with ancient history and new ideas. “I’ve never beheld such a picture of misery,” wrote the author, painter and doctor Carlo Levi about Matera and helped the city to…

  • The madness of the Terror

    It is a shock on new year’s eve. A German steers his car in the Ruhr area, specifically in a crowd of people – apparently from xenophobia. Now there are speculations about a mental illness of the perpetrator. In Bottrop, Essen. Several times the 50-year-old German Andreas N. departs targeted foreign-looking groups of people. Eight…

  • Two women in Congress carry the hopes of the American aborigines

    With Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland this Thursday’s draw for the first time, Indigenous peoples in the U.S. Congress. You are formidable, perhaps, to tremendous expectations and a delicate balancing act. Sharice Davids at their victory celebration in November : The 38-year-old lawyer and former martial arts athlete, won a congressional mandate North America’s indigenous…

  • Sudan – why the protests run into the Void

    For weeks, the Sudanese demonstrate against President Omar al-Bashir. The makes a few concessions, and remains calm. His Regime, his calculus, is too important to be overthrown. The protests were bloody. In mid-December, the citizens had begun to demonstrate in several cities. Their displeasure was directed against the government’s Plan to increase prices for gasoline…

  • Chronology: The Russian Doping scandal

    For the past two years, revelations about Doping in Russian top-level sports a great deal of attention. WADA accuses Russia of state Doping. An Overview of the events. In the midst of the machinations of The Russian Olympic Committee. 3. December 2014: it All begins with the documentary “classified Doping – such As Russia its…

  • Russia risked the future of his athletes

    Soon to be banned all the Russian athletes in international competitions? It’s possible, because Russia is even more stubborn in the work-up of his Doping affair. The sports world is waiting to Meet the world Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the 14./15. January. The WADA Committee to decide on new disciplinary measures against the Russian Anti-Doping…

  • Netflix and censorship: Streaming services in the Dilemma

    After Netflix has a Comedy result for users in Saudi Arabia, the excitement is great. The case shows that Streaming services are moving in the field of tension between law, values and economic interests. Scene from the German-speaking Netflix series “Dark” – the platform is activated in more than 190 countries “Now is a good…

  • Well landed, one of my suitcases

    If the Luggage when the flight arrives, the passengers are often a nightmare. Now a remedy is in sight: Each piece of Luggage should soon be on all over the world to find – thanks to smarter technology. Airlines want to reduce the loss of cases significantly, and each piece of Luggage in the future…

  • Oslo is about to start in 2019 as the environmental capital of Europe

    Oslo wants to reduce its emissions by 2030, 95 per cent. An ambitious goal, but as the “European Green Capital 2019” you have to set the bar high – to have such a title. Countless shipping containers, a huge intersection, traffic, exhaust gases: So you could of Oslo describe the port area some time ago,…

  • Travel to the architecture of the Modern

    Houses, roads, factories – Modern architecture has many faces. In the Bauhaus-2019 architecture can move Fans to the “Grand Tour of the Modern”. We show some of the buildings along this route. The Modern on the track Functional and extravagant: the house of Makeup The dwelling-house for the manufacturer Fritz Schminke is a Prime example…

  • Venice wants to “entry fee” from tourists

    For a long time Venice is trying to regulate the tourists flows better. This should now also contribute an entrance fee for day visitors. Also other cities in Italy to see this measure as a useful one. Venice may in the future collect a kind of entrance fee from tourists. The revised budget of the…

  • ECB Bank under forced administration

    After the Northern Italian Banca, a capital increase of Carige on the resistance of a major shareholder, has failed, has taken on the European Central Bank today, on a provisional basis the management of the Institute. The ECB shall provide the beleaguered Italian credit institution, Banca Carige, under forced administration. Three interim managers and a…

  • 300.000 VW driver sue for damages

    The first pattern for a declaratory judgment at all on runs: Up to the end of the year were able to register dupes customers of Volkswagen. You can claim compensation for the loss of value of your manipulated Diesel cars. Cover of a diesel engine in a VW Golf (archive) More than 300,000 customers of…

  • Schumacher is 50 – the memory remains

    On Thursday Michael Schumacher will be 50 years old. The severe skiing accident five years ago changed his life dramatically, but the life’s work of the formula 1-record world champion is untouchable. It’s been quiet on the Michael Schumacher. Since his skiing accident five years ago, on 29. December 2013 in the French Alps, Schumacher’s…

  • In Thailand, an entrepreneur replants trees on the forest – with the help of wild tea

    Miangbäume are considered ancestors of the modern teas. They grow wild in the forests of Thailand and awaken the interest of tea farmers and companies. The harvest of which helps the forest and the diversity of species. The tins and jars on the shelves of the Monsoon Tea House bear promising names. “Dhara Green”, “Jungle…

  • Comment: Bolsonaro can only fight choice

    The great gesture of reconciliation remained Jair Bolsonaro in his office, guilty. Instead, he fell back into the familiar “us against them”. But can’t afford Brazil, says Thomas spleen. “I confirm once more my promise to build a society without discrimination and without division,” said Jair Messias Bolsonaro on Tuesday at his swearing-in to 38.…

  • Christian Pulisic changes from BVB to FC Chelsea

    Still a year and a half Borussia Dortmund must enjoy the Soccer skills, and Christian Pulisic, the U.S. Talent changes in the Premier League. Chelsea will secure the services of the 20 -. Transfer-Hammer right at the beginning of the year: Christian Pulisic club Chelsea FC switch from Borussia Dortmund to the English Top. The…

  • New Horizons on the edge of our solar system

    6.4 billion kilometers away from earth, the NASA probe New Horizons flew to the Ultima Thule in the past. Never before has approached to a man-made object, a so-far-away celestial bodies. Watch the Video 01:38 Now live 01:38 Min. Share Nasa probe hits the “Ultima Thule” Send Facebook Twitter google+ Tumblr VZ Mr. Wong Xing…

  • Van Gerwen at the Darts crown

    Top favourite Michael van Gerwen has been crowned for the third Time, after the 2014 and 2017 to the Darts champion of the world. The Dutchman won the new year’s day Rugby world Cup final against the Englishman Michael Smith. Darts world champion for the third Time – as the Dutchman Michael van Gerwen will…