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Nine months in Prague-tourists had to abandon the famous astronomical clock at the old town hall. This Friday, 28. September, this is it: the century-old mechanism is again set in motion. On Friday, 28. September, will move from 18.00 clock in Prague’s old town, the figures of the apostles and the pointer of the historical…

Trade conflicts, hard Brexit, problems in emerging markets, the world economic climate is rough. The German economy is struggling but also with home-made problems. From Berlin, Sabine Kinkartz. It is not good news that the leading German economic research institutes present in their autumn report. While the German gross domestic product is expected to grow…

The women’s quota works, but only very weakly. Still, women have it much harder than men in Supervisory boards and boards of Directors to ascend. The Placement program “Board pilot” can help you now. A meeting room in Switzerland. A couple of chairs, a huge Monitor, a Couch. On the Sita Mazumder with a Headset…

The UEFA Executive has decided that: The European football championship in 2024 is going to Germany. In the choice of the DFB-application prevailed against those of the Turkey. To read in the DW live Ticker! 15.26 PM: It was a democratic decision, says UEFA President Ceferin to the financial statements. Exactly how the results looked,…

Almost all observers agree: DFB, Reinhard Grindel probably needs this Thursday the award of UEFA for Germany to host the EURO 2024, to be able to be at his Post. The fate of Reinhard Grindel decides this Thursday as the head of the German football Association (DFB)? So much should be clear: if you can’t…

Germany is rich – but not everywhere. There are Boom regions, where work and housing are scarce. And there are rural areas where young people, Doctors, and Confidence are missing. A Commission to change that. In Germany, the official goal is to have roughly equivalent living conditions. This is even in the basic law. However,…

The populist government of Italy occupied the chief post of the state television. The RAI is for the first time, led by sympathizers of the radical right-wing “Lega”. Bernd Riegert reports. “I’ve never heard of a party. I have never sought the political support to make a career,” said Marcello Foa at the time of…

The DW talk show “Shabab talk” on women’s rights in Sudan creates excitement and threats of murder. The Sudanese opposition politician, Yasser Arman, describes in a DW Interview, the oppression by the Regime. “What Sudanese women want?” This question was discussed in the Arabic-speaking DW talk show “Shabab talk”. The broadcast triggered a heated debate…

According to the agreement between the Vatican and Beijing on the Bishop’s nomination of the Hong Kong theologian Kung Lap Yan, explains in a DW Interview why the Deal is politically motivated and the Vatican can lose. Deutsche Welle: An agreement between the Holy see and Beijing, the Vatican refuses to recognize the appointment of…

The construction fences to Frankfurt’s new center have already fallen in may. Now the big inauguration party is held. To be the Festival at the weekend (28. to 30.09.) around half a Million visitors expected. Frankfurt: because Of old town! The heart of the city Between the römerberg and the Cathedral of the former medieval…

The Star Rapper is said to have been excluded from a criminal Clan. That almost ruined the marriage. And now Bushido and his wife fear for their lives. Arafat Abou-Chaker, the business was for many years a partner of Bushido, and have received 50 per cent of the income of the rapper, said hit wife,…

History is repeating itself. Sometimes. Once Merkel wrote, your party must learn to “run”. Now it is ready. But slowly. “Revolution!” and “what comes next?” Irony, and a tense excitement in Berlin on the day after that. On the one hand, political life is more formal: Cabinet meeting in the Chancellery. Work of the Committee…

Energy cooperatives of consumers to producers of electricity. 862 there is in Germany. The industry relies on solar power and hopes for a recovery. Weather permitting, Martina Pfaff rises on the flat roof of your new house. From the top you can see in the distance the peaks of the towers of the Cologne Cathedral.…

The merger speculation by Deutsche Bank to hold. Now also the Swiss UBS is next to the Commerzbank in focus. But the German is at all attractive? The management Board of Deutsche Bank has been working for some time been circulating on the merger speculation to downplay. Their CFO is James von Moltke said Wednesday…

Decades of abuse scandals rocking the Catholic Church. In many countries around the world priests have molested thousands of children, raped, tortured. A look at the biggest scandals. Since when are the crimes? In 1985, the conviction of a priest in the US state of Louisiana due to misuse of 39 children first caused headlines.…

Austria’s freedom party-led interior Ministry wants to penalize critical media, among other things, the weekly newspaper Falter. He was outraged, but not surprised, says editor-in-chief, Armin Thurnher in the DW-Interview. Armin Thurnher is editor and, together with Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief of the moth In an E-Mail to the regional police directorates of the FPÖ-politician Herbert…

A study shows that the mass abuse of children by Catholic priests – now the processing start, declares the Church. The writer Bodo Kirchhoff has done that for itself already. Shocking movies: abuse within the Catholic Church Shocking movies: abuse in the Catholic Church A recent study by scientists from Mannheim, Giessen and Heidelberg, about…

With the announcement to establish a Foundation in Europe, has provided the American right-wing populist uproar. Since then, little has happened. Elapsed before all the Eastern Europeans, the Lust? A Track Search. Anyone who flies in the United States from a political office, can be soft landing. The strong Foundation allows the money at the…

Donald trump’s trade dispute brings the two rivals Japan and China to the table. This is not easy. But Japan can no longer blindly rely on the United States, said Frank Sieren. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (li.) and China’s President Xi Jinping, at their recent Meeting two weeks ago Exactly six years ago, in…

For years, human rights organizations are calling for the processing of war crimes in the Central African Republic. In October, the special Tribunal should begin its work. “The special criminal court is for us a great hope. Long, agonizing years of impunity will finally come to an end,” says Flavien Mbata, the Minister of justice…

Dmitry Gluchowsky fights in his novels, against the abuse of power in Russia. Now his new novel is “Text”. A settlement with the political System of Vladimir Putin? Deutsche Welle: with the exception of biographical books, the novel “the Text is” her first book about contemporary life in Russia. How is it come to this?…

The Schalke broke series. Coach Domenico Tedesco can’t find any solutions, Manager Heidels commitments apply. For Royal blue, this is a Déjà-vu experience, says DW editor Jörg straw dummy. The whole of Schalke is currently in a nightmare. And this is really Unpleasant in this Situation that the Ruhr club had such an experience before…

If the production of Packaging material for Goods, is an important benchmark for a dynamic economic growth, we are in Golden times. Because the demand for pallets and crates is unbroken. Given the solid economic growth in Germany and new impulses from abroad, the domestic wood packaging industry is in a buoyant mood – and…

As harmless as sometimes is assumed to glyphosate, for insects, is apparently but a new study shows. The herbicide could have die, therefore, even complicity on the bees. Glyphosate is controversial, because there is a suspicion that it is cancer. A new study from the U.S. now throws a spotlight on a very different possible…