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When the tenth anniversary of my friend and colleague Anja Niedringhaus' death loomed last April, I learned that her family was organising a memorial event in her home town of Höxter. Although I couldn't make it there on the day, they invited me and others who knew Anja to send them a video message....

As news that Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime had been toppled broke last night, Syrians took to the streets of Berlin's Neukölln district in their hundreds to celebrate. By Sunday morning, small groups were still wandering up and down Sonnenallee - Neukölln's main thoroughfare - draped in Syrian fla...

It's not uncommon to rip into your enemies in politics and accuse them of being unfit for office because of their character faults. It is unusual, though, for a German politician to publicly eviscerate one of his coalition partners, which makes German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's firing of Finance Minis...

Tldr: A disaffected Berlin hipster finds herself after moving to Brandenburg and falling for the charms of a neo-Nazi with a brain tumor.

Full review: German author Juli Zeh's novel follows a young creative from Berlin whose disaffection with life and love reaches its pinnacle in the first wave of...

Two parties that have championed Russian interests are predicted to make strong gains in German regional elections, destabilising Europe's biggest economy and potentially undermining a key pillar of military support for Ukraine.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has been chipping a...

I woke up this morning to find in my feed an obituary for William Calley, the only U.S. soldier convicted over his involvement in the My Lai massacre, which saw American troops kill hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in 1968.

According to the Washington Post, Calley "was convicted of murdering at...

Seit gestern habe ich ein Auto. Besser gesagt, einen Mietwagen. Wir wollten als Familie einige Dinge machen bei denen mehrere Personen und größere Ladungen über weitere Strecken bewegt werden mussten, da bot sich das an. €180 all-in für drei Tage, sogar parken und laden.

Fazit bisher: ziemlicher R...

Cool Britannia has certainly lost its lustre in recent years.

First the Brexit referendum that saw voters narrowly favour leaving the European Union following a barrage of mis- and disinformation from right-wing media and Facebook bots.

Then the botched divorce negotiations with Brussels in wh...

Popped into my local supermarket today and picked up a newspaper that happened to have a front-page story about the UK elections.

As the young cashier picked the paper up to scan it, he commented: "I don't understand Britain. How can they spend millions on the Queen's funeral and not have any mone...

Tapping into my long-dormant web design skills and with a little help from our new artificially intelligent friends, I've managed to create a simple page that turns a (google docs-generated) CSV file containing some of my AP articles into a timeline. Take a look here. Comments welcome.

UPDATE: T...