The US is the second-most surveilled country in the world after China, with one camera for every five people in major cities. A new report found that bigger US cities had an average of over 112,000 CCTV cameras, or about 2,200 for every 10,000 people. That was still dwarfed by China, which had 15,880,491 CCTV … Read more
House of Hanover goes to war with itself as distant cousin of the Queen sues his own son over estate Ernst August, prince of Hanover (66) is suing his son, also Ernst August (37) The father gave his son Marienburg castle, a mansion and the nearby estate But after struggling with the upkeep, the son all … Read more
North America’s megafauna — giant animals such as woolly mammoths and bear-sized beavers — were driven to extinction by a near-glacial climate, a study claimed. Researchers from Germany used a new statistical method to estimate the changing population sizes of the giant animals from the radiocarbon record. They found that megafauna numbers responded to climatic shifts, and they … Read more
City mice are SMARTER than their country cousins! Rodents in urban areas are better at problem solving as they’ve had to adapt to living alongside humans, study reveals Thirty-one striped field mice were captured from the wild as part of the study Scientists gave them a set of challenges in a cage where they had … Read more
Duden (pictured), which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the masculine form of nouns to be used to describe whole professions [Stock image] Germany‘s most influential dictionary has stirred debate by issuing guidance to make the language more gender neutral. Duden, which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the … Read more
New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait has accused Hollywood of engaging in a McCarthy-esque crusade against conservatives after actress Gina Carano was fired from Disney. Chait weighed in on the controversy in an essay for the Intelligencer in which he argued there was no ‘principled distinction’ between the Hollywood blacklist against communists in the 1950s and … Read more
Germany is rapidly losing faith in the EU amid continuing Covid jab chaos across almost all member states, new poll shows Over 60% said view of Brussels had worsened due to handling of vaccine roll-out Almost 70% of German citizens laid the blame at the feet of Ursula von der Leyen She admitted last week … Read more
Germany will shut its borders with Austria and the Czech Republic from Sunday in a bid to keep out the more infectious mutated UK variant of Covid-19. The country’s southern state of Bavaria, which borders with Austria and the Czech Republic, has already detected variants of the virus in more than 10 percent of confirmed … Read more
Stunning mountainous European landscapes tend not to be associated with Germany – but these jaw-dropping photographs might help to change that. They show the country’s stunning Bavarian Alps region and its crystal clear lakes, jagged peaks, mesmerising meadows and a fairy-tale castle said to have inspired Disney’s Cinderella Castle design. The amazing images have been … Read more
She recently joined forces with mum Heidi to land her first Vogue cover. And Leni Klum showcased three generations of her family’s striking genes on Thursday in a tribute post to her grandmother, Erna, on her birthday. The budding model, 16, took to Instagram on Thursday to post the mirror selfie which was taken last year behind-the-scenes … Read more