DPA

The multisports European Championships starting on Thursday in Munich are to boost sports in Germany and possibly also pave the way for another Olympic bid, according to a local official. Marion Schöne, head of Munich’s Olympiapark site where many of t…

Electric cars can creep up on you and suddenly come quite close. Now, they make a sort of whirring noise that could just as well be mistaken for a UFO, or a slow sort of plane. There’s a good reason for that fake engine sound, whether it’s emitted by a…

The Berlin fire brigade expects that the closure of the 115 motorway near the Grunewald forest can be lifted still on Wednesday. “It looks good,” a fire brigade spokesman said late on Wednesday afternoon. The road, also called AVUS, was closed when a s…

While many gained a sense of security, even satisfaction, through filling up the tank of a vehicle with a combustion engine, things are a little different when it comes to electric cars. You shouldn’t charge your EVs battery to 100% of its capacity, ac…

Germany’s Environment Minister Steffi Lemke wants to oblige German cities and municipalities to set up new drinking water fountains. Citizens should be able to obtain water more easily when they are on the move, as well as fill up with free water for d…

The Russian military says it has destroyed a Gepard anti-aircraft tank during air strikes in southern Ukraine. “Near the locality of Novopavlivka in the Mykolaiv region, a combat vehicle supplied by Germany to the Kiev regime for the Gepard anti-aircra…

Samsung will make foldable smartphones mainstream by continuing to “listen and learn” from users in order to broaden their appeal, a senior UK executive has said. The phone maker unveiled its fourth-generation foldable devices – the Galaxy Z Flip4 and …

It’s vital to apply sunscreen before you go outside, not only on particularly hot days, but whenever UV radiation levels are high, to avoid getting sunburned. While at first glance, our furry four-legged friends may not look like this could be a proble…

Low water levels could result in further restrictions being imposed on navigation on the river Rhine in the coming days, the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) has warned. “It’s within the realm of possibility,” the BfG’s Bastian Klein told dp…

German football icon Uwe Seeler was hailed at a great athlete and person at a memorial ceremony in his SV Hamburg home stadium on Wednesday. SV Hamburg board member for sport Jonas Boldt named Seeler “one of us, only better” and German Football federat…