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Can you make a bicycle from grass? Well, strictly-speaking yes, since bamboo belongs to the grass family and those who make two-wheeler frames using this robust material are keen to sing its praises. Advantages include an incredibly high strength-to-we…

Germany’s disgraced former chancellor Gerhard Schröder has defended his decision not to distance himself from his long-standing business partner Vladimir Putin, the Russian president seen as the main architect of the country’s war in Ukraine. “I have c…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited a repaired turbine in western Germany on Wednesday, the absence of which Russia says is the reason for its decision to throttle gas flows to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. After repair work in Canada, …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will attend the memorial ceremony for football great Uwe Seeler on August 10 in Hamburg, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said that “with Uwe Seeler a legend has died. He shaped and promoted German f…

The number of tourists visiting the popular holiday destination Thailand is still not satisfactory in the eyes of the industry, despite a recently recorded jump in foreign arrivals following a massive slump during the pandemic. In order to attract more…

After her visit to Taiwan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi flew on to the next stop of her Asia trip in South Korea on Wednesday. Earlier, the US politician had met human rights activists in Taipei, including the former leader o…

If there are unwritten rules for contract killers, one might be, always carry a gun on a job. Brad Pitt, codename Ladybug, breaks this rule in the very first minutes of “Bullet Train,” a new film where he stars as a contract killer who isn’t really a b…

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has described the situation at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya as highly volatile and fragile. All the principles of nuclear safety have been violated in one way o…

Olympic track cycling champion Lisa Brennauer of Germany has said she will end her career after the European championships in Munich later in the month. Brennauer, 34, won seven world titles and was part of the pursuit team that won gold at last year’s…

Gout patients who have a flare-up of symptoms are significantly more likely to go on to suffer a heart attack or a stroke, a study suggests. Patients with gout who have a flare-up were found to have higher odds of suffering a “cardiovascular event” in …