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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s admission to an affair with a woman whom US intelligence officials believe was working as a spy for China could have profound implications for the $5 trillion (€4.47 trillion) company. The Financial Times first reported on Huang’s affair with Alice H., an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based customer of Nvidia, which has been suspected of trying to circumvent export controls to get advanced Nvidia chips into China. The newspaper reported that the US government and its intelligence community believes she was recruited as a spy by China’s Ministry of State Security intelligence agency. Nvidia investigates CEO…

Fresh questions have emerged over Russia’s return to world sport after figures reviewed by DW showed that only four of the 16 Russian weightlifters competing at this year’s world championships underwent out-of-competition testing by the International Testing Agency (ITA). Two-time European champion Anastasiia Romanova, who previously served a two-year doping ban, was among those not tested by the ITA during the first nine months of 2026, according to its quarterly anti-doping reports. By comparison, all 13 members of the North Korean team underwent at least one ITA test during the same period. North Korea, like Russia, has a history of…

European shares fell sharply in early trading on Friday as a global sell-off fueled by concerns over artificial intelligence stocks spread from Wall Street to Asia and Europe. Fears of curbs on AI data-center spending have added to investors’ concerns after Democrats won control of both chambers of the US Congress. How have European markets reacted? The pan-European STOXX 600 index dropped 1.6% in early trading, wiping out its gains for the week. Most major European markets fell more than 1%, with media, healthcare and retail stocks leading the declines. European markets had previously weathered the week’s turbulence better than…

Young people pose inside a crematorium oven at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, laughing while they give the Nazi salute and take pictures of each other. “In a sense, they’re trophies to post on social media for them to boast about — breaking the ultimate taboo,” Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, told DW. “Incidents like this have become more frequent in recent years. We have seen memorial trees planted in honor of concentration camp victims cut down. When something like this happens — and it happens regularly — I find it particularly despicable because, because…

Why is the tournament being held in November? Since its inception in 1990, the Women’s Ice Hockey World Championship has almost always been held in the spring — apart from 2021 and 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic saw it moved to the summer. This year, though, the tournament, being hosted by Denmark from November 6 to November 16, is being held in November for the first time. The idea is make it easier for all of the world’s best players to participate. Since its inception in 2023, the North America-based Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL), widely considered the world’s best, has had…

Tesla owner Elon Musk said on Friday that the company would scale down production of the Cybertruck at its Austin factory in the coming year.  The South African entrepreneur said Tesla would be scaling back production of his futuristic but often-mocked pickup truck and amping up production of what he hopes will soon become a fleet of fully automated taxis. “Tesla will be winding down production of the cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production,” Musk said on his X social media site.  The announcement follows a bruising week for Musk amid…

“Adira” is an Arabic slang term used in Levantine queer culture to describe someone with a strong presence — someone powerful and accomplished. It is also the name of a Berlin-based collective that curates events and club nights celebrating the diversity of queer Arab* culture. The asterisk signals the inclusion of non-Arab ethnic minorities and people with diverse identities and roots in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Among the collective’s events is the ADIRA Drag Festival, which celebrated its third edition in Berlin in late October. This year’s theme, “Who’s Your Diva?!,” brought together drag performers paying tribute to legendary figures from across the Eastern Mediterranean who have…

In 2025, an international trial found that people treated for colon cancer were more likely to be alive eight years later if they had received long-term exercise coaching.   The question facing doctors now is less whether people with cancer should exercise than how to build it into routine care. In the US, that shift is reaching hospital standards. From January 2027, breast cancer centers must screen patients’ physical function and recommend exercise or physical therapy where needed.   Yet experts caution that the trial’s findings may not apply to every cancer or every patient.  Does exercise improve colon cancer survival? The…

A government spokesman has said that, despite talks with the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB), the International Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) and others, the impasse caused by last week’s Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling remains. Since the October 30 decision, several leading ice hockey nations — including Finland, Sweden and Czechia — have said they would refrain from playing against Russia in any tournament in which it is allowed to take part. Several key sponsors have also threatened to pull out, should the Russians be allowed to play. The first tournament to be affected would be the Men’s World Juniors,…

Deeply indebted, politically trapped in a standoff between extremes and led by a government without a parliamentary majority: These are the defining features of France’s current predicament. If, in response to nationwide protests, the government plans to provide €4 billion ($4.48 billion) in low-interest loans to renovate schools by 2030 and allocate a further €1 billion to universities by 2029, it is promising money the state simply does not have.  France’s public debt stands at around 120% of gross domestic product (GDP). By comparison, Germany’s debt-to-GDP ratio is roughly 65%, despite its €600 billion investment package for infrastructure and defense. Germany still enjoys the…