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World champions Germany beat Turkey 88-83 to win the EuroBasket 2025 final on Sunday in Riga. Turkey led for most of the match, but Germany bounced back with captain Dennis Schröder scoring the final six points. Schröder, who plays for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA, ended the game with a total of 16 points and 12 assists. He was also named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP). Former Los Angeles Laker Isaac Bonga was the top scorer for Germany with 20 points. “You realize how hard you work for this. As a child, you dream of hitting these baskets in such a match,”…

Who is German — and what exactly makes someone German? Germans have been arguing about these issues for centuries. The current German constitution, called the Basic Law, is clear and concise: a German is anyone with a German passport. Citizenship cannot be revoked. And discriminating against citizens on the basis of their religion, origin or language violates the fundamental values of the constitution. This is one of the lessons learned from the Nazi regime’s reign of terror from 1933 to 1945, which systematically disenfranchised, terrorized and murdered the Jewish German population in particular, but also Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, disabled…

Women who want to to get pregnant should refrain from using cannabis. This is the conclusion of a new study that examined the influence of the substance, and its active ingredient THC in particular, on female fertility and artificial insemination. Researchers found that cannabis can negatively affect both because it disrupts the development and stability of the egg cell. During in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg and sperm cells are brought together in a laboratory. The authors investigated both the effects of THC on isolated human eggs in the laboratory and the IVF results of patients with detectable THC in their…

One of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, the World Athletics Championships, got underway in the Japanese capital, Toyko, on Saturday. Tens of thousands of spectators gathered in the city’s National Stadium to watch the final lap of the opening 35-km (28-mile) men’s race walk ahead of the day’s other competitions. The championships, due to run till September 21, are taking place four years after Tokyo hosted the 2020 Olympics with a year’s delay under pandemic conditions that meant fans were banned from venues to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Return of controversial gender testing Ahead of the event, the World Athletics federation…

An explosion in a bar in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Saturday killed one person and injured at least 25, authorities said. Rescue workers found the body of a man early Sunday morning during a search by local firefighters and police, Madrid’s Emergency Services said on X. The emergency services said on Saturday night that two of the victims were in a “serious” condition, while three were  “potentially serious”.  Firefighter chief Javier Romero said four people had been pulled from the rubble alive. What caused the Madrid bar explosion? Local media reported that the blast, which occurred at the “Mis Tesoros” bar at 3 p.m.…

The Turkish public has recently become familiar with a legal term that could seal the fate of the largest opposition party, the Republican People’s Party, or CHP. “Mutlak butlan” means absolute nullity, referring to a situation where something is considered completely void or invalid from the beginning. This is exactly what could happen on September 15, when the trial against the CHP comes to an end. If judges in the capital, Ankara, decide to declare the 38th party congress of the CHP null and void, the party’s entire reform-minded leadership would lose its legitimacy. Turkey’s oldest party, which has mobilized millions of people to protest…

A princess, a pop star and a politician — Kate Middleton, Nelly Furtado and Annalena Baerbock — have all experienced online harassment because of their appearance. Experts explain why this is no coincidence.

The Delphi Filmpalast is a grand cinema located not far from Berlin’s fashionable shopping boulevard, the Kurfürstendamm. Boris Becker arrived clad in a light linen suit and black shirt, accompanied by his pregnant wife Lilian, son Noah, and sister Sabine and her daughters. As he enters the cinema, Becker is mobbed by fans and photographers, and it takes a while for him to get to the stage. During the presentation his tone wavers between that of an untouchable sporting god (“I have no limits”) and a poor wretch cramped in a prison alongside hardened criminals (“we are all equal”). But one central…

US health authorities are on alert as cases of Chagas disease, originating from South America, are increasingly being detected in the United States. Cases have now been reported in at least eight states. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now about to categorize the infectious disease as endemic , meaning occurring regularly within an area or community. This is not just a medical formality but a wake-up call: The disease would no longer be considered an imported tropical disease but regarded as a permanently present health risk in the US. The proposed classification would have far-reaching consequences for monitoring, research and treatment.…

The United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt issued a joint statement on Friday calling for a three-month humanitarian truce in Sudan, followed by a permanent ceasefire. Foreign ministers of the four countries put forth a plan to end the deadly conflict in the northeast African nationand that called for a nine-month transitional process to establish civilian rule. What did the countries say about the war in Sudan? The transition should “meet the aspirations of the Sudanese people towards smoothly establishing an independent, civilian-led government with broad-based legitimacy and accountability,” the statement from the four nations said.…