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A German lesson is starting in a public-school classroom in the Philippines, and it opens with a greeting: “Guten Morgen,” the teacher says. Students respond carefully, shaping unfamiliar sounds before moving on to short dialogues about directions, food, family and eventually, culture. German has a reputation of being a difficult language to learn, but this also makes it a valuable assetImage: Stanley Gajete/DW In a Philippine public school, that routine still feels unusual. German, after all, is more commonly associated with international schools or private language centers. But the language has quietly taken root in selected secondary schools due to a program…

Young, tech-savvy, and future-focused — Philipe Andrade, 23, and Carlos Alberto Andrade, 26, embody a new generation of Brazil’s automotive elite. They are the heirs to the Brazilian auto group CAOA. Founded in 1979 by their father, Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade, CAOA stands for his name and a long tradition of manufacturing, importing, and selling vehicles in Brazil. The company operates its own assembly plant in Anapolis, producing Hyundai and Chery models, and runs a vast network of dealerships for Asian carmakers Hyundai, Subaru, and Chery.  Currently, the two Andrade brothers are setting the course for the future of the…

A major investor in a new American football league in Europe believes the time is right for a sustainable pan-European competition, despite a host of previous failures. David Gandler, who co-founded the sports streaming service Fubo, said he has personally invested “seven figures” in the European Football Alliance (EFA). The new league is planning to launch in May with seven teams, while a further two — in London, also backed by Gandler, and in Milan — are scheduled to join in 2027. “There’s pent-up demand,” Gandler told DW. “The only thing really missing around American football is structure. So to capture…

The Louvre has announced plans to restore the crown of Empress Eugenie, which abandoned by thieves during their gateway after a brazen heist in the Paris museum last year. Thieves made off with €88 million euros ($104 million) in jewels in October but dropped the 170-year-old crown as they escaped. The crown was left “badly deformed,” the Louvre said on Thursday, but it was nevertheless “nearly intact” and could be restored “without the need for reconstruction.”The crown was abandoned by thieves as they fled the crime scene with eight other pieces of the French crown jewelsImage: Thomas Clot/MUSEE DU LOUVRE/AFP…

As global heating worsens, interest in solar engineering is rising, including from private companies and investors. But the technique remains controversial and lacks regulation. The planet is heating up faster than expected. Greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise at record rates, leaving the world off track to limit warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The latest data shows 2025 was the third hottest year on record. That growing gap between climate targets and reality is fueling renewed interest in geoengineering — interventions that intentionally alter the Earth’s climate system. Among them is solar geoengineering, which aims…

Fossils uncovered in Spain could lead to new clues about how dinosaurs evolved, according to a study published on Sunday in the science journal Papers in Paleontology. Fidel Torcida Fernandez-Baldor from the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes in northern Spain discovered the fossils, which together represent at least five individual dinosaurs. The musuem focuses on Cretaceous-era fossils. “From the beginning, we knew these bones were exceptional because of their minute size. It is equally impressive how the study of this animal overturns global ideas on ornithopod dinosaur evolution,” he said in a press release from the Vrije Universiteit in…

The 2026 Winter Olympics sports program opened with the first curling matches scheduled in Italy’s Cortina on Wednesday night, two days before the official opening ceremony. Several hundred spectators watched as eight teams unpacked their equipment in the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. The matches had barely begun when a brief power outage blacked out the scoreboards for the matchups between Sweden and South Korea, Great Britain and Norway, Canada and the Czech Republic, and Estonia and Switzerland.Curling players slide granite stones toward a circular target called the ‘house’ in an attempt to get closer to the center, or ‘button,’ than their…

The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Adolf Hitler staged his failed coup attempt in 1923, the Nazis and antisemitic mobs attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses in 1938, and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, November 9 is known as the “day of destiny” in Germany. DW surveys some moments that set the course of German history. ‘Be aware the historical significance of this day’ On November 9, 1918, Philipp Scheidemann, a Social Democrat and later the chancellor of the Weimar Republic, proclaimed an end to the monarchy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the beginning of a…

The trade deal agreed by India and the EU in January was described by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as “the mother of all trade deals” — buoyant language to hail an economic partnership between the world’s largest trading bloc and its most populous nation. The agreement will reduce or remove tariffs on 96.6% of EU exports to India. While sensitive agricultural products have been left off the table for both sides, many products seen as vital for the EU’s export machine are part of the deal — including cars. India has agreed to give Europe’s carmakers a…

“We now have the information to prevent cancer before it starts,” said Isabelle Soerjomataram, a cancer surveillance specialist at the International Agency on Research on Cancer (IARC).  Speaking to the press last week, Soerjomataram and her colleague Andre Ilbawi were presenting the findings of a study involving 36 cancer types in 185 countries. The two co-authored and published their results in the medical journal Nature Medicine on February 3, 2026.  The study leads with a statistic as striking as Soerjomataram’s opening claim: 7.1 million new cases of cancer were linked to what’s known as modifiable risk factors (MRFs) — such as consuming tobacco or alcohol, as well as…