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A debut at 16, multiple Bundesliga titles, named Best Young Player at a World Cup and now captain of Germany with more than 50 caps at just 25 –at first glance Giulia Gwinn appears to have enjoyed the smoothest of footballing ascendencies. But an anterior cruciate ligament injury which ruled her out of World Cup 2023 was her second such injury in less than a decade as a pro. Rehabilitation was long and tough both times. But the strength shown in her recovery was equally evident in her debut as permanent skipper, as she drove her team to a  4-1  Nations League…

German police said on they are investigating an “assumed” arson attack at a Berlin construction site after activists reportedly claimed responsibility as they protested an expansion of a Tesla factory. In the early hours of Tuesday, “several fires were reported” at the site in the eastern Berlin district of Marzahn, with “construction cranes and Deutsche Bahn signal cables affected,” Berlin police said in a statement.Taking on Tesla — Fight for the ForestTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What was the possible motive for the attack? “During the extinguishing process, streetcar and vehicle traffic on Landsberger Allee…

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz made a surprise visit to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday. The visit comes just days after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc emerged as the biggest party in terms of electoral seats after the German election. What did Merz and Macron talk about? The trip was expected to include discussions on the recent shift in US policy on the war in Ukraine, as well as European security issues. Merz posted a photo of himself and Macron on social media late on Wednesday, thanking the French president for his “friendship” and “trust in German-French relations.” “Together our countries can…

At least two people have been hurt after shots were fired near a courthouse in western Germany, where a high-profile murder trial is taking place.Police in the city of Bielefeld said they could not rule out a connection with the case, linked to the death of a former boxer nearly a year ago. A suspect is currently being tried on suspicion of the murder of Besar Nimani, a German professional boxer who competed in the light middleweight division.Several shots were fired in a street near the state court on Wednesday, but there has been no update on the condition of…

When valuable artworks plundered by the Nazi regime turn up in public and private collections, there are strict procedures to discover the provenance, or origin, of the work — and to alert any descendants of the original owner. During the Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945, experts say that at least 200,000 works of art were taken from their mostly Jewish owners in Germany, whether through direct expropriation or forced sales. Many Jewish art collectors left Germany or were deported to death camps. Now it has been revealed that the Bavarian State Painting Collections possess some 200 artworks looted by the…

As few as one in ten people survive pancreatic cancer five years after their diagnosis — making it the most difficult cancer to survive. The survival rate five years after diagnosis is 6-14%, but there have been some promising advances to improve diagnosis and treatment. The biggest barriers to fighting pancreatic cancer are detecting tumors early and finding ways to remove them. Treatment is especially challenging — once the tumor is identified, it’s usually too late to save someone. “It’s a very poor prognosis, the vast majority of patients will die, more than 75% of them will die within a year,”…

Why does the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) exist? WADA was established in February 1999 at a World Anti-Doping Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) initiative was backed by around 140 countries. It was triggered by a major doping scandal at the 1998 Tour de France involving the French cycling team Festina. The scandal began after large quantities of banned substances were seized – even though at that point, no Festina rider had tested positive. At the conference in Lausanne, the participants agreed to establish an international anti-doping agency to standardize and coordinate the fight against doping. It…

US President Donald Trump said he was expecting Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Washington on Friday to sign a “very big deal.” It comes as sources confirmed to several news agencies that Ukraine and the United States have agreed on a draft broad minerals deal, which may ease recent tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy. The deal will see the US jointly develop Ukraine’s mineral wealth, with revenues going to a new fund shared by both countries, according to senior Ukrainian officials, who were quoted by several news agencies. Draft deal lacks US security guarantees for Ukraine Zelenskyy had rejected Trump’s…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed plans to sell new “gold card” US residency permits at $5 million (€4.8 million) a pop, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors. “We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Speaking about the target audience, Trump said: “They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of…

Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to sign away up to 50% of its mineral supplies.Amid concerns Mr Trump would withdraw aid if elected, during a meeting at Trump Tower in September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly proposed a US stake in Ukrainian minerals in exchange for more weapons. But since Mr Trump’s return to the White House, US-Ukrainian relations have become increasingly strained, with him branding Mr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and excluding Ukraine from negotiations with Russia.Moscow contradicts Trump over peacekeepers; Ukraine latestA Ukrainian source told Sky News that Mr Zelenskyy is “not ready” to…