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A concert by US rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, scheduled to take place in a Polish stadium in June was cancelled by the venue on Friday. “The concert by Ye (Kanye West), scheduled for 19 June 2026 at the Superauto.pl Silesian Stadium, will not take place due to formal and legal reasons,” wrote venue director Adam Strzyzewski in a press release on the stadium’s website.  The move comes after the UK banned West entry into the country, forcing him to cancel appearances there. He also postponed a concert in Marseille, France due to mounting opposition from city officials. Holocaust…

Gasoline and diesel have never been as expensive in Germany as they were this April. According to the website Clever Tanken, diesel prices rose above €2.43 (about $2.80) per liter on average across Germany’s 100 largest cities, while Super E10 (unleaded gasoline with up to 10% ethanol) cost more than €2.18. Even during the oil crisis of the 1970s, fuel prices in Germany — adjusted for purchasing power — remained well below €2.  In the context of the US-Israeli war on Iran, this is hardly a surprise. According to the International Energy Agency, the current war in the Middle East has triggered a…

Football fans trying to get to MetLife Stadium from New York City for the World Cup matches this summer will have to pay $150 (€127) for a round-trip, according to local transportation officials. The price is almost 12 times higher than the usual $12.90 fare for the 15-minute trip from Penn Station in Manhattan to the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. “We are going to charge $150 for our roundtrip ticket on our system. So from New York to MetLife, MetLife back to New York,” said Kris Kolluri, the president and CEO of NJ Transit. NJ Transit officials said…

While walking through Berlin’s western neighborhood of Spandau, a 13-year-old made a discovery that has been hailed as highly significant in Germany’s archaeological history. He found a small bronze coin, which experts have since dated 2,300 years — back to the ancient Greek city of Troy, in present-day Turkey. For archaeologist Jens Henker of Berlin Heritage Authority, who was responsible for analyzing the find, it was a situation unlike any has seen in his career: “This young boy realized he had found something interesting and he wanted to know more about it,” Henker told DW. During a school visit to the Archaeology Lab PETRI…

Brazil is presenting itself with confidence at the Hannover Messe, the world’s largest trade fair for the manufacturing industry, opening on April 20 in Hannover, Germany. “We want to show that Brazil is not only an agricultural powerhouse, but also a global player in industrial technology,” said Patricia Gomes of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency. The goal, she explained, is to position Brazil as a leader in green, digital and resilient industries like renewable energy and electric mobility. A focus on energy and technology Brazil is already a regional leader in Latin America when it comes to electric…

How big is the clitoris? Where exactly is it located? And how is it structured? If you’re unsure, you’re not alone. Many medical professionals struggle to answer these questions with confidence. This isn’t due to a lack of curiosity on an individual level, but rather a structural problem: Key organs of the female body have long been studied far less thoroughly than their male counterparts. Take the penis, for example — the clitoris’s male counterpart. Both share the same embryological origin, contain erectile tissue, become engorged during arousal and play a central role in sexual pleasure. Yet most people can…

People with disabilities are being shut out of the 2026 World Cup, according to fans and rights campaigners. In stark contrast to previous tournaments, this year’s event in the US, Canada and Mexico, has no separate ticket ballot, is charging for companions who usually go free and has failed to provide free or reduced cost accessible parking. And that’s without mentioning the cost of the tickets themselves. “I originally was going and thinking America would be amazing, and Canada and Mexico too. I’ve been many times. I know you can get about, the transport is all set up, hotels, everything…

In Dakar, the Goethe-Institut has more than just a new building. Encircling a baobab tree, it offers an open space for cultural education and exchange. It signals both respect for local traditions and boldness in global vision. The Goethe-Institut has had a home in the Senegalese capital since the mid-1970s. Their new, sustainable building complex received backing from the United Nations. Architect Francis Kere: Sustainability as a mindset Seven years ago, standing on a sandy plot of land, Francis Kere drew the first sketches in his notebook. In 2022, the internationally renowned architect from Burkina Faso became the first Black person…

Pilots with Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and subsidiary Eurowings began a 48-hour strike on Monday morning. The airline is also facing a cabin crew work stoppage right after the pilots end their strike. Lufthansa is struggling to negotiate terms both with the pilots’ trade union Vereinigung Cockpit and the UFO cabin crew union that called on members to strike just last week.  On Monday afternoon, UFO said that it had called on its members to strike again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, meaning Lufthansa could face four consecutive days of disruptions.  Hundreds of flights were canceled on Monday, with the…

News outlets in the US and around the world extensively cover the second administration of Donald Trump. Amid this flood of information on current events, film directors Demid Sheronkin and Can Dündar take a step back to assess the state of free speech and democracy in the US with their new DW documentary, “Democracy Under Attack: Can Dündar and Trump’s America,” which premiered on April 14 at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Dündar, a Turkish journalist and writer now living in exile in Berlin, pointed out at the film’s premiere that as they developed the project, they faced the challenge of finding an angle that could withstand Trump’s turbocharged news…