Author: DW

The movie is brash, loud, funny, and full of catchy songs. It tells the story of HUNTR/X, a K-pop girl band whose members — Rumi, Zoey and Mira — are more than just manufactured products of the South Korean pop industry: They also hunt demons!   In between filling stadiums, the band lounge on the sofa in bunny pajamas, stuff themselves with fast food, and enjoy their pop star life without hard training and constant rehearsals. But at the same time. they’re hunting demons that suck the souls out of music fans in an effort to take over the world. The head…

Landslides are the most common geological event. That’s a fact. They affect millions of people and cause many thousands of deaths. They often occur in countries with poor or inadequate infrastructure — such as in Sudan’s Marra Mountains region in late August 2025. Just the year before, in 2024, there were two major landslides in the same region.  In Papua New Guinea, a reported 2,000 people were buried alive following a landslide in May 2024. Two months later, torrential rains in Indonesia caused a landslide to crash onto a reportedly illegal gold mining operation on Sulawesi island, killing some of the people working there. But landslides…

Bayer Leverkusen’s dismissal of Erik ten Hag after just two Bundesliga games has shown the weight of the transformation the club are grappling with. Just over a year after celebrating a historic first league title under Xabi Alonso, Leverkusen find themselves stripped of key leaders, searching for cohesion, and unwilling to risk early-season drift. Ten Hag’s abrupt exit, announced on Monday, underlines the tension between expectations and the harsh realities of Leverkusen rebuilding its squad and identity. Leverkusen’s season so far underwhelming While Ten Hag’s reign began with promise as he oversaw a convincing German Cup win against fourth division side Sonnenhof Grossaspach, it quickly…

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Washington had carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug- carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. Trump said that the US military killed 11 people in the strike. “The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. Initially on Tuesday Trump gave few details on the operation. “When you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat — a drug-carrying boat,”…

A Republican-led United States House of Representatives committee on Tuesday released tens of thousands of pages from the probe into disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid the case becoming a political headache for the Trump administration.  The 33,295 pages, which are a part of a first batch of documents related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, were released by the House Oversight Committee on its website after being handed over by the Justice Department following a subpeona.  “We’re in the process of uploading those documents for full transparency so everyone in America can see those documents,” Republican…

William Kentridge is one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, his charcoal drawings provide the foundation for multimedia creations combining animation, prints, collages, sculptures, tapestries and even puppets. He came to global prominence in the late 1980s and 1990s for his animated short films based on drawings that dissected South Africa’s apartheid regime, but also tell personal stories. To mark the 70th birthday of the Johannesburg-based artist, Germany’s Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Dresden State Art Collections are hosting a major exhibition celebrating Kentridge’s expansive artistic oeuvre.A still from Kentridge’s animation ‘More Sweetly Play the Dance,’ in which the procession of…

Over time, the general size of animals changes. That’s a normal part of evolution. Sometimes, environmental factors may cause a species to grow smaller; a century later, the animals’ descendants might get bigger again. Researchers have observed alternating periods of increase and decrease over thousands of years. When humans were introduced into the mix and began rearing certain species, the sizes of wild animals and domesticated ones still developed in roughly the same cycles. But that all changed in the Middle Ages, as scientists from the University of Montpellier in southern France have found out. Their study was published in the journal Proceedings…

Maria Jose Martinez-Patino believes World Athletics’ new genetic testing for women at elite level is “a setback of several decades”. The Spanish former hurdler, now a professor at Vigo University, was reacting to the introduction of a mandatory one-time genetic test for athletes competing in the female category at elite level to determine eligibility. “It takes me back to the 1950s and 1960s, when women practically had to go through a series of controls, had to undress in front of a panel of doctors,” she told DW. “I get the impression that we haven’t advanced from a scientific point of view. We’ve made practically…

The summer trade deal between the European Union and the Trump administration was supposed to mark a turning point in transatlantic relations after months of uncertainty. A 15% tariff cap wasn’t ideal, but EU leaders accepted it as the cost of keeping trade tensions with the United States at bay. That is, until US President Donald Trump reignited the dispute. He is now threatening fresh tariffs in retaliation for the EU’s digital services taxes and technology regulations, accusing the bloc of unfairly targeting US tech giants such as Google and Amazon. With the specter of new duties looming, the trade truce is again on shaky ground. In…

A massive landslide in western Sudan’s Darfur region has destroyed a village, leaving over 1000 people dead, a rebel group that controls the area said on Monday. Sudan village ‘completely leveled’ to the ground, one person survives The landslide occurred on Sunday in the village of Tarasin —  located in the Marra Mountains — after days of incessant rain, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said. The rebel movement said that there was a lone survivor in the disaster-struck village. “Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand individuals, with only one survivor,” the…