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A yearlong international investigation into one of the world’s most important cancer drugs shows how a medical breakthrough has also become a fault line in global health, exposing how pricing systems, patent protections and regulatory frameworks determine who can access life-saving treatment and who cannot. The Cancer Calculus, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) with Deutsche Welle and 46 media partners, brought together 124 journalists in 37 countries. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with oncologists, patients and their families, lawyers, regulators, pharmacists, pharmaceutical industry insiders and others as well as exclusive pricing data and patent analyses, the project examines how Merck’s…

Marie-Louise Eta has been appointed as the head coach of German football club Union Berlin, becoming the first woman to hold the role in any of European football’s top professional men’s leagues. Eta will lead the Bundesliga side until the end of the season after former coach Steffen Baumgart was sacked. Union parted ways with Baumgart late on Saturday night following a 1-3 defeat away at bottom-of-the-table Heidenheim, a result which left the Berlin side with only two wins in 2026 and in danger of slipping towards the relegation zone. Eta, who currently coaches Union’s under-19 men’s side, will now take charge of the senior team on an…

Veteran Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle died in Mumbai on Sunday, a day after being hospitalized for a chest infection. She was 92 years old. Bhosle’s granddaughter Zanai Bhosle took to social media on Saturday to let her grandmother’s fans know about her situation, amid rumors of a cardiac arrest. “My grandmother, Asha Bhosle, due to extreme exhaustion and suffering a chest infection, has been admitted to hospital, and we request you to value our privacy. Treatment is ongoing and hopefully everything will be well, and we shall update you positively,” she had said on X. While Zanai is yet…

Anyone in Germany who thinks they have seen an unidentified flying object, or UFO, can notify the Central Research Network for Anomalous Phenomena, better known as CENAP — a UFO research network. One of CENAP’s hotlines, run by Hansjürgen Köhler and a five-person team of volunteers, is based in Germany’s southwestern Odenwald region. Köhler is friendly and chatty man in his late 60s. He became a salesman early in life because he was not allowed to become an astronomer. At the time, his father advised him to “do something respectable.” That meant that Köhler’s love of space would have to…

The train to the German city of Stuttgart is pretty full. At each stop, people wearing Germany kits get on. There’s a buzz of conversation about the German national football team and the upcoming FIFA World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico. On one of the last days of March, Germany play Ghana in the final international break before World Cup preparations begin. Many fans started their journey first thing in the morning, including Dennis and Kai. The two friends from the north of Germany put on their kits and boarded the train early, keen to support the team in person that evening in Stuttgart.…

Skip next section Thousands of protesters call for review of far-right parties04/11/2026April 11, 2026Thousands of protesters call for review of far-right partiesA few thousand people attended rallies in German cities calling for the Constitutional Court to review whether far-right parties should be banned. Police said that up to 2,000 people took part in a rally in Munich organised by the PRÜF campaign. PRÜF, which means “check,” is also an acronym with the letters standing for “Prüfung Rettet Übrigens Freiheit!” — Review Saves Freedom. Berlin saw around 1,000 people gather while in Potsdam the number was around 800 although organisers put…

German automakers are in a crisis due to stagnant sales, falling profits and constant strategy shifts. Can the industry recover?

Amid the rhetoric and rabble rousing of JD Vance’s promotional tour of Budapest in support of the “fantastic” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the significance of one of the venues may have been lost on many. The US vice president addressed a pre-election rally on Tuesday at the MTK Sportpark in Hungary’s capital, Budapest. The venue, opened in 2025, is used by various sporting departments of the MTK Budapest club, whose football team are one of Hungary’s most successful, with 23 national titles. MTK’s president is Tamas Deutsch, a Member of European Parliament and member of Orban’s Fidesz party.Vance targets EU while campaigning for Orban in…

Police have removed pro-Palestinian protesters who glued themselves to the entrance of a Berlin arms factory. Meanwhile, inflation is tracking back up as the Iran war stymied hopes that it was under control.

Some things are hard to calculate in dollars and cents. NASA’s space programs definitely fall into this category. The agency has an enormous annual budget, and its portfolio includes powerful spacecraft, telescopes and weather and asteroid forecasting. It’s difficult to measure the scientific and material gains born from its basic research that have entered everyday life, such as memory foam, scratch-resistant lenses or home air purifiers. But while the Artemis II mission made history when the Orion capsule carried four astronauts farther away from Earth than any humans in history, many questioned the cost and overall point of space travel. Artemis II, Orion and $93 billion During its 10-day…