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Rwanda’s sports portfolio has grown after confirming it will host Formula One races from the early 2030s. The track is to be built in Bugesera near Kigali International Airport, which Qatar Airways, an F1 sponsor, owns 60% of. “To be an African and to see it happening in real time, for me in my lifetime because Kyalami [the track in South Africa where F1 was last hosted in Africa] was before I was born, I’m more than happy to have it on the continent,” South African presenter and content creator Nqobile Khwezi told Sky Sports. “To be able to give that taste back to…

If supremacy in artificial intelligence was an Olympic discipline, there would only be two serious contenders for gold on current trajectories: the US and China. The European Union, as has been the case in many areas of cutting-edge technology in recent times, is barely in the AI conversation. Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, whose 2024 report highlighted the EU’s desperate need to be more innovative to become more competitive, said recently that AI is “perhaps the most promising” route the EU has to raise growth today. However, he decried the fact that the European Union controls little of the value chain. “Being cut off…

In the history of German resistance to Nazism, some names have become symbols: Sophie Scholl, Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Georg Elser. Yet many others have remained largely forgotten. Among them is Eva Mamlok, a young Jewish woman from Berlin whose acts of defiance began in her teenage years and continued until her murder in a Nazi concentration camp. Now more people will get to know her story as Berlin renames Blücherplatz, a square in the district of Kreuzberg, Eva-Mamlok-Platz on October 16. “Eva Mamlok was a very remarkable person. As a young Jewish woman from Berlin, her spirit of resistance was…

Defiance was the word that stood out as Manchester City returned home for the first time since they were found guilty of 114 financial charges by the Premier League in a case that’s made headlines around the world. City showed a measure of it on the pitch, even as they lost 4-2 to holders, Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain, in the Champions League group stages on Wednesday. Among the home fanbase at the Etihad Stadium, DW found universal support for City’s Abu Dhabi owners — headed by Sheikh Mansour, who is also UAE’s vice president and deputy prime minister.Players like Erling Haaland may be forced…

Do you remember the days when GoPro was synonymous with action cameras? At its peak in 2015, the US company reigned supreme with around 6.6 million units sold that year and a market share of over 70%. Today, the pioneer is fighting for survival. The main culprit? Chinese competition. GoPro’s biggest rivals, DJI and Insta360, entered the action camera market in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Today, they account for more than 90% of global smart handheld camera sales. GoPro was saved from bankruptcy in September after failed product bets and competition from smartphones contributed to its declineImage: Christian Ohde/imageBROKER/picture allianceAlexander Hannemann, who regularly uses action…

In a dark underground hideout, dim light spills from a handful of oil lamps. A comrade fiddles with a rifle. A red flag hangs on one of the roughly hewn stone walls, bearing a hammer and sickle on a white star — the symbol of the ChineseWorkers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Weapons are scattered on the ground. One is picked up, and soon the action moves into the snowy forest, where gunfire erupts among the trees. Such a scene could fit in a new installment of “Call of Duty,” the popular first person shooter game that transports players to battlefields past,…

At first glance, women’s football is healthier than ever. A recent report by FIFPRO, football’s global players’ union, said worldwide revenue is expected to reach over $1bn (€894m) in 2027. The World Cup in Brazil, a first in South America, will be the last with 32 teams and is expected to be the most watched and biggest revenue-generating women’s tournament ever. The good news continues with the U17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco, where the tournament is being held every year for five straight years. Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, the United States and defending champions North Korea are all at the…

With or without a deal with Russia, diesel prices on global markets are unlikely to fall significantly anytime soon. That is the assessment of experts interviewed by DW regarding the latest fuel-supply agreement between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The main reason for high diesel prices is the war in Iran and the simultaneous disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait,” said Samina Sultan, a foreign trade expert at the German Economic Institute (IW) in Cologne. The situation has led to production outages and made fuel shipments “more expensive, less…

The breakdown in the exploratory talks can be traced back to concerns about the often highly critical stance on Israel adopted by some members of the Left Party, coupled with criticism of the appearance of a figure linked to organized crime at an election night party.  The Left scored well with parts of Berlin’s population, not least the young and communities with more people of migrant backgrounds, with an unusually stern line on Israeli wars in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East by the often muted standards of German politics.  But comments from its more outspoken members and controversies like…

After nearly 40 years of false starts, motor racing’s premier sport is returning to Africa, after Formula 1 announced on Tuesday that Rwanda would soon host a Grand Prix. The race will be know as the African Grand Prix after a 10-year contract was signed between the parties. With no suitable track ready, Rwanda will build one in Bugesera, southeast of the capital Kigali. F1 said it will be ready “early in the next decade.” The last time F1 raced in Africa was the South African Grand Prix in 1993. While there has since been plenty of talk of the…