Who is not dreaming of open roads and far horizons? – getty The German word “fernweh” describes a debilitating “longing for distant places” – which avid travellers suffer more than most Frequent travellers – and travel journalists – are wont to suffer homesickness from time to time, especially on long […]
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When you are a German quarterback preparing to play big-time college football in America, there’s going to be a learning curve. Like the time Alexander Honig met Jim Harbaugh but hadn’t known that the Michigan head coach played 14 NFL seasons. “I only knew him as a coach at first,” […]
BERLIN — The head of an association representing German medical laboratories has criticized proposals to use veterinary and industrial labs to process coronavirus tests. Andreas Bobrowksi, chairman of the medical laboratories association BDL, says the capacity to conduct more tests is limited by the shortage of materials required to process […]
HAMBURG, Germany — The research service of the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, has taken issue with the foreign ministry after it hinted earlier this month that it will not make any moves against Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn with regard to his preference in recent years for residing in the southwestern […]
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is choosing a new leader this weekend, a decision that will help shape German voters’ choice of a successor to Merkel at the helm of the European Union’s biggest economy after her 16-year reign. Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe, […]