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12 stories for“Berlin”
Sixteen months in, with the CDU on seven per cent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and level with the Left in Berlin, the chancellor says he was elected for four years. The party meets on Sunday morning to say the same thing before the polls close.
Sep 17, 2026
Germany has formally blamed Russia for an explosive drone found at Leipzig airport in August, and is closing the Russian consulate general in Bonn by 18 September. The target sat beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft.
Sep 5, 2026
Forty-one volunteers who breathed with a long exhale accepted riskier bets for money in an MRI scanner, and those whose heart rhythm responded most showed the strongest reward activity in the brain. A neat result, a small sample, a lesson about calm.
Sep 8, 2026
A phase 1 trial at the Charite in Berlin used CD19 CAR T cells, a treatment built for blood cancers, on patients who had already failed between five and eight biologic drugs. Disease activity fell in every one of them. Three reached medication free remission.
Aug 30, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Three of those words literally mean turning. The fourth means shepherd, and it exists because a hundred thousand Lebanese migrants arrived in Mexico and their children swapped the lamb for pork and added pineapple.
Aug 21, 2026
Magdalena Andersson's bloc reversed the 2022 result to the seat, on a turnout above eighty per cent, with overseas votes still to count. The Sweden Democrats lost eleven seats. The same night the AfD more than tripled its vote in Lower Saxony.
Sep 15, 2026
The version most of the world eats is the Levantine one, and it is a revision. Egypt still makes it the older way, with fava beans, under a different name. The argument about who owns it is genuinely political.
Aug 21, 2026
The name is a loanword from Turkish, the technique is a nineteenth century invention, and the man usually credited with it was a butcher in Bursa who turned the spit on its end. Here is where shawarma actually comes from.
Aug 21, 2026
Since 1945 the words have belonged to houses that meet rules set in Paris: a workshop in the city, a minimum staff, and fifty original designs shown twice a year. Why the rules exist, who meets them, and what couture on any other label means.
Sep 6, 2026
Ten cones rising to eighty eight metres, thirty galleries and twenty three thousand square metres of outdoor exhibition space. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is the last and biggest building by the architect who made a museum into an economic strategy.
Aug 22, 2026
The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets law became fully applicable on December 30, forcing every exchange and stablecoin issuer to operate under a real license.
Jan 8, 2025
