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Lava and smoke are currently emerging from a two-kilometer-long fissure in the Svartsengi volcanic system on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland. Photo: dpa/Almannav A volcano recently erupted again in…

Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis gave hurdler Karsten Warholm no chance over 100 meters. Photo: dpa/KEYSTONE/Michael Buholzer This is how modernizers of athletics imagine it: a perfectly staged duel between two…

Joshua Kimmich has always been an important contact for Julian Nagelsmann (r.), and now he is the “logical” choice as captain for the national coach. Photo: imago/Jan Huebner The opponents…

More than 20 percent of the German population has problems reading and writing. Photo: dpa/Bernd Wüstneck September 8th is World Literacy Day. This reminds us that more than six million…

Clear the fog Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea, 1808–1810 (state before restoration), oil on canvas, 110 × 171.5 cm Foto: imago images/Gemini Collection Dresden has the “Sistine…

A shelf full of books: a rather threatening scenario for quite a few people in Germany Photo: imago/Pond5 Images From a purely statistical perspective, every person in Germany should know…

Foto: IMAGO/United Archives When they started school in 1930, coats and gloves were popular; today, kids wear airy summer dresses and Bermuda shorts. Not just thanks to climate change. In…

Alfred Kubin: The Egg, approx. 1901/02, 15.8 × 23.8 cm, ink on paper Photo: ALBERTINA, Vienna © Eberhard Spangenberg, Munich/Bildrecht, Vienna 2024 It is undeniable that everything Austrian triggers a…

Hands up! Beginning of the new military policy: Chancellor Schröder visits Kosovo in 1999 after Germany took part in a war of aggression for the first time since 1945. Photo:…

It’s not just children who have a “stubborn attitude”, adults too Photo: zeitzuleben.de I’m supposed to explain to you what Daffke is, but Daffke is, if I don’t explain it…