Boris Palmer for deportation of Illerkirchberg rapists
Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer has spoken out in favor of deporting a convicted rapist from Illerkirchberg to his Afghan homeland. Palmer told the "Südwest Presse": "The Geneva Refugee Convention clearly states that a refugee...
Health insurance reports a record high in applications for child sickness benefit
The number of applications for children's sickness benefits reached a record level of around 660,000 at Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) last year. The number last year was almost twice as high as in 2020, when...
"You never know who's going to explode next"
His stature is impressive. Whoever faces Andreas Wolff does not think that the giant is one of the most agile goalkeepers in the world: 110 kilograms are distributed over his 1.98 meter height. A...
The Berlin public prosecutor's office is conducting over 1,000 proceedings against climate protesters
The Berlin public prosecutor's office has now received 1,100 cases (as of January 6) on the ongoing actions of climate demonstrators. This was announced by the Senate Justice Department. In 399 cases, proceedings were...
USA approves new Alzheimer's drug in fast-track procedure
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval for an antibody drug designed to slow the progression of early-stage Alzheimer's. In the weeks before the decision on Friday, criticism of the...
Ministry of the Interior wants to make naturalization easier and abolish the obligation to...
In future, anyone who wants to be naturalized in Germany should no longer have to give up their citizenship of their family's country of origin. This emerges from a draft by the Federal Ministry...
"Gender language must be possible"
Hamburg's Equal Opportunities Senator Katharina Fegebank rejects a general ban on gender language in administration and authorities. You don't want to "make any rules about how someone should speak or write," said the Green...
Why RNA could be the pest control of the future
It's an old dilemma: Pests can wreak havoc on agriculture and cause massive crop losses. Pesticides that kill pests, in turn, often pollute the environment, polluting water bodies or threatening beneficial species. Scientists have...
Combating money laundering in Germany is not progressing
Germany's efforts in the fight against money launderers and tax evaders have so far largely come to nothing. The investigating authorities are missing important data from the transparency register, in which companies are supposed...
Healthy, dangerous, waste of money? The dietary supplement business
More sport, better nutrition: The beginning of the new year is the time for making good resolutions – but implementing them is often exhausting. Taking a shortcut seems tempting. Dietary supplements promise better health...

