Numbers are not to be trusted in tennis. A first-round match in Brisbane, at a tournament in Queensland that is considered preparation for the Australian Open, can serve as an example. Every seat in the vast arena was occupied as dusk colored the sky above the stadium’s roof and No. 672 in the tennis world … Read more
Baden-Baden (dpa) – Currently number one in Germany, Mariah Carey’s seasonal song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” will soon disappear from the charts again. If it storms back to the top of the German charts at the end of 2024, it could become Germany’s most successful number one hit and break the record … Read more
Erfurt (dpa/th) – Thuringia’s development bank should be given more financial leeway to expand its loan programs. The state should now work to ensure that more low-interest loans are available for municipal investments, restructuring the economy and families building and purchasing their own homes, explained the parliamentary managing director of the CDU parliamentary group, Andreas … Read more
Erfurt (dpa/th) – Governing without a majority and a tolerating partner – this is not an ideal solution for Thuringia’s Education Minister Helmut Holter. “One can only hope for Thuringia that there will be a stable majority in 2024 that will also enable good governance,” said the left-wing politician to the German Press Agency in … Read more
Indianapolis (dpa) – German American football professional Jakob Johnson no longer has a chance of making it to the playoffs with the Las Vegas Raiders in the NFL. The Raiders lost 20:23 to the Indianapolis Colts and suffered their 9th defeat in the 16th game of the season. Johnson was initially released in November, was … Read more
Schwerin (dpa) – Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) has called on the federal government to come to compromises and good solutions and thus create more trust in political action. “The most important thing for the new year is that the traffic lights no longer argue, but make sensible decisions together and then carry … Read more
Dallas (dpa) – The Dallas Cowboys football players have extended their impressive home series in the NFL. The team around quarterback Dak Prescott won against the Detroit Lions 20:19. It was the 16th home win in a row for the Cowboys, who, like the Lions, have already qualified for the play-offs. Prescott scored two touchdown … Read more
According to information from Spiegel, the maker of the currently most successful German children’s film Johannes Honsell has died at the age of just 45. Honsell was one of the inventors of the children’s format “Checker Tobi”, a popular series of reports in Kika and Erste, which was nominated for the Grimme Prize and received … Read more
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) shows no understanding for doctors’ demands for more money. “I don’t think the demand for more money is justified,” he said on the ZDF program “heute journal update” on Thursday night. “Apart from Switzerland, of course, nowhere in Europe do practices earn as well as they do in Germany. I … Read more
Munich (dpa) – The world-class soccer players Pernille Harder (31) and Magdalena Eriksson (30) have been playing for FC Bayern Munich since this summer. Together. This was also very important for the Danish-Swedish couple in their private lives. In an interview with the German Press Agency, Harder, striker and recently recovered, and Eriksson, defender and … Read more