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A woman is sorting tea leaves in China

AI, blockchain tech to rescue modern slaves

For years people have been knowingly or unknowingly consuming goods made by millions of forced workers worldwide. Now, technology is forcing them to reflect on their choices by exposing their complicity in slavery.  

Heavy traffic rolls through Promenade street during the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos

Davos: Is big business coming to save the day?

The world economy produces wealth… as well as copious amounts of greenhouse gases, rising inequality and a devastating loss of biodiversity. Corporations now suddenly promise to fix all this. But will they really?  

Logo FAI Irland (Imago Images/Sportimage)

Irish soccer on the brink of going bust

With Euro 2020 matches coming up in Dublin, Irish soccer should be in for a windfall. Yet a huge financial scandal at the national association involving its disgraced former CEO has left it on the brink of going bust.  

Elon Musk, CEO of Telsa with two Shanghai employees (picture-alliance/Xinhua News Agency/D. Ting)

Tesla's market cap surges past Volkswagen's

Elon Musk has steered his electric carmaker into new territory as the company, for the first time, is valued at more than $100 billion. How has Tesla surpassed Volkswagen which sells 30 times more cars?  

Picture of an electric car with a plug

Lithium robs Chilean communities of water

Global demand for lithium is expected to triple in six years. But mining companies are increasingly coming into conflict with indigenous communities who are worried about the future of their ecosystems.  

A pedestrian wearing a face mask against air pollution walks on a footbridge in heavy smog in Beijing

China’s climate actions leave a lot to be desired

China is on track to meet its Paris Agreement climate targets but that’s not enough to save the planet. Experts in Davos say the world’s biggest polluter must do more and ensure it does not slack amid a slowing economy.  

A Boeing 747-8 landing at Washington Dulles International Airport

5 decades of flying high: Boeing 747

The ultimate passenger plane entered commercial service 50 years ago with a Pan Am flight from New York's Kennedy Airport to London's Heathrow. Though the original flight was delayed one day, it ushered in the jet age.  

Ovens built by Topf & Sons pictured at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Archiv des Staatlichen Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim)

How a German company enabled the Holocaust

Topf & Sons helped make the Holocaust possible by building incinerators for Nazi concentration camps. After the war, the owners saw themselves as victims, with only one family member standing up to take responsibility.  

Chinese soldiers with facemasks (picture-alliance/dpa/D.G. Mcintyre)

SARS: How a deadly virus hit economies

The new deadly coronavirus in China has revived memories of the 2002-3 SARS pandemic, which killed hundreds and walloped Asian economies. DW recalls how entire cities emptied and business and consumer demand plummeted.  

Bird's-eye view of Hambach Forst and the nearby open-pit mine (picture-alliance/dpa/F. Gambarini)

Germany's sluggish coal phaseout sparks anger

Germany plans to phase out coal power by 2038. The embattled Hambach Forest is now protected, but some villages will still have to make way for the last open-pit mines. Activists and local residents are appalled.  

Two hands holding white teff grain (DW/J. Jeffrey)

Ethiopian teff: The fight against biopiracy

A controversial patent on Ethiopia's national cereal teff is about to be terminated — thanks, in part, to the initiative of a German lawyer. But the problem of biopiracy is far from solved.  

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Condor CEO Ralf Teckentrup and LOT CEO Rafal Milczarski in Frankfurt (Reuters/R. Orlowski)

Poland LOT gets Condor airline 4h ago

The two airlines have confirmed the deal, which creates a European airline that carries more than 20 million passengers.  

Sigmar Gabriel (picture-alliance/dpa/Keystone/A. Wey)

Gabriel tapped for Deutsche Bank job 5h ago

Sigmar Gabriel, former chief of Germany's left-leaning Social Democrats, is to join the lender's supervisory board.  

Greenpeace loses Arctic oil lawsuit appeal

Greenpeace activists ride on an orange dingy boat to a Norwegian oil rig

Greenpeace and other environmental groups had hoped to stop the Norwegian government from granting oil field exploration licenses. The groups argued this violated the Norwegian constitution and the 2015 Paris Agreement.  

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Protesters in Davos

Opinion: Davos is a call to action

No, this year's gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos was not like any other, says DW's Manuela Kasper-Claridge. She's seen business leaders heeding the call for a radical shift toward sustainability.  

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Davos in the spotlight

'Shareholder capitalism is behind inequality'

US economist Joseph Stiglitz tells DW he noted a greater sense of commitment to fight climate change in Davos this year.  

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'Shareholder capitalism is behind inequality'

'Shareholder capitalism is behind inequality'

Young activists at Davos are disappointed about US rhetoric

Young activists at Davos are disappointed about US rhetoric

Finland accelerates sustainability drive

Finland accelerates sustainability drive

Corporate climate action cannot be 'tick-box exercise'

Corporate climate action cannot be 'tick-box exercise'

'The cost of inaction will be unaffordable'

'The cost of inaction will be unaffordable'

Need for new crop varieties across Africa

Need for new crop varieties across Africa

Former IMF chief Kenneth Rogoff speaks out

Former IMF chief Kenneth Rogoff speaks out

Facial recognition reveals AI's darker sides

Facial recognition reveals AI's darker sides

Tesla's German factory stirs controversy

Anti-Tesla protesters in Grünheide, Germany

When US carmaker Tesla announced its plan to build a Gigafactory just outside of Berlin, euphoria spread among both German policymakers and locals. But as Hardy Graupner reports, the skeptics are getting into gear.  

Why Davos medical tourism is alarming

Davos city covered in snow

Davos was popular among tuberculosis patients, who banked on its fresh air and sunbathed mountains to cure them. Patients haven’t stopped flocking to Davos but their illnesses have taken a modern form.  

Social entrepreneurs meet at WEF in Davos

Woman use a screwdriver at a workbench

Social entrepreneurship can have a huge impact, whether providing access to health care, clean energy solutions or improving education. DW's Manuela Kasper-Claridge met some outstanding founders in Davos.  

How Germany plans to phase out coal

A coal-fired power plant in western Germany (imago images/Martin Wagner)

Marathon talks have produced an agreement between the government and Germany's coal-producing states on phasing out coal-fired energy plants at the latest by 2038. Some plants will already be shut down this year.  

EU-Vietnam trade to improve workers' rights

Vietnamese workers at an Adidas shoe factory in Ho Chi Minh City

The EU has said the trade agreement would be the most ambitious the bloc has ever negotiated with a developing country. However, authoritarian Vietnam will still have to improve its labor and social standards.  

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China battles to contain coronavirus

China has quarantined cities and shut major tourist attractions as it battles to stop the coronavirus from spreading.  

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China battles to contain coronavirus

China battles to contain coronavirus

Anti-graft protests spread across the world

Anti-graft protests spread across the world

Innovative banking: Going cash-free in Kenya

Innovative banking: Going cash-free in Kenya

Hunters cull wild boar amid swine fever fears

Hunters cull wild boar amid swine fever fears

GM unveils self-driver

GM unveils self-driver

Blackrock to set up 500 million dollar fund for sustainable investments

Blackrock to set up 500 million dollar fund for sustainable investments

Cape Town wastewater treatment

Cape Town wastewater treatment

Fair trade coffee is hot at Berlin's Green Week

Fair trade coffee is hot at Berlin's Green Week

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