News and current affairs from Germany and around the world

TOP STORIES
- Germany
  - Berlin Wall
- Brexit
- World
- Business
- Science
- Environment
- Culture
  - Film
  - Books
  - Music
  - Arts
  - Digital Culture
  - Lifestyle
  - Travel
  - BTHVN2020
- Sports
SPECIAL
Media Center
TV
- Schedule and Reception
- TV Programs
TV programs
- Arts.21
- Arts and Culture
- Business
- Check-in
- Close up
- Conflict Zone
- DocFilm
- DW News
- Eco Africa
- REV
- Shift
- Sports Life
- The Day
- The 77 Percent
- Tomorrow Today
- To the Point
- World Stories
RADIO
LEARN GERMAN
German Courses
German XXL
Community D
Teaching German

Uighur persecution: 'I am ashamed of our human race'

DW and its media partners have revealed Beijing's arbitrary persecution of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang. Human rights defenders and politicians are now calling for Germany and Europe to take a harder line toward China. Go to article

Turkey investigates Gezi Park acquittal judges

The judges who ordered the acquittal of the Gezi trial defendants, including Osman Kavala, are under investigation. The probe is led by an official body which conducts disciplinary procedures in the Turkish legal system.

Opinion: Osman Kavala's rearrest a hit to Turkey dissidents

Rebel fighters fire a missile towards Syrian government positions in Idlib (picture-alliance/AP Photo/G. Alsayed)

Turkey threatens imminent attack in Idlib, Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned of an "imminent" military operation in Idlib amid ceasefire talks. The threat follows recent fatal clashes. Russia's government has urged restraint.

AfD says sorry for 'racist' coloring book

The cover of the far-right AfD's controversial coloring book: 'North Rhine-Wesphalia for coloring in'

The far-right party said it made a "mistake" in handing out copies of a coloring book that contained xenophobic images. The AfD commissioned the book, which included drawings of men holding guns and waving Turkish flags.

Ocean Viking saves 182 people in distress on Mediterranean

In one day, sea rescue vessel Ocean Viking received distress calls to come to the aid of two boats carrying displaced people across the Mediterranean. DW reporter Miodrag Soric witnessed the rescue operations firsthand.

NEWS REPORTS

First coronavirus deaths in the Middle East 9m ago

A staff member works in a laboratory in Wuhan, China amid a new coronavirus outbreak

The deadly COVID-19 virus claimed the lives of two people in Iran, in the first deaths to be reported in the Middle East. Tehran previously denied reports that people in the country were infected with the virus.

Turkey postpones verdict for German activist 5h ago

German rights activist Peter Steudtner (Reuters/Y. Akgul)

Eleven defendants, including Germany's Peter Steudtner, gave final statements a day after philanthropist Osman Kavala was re-arrested, just hours after a court acquitted him. The verdict had been expected on Wednesday.

Germany gets new hate speech bill 4h ago

Hass, the German for hate, on the internet (picture-alliance/dpa/L. Schulze)

Social media networks will be required to report cases of hate speech to German investigators if the bill is passed. Cases of hate speech in Germany have risen, and legislators aim to snuff out extremism at its source.

Anti-Semitism on the rise in the EU

India telecom crisis: Vodafone struggles to survive 4h ago

India's telecom sector is in dire straits with the survival of Vodafone Idea left hanging in the balance. The crisis could hurt growth prospects, job creation and the country's troubled banking sector.

STORIES & ANALYSIS

Oleg Senzow im DW Interview, Straßburg (DW/B. Riegert)

Sentsov's new film premieres ahead of Berlinale

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was released from a Russian prison in September 2019. By then, friends had already filmed his most recent movie. "Numbers" premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

Germany's CDU MP: 'We made mistakes'

Roderich Kiesewetter Mitglied NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss (picture-alliance/dpa)

Roderich Kiesewetter, a leading Christian Democrat, acknowledged on DW's Conflict Zone that his party made mistakes following the scandal in Thuringia that rocked Germany.

Angela Merkel says she won't interfere in search for CDU successor

Opinion: Germany's self-destructing political center

Germany's CDU: Who are the top candidates?

European mayors facing hate speech and threats

Tjark Bartels, of Hameln-Pyrmont (DW/C. Bartlau)

Municipal leaders in several EU countries are finding themselves the targets of hate speech and threats. How are they continuing to do their jobs?

MH370: Australia's former PM says Malaysia believed pilot downed jet in murder-suicide

Greta Thunberg's sister launches her singing career

Climate change threatens future of all children: UN report

Coronavirus: Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers disembark as deaths hit 2,000

Watch livestream

DW English Live

The Day - News in Review

Coming up at 21:00 UTC: DW News

UEFA Champions League | Tottenham Hotspur v RB Leipzig (Imago Images/Sportimage/D. Klein)

Champions League: Spurs host RB Leipzig

RB Leipzig travel to London for the first time in their first ever Champions League knock-out match. Follow live here!

Why so slow? Germany’s reluctant move into the digital age

Digitalization has been a buzzword in German politics for years. But has much really changed? And do Germans even want to go digital?

A locust held between the fingers of a man's hand (DW/M. Haileselassie)

East Africa braces for more locust swarms

Desert locusts have been ravaging East Africa. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization warns of a food crisis. The main response has been spraying the areas affected with pesticides. But more needs to be done.

Germany's 'Lego grandma' builds wheelchair ramps

A wheelchair user in Germany has launched a campaign to help others get around more easily. Rita Ebel read a newspaper article about a town that used Lego bricks to create wheelchair ramps and started doing the same in her community near Frankfurt.

Children learn outside at the Green Free School in Copenhagen, Denmark

The Danish school putting sustainability on the syllabus

At the Green Free School in Copenhagen, you're more likely to find pupils gardening than sitting at a classroom desk.

Same-sex pair makes Vienna ball history

In Vienna, a same-sex couple is about to waltz into history. The prestigious Opera Ball, dating back to the nineteenth century, is a bastion of tradition. But in this year‘s opening ceremony, two women will glide across the floor in each other's arms.