A Venezuelan navy boat sank after a disastrous attempt to ram a German-owned cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea, it is alleged. The crew of the cruise liner RGCS Resolute say the Venezuelan patrol boat fired gunshots and ‘purposely collided’ with the vessel after ordering it to sail towards Venezuela. However, the Resolute is equipped … Read more
Love knows no boundaries! German, 89, and his 85-year-old Danish girlfriend meet at the countries’ closed border for a daily drink amid coronavirus lockdown Karsten Hansen, 89, meets his Danish girlfriend Inga Rasmussen, 85, every day They’ve been together 2 years and have spent each day together since last year Their quarantine dates usually consist … Read more
German state finance minister ‘kills himself’ as officials claim he was in despair over the coronavirus crisis Thomas Schaefer, 54, found dead on railway tracks at Hochhein, near Frankfurt Authorities claimed the state finance minister appeared to have killed himself State governor Volker Bouffier suggested he was ‘in despair’ over coronavirus For confidential support in … Read more
The King of Thailand has taken a harem of 20 concubines with him into self-isolation at a grand hotel in southern Germany, it has been reported. King Maha Vajiralongkorn, also known as Rama X, is believed to have booked out all of the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Bavaria to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. German … Read more
I’ve just been driving the electrifying new entry-level version of Porsche’s battery-powered zero-emissions Taycan sports coupe. It might be the cheapest on offer, but I’d hesitate to say affordable, as the list price of the new all-wheel-drive Taycan 4S starts from £83,367 – and well-heeled customers for this exciting pure electric sporting grand tourer could … Read more
Angela Merkel was spotted buying four bottles of wine from a supermarket in Berlin as the coronavirus crisis grips Germany. Germany has seen 21,000 cases and 75 deaths from the killer bug. He shopping trip in Mitte, Berlin, follows government plans to unveil an economic rescue package worth 822 billion euros (£759.45 billion) to fund the country’s fight … Read more
German officials are trying to stop the Trump administration from luring German biopharmeceutical company CureVac to the US to get its experimental coronavirus vaccines exclusively for Americans. President Donald Trump has offered funds to lure the company CureVac to the US. The German government has made counter-offers to make the company stay, according to a … Read more
A German sweetie! If you like marzipan, you’ll find Lubeck irresistible Lubeck is known as the Venice of the Baltic due to its hundreds of bridges It’s located an hour from Hamburg, and the city is also famous for its marzipan Niederegger is the most notable producer – visit the sweet shop near Town Hall By … Read more
The German capital was chock-a-block for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, but now the crowds have gone it’s the perfect time to go. Spread out across the old East and West sections, getting round this city requires planning (thankfully, public transport is first-rate). One of the joys of visiting, aside from … Read more
The German teenage national who’s been dubbed the anti-Greta Thunberg defended her support of a white nationalist and took aim at ‘climate alarmists’ in her first appearance at the biggest annual meeting of grassroots conservatives in Maryland on Friday. Naomi Seibt, 19, when asked if she was still a fan of white nationalist Stefan Molyneux, … Read more