From Australia to Chile to the US, the Catholic Church’s child sex abuse scandals keep piling up, stoking outrage not just about the crimes, but also about the extent of the coverups by church officials.
Like many seven-year-olds, Emil Rustige gets ticked off when his parents pay attention to their phones instead of him. But unlike other kids, Emil decided to take the issue to the streets.
Volkswagen’s emissions scandal (paywall) has already cost the auto maker billions in fines and penalties over the past three years. And the punishment isn’t over yet. A group of shareholders is going up against VW with a suit that could cost the company €9 billion ($10.5 billion) in damages.
The clogged streets of Paris got their third e-scooter option in as any months, after ride-hailing service Taxify on Thursday (Sept. 6) launched a fleet of several hundred e-scooters.
A car that runs on sunshine is in the works from German startup Sono Motors. The company is testing what it says will be the first affordable electric car with a battery that gets an added boost from sunlight, acting as a sort of self-charging power pack.
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A few days later, World War II began. Last night (Sept. 1), the 79th anniversary of that invasion, thousands of neo-Nazis, far-right politicians, and locals took to the streets of Chemnitz, a town in the eastern German state of Saxony, spewing hatred against foreigners and demanding “Germany for Germans.”
Interest in salary transparency isn’t new, but the motivation for it is evolving.
With Brexit a mere seven months away, Japanese conglomerate Panasonic has announced that it is shifting its European headquarters out of Britain. Panasonic Europe’s CEO Laurent Abadie said yesterday (Aug. 29) that the company’s corporate base would move from Bracknell, in the greater London area, to Amsterdam in October.
The topic of young children in restaurants is a highly divisive one. Some believe parents have every right to take their young children out to dine, which allows them to spend time together as a family and familiarize their children with eating out. Others are adamant that a relaxing meal with friends or partners can be ruined by screaming youngsters at a neighboring table.
James Bond’s beloved car brand announced today that it plans to float on the London Stock Exchange later this year. It reportedly expects a valuation of around £5 billion ($6.4 billion) and is expected to list a 25% stake in the company.
Britain’s official exit from the EU is now just six months away, with the only uncertainty being whether the divorce will be messy or smooth. A number of European leaders have already expressed hope that the UK may some day come back to the bloc.
Critics of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy said that her permissiveness would cripple the country, as the incomers—more than 1 million asylum seekers since 2015—couldn’t contribute to society by getting jobs. Figures released today by Germany’s federal labor agency, however, showed that 306,574 asylum seekers had found jobs as of May, a jump of more than 100,000 from the same month last year.
Hedonistic, creative, cheap, sexy, a playground for punks, clubbers, and artists. That has been the reputation the German capital around the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
A section of a major motorway bridge collapsed near the northern Italian city of Genoa shortly before noon local time today.
A year ago, the chaos surrounding the “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly. Now authorities about 120 miles away in Washington DC are bracing for potential clashes as opposing demonstrators mark the anniversary in the US capital.
Crows, often praised for their high intelligence, are being put to work as trash collectors in a theme park in France.
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s onetime chief White House strategist, has turned his focus to Europe, with a mission to unite nationalist movements across the EU and smash the political establishment.
With the German army struggling for new recruits and low on equipment, the woman many view as Angela Merkel’s successor is pushing to restart compulsory national service.
Put Germany’s legendary love of beer together with a summer that’s shaping up to be the country’s hottest since 1881, and what do you get? A bottle shortage that’s sent brewers scrambling.
More and more drivers like riding high in new sport utility vehicles, a trend that is paying off big for automakers and taxing the resources of a warming world.
Sergio Marchionne was a larger-than-life character who drove Ferraris, smoked cigarettes, and mainlined espressos. The former boss of Fiat Chrysler had a poster in his office proclaiming: “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
It’s been an arduous year for German chancellor Angela Merkel, so far. She has battled through coalition negotiations to form a government, chivvied the European Union into a loose agreement on migrants, weathered insults from US president Donald Trump, and headed off a revolt from her interior minister.
Tesla buyers in Germany may find themselves €4,650 ($5,410) out of pocket soon, after the government decided that they must immediately pay back the incentive they got when they bought a Tesla Model S.
Europe’s reliance on Russian gas wasn’t front-page news until Donald Trump lashed out at Germany at the NATO summit last week. Calling it a “captive of Russia,” because of how much gas it imports, he heavily criticized the construction of a new gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany.
