Doggone funny! Owners share how their pets keep them entertained with weird and wonderful antics – including perching on windowsills and stealing jam People from all over the world shared hilarious snaps of their beloved funny dogs This showed what the four-legged pets did when thought no one was looking In one snap, a tiny … Read more
Measles first spread to humans from cattle more than 2,500 years ago, likely during the rise of the first large cities, scientists claim. The measles virus, measles morbillivirus, diverged from a closely related cattle-infecting virus in approximately the sixth century BC – around 1,400 years earlier than current estimates. The highly-contagious virus emerged at roughly … Read more
Authorities in Berlin have placed 369 households under quarantine after dozens of people tested positive for coronavirus. Officials in the southern district of Neukoelln said the outbreak involved homes in seven different locations and in some cases with 10 people living together. Berlin’s top health official, Dilek Kalayci, urged those residing in the German capital … Read more
Authorities in Berlin have placed 369 households under quarantine after dozens of people tested positive for coronavirus. Officials in the southern district of Neukoelln said the outbreak involved homes in seven different locations and in some cases with 10 people living together. Berlin’s top health official, Dilek Kalayci, urged those residing in the German capital … Read more
Hotels will be dramatically different when their doors reopen. Here’s how they plan to keep us safe this summer… Most hotels plan table service for breakfast and you may have to book a time slot Rooms are likely to get minimalist makeovers and mini-bars may be empty The big chains are arming housekeeping with ‘hospital- … Read more
Protests over the death of George Floyd have swept across the globe with demonstrations from Poland to New Zealand in solidarity with US demonstrators caught up in violent riots. Thousands rallied outside the US embassies in London, Copenhagen and Berlin, chanting ‘I can’t breathe,’ the words Floyd gasped as a white police officer knelt on … Read more
Marcus Thuram takes a knee in his goal celebration for Gladbach in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as activists across the world call for ‘justice’ over the death of George Floyd in the US Marcus Thuram took a knee after scoring Monchengladbach’s second goal The striker bowed his head in a tribute to … Read more
Medieval cemetery discovered under a Berlin car park reveals its original residents’ lives were plagued by conflict, disease and poor diets Signs of rickets, scurvy and tuberculosis were found on some of the skeletons They had been buried around the former St Peter’s Church in Colln, now in Berlin Archaeologists suggested the remains reveal the … Read more
4,500 year-old skeleton found in German countryside grave ‘lovingly bordered with field stones,’ offering new insight on ancient burial practices Archeologists in the German countryside discovered a 4,500 year-old gravesite It contained the remains of a woman buried in a north facing fetal position The positioning is similar to that found in other sites across … Read more
France has recorded 104 new coronavirus deaths on Friday – three times fewer than the day before, which saw 351 fatalities – as Slovenia becomes the first European country to declare an end to the epidemic and bars reopen in Berlin. It brings the country’s total to 27,529, still the fourth-highest in the world, after … Read more