February is the Black History Month in North America, meanwhile it is also celebrated in Germany as Black History Month with various events. A reason for us to ask: What actually happened to the media debate about racism? It was intense in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests after the violent death of black American George Floyd almost three years ago. In Germany, too, numerous people protested against racism and police violence. Newspapers, broadcasters and online media in...
It was supposed to be a day of triumph, but disaster struck: 20 years ago today, shortly before the planned landing, the space shuttle "Columbia" broke up. All seven astronauts died. When the American Rick Husband takes his seat in the commander's seat of the space shuttle "Columbia" at 7:53 a.m. on the morning of January 16, 2003, it will be the last time for the 45-year-old. Likewise for his colleagues. Together with six other astronauts, the father of two...
On the street, one night at 11 p.m., with his big suitcase. This is what happened to Julien four months ago, when he was only 20 years old. "I fled my parents' home because I couldn't stand their transphobic behavior anymore," he says.A situation that is not uncommon, as underlined by the report on poor housing from the Abbé-Pierre Foundation unveiled on Tuesday evening. “After coming out or revealing their gender identity, some young LGBTQ+ people experience rejection from their...
The latest edition of the Angoulême Festival once again highlighted hundreds of authors, attracting an audience of 200,000 readers. An attendance that confirms the good health of the comics sector in bookstores with 85 million copies sold in 2022compared to more than 87 million in 2021.This 50th vintage is marked in particular by the coronation of Riad Sattouf, Grand Prix 2023, whose final volume of his successful saga The Arab of the Future was released in bookstores in November 2023....
“These children are not handicapped in life, but handicapped in school. As soon as he is asked about the subject, the writer Pierre Lemaître delivers this definition of "dys". The former Prix Goncourt knows what he is talking about since his daughter is dyslexic, that is to say, she sometimes reverses letters or syllables.Dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysorthography… All these neurological learning disorders terribly handicap some children who, moreover, have real intellectual abilities. “However, these abilities, they have great difficulty, alas, in...
Since March 2022, Malawi has been facing a terrible cholera epidemic. This, still in progress, has killed more than 1,000 people, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, lamenting a lack of vaccines.The death toll reached 1,002 on Tuesday, making the current cholera outbreak the deadliest on record in the impoverished southern African country, which previously saw 968 deaths in 2001-2002, according to the World Health Organization. (WHO). A total of 30,600 people have been infected since the first cases...
Princess Eugenie She lives in a plastic-free home Princess Eugenie has been campaigning against plastic in the home for a long time. © imago/PPE Princess Eugenie is committed to protecting the environment. Among other things, she got rid of plastic at home - also for her son August. At events and interviews as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Princess Eugenie (32) also chatted very personally from her home sewing box. As "Mail Online" reports, Prince Andrew's daughter...
Reindeer,Their retirement, they don't think about it. Some admitted to us that they had never even thought about it. This Tuesday, they were however in the street to shout their opposition to the reform wanted by the government of Elisabeth Borne which provides for an extension of the retirement age to 64 years. Whether they are 15, 18, 20, 24 or 27, these young people are all worried about their future. But they are much more alarmed by the precariousness...
Tierpark veterinarian Christine Gohl has been accompanying thousands of animals at Munich Zoo for 21 years, from birth to death. A conversation about their duties, the ruthlessness of nature and why there is no cemetery in the zoo.Interviewed by Philip CronesIn addition to veterinarian Christine Gohl, five other people are sitting at the table. She is flanked by a colleague, the head of the zoo, press officers, the head of the zoo. Apparently, the topic of death in the zoo...
For five days in January 2022, the immigration detention center located at the Park Hotel in Melbourne had almost become the center of the world. Before the start of the previous Australian Open, Novak Djokovic, then world number 1, was indeed blocked there due to the vagueness surrounding his vaccination situation. On the spot, hundreds of Serbian supporters came to support their national icon day and night, until his expulsion from the country, where they rubbed shoulders with demonstrators launched...
