Chinese new year Three years after the Corona outbreak: Wuhan is celebrating the return to normality These women pray for the Chinese New Year celebrations in Wuhan - possibly also because the great danger of corona seems to have been averted © AFP Three years after Wuhan made the headlines as the starting point of the corona pandemic, the population is not only celebrating the Chinese New Year. The relief at the end of the strict Covid measures is great....
More than a third of all senior citizens who live in a Munich nursing home are already dependent on social assistance because their own contribution to the home costs cannot be covered by their pension and their assets have been depleted. Residents with care grade 3, for example, have to pay between 3200 and 3700 euros a month in the first year in a single room in a home.That even exceeds the theoretically achievable maximum pension by far: Anyone who...
weather Felt 50 degrees: Rio's residents defy the summer heat Numerous people enjoy a day at Ipanema Beach in high temperatures. photo © Lorrana Penna/dpa Hot, hotter, Brazil: plenty of sun in the "wonderful city" of Rio de Janeiro. The famous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema are jam-packed. After the summer started rainy, the heat has arrived in Rio de Janeiro. For several days in a row, the perceived temperature, which differs from the actual due to humidity or wind,...
Reutlingen Fatal fire in nursing home: investigations against resident Police caution tape has been wrapped around parts of the building after a fire at a care facility. photo © Marijan Murat/dpa After the deadly fire in the Reutlingen home for the mentally ill, the search for the cause of the fire continues. A resident is suspected. She is in a hospital with serious injuries. After the fire in a Reutlingen nursing home with three dead, the investigations are ongoing. The...
France Paris lets residents vote on the future of e-scooters E-scooters on the Place du Trocadero. photo © Christian Boehmer/dpa In many large cities they are now part of the cityscape, but e-scooters are often parked carelessly and used recklessly. In Paris, the citizens should decide whether it stays that way. Parisians can vote this spring on whether to keep e-scooter rentals in the city or abolish them. A citizens' survey should be organized on April 2, Mayor Anne Hidalgo...
crime Residents in Marseille fight against drug dealers In a settlement in Marseille, women and mothers fight drug dealers. photo © Arne Dedert/dpa With night watches and a militia, tenants in a housing estate in Marseille stand in the way of young dealers. The protest is led by women and mothers who want to protect their families. In Marseille, southern France, which is plagued by drug trafficking, tenants in a block of flats have successfully taken up the fight against...
This is clearly not the subject on which the municipality is the most talkative. It is therefore not surprising to see that the extension of the MeM's occupation lease was done on the sly. The document signed by Mayor Nathalie Appéré and spotted by the Alter1fo site is however clear. The agreement for the occupation of the public domain attributed to the Center for the production of contemporary words (CPPC, which manages the MeM and the Mythos festival) will be...
The Volkstheater on the Viehhofgelände has been giving the area between Lindwurmstrasse and Tumblingerstrasse new splendor since October 2021. But the modest times in the slaughterhouse district are long gone - without expensive chic having spread here without gaps. The municipal planning committee has therefore extended the 1988 conservation statute for the district, not by a further five years, as before, but indefinitely, with review of the data basis every five years.The deadline has already been lifted for 28 of...
A regular "Ugly Friday" wouldn't be bad: The inhibition threshold drops, no one has to worry about the wardrobe, and can simply stroll to the State Opera or the theater in jogging pants to see Wagner. And otherwise, life in Munich could look different in just under 20 years: students who don't have a bag of money would no longer have to wait years to get an affordable cooperative apartment. In the city libraries, instead of long rows of shelves...
Unsurprisingly, Parisians win the prize for the longest average time spent on public transport. According to world report from the Moovit company, Parisians are the French who have the longest average journey time in public transport, 52 minutes on average, unlike the people of Nice and Nantes who have the shortest journey time, namely 35 minutes. minutes.They also hold the lead regarding the distance traveled for a single home-to-work journey, 12 km, compared to 4 km on average in Montpellier....
