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Vladimir Putin’s brutal military assault on sovereign neighbour continues in face of heavy losses and near-unanimous international condemnation

Veteran parabolic flight pilot Eric Delesalle sits down with Space.com to talk about what it takes to create weightlessness and lunar gravity in a plane.

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be decorated with Germany's highest possible honor on Monday in recognition of her near-record 16 years at the helm of the country. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier plans to bestow the Order of Merit for special achievement on the four-term chancellor, who will become only the…

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be decorated with Germany’s highest possible honor in recognition of her near-record 16 years at the helm of the country

The conflict in Ukraine has jolted people out of their affluent ease and forced them to take sides

Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986.

A furore over the French president’s remarks on Taiwan has left him isolated on the world stage as well as at home

Germany will pull the plug on its last three nuclear power stations by Saturday, ending a six-decade programme that spawned one of Europe's strongest protest movements but saw a brief reprieve due to the Ukraine war.

Mathias Döpfner’s reported comments on climate, Muslims and east Germany – and his apparent political manoeuvring – create shock waves