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European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’

Baloise, an insurance company in Switzerland, brought in the laugh detector known as their "Chief LOL Officer" to get employees to laugh and to boost morale.

Germany’s media were coming to terms with a second straight World Cup group-stage exit on Friday, with Süddeutsche Zeitung calling it a ‘winter nightmare’

An investigation by the Guardian, NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung shows fish stocks being depleted in the north-east Atlantic – because there’s no system to agree on quotas

He is a man of many names: “Kinder Surprise”, after the popular chocolate eggs given to children throughout Europe, “the little human computer”, “Nuke Surprise”, but Sergey Kiriyenko’s front-row seat during Vladimir Putin’s contested annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday inspired his latest nickname: “Viceroy of the Donbas”. Who…

From Washington Post’s reporting of the company thwarting government probes to Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung on Uber’s ‘wild west’ tactics

Covert flow of information from BND enabled Konrad Adenauer to cement his hold on power, historians reveal

Apparent due diligence failures by Swiss bank prompts centre-right calls for EU to review relationship with Switzerland

Massive leak reveals Swiss bank’s accounts have been used by an array of high-risk clients over several decades