6+ hour, 36+ min ago  (134+ words) The June 14th fight extravaganza at the White House will mark the zenith of the decades-long journey of both Trump and MMA from the fringes of American culture to the architectural symbol of its epicentre As Gatsby said of Daisy Buchanan:…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (897+ words) For 40 years, East Germany embraced a pacifist motto with Biblical origins: "beating swords into ploughshares. But last week, a train factory in Germany's easternmost city of G'rlitz abandoned the line from the book of Isaiah in favour of Joel: "beat…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (682+ words) Ze famous German humour is a serious business. And no one understood this better than Count Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl von B'low, known to generations of Germans simply as Loriot. For half a century until his death in 2011, Loriot satirised " in cartoons,…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (118+ words) Two members of the US national guard were shot in Washington DC on Wednesday, the country's homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X. The White House said it was on lockdown, with US president Donald Trump away…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1467+ words) You'd expect the home team to put in a good showing at a German motor show. You'd expect the likes of Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Opel, and Mercedes to step up to the challenge of putting on a memorable modern-age motor…...

9+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (583+ words) The German ambassador to Ireland has said he is taking the incident involving an Irish person who was assaulted by a police officer in Berlin "very seriously, adding it is "now necessary to investigate the matter. Ambassador David Gill confirmed…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (510+ words) The US Senate has confirmed Jeanine Pirro " a former Fox News host and staunch Donald Trump ally who boosted lies that he lost the 2020 presidential race because of electoral fraudsters " as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital. Ms…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (609+ words) Britain and Germany signed a landmark defence treaty on Thursday, further evidence of how European leaders are drawing together to confront a security landscape scrambled by US president Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and Russian president Vladimir Putin's relentless…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (888+ words) Berlin tourist guides like to tell visitor groups, as they float along the Spree river each day, that locals took one look at the adjacent modernist chancellery building " a boxy concrete form with several round windows " and dubbed it "the…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (615+ words) The Irish Times Content Studio Not any more. Washington is very much where it's at " apart from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence at weekends of course " and it is chock-full of business heavy hitters and political movers and shakers from throughout the…...