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Der Druck auf Friedrich Merz wächst, seine Koalition kämpft mit internen Reibungen und verlorener Autorität. Bei der heutigen Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz aber trifft der Kanzler auf einen CDU-Parteifreund, der ist ungleich erfolgreicher als er. Hendrik Wüst gilt in der Union als derjenige, der Stabilität verkörpert und Macht ausübt, ohne dass es laut wird. Gordon Repinski erklärt, warum die CDU in Nordrhein-Westfalen gerade als positives Gegenmodell wahrgenommen wird und wie Wüst im Schatten des Kanzlers zu einer möglichen Option für die fernere Zukunft wird. Im internationalen Teil geht es um die erfolglosen Gespräche zwischen Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner und Wladimir Putin. Die Mission…
By euronews Published on 04/12/2025 – 7:38 GMT+1 •Updated 7:52 After key talks in Brussels, NATO has said it is ready to ‘do what it takes’ to protect Europe. This in response to Vladimir Putin’s comments that Russia did not want it, but would be ‘ready for war’ with Europe. Euronews correspondent Shona Murray has spent most of the week at the NATO headquarters and joins us now on set for an update. Coming up, we will be joined by Roxana Mînzatu, an Executive Vice-President of the European Commission. The Romanian socialist politician spent years as minister for European funds and…
Published on 04/12/2025 – 7:01 GMT+1 Humans spend up to a year learning to stand and take their first steps. But for one humanoid robot, it took just 48 hours. HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal, developed by UK-based company Humanoid, achieved stable bipedal walking just two days after its assembly – a milestone that typically takes weeks or months in robotics. From initial design to a functioning prototype, the robot was ready in just five months, compared with the industry average of 18 to 24 months. Using Nvidia’s Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, the team crammed the equivalent of 19 months…
Published on 25/11/2025 – 9:17 GMT+1 A rare first edition of Superman, discovered by three brothers in their late mother’s attic, has fetched a record-shattering $9.12m (€7.9m) at auction in Texas, US, making it the most expensive comic book ever sold. “Superman No. 1” breaks the record previously held by “Action Comics #1”, which sold last year for $6m (€5.5m) and which also featured Superman on its cover, as the influential comic introduced the character to the world. The brothers discovered the comic book in a cardboard box beneath layers of newspapers and cobwebs in their deceased mother’s San Francisco…
The economic stakes Life sciences is not just another industry for Europe. It’s a growth engine, a source of resilience and a driver of scientific sovereignty. The EU is already home to some of the world’s most talented scientists, thriving academic institutions and research clusters, and a social model built on universal access to healthcare. These assets are powerful, yet they only translate into future success if supported by a legislative environment that rewards innovation. Life sciences is not just another industry for Europe. It’s a growth engine, a source of resilience and a driver of scientific sovereignty. This is…
Ursula von der Leyen has finally spelt out her reparations loan for Ukraine. Under the scheme, which has no precedent in history, the European Union intends to channel the immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank into a zero-interest loan to support Ukraine’s financial and military needs for the years ahead. Kyiv would be asked to repay the loan only after Moscow ceased its war and agreed to compensate for the damages – a virtually unthinkable scenario at this stage. Until now, the project had been pitched in various speeches, letters and confidential documents, raising more questions than answers. But…
Published on 25/11/2025 – 11:09 GMT+1 Here we go again… Following Universal’s billion-dollar investment to resurrect The Exorcist franchise and David Gordon Green’s failed attempt to competently start a new trilogy, Hollywood is starting afresh with a “radical” new chapter in The Exorcist universe. Set to be written and helmed by Mike Flanagan, the American director of The Haunting Of Hill House and The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, the upcoming film will be an all-new story – and definitely not a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer, which we described in our review as a “tepid exhumation” and an “inexcusably…
Spooking the horses According to several of those close to the discussions, the reparations loan proposal started to hit trouble when tension began to build between De Wever and his neighbor, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz. A Flemish nationalist, De Wever came to power just this past February after months of tortuous coalition negotiations — a classic scenario in Belgian politics. Three weeks later, Germany voted in a national election to hand Merz, a center-right conservative, the leadership of Europe’s most powerful economy. Like De Wever, Merz can be impulsive in a way that is liable to unsettle allies.…
Published on 26/11/2025 – 10:43 GMT+1 From “Shrimp-Jesus” to Mark Zuckerberg wood carvings and even Donald Trump’s crass content spewing, “AI slop” has permeated every corner of the internet in 2025, and we’re more zombified as a result. The term has been named Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025, and it is defined as “low-quality content created by generative AI, often containing errors, and not requested by the user”. Generic, soulless and mind-numbingly ubiquitous, “AI slop” is ‘advanced’ internet spam and seems to be the perfect choice for 2025’s Word of the Year – as evidenced by it…
At the center of that inquiry is an accusation that, three months before the container killings, the company abandoned contractors who were building its gas plant to a devastating ISIS attack in March 2021 on the adjacent town of Palma. A house-to-house survey carried out by POLITICO found 1,354 civilians were killed in that attack, 330 of them beheaded. Other reporting established that 55 of those dead were from TotalEnergies’ workforce. The company, which has claimed it lost none of its workforce during the attack, denies the accusations. Widespread abuse The Dutch report indicates the container massacre was part of…