Earth is wearing a belt of antimatter – a twin of ordinary matter that could one day be used to create fuel for interstellar space travel – according to a breakthrough study by German and Italian scientists.
The German government fears that the big US credit ratings agencies are aggravating the eurozone's debt crisis. But, as The Local's David Wroe reports, the alternatives are not simple.
Out with the old, in with the renewable. With Germany's nuclear exit date now set at 2022, the country is about to embark on a decade of energy reform. Can it be done? The Local asked energy expert <b>Marcel Viëtor</b>.
The backbone of Germany’s booming economy isn’t huge industry – it's thousands of small and mid-sized firms spread across the country. The Local's David Wroe reports on the quiet achievers known as the <i>Mittelstand</i>.
German scientists have developed a special plastic film that changes colour in contact with rotting food, possibly soon making bad meat or fish from the supermarket a thing of the past.
The death of Osama bin Laden is a historic moment coinciding with key al-Qaida arrests in Germany. But does it make us safer? The Local asked Christian Tuschhoff, terrorism expert at Berlin's Free University.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum is creating travelling “laboratories” that will look at the design of cities. Berlin is believed to be one host city, but a redevelopment dispute is complicating matters.
A German-designed car that can be driven by thought alone could allow Jews to drive on the Sabbath, a young Rabbi and artificial intelligence scientist says.
Tuesday marks half a century since the trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. The Local spoke to the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Efraim Zuroff about the trial’s legacy.
Jack the Ripper was probably a German merchant seaman named Carl Feigenbaum. That’s the theory proposed by English former murder squad detective Trevor Marriott. He spoke to The Local.
One in 16 women in sub-Saharan Africa dies in childbirth. One in 13 babies is stillborn or dies within a week. For World Health Day, The Local's David Wroe meets a young German doctor who is making a difference.
The hip artists' squat Tacheles is slimming down. The Berlin icon will be a quieter and more modest affair after half the occupants announced on Tuesday they had accepted €1 million to leave.
Residents of a Berlin housing project at the coalface of the capital’s gentrification battles have vowed defiantly to lock themselves in and stay put when hundreds of police arrive early Wednesday morning to evict them.
Germany has taken its seat on the UN Security Council this week touting an ambitious agenda. Some of this will end in disappointment, experts warn. But there is still much Berlin can achieve.
Scientists in Munich will soon become the proud new owners of Europe’s fastest supercomputer, which should help find cures for common diseases, predict the impact of earthquakes and unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.
A new law should help 300,000 foreigners in Germany have their qualifications recognised. But as <b>David Wroe</b> reports, much more needs to be done to safeguard the German economy from a looming demographic implosion.
Will the latest Wikileaks documents damage German-US relations? Henning Riecke from the German Council on Foreign Relations told The Local the titillating diplomatic gossip could end up hurting the internet platform more than transatlantic ties.
When children of immigrants do worse at school than their German peers, it provides fodder to xenophobes. But as <b>David Wroe</b> reports, schools are failing to help kids integrate into society.
Lower Saxony's premier David McAllister on Thursday told The Local parts of the state will be hit hard by the early closure of British military bases. But as the son of a British solider, the issue is also deeply personal for McAllister.
Google's announcement it would soon launch its "Street View" program in 20 German cities has sparked outrage among the country’s politicians and data protection experts. But how upset are average citizens? And is their privacy truly threatened? <b>David Wroe</b> reports.
This week, the shadowy organisation Wikileaks caused a sensation – and a scandal – by publishing 92,000 classified US documents on the Afghanistan war. Berliner Daniel Schmitt is one of just two public faces to this mysterious group of former hackers. He spoke to The Local.
Grey clouds and darkness are well-worn metaphors for depression. But now German researchers have found the world may actually look blander and less vivid to depressed people.
In the wake of a European court ruling that German child custody laws discriminated against single fathers, the government is preparing an overhaul. The Local examines the painful reality facing parents when they split up.
Part of a new, increasingly diverse generation of German politicians, half-Scottish <b>David McAllister</b> is set to become the new premier of Lower Saxony. He spoke to The Local.
Hannover teenager Lena Meyer-Landrut's unpolished charm has made her Germany's most hopeful Eurovision prospect in years. But can she actually win Europe's legendary song contest? The Local talked to the experts to assess her chances.
