Oliver Baumann: The Winner Among the World Cup Losers

Literary scholars like Erik Schilling are not the first to herald the impending demise of the author in the face of artificial text generation, styling chatbots like ChatGPT as the unlikely successors to Roland Barthes. Long before the emergence of an "hermeneutics of fear" that constantly per

Frederik Ruppert of Tübingen has been crowned European champion in the 3000m steeplechase. The 29-year-old athlete achieved his first major career title in Birmingham with a time of 8:25.33 minutes, narrowly defeating Ruben Querinjean of Luxembourg (8:25.61). Karl Bebendorf of Dresden secur

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has disrupted the holiday plans of thousands of tourists on Sicily, including many Germans. The eruption, which began on Friday and continues, has led to significant travel chaos. Due to ash clouds, flights at Catania Airport were completely suspend

High in the north, on the Shetland Islands, a significant European spaceport is taking shape, with ambitions to serve defense needs. While the project is serious, it's not without its humor. Warning signs humorously declare, "Aliens will be reported to the space police and taken to Ma

Twenty-six years ago, when Iranian Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi arranged a meeting with two American senators, he chose the Metropolitan Museum in New York, aiming for a casual encounter among art enthusiasts. He intended to keep it secret from Tehran, including the Supreme Leader at the

In the popular exercise of engaging with controversial figures, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, made her latest attempt this week. It might be time to consider this experiment a failure. While Beddoes did much correctly in her hour-long interview with Elon Musk, perhaps