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Politics
The socialist Left Party won the Berlin election partly on the promise to implement the city's 2021 expropriation referendum as a way to solve the city's rent crisis. But can it really happen?
Sports
Three gold medals and three Asian Games records have catapulted China's Yu Zidi, 13, into the sporting spotlight. She is far from the first teen prodigy, but should teens be competing at elite level?
Politics
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) has vowed to press ahead with controversial reforms, but resistance is mounting within his coalition partner, the SPD. How much dissent can a governing coalition tolerate?
Sports
Munich or the Cologne-Rhine-Ruhr region? Germany aims to host the Olympic Games again. Just two candidates are left after Berlin pulled out at the last minute.
Science
From drought to major floods and extreme heat, El Nino will have a huge impact on the world's weather. In the Atlantic, it could mean a season without hurricanes.
Business
Beijing is locking the gates to stop expertise and capital in strategic industries from fleeing. The country accused of industrial-scale intellectual property theft now fears the West will take its own.
News
Sanctioning bullion, while leaving much of the infrastructure facilitating its movement intact, risks treating the symptoms of Sudan's war economy rather than its architecture
News
The ADAC motoring association says a once-a-day rule on gas price changes has failed to help drivers' wallets. Entry-level jobs are becoming scarcer, making things hard for those entering the job market. DW has more.
News
The UN Population Fund also says there has been a "severe escalation" in the number of early and forced marriages.
