World

In a bid to fend off inroads from left- and right-wing parties, Germany’s more centrist governing CDU and SPD are seeking to redefine their political values. It’s a risky move, says DW’s Fabian von der Mark....

Democratic and Republican negotiators have agreed to finance construction of new barriers along the US-Mexico border as part of a deal to avoid another government shutdown. The tentative agreement allocates nearly $1.4bn to border security, far less than...

When it comes to Twitter, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress last November, beats every other US politician hands, nose and elbows down. She has built one of the most engaged followings...

A collection of short wiggly structures discovered in ancient rocks could be the earliest fossilised traces of organisms able to move themselves, scientists say. If scientists are correct, the 2.1bn-year-old structures point to an earlier origin...

The Olsen twins are 21st-century American royalty – first appearing on television as infants, they were style icons to a generation of young women in the noughties and had an estimated net worth of more than...

Zagreb officials condemned an attack on three Red Star Belgrade water polo players in the coastal city of Split – one of whom jumped into the sea to escape his assailants. The Croatian government and President...

Moving ahead with a plan to take full control of the once-mighty Trepca complex of lead, zinc and silver mines, Kosovo has locked horns with former master Serbia over the fate of an industrial icon claimed...

The global liberal order is fragmenting, but who can fit the pieces together again? That’s the question posed by the report, released as a curtain-raiser for this week’s Munich Security Conference. The world is in crisis — and...

People flooded Tehran’s Freedom Square as they celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 1979 ousting of the monarchy. Anti-US sentiment was on show with some demonstrators chanting “death to America” and burning US flags. Hundreds of...

Forty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republic of Iran. There is little excitement left from those times; even pro-reform forces are exhausted, except for the women among them. Sadegh Zibakalam is not expecting much...