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The carnival season is finally approaching – on November 11, Cologne will once again be transformed into the most colorful city in Germany. From morning until late at night, you can celebrate the start of carnival...
Bad news for all commuters and rail travelers in autumn: Cologne Central Station will be closed for a whole ten days in mid-November. This means numerous cancellations and detour – even more than you are already u...
There’s no question that every district in Cologne is a “superblock”. Because almost everywhere in the cathedral city is a good place to live. But the term “Superveedel” has recently come t...
Today, July 14, is International Non-Binary Day. The day was invented in a blog post by the author Katje von Loon. She lamented the lack of visibility for non-binary people and chose the fourteenth of July as the day th...
Serhij Zhadan will receive the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2022. The good news came on Monday morning. His “novels, essays, poems and song lyrics” deal with a “world that has experienced gr...
To mark Earth Day 2022, Google has released several time-lapse images showing how climate change is transforming the Earth. Last Friday was Earth Day, the annual event to support environmental protection. To remind us...
A Ukrainian refugee woman recently launched this new charity vodka on the German drinks market. Every bottle sold will benefit the war-torn country. As the war in Ukraine enters its second month, efforts to support Ukr...
A new law from the Belgian government gives employees the option of working only four days a week. A four-day working week sounds like a dream to many people. And until recently, it was little more than that: a…...
High-speed trains have been a high priority in China in recent decades. The Chinese government wants to connect more major cities by train to reduce the time and cost of traveling in the world’s most populous coun...
A new platform enables Europeans to get in touch with Ukrainian refugees and offer them a home. The serious situation in Ukraine has forced many of its citizens to flee the country. Over a hundred thousand have already...
