Cologne kicked off its Carnival season at 11:11 am on Tuesday, with thousands of people gathered in bright sunshine. The first costumed revellers appeared in the western German city in the early morning darkness. Clowns could be seen running through the pedestrian zone, while a group of men in colourful 1980s tracksuits climbed the stairs to the city's famous cathedral. By 8 am, long queues had formed in front of some pubs and party venues. As TV entertainer Guido Cantz said: "Not everything works in Cologne, but we definitely know how to party." More than 1,000 police officers, 450 public ord...
Defender Nico Schlotterbeck again missed Germany's training on Tuesday in Wolfsburg ahead of the World Cup qualifiers against Luxembourg and Slovakia. Schlotterbeck suffered a foot injury in the 1-1 Bundesliga draw at SV Hamburg last Saturday. "It (the foot) has swollen up overnight and doesn't look too good," Nagelsmann said in a news conference on Monday. The medical department needs to wait and see how things develop, he added. Midfielder Assan Ouedraogo, however, joined his team-mates after his last-minute nomination to the squad to replace Nadiem Amiri, who couldn't travel due to adductor...
Volkswagen's parent company Porsche SE saw its net earnings fall by half in the first nine months of the year, according to its third-quarter results, released on Tuesday. Consolidated earnings after tax dropped to €1.24 billion ($1.4 billion) in the period from January to September, the Stuttgart-based holding company said. The losses come amid challenging conditions at its core holdings, car manufacturer Porsche AG and Volkswagen. Porsche AG posted significant losses this year, particularly due to its change of strategy regarding electric vehicles and its weak performance in China. Adjusted ...
People who regularly speak multiple languages age more slowly on average, a study using data from more than 86,000 adults in 27 European countries found. Published in the journal Nature Aging, an international team led by Agustin Ibañez of Trinity College Dublin matched participants’ chronological ages with biological data and behavioural measures, including health, fitness, lifestyle and social activity. They then calculated whether individuals were biologically younger or older than their chronological age. Participants were aged between 50 and 90. Multilingual people had a markedly lower li...