In a second attempt, Giuseppe Conte managed to become Italy’s new prime minister and to form a government that was both...

In the light of the fairy-tale coalition program of the Italian populist parties Five-Star-Movement and Lega, which promise at...

Italy’s political turmoil is far from over. Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the populist Five-Star-Movement, wants the Italian...

Giuseppe Conte is now indeed Italy’s new prime minister, but it took a second attempt. On June 1, Conte presented another...

Whenever you think it impossible to find a president more incompetent than the previous one, the US electorate proves you wrong. After Bush The Torturer, they found Obama The Messiah and...

As the polls had predicted, the Social Democrats (SPD) say Yes to another grand coalition with Merkel’s Christian Democrats...

Updated on February 16, 2018 at 09:34 Berlin time: According to a poll by Infratest Dimap for the German public television...

The British cellist Jacqueline “Jackie” du Pré (* Oxford, January 26, 1945; † London, October 19, 1987) remains in the hearts of classical music lovers around the globe, not just...

After a long fight with prostate cancer since 2008, the 78-year-old South African jazz, fusion and pop trumpeter, singer and composer Hugh Masekela died in Johannesburg on January 23,...

The book The Thannhauser Gallery: Marketing Van Gogh (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de) by the Van Gogh Museum...

According to news reports, it began in Mashhad on December 28, 2017 as a preplanned celebration of the anniversary of the...

Added on December 21, 2017 at 22:16 German time: Today, December 21, 2017 a total of 128 countries in the United Nations General...

Is Merkel history? Unfortunately not yet. The so-called “Jamaica” coalition talks collapsed with the economically liberal FDP walking out. The FDP mentioned 237 points of contention...

The Catalan mess is nothing to be proud of. All sides are to blame for the current crisis, including the Spanish Prime Minister...

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rightly suffered a terrible defeat in the 2017 German federal election (article in German). Nevertheless, she can most likely stay in office as head...

The exhibition Matisse in the Studio at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is on display until November 12, 2017. It “emphasizes European modernism’s global roots, celebrating the...

The Hirmer book Extra! Weegee contains A Collection of 359 Vintage Photographs from 1929-1946, edited by Daniel Blau (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de). Ryan Adams states that...

In September 2015, we concluded that Austria was moving to the right. Since then, two new leaders on the left and right have emerged. The Social Democratic leader Christian Kern (SPÖ;...

Until June 18, a premier selection of 291 galleries from 35 countries and 6 continents are presenting works ranging from the early 20th century to contemporary artists at the world’s...

Until September 10, 2017 Tate Modern in London is presenting the first comprehensive UK retrospective of the sculptor, painter and draughtsman Alberto Giacometti for twenty years...