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Entrance Thornhill Community Academy, Yorkshire, England (Photo: Lars Bevanger/ DW)

Educating Yorkshire

64 cameras captured pupils and staff at the Thornhill Community Academy over seven weeks.
December 3, 2013

Mukosa: 'Act now to save CAR'

France plans to send hundreds of extra troops to the Central African Republic.
November 27, 2013

Living Planet

As the UN's climate talks draw to a close, we talk to delegates about who will foot the bill for climate change damage. We also ask if we might be flushing away valuable resources when we use the toilet.
ScienceNovember 21, 201329:59 min

Nigerian community takes charge of its sanitation

More than 2.5 billion people in the world don't have access to a clean toilet, and urinate and defecate in the open. This contaminates water and spreads illness, while there are also massive economic costs associated with poor sanitation. In Nigeria, community-led total sanitation aims to build more toilets and encourage people to stop using the bushes.
ScienceNovember 21, 201306:38 min
Close up portrait of director Sandra Kaudelka Photo: Michael Kotschi

Dark side of sports

In a documentary film, Sandra Kaudelka profiles four former GDR athletes.
November 12, 2013
Destroyed houses in Tacloban City on Leyte Island in the Philippines as the area was hit by powerful Typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 8. (Kyodo)

World sends relief to Philippines

The United States has boosted international relief efforts to the typhoon-hit Philippines. The nation's president has declared a state of "national calamity," with at least 10,000 people feared dead.
November 12, 2013
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (Photo: Ronald Wittek / dapd)

'Not free of the past'

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis speaks to DW on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
November 9, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan is pictured in this NOAA satellite handout image taken November 6, 2013 at 23:13 UTC. The Philippines evacuated coastal areas and put emergency workers on alert on Wednesday as a storm expected to grow into a super typhoon headed towards central islands still recovering from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit last month. REUTERS/NOAA/Handout via Reuters (PHILIPPINES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Haiyan approaches Philippines

Thousands have evacuated as the eastern Philippines braces for the western Pacific’s strongest typhoon this year. The state weather service has warned that Haiyan continues to intensify.
November 7, 2013

Golan/Syria communication

The civil war in Syria has thrown the entire Middle East into turmoil. Israelis, Palestinians and residents of the Golan Heights are all taking sides in a war that pits former friends against one another. Independent producer Reese Erlich begins his report on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights along the border with Syria. Reese Erlich reported from the region on assignment for GlobalPost.
BusinessNovember 6, 201306:11 min
EU referendum. Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech on Europe, in central London Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire URN:15610024

UK businesses campaign for EU

British business leaders have made it clear they want their nation to remain an integral part of the European Union. They said leaving the bloc would be a disaster, but the EU had to undergo thorough reforms.
November 4, 2013
General Keith Alexander (L), director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper watches on at right. (photo via Reuters)

US defends spying policy

The head of US intelligence has defended spying on foreign allies. He stopped short however, of confirming reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
October 30, 2013
(From L) Niger's president Mahamadou Issoufou, Benin's president Thomas Boni Yayi, Togo's Faure Gnassingbe, Senegal's Macky Sall, Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaore, Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara and Guinea-Bissau's interim President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, leave after a family picture during a 15-nation west African bloc ECOWAS special summit focused on moving the region towards a common market and a single currency by 2020, on October 25, 2013 in Dakar. SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images

West African bloc sets tariff

Leaders of the regional African bloc ECOWAS have taken more steps towards a monetary union, agreeing to implement a single customs tariff system from 2015. Mali was also on the agenda of talks in Senegal.
October 26, 2013

Utopian community in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia,a country with strict religious and cultural mores, Awra Amba - a village of some 500 inhabitants - goes against the grain: there, you'll see women ploughing and men sewing. It’s a place without organized religion, where the elderly and children have special privileges. The village has become a model for development and poverty reduction.
BusinessOctober 16, 201306:22 min
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Long live Mallnow

One village outside Berlin is bucking the rural exodus trend and reviving small-town life.
October 14, 201312:06 min
Giorgos Vichas

Doctor with a conscience

Cardiologist Giorgos Vichas runs a free clinic for austerity-hit Greeks in Athens.
October 9, 2013
Volunteers work on planting the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, USA (Photo: Tom Banse)

A forest for food

Urban gardeners in the American city of Seattle are creating a public edible forest.
October 7, 2013
A person walks past the remains of the Packard Motor Car Company, which ceased production in the late 1950`s, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Dinner and a kickstart

A group of Detroit residents is working to revitalize their crumbling neighborhoods.
October 5, 201306:36 min

Africalink on Air - 04 October 2013

Italy mourns Lampedusa tragedy as search for missing African migrants continues+++South Africa aims to empower the black community economically+++Row erupts between the EU and DR Congo over mismanagement of funds.
October 4, 2013

Africalink on Air - 04 October 2013

Italy mourns Lampedusa tragedy as search for missing African migrants continues+++South Africa aims to empower the black community economically+++Row erupts between the EU and DR Congo over mismanagement of funds.
October 4, 201324:59 min

DIY tech resources online

DW takes a look at some of the online resources teaching people how to make and fix their gadgets.
October 3, 2013
Protestors attend an anti-caste discrimination demonstration in London (Photo: Ravi Kumar)

Divided by caste

A debate about caste discrimination in the UK has reopened old wounds.
October 3, 2013

New development goals

The UN is working on new sustainable development goals for the world by 2015.
October 2, 2013

Sequester leaves community up Crow Creek

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota depends on federal money for basic services, so what will happen to the community if the money continues to run dry?
September 28, 201306:32 min
Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in their country, wait to cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq August 25, 2013. The sudden influx of more than 40,000 Syrian refugees over the past 10 days, has brought Iraq's prosperous and well-armed northern region closer to the conflict which has already killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions. The leader of the autonomous region has promised to protect Kurds over the border from attacks. Picture taken August 25, 2013. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Syrian conflict

DW asks Syrian activists how the West can help bring the war to a close.
September 27, 2013

Internet changes Africa's communication

The rise of digital technology and the Internet has fundamentally changed the way we communicate. Although Internet penetration is still relatively low on the African continent, things there are changing rapidly. At a recent conference in Hamburg, bloggers, journalists and experts discussed which opportunities the changing media landscape holds for German-African relations.
BusinessSeptember 25, 201304:10 min

UK’s Royal Mail goes public

The British government has announced a plan to privatize its revered Royal Mail postal service. The stock sale is intended to modernize the business. But postal workers’ unions fears job losses and pay cuts.
September 12, 2013
Atlantic Community think tank

Atlantic Community

The online think tank atlantic-community.org enables young professionals and anyone interested in politics to help shape foreign policy. Members can draft policy recommendations for international decision-makers.
September 12, 2013
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A community bank

Germany's cooperative banks came through the financial crisis unscathed. We focus on one of them in a small town near Frankfurt.
September 4, 201302:57 min
An African fisherman poses with an AK 47 (Photo: Valerian Mazataud)

Gun control push

Cameroon is seeing a rise in gun crime, though hope may finally be in sight.
September 2, 2013

Africalink on Air - 28 August 2013

Human Rights Watch lambasts Tanzania for not stopping child labor in goldmines +++ Mass failure by applicants for university entrance in Liberia +++ Mombasa hosts a conference on improving regional infrastructure
August 28, 2013

Africalink on Air - 28 August 2013

Human Rights Watch lambasts Tanzania for not stopping child labor in goldmines +++ Mass failure by applicants for university entrance in Liberia +++ Mombasa hosts a conference on improving regional infrastructure
August 28, 201324:59 min
Ernst Reuter

Reuter and Volga Germans

Ernst Reuter became famous as the mayor of West Berlin, he worked for Stalin before that.
August 13, 2013
Ute Schaeffer, Deutsche Welle, Chefredakteurin, Multimediadirektion Regionen, Editor in chief, Multimedia Regions Department. Foto: DW/Per Henriksen 27.07.2012. DW2_3666.

Fight for your rights

It is not so much democracy that is in question, as how political opinions are formed.
August 8, 2013
A pile of disposable diapers

Goodbye diaper rash

Some German parents are choosing to go diaper-free - without getting poo on their couch.
August 2, 2013
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi attends a Senate session in Rome where his top aide, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, faces a vote of non-confidence, Friday, July 19, 2013. A judge in Naples will evaluate Friday the possible indictment of Berlusconi on charges of corruption for allegedly having paid a rival lawmaker to join his party. Meanwhile a court in Milan is expected later today to reach a verdict in a trial which sees three former Berlusconi aides, Nicole Minetti, Lele Mora and Emilio Fede, accused of procuring women as prostitutes for parties at the then-premier's villa near Milan. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Berlusconi tax conviction upheld

Italy's highest court has upheld a tax fraud conviction against former PM Silvio Berlusconi, and ordered a review of a ban on him serving in public office. The court confirmed a four-year jail sentence by a lower court.
August 2, 201302:00 min
A statue of leader Kim il-Sung defines the city center of Chongjin, North Korea’s third-largest city with a population of over 600,000. (Photo: Ben Mack)

Behind the curtain

North Korea has undergone changes. But seeing them in this reclusive country isn't easy.
July 26, 2013
Man stands at the door of a house beside graffiti reading 'As the city sleeps I think of you' in Havana, Cuba. (Photo: EPA/ALEJANDRO ERNESTO)

Revolution vs. reality

Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro failed in his first attempt to take control of Cuba.
July 26, 2013
An abandoned girl shown in file photo dated 26 September 1950 crying in the streets of Inchon, South Korea during the the Korean War 1950-1953. (Photo: AFP)

Faces of the Korean War

Faces of the war
July 25, 20137 images

Cote d'Ivoire communities still fear violent gangs

It's over two years since the end of the post-election conflict in the west African country of Ivory Coast. Former president Laurent Gbagbo faces charges of crimes against humanity for his part in the violence of the past. But both opponentes and supporters of Gbagbo continue to threaten villages where they are accused of having commited atrocities during the conflict.
BusinessJuly 17, 201304:32 min
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Ramadan begins in spirit of uncertainty

The holy month of Ramadan has begun for millions of Muslims worldwide, with many expressing uncertainty and fear because of conflicts in Egypt and Syria.
July 9, 201301:10 min
A driver doing a test run with SIMTD technology - a monitor is attached to the dashboard Copyright: Arbeitsgruppe Sichere Intelligente Mobilität SIM/T-Systems dpa/lhe/lby/lsw

Smart cars

The cars of the future will communicate via mobile communications and the Internet.
June 25, 2013
Demonstranten auf dem Istanbuler Taksim-Platz versuchen den Tränengaswolken der Polizei zu entkommen (Foto: epa)

Police quash Taksim protest

Authorities in Istanbul have scattered thousands of protesters from Taksim Square. The flare up in anti-government sentiment followed nearly a week of relative calm.
June 23, 2013
Members of the Women of the Wall group pray at the Western Wall, Jerusalem (photo: Women of the Wall)

When religion and state collide

A clash of ideals at the Western Wall has led to an identity crisis for Israelis.
June 21, 2013
India's Gujarat state chief minister Narendra Modi, greets his supporters upon arriving at the party's state headquarters after casting his vote in the second phase of the state assembly elections in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 (Photo: Ajit Solanki/AP/dapd)

Modi's elevation

Controversial Indian politician Modi will lead the Hindu nationalist BJP in next elections.
June 10, 2013
A computer generated image of the planned Jewish Museum in Cologne

Excavating Cologne

A controversial new museum is planned to the tell the history of Cologne's Jewish community.
June 5, 2013

Harsh law for Nigeria's gay couples

Same-gender persons in Nigeria call for respect to their rights after new anti-gay bill is passed.
May 31, 2013

How our activists view social media

We asked our activists how they see the role of social media in protest movements.
May 27, 2013

Brussels probes iPhone tactics

The EU is probing deals signed between mobile network operators and US iPhone-maker Apple to look for anti-competitive sales tactics. According to the Financial Times the probe follows complaints by the operators.
May 27, 2013

Demographic Change - Alternative Communal Living for Senior Citizens

Germany’s population is aging rapidly. At the same time, more and more elderly people are no longer cared for within the circle of the family. Many live in care homes. In the Westerwald region, an unusual alternative to this approach has developed.In Marienrachdorf, 14 seniors are living together in an old farm house and enjoy working on the property in a way that takes them back to the past.
PoliticsMay 23, 201305:44 min
A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. (Photo: REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)

Divided community

The atmosphere in London’s faith communities is ‘tense’ after the brutal murder of a serving soldier
May 23, 2013