Brighten the darkness: Banish winter blues with sweet fragrances and delicate colours Nigel Colborn says we have the mildest winters in Northern Europe UK-based gardening expert recommends making the best of milder winters Among winter perennials, flowers are appearing sooner and in greater numbers By Nigel Colborn for the Daily Mail Published: 23:49 GMT, 21 … Read more
Colombian President Ivan Duque apologises after police cadets dressed as Nazis for a ‘cultural exchange’ event in honour of Germany Cadets dressed as Wehrmacht, SS with a red swastika, put on Hitler moustaches A replica luftwaffe plane, copies of Nazi firearms, swastikas decorated the event President Ivan Duque apologised for the stunt Friday, terming it … Read more
Germany‘s Angela Merkel made an embarrassing faux pas on Wednesday when she tried to fist-bump Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, but was left hanging by the royal. The German chancellor had rolled out the red carpet for Queen Margrethe’s arrival in Berlin, with the royal visiting the country with her son Crown Prince Frederik. As the 81-year-old queen stepped out … Read more
White House mocks Trump for having a ‘great imagination’ just hours after he said he was sending his ‘Envoy Ambassador’ Ric Grenell to Kosovo to try and carve out a peace deal with Serbia Trump said he’d sent the former ambassador on the foreign policy mission, but Grenell made clear he was there as a … Read more
Germany‘s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and her would-be successor Armin Laschet have congratulated Finance Minister Olaf Scholz from the rival Social Democrats on his Sunday election victory, as Merkel’s conservatives remain in disarray after the vote. It comes after CDU leader Armin Laschet was criticised for not publicly congratulating Scholz after Germany’s conservative Party suffered … Read more
Germany could be set to bring in a speed limit on the country’s Autobahns when politicians agree a new government following an election last week. Politicians have for years debated imposing an 80km-per-hour speed limit on the stretches of road which are famous for allowing motorists to drive as fast as they please. The Green … Read more
German voters head to polls as ‘Mutti’ Angela Merkel says goodbye after 16 years of rule Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party is floundering in polls Campaign winner so far has been Social Democratic Party leader Olaf Scholz Merkel will remain in post until a coalition is formed, which could take months By Stephen Adams … Read more
Ministers on the spot over why they let Britain effectively shut down the gas storage needed to cope with an energy crisis UK has minuscule levels of storage compared with other nations in Europe This means families and businesses are more reliant than ever on imports Reports suggest the UK has just seven days’ worth of … Read more
World’s 50 best vineyards for 2021 revealed: Last year’s Argentinian winner is No1 again, Spain comes second, France’s Chateau Margaux is third and RUSSIA beats the U.S Argentina’s Zuccardi Valle de Uco was named the top wine tourism destination – for the third time in a row The stunning Bodegas de los Herederos del Marques … Read more
Valarie Allman claims Team USA’s first athletics gold at the Tokyo Olympics in the women’s discus with a best effort of 68.98 metres in a rain-affected final By Reuters Published: 11:40 EDT, 2 August 2021 | Updated: 11:43 EDT, 2 August 2021 Valarie Allman claimed the United States’ first athletics gold medal of the Tokyo … Read more
Team GB in pole position for golds in team and individual eventing after vintage cross-country performances from Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen By Andrew Baldock, Press Association Published: 01:39 EDT, 1 August 2021 | Updated: 01:39 EDT, 1 August 2021 Great Britain’s eventers will go for Olympic gold in team and individual competitions … Read more
Boomers star Patty Mills powers Australia to a win over Germany and a place in the basketball quarter-finals By Australian Associated Press Published: 07:13 EDT, 31 July 2021 | Updated: 07:35 EDT, 31 July 2021 Australia will head into the Tokyo Olympics men’s basketball finals as unbeaten group winners after making it a perfect three … Read more
Builder causes £425,000 of damage by tearing down German apartments’ balconies with a digger ‘because developer owed him £4.2million’ Family recorded the man from a building opposite in Blumberg, south Germany The destructive outburst happened at around 7.30pm on Wednesday evening Man driving the digger first fled the scene in his car but later handed … Read more