Germany and Austria will allow travel between the two countries from June 15 after borders were closed to fight coronavirus Business trips and family visits will begin from Friday, Austrian government said And from June 15 regular cross-border will restart following lockdown in March Austrian economy is 8% percent tourism, most of that is from German … Read more
Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Discover the Danube with Classic FM’s John Suchet – join the radio star’s voyage on the river of Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:00 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 08:33 BST, 10 May 2020 The mighty Danube flows through the heart of Europe … Read more
Neolithic man may have been brewing beer 6,000 years ago, according to scientists who have developed a new method to analyse grains. Austrian researchers claim the first evidence of European production of malt-based drinks, including beer, from grains dating back to around 4,000 BC. The team say the thinning of a tiny layer of tissue … Read more
The world’s media has lined up to savage Britain’s coronavirus response this week after the UK’s death toll surpassed Italy‘s to become the worst in Europe. Headlines describe the UK as a ‘the problem child of Europe’ and the policies of Boris Johnson‘s government as ‘the biggest failure in a generation’. A shortage of protective … Read more
The world’s media has lined up to savage Britain’s coronavirus response this week after the UK’s death toll surpassed Italy‘s to become the worst in Europe. Headlines describe the UK as a ‘the problem child of Europe’ and the policies of Boris Johnson‘s government as ‘the biggest failure in a generation’. A shortage of protective … Read more
Children were taught how to practise social distancing on their return to school in Germany today, as the country prepares to lift a raft of lockdown restrictions. Social distancing was the first lesson on the timetable in Dortmund this morning where pupils lined up at 5ft intervals in the playground. Angela Merkel yesterday gave the … Read more
Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died at the age of 73, Billboard has confirmed. In a statement, his bandmate Ralf Hütter announced: ‘The very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday.’ In February, the … Read more
Britons could miss out on summer holidays to the continent as European countries prepare to agree when travel will be possible and which nations to bypass. The UK’s position has been hammered after its coronavirus death toll soared past Italy‘s yesterday to become the worst in Europe. The EU closed cross-border travel to prevent the … Read more
Britons are more concerned about the coronavirus than people in any other country, including Spain and Italy, according to a new study. UK researchers conducted surveys on nearly 7,000 people’s thoughts and fears about the virus between mid-March and mid-April, across 10 different countries. While the UK came at the top of the pile, Spain … Read more
Children are capable of transmitting the novel coronavirus, two new international studies claim. Over the course of the pandemic, fewer children compared to adults have fallen ill and, when they are infected, their symptoms are milder. But it’s been unclear if they can spread the virus to adults. Now, researchers in China and Germany say they … Read more
Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more
The horrors of Nazi Germany‘s only concentration camp for children have been brought to life in harrowing detail as part of a chilling new visualisation. Researchers from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance painstakingly pieced together the layout of the Preventive Security Police Camp for Polish Youth in Lodz, where hundreds of children were beaten and … Read more
WHEN WILL VICTORY BELLS RING OUT? British tanks storming into Denmark, 500,000 German PoWs taken in Hamburg and Cabinet ministers told to stay in London – how the last days of WWII in Europe were reported in May 1945 On Friday, May 4 1945, British troops were rolling into Denmark, crossing German border into Jutland … Read more