Ich war auf dem Weg zu einem Arzt. Mit dem Bus bin ich von Lankwitz bis in die Grunewaldstraße, dann weiter zu Fuß. Es war so ungefähr um die Mittagszeit. Ich kam gerade an den Bayerischen Platz, da gingen die Sirenen los. Ich zögerte kurz, ringsherum um den Platz waren viele Wohnhäuser ausgebrannt, ich dachte,…

Updated February 03, 2018 19:23:04 Photo: Michael Gordon at work in Parliament House (Supplied: The Age/Fairfax) Veteran Fairfax journalist Michael Gordon has died at the age of 62. Key points: Gordon won a Walkley Award in 2017 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism He suffered from a heart attack while taking part in an ocean…

Jeremy Corbyn will change tack and pledge to keep the UK in the EU customs union, the Welsh First Minister has said. Carwyn Jones said he had discussed the issue with Mr Corbyn and Sir Keir Starmer, the Shadow Brexit Secretary, and believed a policy change was likely “in the next few months”. Urging his party leader to…

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Billy Mitchell is known to video game fans as the King of Kong, a title made world-famous by the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters about the race for the Donkey Kong world record. Mitchell’s 1982 score of 874,300 points reigned for 18 years until Tim Sczerby passed it by with 879,200…

Nordkorea hat unter Missachtung der UN-Sanktionen laut Einschätzung von Experten Millionen Dollar verdient. Durch eine verbotene Zusammenarbeit mit Syrien und Myanmar bei ballistischen Raketen habe das Land allein in neun Monaten im vergangenen Jahr 200 Millionen Dollar durch illegale Exporte eingenommen, schreiben Experten der Vereinten Nationen in einem Bericht an den Weltsicherheitsrat. Nordkorea sei Syrien…