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Skip next section Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big moment05/28/2026May 28, 2026Kai Havertz: Arsenal and Germany's man for the big momentKai Havertz has a habit of scoring winning goals for his club and Arsenal hope he can do it again on SaturdayImage: Marvin Ibo Güngör/GES/picture allianceGermany forward Kai Havertz is set to play in his second British Champions League final on Saturday. Havertz is in the right place at the right time. If he can deliver in the Champions League final in Budapest on Saturday, he will join a rare list of players to have scored in multiple Champions League finals. More than that though, he will have cemented his place as one of the most successful German footballers of all time. Click here to read DW's full analysis of what Saturday's game...

The National Trust, Britain's heritage and nature conservation charity, said on Thursday that specialists had started work re-chalking the UK's "largest and most iconic chalk hill figure," the Cerne Abbas Giant.  The roughly 55-meter (180-feet) tall chalk giant carved into a hillside overlooking Cerne Abbas in Dorset in southwest England is a standout figure of the landscape and renowned landmark, not least because it's such an anatomically faithful rendering of a naked and clearly excited club-wielding man. The outline is prone to the elements, though, and requires regular renewal to prevent it from fading. The famous erect penis was accidentally extended by almost a third during maintenance in 1908, when what used to be the belly button was mistakenly incorporated into the tip — but a...

Picture the scene on April 24, 1945, as the Battle of Berlin between the Soviets and the Nazis raged: A group of Red Army soldiers arrive at Berlin's Jewish Hospital to find hundreds of people living and working in the battle-scarred facility. "You are Jews? Not possible. You can't be Jews, the Jews are all dead," one Russian soldier reportedly exclaims.    Berlin's Jewish Hospital, together with the Jewish Cemetery Weissensee, is the only Jewish institution that continued to operate and survive the Nazi era. It still operates to this day. How could an institution designed to preserve Jewish life survive in the heart of the Nazi killing machine — and outlast it?  Founded in 1756, the Jewish Hospital moved to its current location in the northwestern district of Wedding just before the out...

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival, it seems, has war on its mind. An extraordinary number of movies at this year's festival, which concludes on May 23, deal with the experience of life in wartime. In Lukas Dhont's Belgian World War I drama "Coward," young soldiers in the trenches confront ideas of heroism and masculinity. "Visitation," the latest film from Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum"), continues the German director's obsession with World War II and its aftermath, tracing the fate of three families living on a lake near Berlin through decades of turbulent history, from the rise of Adolf Hitler until the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are two French films — "Moulin" and "De Gaulle: Tilting Iron" — about French resistance to Nazi occupation, while another movie, "A Man of His Time," ta...

In Germany, spring is dotted with public holidays that have their origins in Christian tradition: Good Friday and Easter, which celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ; Ascension, commemorating Christ's ascent into heaven; and Pentecost, considered the birthday of the Christian Church. Also known as Whitsun or Trinity Sunday by some religious traditions, it marks when the Holy Spirit is believed to have descended upon the Apostles of Jesus, Mary and other followers of Christ, 50 days after Easter — hence the name, which comes from a Hellenistic Greek word meaning "50th." Though the holiday is important for Christians, it has its roots in Judaism. A stained-glass window in Seville Cathedral showing Mary and the Apostles being visited by the Holy SpiritImage: HGVorndran/Zoonar...

Around 530 BC, the world's first public museum opened its doors in the Mesopotamian state of Ur, in modern-day Iraq. The curator was a priestess princess, and the museum was part of the palace complex, displaying artifacts from the region with informational labels in multiple languages. Fast forward some 2,500 years, and museums no longer only offer stationary exhibits accompanied by written information. From digitized collections to social media accounts to virtual reality, recent technology allows viewers to interact with collections in new ways. But recently, an even more profound shift has been taking place, one that goes to the very heart of what a museum is supposed to be and provide. It is a shift in focus from the objects on view to those doing the viewing, as museums become plac...

Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest final in Austria's capital, Vienna, on Saturday night with the song "Bangaranga" amid a boycott by five countries over Israel's participation. The song’s infectious beats and tightly choreographed dance routine proved a hit with both national juries and viewers, whose votes together decide the winner. Dara beat 24 other competitors during Saturday’s grand final in Vienna.  The Eurovision Song Contest described Dara as "one of the most well-known pop musicians in her country, shaping the image of contemporary Bulgarian pop with her unique voice, commanding stage presence and unrestrained genre-blending." It's the first time Bulgaria has won the contest. Israel finished second ahead of Romania, Australia and Italy to round out the top five. Ger...

Udo Lindenberg comes from Gronau, a small town near the Dutch border. His hometown is so proud of its most famous son that it dedicated both a public square and a larger-than-life statue to him. At its unveiling in 2015, Lindenberg himself described the monument as the "Statue of Liberty of Gronau." Years later, the statue collapsed and had to be restored, but this did little to diminish its symbolic value. Leaving the countryside behind Lindenberg always had a strong urge to leave his rural surroundings behind. He grew up with three siblings in modest conditions; his father drank heavily, and the family home was often described as emotionally distant. As a child, Lindenberg would drum on metal boxes in the backyard, spend time with friends and imagine a life beyond Gronau. He later su...