100 days of Trump: An environmental disaster? – Deutsche Welle
Excerpt of article written for Deutsche Welle, published on April 26, 2017: After 100 days of Donald Trump as US president, how much impact have his policies had on the environment? Will a growing global consensus and technological innovation be enough to stem their potential…
Emmanuel Macron, Europe’s climate hero? – Deutsche Welle
Excerpt of article written for Deutsche Welle, published on June 21, 2017: French President Emmanuel Macron is following through on his vow to “make our planet great again” by pledging 30 million euros for climate research. DW asked two prominent French climate scientists what it’s…
Several injured in axe attack at Dusseldorf station – The Daily Telegraph
Excerpt of article written for The Daily Telegraph, published on March 10, 2017: An elderly man was attacked with a machete in Dusseldorf on Friday, hours after a similar attack by a mentally ill asylum seeker wielding an axe left nine people injured at the city’s train…
German finance minister calls Greek leaders’ behaviour ‘incomprehensible’
Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble denounced the Greek government for destroying trust in “incomprehensible ways” when he joined a tense meeting of eurozone finance ministers earlier this month. Mr Schäuble, arriving in Brussels for talks on the new proposals from Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras in…
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ shouldn’t have been jailed, says Holocaust survivor
A Holocaust survivor criticised a German court for jailing a 94-year-old man dubbed the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for four years for complicity in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews. Eva Mozes Kor, 81, who is one of 70 co-plaintiffs, said it would provide greater value to…
Angela Merkel looks forward to Queen’s state visit to Berlin – will UK’s EU referendum come up in conversation?
The Queen will be making her fifth state visit to Germany in more than 60 years on the throne this week, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she’s looking forward to what she describes as always a “big event” for the country. But will…
When shoddy science slips through the net – and into peer-reviewed journals
Anyone who believes that peer-reviewed journals only ever publish rigorously-analysed research with sound, objective results would surely have been disabused of that notion by now following a recent sting exposing the flaws in the academic publishing system. Harvard biologist Dr John Bohannon and Science carried out…
Stellar images vie for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 prize
Photo: Comet Panstarrs by Ingolfur Bjargmundsson A crop of stunning stellar images vying for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of Year title have been unveiled today – and I’d have a hard time picking the winner. The Royal Observatory Greenwich announced the shortlist of 15 images,…
Courtrooms to go fully digital by 2016 – about time
Any journalist covering court who’s ever experienced the frustration of proceedings being held up simply because a crucial document was missing will be relieved to hear that this scenario may, by 2016, become a thing of the past. Courtrooms in England and Wales are set to…
Google’s autocomplete under fire over ‘defamatory’ searches
Google’s autocomplete function, which has yielded some eye-opening insights into the most commonly searched word combinations (the first suggestion that pops up when you type ‘Vladimir Putin r’ is ‘Vladimir Putin riding a bear’, ahead of ‘Vladimir Putin Russia’ – which the strongman president might…