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Creaking, overcrowded, neglected, Germany’s railways, once a source of national pride, have taken a battering to their image in recent years. Amid wider concerns about the health of Europe’s stagnating largest economy, the state of its trains has become something of a metaphor for a more general sense of malaise.

“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer …

They are prized for making the commute more bearable and shielding against the din of daily life. But noise-cancelling headphones have come under scrutiny after audiologists raised concerns that overuse might impair people’s hearing skills.

While the technology has clear benefits, not least in helping people listen to music at …

Zoe Williams argues that fascism’s gradual arrival induces a sense of paralysis (

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?, 17 February

In this study, when …

The US envoy to Ukraine, Gen Keith Kellogg, has praised Voldymyr Zelenskyy as “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”, striking a dramatically different tone from Donald Trump who

has called Ukraine’s president a “dictator”

Kellogg left Kyiv on Friday after a three-day visit. …

In contrast to the drawn-out 50-over World Cup and its T20 equivalent, the Champions Trophy is a pretty cutthroat affair, with one slip-up in the group stage manageable but two pretty much terminal. Jos Buttler called it a “brutal” format before England’s opener against Australia in Lahore on Saturday, while …

Halfway to a billion journeys, and it’s only just begun. Amid the recent gloom, struggles and doubts besetting Britain’s railway there is a bright beacon of hope: the Elizabeth line.

Now accounting for one in seven national rail journeys, the east-west cross-London railway has smashed forecasts and remoulded the travel …

At four miles, one furlong and 55 yards, the Eider Chase at Newcastle is barely a furlong shorter than the Grand National and with the ground soft in places and some rain in the forecast, it may well demand as much staying power from its winner as the Aintree showpiece …

As Donald Trump swings his sights from one region to the next, upturning diplomatic relations and confounding allies, leaders of

former US partners have clashed with him

But so far, one – Mexico’s

Claudia Sheinbaum

In November 1940, Winston Churchill wrote a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt expressing relief both at the US president’s re-election and the victory of his anti-appeasement policy. “Things are afoot which will be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe, and in expressing …