Hilary Duff admits that breastfeeding has been a ‘really hard’ experience: It’s ‘just still painful’

Hilary Duff admits that breastfeeding newborn Mae has been a ‘really hard’ experience: It’s ‘just still painful’ By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 21:55 BST, 15 April 2021 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 15 April 2021 She gave birth to her third child less than one month ago. And Hilary Duff admitted she still struggles with … Read more

Protesters are dragged away by Berlin police after Merkel brings in powers to impose Covid measures

Protests have erupted in Berlin after Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved a new law that hands the government power to impose rules across Germany to combat a third wave of Covid-19. Police were seen dragging demonstrators away from outside the German parliament on Tuesday where crowds of anti-lockdown protesters had gathered to oppose the law.   One … Read more

Germany Covid: Angela Merkel brings in new laws allowing for tighter lockdowns

Angela Merkel’s cabinet have agreed a new law that hands the government power to impose lockdown rules across Germany as the country battled a third wave of Covid. The new law means that lockdown measures will be automatically imposed on areas where Covid cases spike, bypassing the authority of regional leaders who were resisting the … Read more

First bones with living cells acted like BATTERIES for fish 423 million years ago, study reveals 

While our bones act as a support structure for our body, millions of years ago they behaved like batteries to help ancient fish travel long distances. A team of German paleontologists analyzed bone structures of a 423 million-year-old jawless, armored extinct species that showed the creature’s bone cells dissolved some of the tissue to supply … Read more

Keanu Reeves takes a stroll in Berlin ahead of the start of physical production on John Wick 4

Keanu Reeves was spotted in Berlin, ahead of the start of production on the fourth installment of the John Wick franchise on Friday. The 56-year-old actor appeared to be enjoying the crisp springtime air as he took a shared stroll with another crew member.  The upcoming feature’s cast and crew are currently prepping to begin … Read more

Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron call Vladimir Putin to discuss getting the Sputnik jab into the EU

Germany and France were negotiating with Vladimir Putin to supply Russia’s coronavirus vaccine to the EU.   German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron were on a video call with the Russian president on Tuesday night.  The leaders discussed ‘cooperation’, which would see the Sputnik jab made used in the European Union once regulators give … Read more

Chemicals from plastic packaging are migrating into our FOOD

Chemicals and pieces of plastic produced through the use of packaging are migrating into food and harming plants and soil ecosystems, scientists warn.  Ecologists from the Free University of Berlin contributed one of three evidence-based essays exploring the problem of microplastics and how best to tackle them. The German team, led by Matthias Rillig, they … Read more

Top German hospital bans AstraZeneca shots for women under 55

Europe’s reluctance to embrace the AstraZeneca vaccine took yet another twist today as a top German hospital banned the shots for women under 55.  The Charite hospital in Berlin – the prestigious clinic where Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was treated for Novichok poisoning last year – has announced the ban over sporadic new reports of … Read more

Angela Merkel is ‘definitively a lame duck’ after lockdown U-turn

Angela Merkel is ‘definitively a lame duck’ after she was forced to make a humiliating U-turn by scrapping plans for a strict Easter lockdown, a former German government spokesman has said.   Bela Anda, a press secretary under Merkel’s predecessor Gerhard Schroeder, said Merkel had seen her power ‘eroded’ by the fiasco – with her party’s … Read more