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German businessman on private jet that crashed in Baltic

A prominent German businessman was aboard the private jet that crashed into the Baltic Sea off Latvia after flying half way across Europe from Spain without responding to controllers' calls, his company, Quick Air, said on Monday.

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Private jet crashes in Baltic Sea near Latvia as rescue mission launched

Air traffic reportedly lost contact with the jet, which was bound for Cologne, but continued north before losing altitude

Manchester Evening News

Russian diaspora in Germany holds rare rally against sanctions

Some 2,000 mostly Russian-speaking protesters marched in the western city of Cologne on Sunday to demand Germany stop supporting Ukraine and drop sanctions it imposed after Moscow invaded its neighbour earlier this year.

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From the logo and between the legs, Luka Doncic ‘put on a show’ in Slovenia’s latest win

COLOGNE, Germany — Luka Doncic didn’t play his typical stretch of minutes Saturday in the Slovenian national team’s 103-88 win over Hungary in the EuroBasket group stage.

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More muscle? Body oil? Luka Doncic’s weight, fitness look steady as Mavs’ season looms.

COLOGNE, Germany — With a couple minutes left in the first quarter of Slovenia’s EuroBasket-opening win Thursday, center Mike Tobey grabbed an offensive rebound and bullied against Lithuania’s NBA starter, Jonas Valanciunas, for a second-chance layup.

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With Mavs contingent courtside, Luka Doncic guides Slovenia to win in EuroBasket opener

COLOGNE, Germany — Lithuania is a bigger country than Slovenia — in population and geographic size and global recognition — and its men’s national basketball team has more NBA experience and depth.

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Still ‘every bit the hero,’ Dirk Nowitzki’s German No. 14 is retired at EuroBasket

COLOGNE, Germany — Nearly 18,000 people in Lanxess Arena on Thursday night alternated between craning their necks to see the highlights, speech text and video displays on the jumbotron hanging from the ceiling and looking down toward the man at the center of the spotlight on the court.

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Sweet or Not? German Farmer Trials Solar Roofs for Orchard

It’s picking season at Christian Nachtwey’s organic orchard in western Germany and laborers are loading their carts with ripe red Elstar apples, ready to be shipped to European supermarkets. But Nachtwey’s farm is also reaping a second harvest: Many of the apple trees grow beneath solar panels that have been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Examining Luka Doncic’s potential to overtake Dirk Nowitzki as European basketball’s GOAT

COLOGNE, Germany — Luka Doncic isn’t often considered the opening act for a grander, more prominent show to follow.

Tribune News Service

Pushing Buttons: What to expect from the world’s biggest games convention

It doesn’t have the pizzazz of E3, but Gamescom in Cologne is a great place to check out the titles you’ll be reading about in future newsletters

The Guardian - UK

Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94

Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, has died in Cologne, Germany

The Independent UK

The best summer scents (to spritz even if you’re not going on holiday)

Zesty, delicious and sophisticated — Melanie McDonagh presents the season’s hottest colognes

Evening Standard

Pensioners heading to France for summer holiday brand Dover travel chaos 'a disaster'

Pensioners Paul and Wendy Nicholas, from Brockenhurst, Hants, were heading to Cologne, France, to join a Saga river cruise. They said 150 people were due to join the seven-night cruise

Daily Mirror

Cologne's Pride parade draws upwards of 1 million in Germany

Around 1 million people have turned out for the Pride parade in the western German city of Cologne either to participate or to watch the colorful festivities

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'A dear friend': Syrian carves model of Cologne cathedral

When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city’s majestic cathedral

Zenger

Gold Swindler: Cops Bust Crooks Selling Thousands Of Dollars In Fake QE II Gold Coins

Fraud police have busted scammers suspected of selling fake Canadian ‘Maple Leaf’ gold coins with the face of Queen Elizabeth II on them.

The Conversation

Stolpersteine: UK joins the world's largest Holocaust memorial

The world’s largest memorial is about to get a little bigger, as it comes to Britain for the first time. It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in Cologne, Germany. Since then, more than 75,000 memorials, each the…

The Independent UK

All the easyJet flights cancelled today from UK airports

After easyJet grounded its Gatwick-Cologne flight, Ryanair is selling seats for £225 for a 70-minute hop.

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Wrightbus signs "significant" deal for 60 hydrogen buses with Cologne operator

The deal with RVK is the first sale of left-hand drive buses since Jo Bamford bought the company out of administration in 2019

Zenger

Child’s Play: Boy Aged Nine Sells Artwork For Cool $25,000

The world’s youngest abstract artist – aged just nine – has just sold an artwork for a cool $25,000.

Zenger

VIDEO: German Air Force Airbus A310 MedEvac Flies Wounded Ukrainians For Urgent Treatment

The military flying hospital flew a selection of badly injured Ukrainians to Germany for urgent treatment.

The Guardian - UK

Devo: ‘Richard Branson almost killed us in the Jamaican mountains’

Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and Eno in Cologne

Reuters

Ukrainian female soccer pros find new training ground in Germany

A semi-professional female soccer team that fled the war in Ukraine has found shelter and a new training ground at the German Bundesliga club 1.FC Cologne.

Zenger

Cocaine Seizures Soar By Sixfold At German Airport

Illegal drugs hidden in a variety of guises confiscated in first six weeks of the year at Cologne Bonn Airport.

The Guardian - UK

‘My subjects feel special – most of the time’: Judith Joy Ross on her sensual portraits

Hailed by some as the world’s greatest living portrait photographer, the American artist forges connections with people you might not normally notice

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