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Paris to Berlin in an hour by train? Here’s how it could happen.
In November of 2020 two people were shooting through an airless tube at 160 km/h in the desert…
World Politics Explainer: The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
30 years ago, in the night of November 9-10, 1989, East German border police opened the gates at…
A Brief History Of The Rise & Fall Of The Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to…
A Polluted Canal In Berlin Could Transform Into The World’s Largest Swimming Pool
Germans could soon recapture an idyllic part of old city life: Being able to jump in the river…
Discover Metaverse And AI In Travel And Its Applications
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. AI and metaverse are hot…
The International Booker Prize longlist is out. Where are the authors from?
If you want to follow an ex-Soviet security officer and an ageing hippy around the Ukrainian city of…
Pope Benedict XVI: A man at odds with the modern world who leaves a legacy of intellectual brilliance and controversy
Benedict XVI leaves behind a complex legacy as a Pope and theologian. To many observers, Benedict, who died…
Top 10 Cities With The Best Public Transport
Hong Kong has been named the world’s top city for public transit, according to a new study by consulting firm…
Popular UEFA Champions League Final Host Cities
The UEFA Champions League final is usually played in a neutral venue by the competition’s finalists to draw…
Record-Breaking Heat in Europe
A three-day heatwave is rolling across Europe, breaking temperature records in its path. The heat has been topping…
Here are the terrible costs of Vladimir Putin’s enduring war in Ukraine
The Russian war on Ukraine has now lasted more than 100 days. It has exacerbated a critical demographic…
Remembering The Past, Looking To The Future: How The War In Ukraine Is Changing Europe
Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war…
4 Trends That Will Shape The Future Of Higher Education
Measures adopted during the pandemic do not address the root causes of the problems facing higher education. Institutions…
NATO Defense Expenditure
World leaders are descending on Brussels for the first in-person NATO summit since the start of the pandemic.…
What is CRISPR, the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize?
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and…
Connected City Streets Mean Healthier Residents And Communities
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world are rediscovering the value of walkable and…
COVID-19 Has Created More Cyclists: How Cities Can Keep Them On Their Bikes
As physical distancing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 begin to relax in some countries and people…
How City Streets Are Being Transformed During COVID-19 Lockdown
After COVID-19, some city streets might never revert to how they were before the lockdown. Global-scale lockdowns have…
Explore The 5 Most Popular University Campuses In The World
Every year, more and more foreign universities open overseas campuses in different countries of the world. This is…
Coronavirus: Three Ways The Crisis May Permanently Change Our Lives
The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To…
Human Security: Climate Change And Human Rights
Write My Paper Hub provided this professional essay sample on human rights and climate change. It is one…
The World’s Top Cities Face Stiff Competition, Here’s Why
As concerns about geopolitics, demographics and climate change rise and technological advances redefine established city hierarchies, the attention…
NATO And The EU: A Short History Of An Uneasy Relationship
In the face of growing security challenges to Europe, from an antagonistic Russia, to instability in the Middle…
Does Your City Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Columbus Day commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas back on October 12, 1492. It is…
We Can’t Save The Planet Unless We Fix Our Destructive Throwaway Economy
Extending the lifetime of all washing machines, notebooks, vacuum cleaners and smartphones in the EU by just one…
HR Tech Solutions For Forward-Thinking, Tech-Savvy Businesses
While HR is inherently all about people, its relationship with technology has never mattered more. In fact, it’s…
The Bike As A Future Mobility Solution For Cleaner Cities
The Norwegian Capital of Oslo has incorporated plans to increase the usage and number of cycles among citizens…
Why Won’t The US Supreme Court Do Anything About Racism?
The Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots, killing the African-American teenager Laquan McDonald; 14 of…
The Top 50 Smart Cities In The World 2019
The IESE Business School in Barcelona has released the data and rankings for the world’s smartest cities for…
Class, Trump, Brexit, And The Decline Of The West
In politics, long-term socio-economic trends and global shifts matter more than often overstated ‘progressive’ discourses about equality, progress…
World’s Best Cities For Street Art
Today we take it for granted that we can open up Instagram and immediately be connected to some…
The Military Power, Economics And Strategy That Led To D-Day
On June 6 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. Their number rose to 1.5m over…
From China To Poland, Lessons From June 4, 1989
On the same day Poles celebrated the freedom to choose their own representatives, China’s political leaders led a…
The Best Way To Brand A City? With Architecture And Food
Berlin is big beers and the Fernsehturm TV tower. Paris is the Eiffel Tower, croissants, and baguettes. New…
The Challenges Of Degrowth In Cities
This article is drawn from the most recent edition of the Veolia Institute’s “Facts Reports” focusing on resilient…
How Did The First World War Start?
The causes of the Great War are still being debated a century on, but time has led to…
Is Travel Really That Bad?
Okay, the title of this article is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but travel does involve considerable costs. The average…
Are Cities The Key Agents Of Integration?
While helping others is a powerful motivation in the early stage of migrants’ and refugees’ arrival, it is…
Overtourism: A Growing Global Problem
The summer holidays are in full swing – and protests against overtourism have begun (yet again) in a number of…
28 Best Party Cities & Places In The World
Some of the world’s most stunning destinations are also home to incredible nightlife for travelers to explore. From…
These Are The World’s Most Future-Proof Cities
As technology changes the way people live and work, cities are undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Those that have…
It’s Time For A New Approach To Travel
When I overcame a flying phobia, I resolved to make up for lost time by visiting as much of…
The World’s 30 Most Impressive Bridges
From old stone spans to sweeping modern suspensions, bridges have a way of wowing us. Moving bridges, stone…
What Each Of The G7 Countries Wants, And What They Need
With many of the Trump administration’s recent decisions running directly counter to the other members’ interests, the summit…
More Than Just Sanctuary, Migrants Need Social Citizenship
In 1975, the English author John Berger wrote about the political implications of immigration, at a time when…
The Rise Of The Rest (Of The World)
American cities still have the edge when it comes to high-tech startups and venture capital, but other parts…
Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping For The Apocalypse In New Zealand
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father –…
The Global Housing Crisis
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century…
Europe’s Most Densely Populated Square Kilometres – Mapped
Prof Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield has crunched data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to locate…
Eurasia, The supercontinent That Will Define Our Century
The end of the Cold War was supposed to inaugurate Europe’s age of reconciliations, when the continent, finally…