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The corona-crisis has also affected the German language: 1230 new words and words with a new meaning have been collected…

At the end of February 2021, the Koblenz Higher Regional Court has sentenced the 44-year-old Syrian Eyad A. to four…

It started with protests ten years ago: Syrians demonstrate against the regime of leader Baschar al-Assad in March 2011. The…

When customers currently say to Mohammad that the carrots or the field lattice are dirty, he gets annoyed. Right now,…

The local Foreigners’ Office Tübingen has changed its phone hours and is now available for half an hour longer in…

The Bundestag has decided on a new corona-aid package. This also includes families. As they did in 2020, they are…

By Oula Mahfouz Due to the heavy snowfall in Germany, I remembered that every time, when it snowed, I got…

Everyone who wishes to enroll their children in a day care center or nursery school in Tübingen must do so…

In 2021 and 2022, the legal minimum wage in Germany will be increased in four stages. In doing so, the…

In 2020, the child bonus, or Kinderbonus, was paid for around 16 million children. Its aim is to support families…

By Oula Mahfouz “The heart breaks”. This metaphor expresses sorrow, but doctors also acknowledge a “broken heart syndrome”.  A “strong…

By Reem Al Sagheer and Natalie Hekmat Body language often accompanies us unconsciously through life. We learn body language, especially…

By Reem Al Sagheer In Germany, about 416.420 people with a background in migration have their birthday on January 1st.…

If you order something online, receive the goods, but do not pay the invoice on time – things can get…

Sitting, watching, surfing – all is made possible by the new “Smart-Bänkle”. It is situated in front of the municipal…

During the night going from 24th to 25th of October, the official time throughout Europe will be changed back to…

A specific criminal act has become more widespread in the district of Tübingen in the past year: Spoofing (fraud). Fake…

Every person who has applied for a loan or opened an account, has come into contact with the “Schufa”. Schufa…

Germans love their supermarkets, as a survey by the German Ministry of Agriculture shows: More than half of all consumers…

By Sameer Ibrahim Since ancient times, wedding traditions have differed from society to society. In Arabic countries, a marriage takes…

The public roads in Germany are used by many different people: pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks and more. There…

Starting this year, the nationwide warning day will take place in Germany. From now on, this will happen each year…

“The women are all very different and every woman is so impressive,” says Laura Gudd, a social worker at the…

By Youssef Kanjou In the Stone Age, humans inhabited caves and discovered fire. They used it to generate heat that…

During the fall, many children get a cough and a runny nose. This is also the case during times of…

How does the German media report about people with a history of immigration? The media researcher Thomas Hestermann from the…

Martha, Anton, Heinrich, Friedrich, Otto, Ulrich, Zacharias: This is the way, I have to spell my name in German on…

If important flower pollinators such as bees were to disappear, the food supply of humans would be endangered. The Federal…

“What did you personally experience during your volunteer work for refugees?” The volunteer coordinators in the Tübingen district and the…

The oak processionary moth is a type of a butterfly. Its offspring is a caterpillar, that emerges starting end of…

Youssef Kanjou My academic work as a researcher in Middle Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen and in the…

Families of students, who travel by public transport, can save two monthly installments if they have kept the monthly Naldo…

“Without women, integration cannot be successful”, said Annette Widmann-Mauz in September 2018 at a conference in the Tübingen District Office.…

Ticks become active in early summer. They are then at a stage in which they suck blood from living things…

At present, alleged vouchers from retail chains are being circulated on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. It gives the…

With the new regulations on road traffic regulations, the Federal Ministry of Transport is also announcing new regulations on fines,…

The collection points for problematic substances in the cities and municipalities in the district of Tübingen will start operating in…

For the first time, the Rottenburg mosque association will transmit the call to prayer for breaking the fast with a…