Two-thirds of the population of the German state of Baden-Württemberg voted in a referendum to continue with a controversial railway construction project strongly opposed by the governing Green party. Now that the state railways have come clean about the costs, 54 percent oppose it (Emnid poll financed by Tageszeitung/KONTEXT). Can anything be done to stop it?

The enemy alternates between stone-age and space-age weapons. Soldiers from the German Bundeswehr are fighting on the front lines as they have for nearly ten years. Dead so far: 44. A coffee break in the trenches near Kundus with the 2nd Kompanie, 313th Feldjägerbataillon.

The Pforta Public School in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt is not your usual lyceum. The medieval monastery with a centuries-old history as an educational institution draws exceptionally talented students.

An article devoted to the work of Zeitenspiegel reporter and photographer Carsten Stormer.

Syrian refugees in Lebanon tell tales of of torture, execution, and sniper fire. They have escaped the terror and random violence. That doesn’t mean they’re welcome in Lebanon.

People who clean public toilets in the city of Lucknow are “untouchables” whose “impure” status is passed down from parents to children. The Indian government is finally doing something about it.

The civil war in Syria is destroying the country. Once vibrant cities are now ghost towns. Scenes from a war of attrition.

The tide is turning for Syria’s rebels. In the small town of Azaz in the north, they kept government troops holed up in a mosque for weeks. And won.