Leonie
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Seit Jahresbeginn 2018 übernehmen gesetzliche Krankenkassen die Vorsorgeuntersuchung auf Aneurysmen bei Männern ab 65 Jahren. Diese sind überdurchnittlich oft betroffen. Wie werden Aneurysmen diagnostiziert und behandelt? Gut zu wissen.

In Stuttgart waren im März 2018 nahezu alle Hotelbetten ausgebucht. Der Grund: eine Rollladen-Messe. Für Besucher aus Japan, Korea und China schien sie das Händler-Highlight des Jahres zu sein. Warum?

Screwing up a theatre performance, setting your girlfriend’s apartment on fire and going to prison for it – this is what can happen if mental diseases aren’t diagnosed and treated. The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival gives formerly ill people a stage to speak and tell their stories to encourage people with mental health issues to seek help and get better.

In the minds of many people, the Costa Brava exists as a place of eternal summer. But how's life different here in winter? What do the locals do as long as the tourists are gone? And how do they even earn money?

Actually, the Dutch and especially the Amsterdammers are internationally known for being open-minded towards all kinds of minorities. Still, right-wingers like Geert Wilders gained a lot of votes in the national elections in 2017. Is there an increase in everyday racism going along with the political shift to the right?

Benjamin Hiller works as freelance journalist in conflict zones such as Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria. When he’s not traveling in those areas, he lives in Berlin, Germany. His work has been published in several important European newspapers such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Monde Diplomatique and International Business Times.

Almost every fifth student at The University of Groningen is international. Because of this, a lot of masters and bachelor programmes are in English. Not everyone in The Netherlands is pleased about this.

Over the course of the last decades, the working environment of journalists has changed. 63-year-old editor Peter Bausch has been working at the German local newspaper Sindelfinger Zeitung/Böblinger Zeitung (SZ/BZ) for 40 years, experiencing the change right from its onset.

In Zukunft können Autos alleine fahren und jeder kann seine Autofahrten mit Freizeitaktivitäten oder Arbeit verbringen. Kein Stop-and-Go-Fahren mehr im Stau, ein sinnvoller Zeitgewinn und vor allem: viel mehr Sicherheit. Das ist die Vision vieler Autohersteller, doch was die wenigsten bedenken: Wenn die Autos in Zukunft autonom fahren, werden sie es sein, die bei Unfällen über Leben und Tod entscheiden.