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Die Welt (“The World”) is a German daily founded in Hamburg in 1946, and currently owned by the Axel Springer AG company, Europe's largest publishing house. Now based in Berlin, Die Welt is sold in more than 130 countries. A Sunday edition called Welt am Sonntag has been published since 1948.

Resomation, A Third-Way Alternative To Cremation Or Burial

BERLIN — It takes several years for a human body to decompose in soil. But it takes a resomator just three hours to do the job. Resomation, or t...

2015-01-29 SHARE READ LATER

Why Greece's Tsipras Could Prove To Be A Wise Choice

-OpEd- BERLIN — Despite all the warnings from Europe, the Greeks voted for the leader they felt was right. Whether or not Brussels and Berlin li...

2015-01-26 SHARE READ LATER

Europe And Extremism: Time To Stop Being So Politically Correct

-OpEd- BERLIN — It was supposed to sound aggressive when Prime Minister Manuel Valls told French citizens after the terrorist attacks in P...

2015-01-25 SHARE READ LATER

In A Russian Wasteland, Teens Dream Of Supermodel Fame

MURMANSK — Dasha Metelyova gets up shortly before 6 a.m. to apply her makeup and do her hair. In the hall of her apartment building, the paint i...

2015-01-23 SHARE READ LATER

Frightening Similarities Between Pegida And Radical Islam

-OpEd- BERLIN — At the beginning, many people in journalistic circles reacted with dismissive grins, if at all, to the handful of so-called �...

2015-01-21 SHARE READ LATER

Just Nasty Enough, Why Too Much Consensus Is Bad Politics

-OpEd- BERLIN — It's annoying to live in a country with two political parties that can't even manage to fight with each other. Two p...

2015-01-19 SHARE READ LATER

The Islamist Attack On Enlightenment

-OpEd- BERLIN — As these words are being written, editorial offices in Paris are under siege. Venerable debating societies for the freedom of o...

2015-01-11 SHARE READ LATER

Holy Irony, World's Largest Bible Printer Is In Atheist China

NANJING — Most German households have a Bible, even if it isn't regularly read. In fact, it remains a bestseller. "We estimate the extent o...

2015-01-06 SHARE READ LATER

Rejected, Unseen Or Beloved: The Varied Roles of Asia's First Ladies

SINGAPORE — Jashodaben Modi arrives at the police station sitting on the luggage rack of her brother's motor bike. A simple woman, she wear...

2015-01-04 SHARE READ LATER

Couchsurfing In Tehran, How Foreign Crashers Help Iranians Escape

TEHRAN — Looking around you see heavy doses of makeup and carefully coiffed hair, jeans and some mini skirts that really are too short. Western ...

2014-12-30 SHARE READ LATER

Unmasking The Mystery Of Why People Touch Their Faces

BERLIN — People constantly touch their faces. They stroke their chins or eyebrows, rub their noses or ears, cover their mouths or throats. We fi...

2014-12-28 SHARE READ LATER

In Jerusalem, The Delicate Art Of Ignoring Each Other

JERUSALEM — I was walking down Via Dolorosa — the Way of the Cross in Jerusalem. In front of me were three young Germans. They found the w...

2014-12-25 SHARE READ LATER

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