The 63rd International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) in Frankfurt proves a success despite the surrounding financial crisis. With a total of 100 world premiers, the car industry took the opportunity to show off their new innovations on the world stage, focusing especially on electric and hybrid vehicles.

Reporters from the German magazine Auto Bild are visiting the annual International Auto Show in Frankfurt. Here, they show us which cars were the tops and the flops - and tell us why. Schaut mal rein!

The UNESCO World Heritage site Messel Pit is one of the excavation sites that yields the largest number of fossils worldwide. Professors as well as students split the slate in order to find well preserved fossils.

Just before the Bundestag vote over longer running times of nuclear power plants, Greenpeace activists have occupied the roof of the CDU headquarters in Berlin. They hung up a ten-meter-long banner. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Civil engineer Hermann Rothenhöfer offers a detailed look into the historic city of Karlsruhe, Germany. By walking past a variety of buildings, he documents the history and the change in style, lifestyles and the tastes of the people. Enjoy the beauty of this outstanding architecture!

Sports journalist and tennis expert Matthias Stach interviews Grand Slam-winner Angelique Kerber on the tennis courts of Bad Homburg. What role will she play in the upcoming Bad Homburg Open, and what does she remember about her victory in Wimbledon 2018?

How has tennis star Angelique Kerber been spending her days in the time of coronavirus, when all events are canceled and she’s no longer on the road? Tidying up, keeping fit, and playing cards with her family.

At the 9th Annual Conference of the German Council for Sustainable Development in Berlin on the 23rd of November 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel talked about the upcoming challenges among others for the growth policy, for the educational and research policy, for species conservation and for international cooperation.

German chancellor Angela Merkel continues her talk at the German Council for Sustainable Development about sustainable ways of living and pleads for the importance of species diversity for us and our life on Earth.

Alligatoah—real name Lukas Strobel—makes witty rap songs. In "Du bist schön" ("You are beautiful"), he mocks our superficial obsession with beauty, cleverly incorporating cultural references, quotations, and puns into his lyrics.

Who hasn’t dreamt of flying as a child? Skydivers live this dream and give us an insight into this exciting sport.

Florian and Natali join divers Joop and Felicia Stahlenburg in making underwater willow tipis for the endangered cuttlefish to spawn in.

Enjoy this preview for an upcoming show in which four German comedians travel together through their hometowns in southwest Germany.
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In this video, we see what the city of Innsbruck in the region of Tyrol in Austria has to offer.

In the second part of this video, we get to see the mountains adjacent to Innsbruck, which offer an abundance of skiing only 30 minutes from the city center.