The 20 Best Barefoot Shoes for Running or Walking (2025)

Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.

Source: Wired

German election exit polls: Conservatives emerge as largest party

Exit polls show the center-right CDU/CSU bloc has won 29% of the vote in snap elections, with the far-right AfD coming second.

Source: Deutsche Welle

Ever wonder why Africa’s borders appear so strange?

From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map.

Source: Al Jazeera

I want to leave my home to my children from my first marriage — and not to my second husband. Is that wrong?

“My husband has two children, who also have a mother and grandparents who have an inheritance to leave them.”

Source: MarketWatch

Has Trump kept his day one promises?

It's been a busy first month, with a blizzard of activity, so we compare his pledges with what he has delivered.

Source: BBC

VC backed by Cambridge university launches £100mn start-up fund

Cambridge Innovation Capital’s fund counts Aviva Investors and an arm of British Business Bank as backers

Source: Financial Times

Energy giant AGL is disputing $25m fine for wrongly taking welfare money from hundreds as ‘excessive’

Exclusive: Court documents obtained by Guardian Australia show appeal argues judge was wrong to decide penalty was needed to ‘provoke’ leadership attention

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Source: The Guardian

Germany Election 2025: What to Watch For

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as Europe re-evaluates relations with the Trump administration.

Source: New York Times

Who is Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor?

The leader of the victorious CDU, Friedrich Merz, has a checkered history in German politics — from challenging Angela Merkel, to retiring to the business world, to causing controversy by …

Source: Deutsche Welle

Russia launches largest drone attack on Ukraine on eve of third year of war

The attack came as leaders in Kyiv and across Europe are seeking to navigate rapid changes in U.S. foreign policy under President Trump.

Source: CBS News

Ukraine supporters rally in Washington DC ahead of third anniversary of war

‘I’d like everyone to remember that Russia started it.’ Supporters of Ukraine have rallied in Washington DC

Source: Al Jazeera

Thousands attend funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

A funeral was held for former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last September. During the service, Israeli jets flew overhead as the …

Source: NBC News