Linda Pasquini

The United Nations human rights office ​on Friday welcomed the news of Navi ‌Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize win, acknowledging her longstanding advocacy for human rights.

The French ‌lender Credit Agricole on Thursday laid out plans to expand ​in Germany with some ​services for ordinary consumers by ⁠the end of October, ​the latest such push into ​Europe's largest economy by a big foreign bank.

Audi's factory in Neckarsulm, one of the Volkswagen Group's four German production sites ​facing possible closure, needs a "viable" perspective to ‌secure its future, the premium brand's CEO told workers on Thursday.

German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz said on Wednesday sales ​in its core car business ‌continued to fall in the third quarter, declining 8% year-on-year ​due to challenging market ​conditions in China.

Russian authorities told the World Health ​Organization on Tuesday that it has no cases ‌of plague in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, where a laboratory worker at a plague research institute died last ​week, according to a spokesperson for the ​UN health agency.

German home prices rose slightly in ​the second quarter of ‌2026, marking the seventh consecutive quarterly gain as ​the property sector ​in Europe's largest economy seeks ⁠stability after a ​deep recession, data showed on ​Thursday.

German ​carmaker ‌Mercedes-Benz and UK-based ​start-up ​Wayve said ⁠on ​Tuesday they ​signed an agreement ​to ​integrate Wayve's autonomous ‌driving ⁠system into future ​Mercedes ​vehicles, ⁠starting in ​the ​next ⁠two years.

The World Health Organization warned on Friday of a gap in the medical ​workforce around the world in the 2030s, ‌with a quarter of doctors set to retire in the next decade.

A German court has ruled that Meta is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties ​on its Instagram and Facebook platforms, and ordered the ‌U.S. tech giant to remove such content and pay damages, the court said on Thursday.

Austria's Raiffeisen ​Bank International (RBI) faces renewed scrutiny as the biggest Western bank still operating in Russia, ‌after a short-seller alleged it was helping to enable more than $1 billion of Russian trade to circumvent sanctions.