Techno is harder, faster and more diverse than ever. But what about the much-heralded unifying power of techno? Is this just a cliché?https://ouo.io/yF46pu

US singer Taylor Swift keeps breaking records. Her “Eras Tour” concert film is set to become the big movie event of the fall with a simultaneous worldwide release. What’s behind her global appeal?https://ouo.io/ZlZZ73

The Norweigan author was hailed for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” The award is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($990,000, €948,000).https://ouo.io/NgnqwW

The “Assassin’s Creed” franchise is among the world’s most popular video game series. The new release is set in 9th-century Baghdad in the Golden Age of the Abbasids.https://ouo.io/BxNvB1k

Paris is fighting a bedbug plague less than a year ahead of the Olympics in France’s capital. The parasites are extremely hard to get rid of. Take it from someone with first-hand experience.https://ouo.io/w6pkIM

The commissioner for eastern Germany, Carsten Schneider, has praised the economic upswing in the former East in a DW interview. But a new report on reunification has highlighted divisions that still remain.https://ouo.io/fUvJJo

A memorial is being built to celebrate Germany’s reunification. It was supposed to be inaugurated four years ago. Now no one knows when it will be ready. What makes it so controversial?https://ouo.io/8l1iTi

The police are to move into Hitler’s birthplace in the Austrian town of Braunau. Critics say the police played a questionable role during the Nazi era. But what are the alternatives?https://ouo.io/XCfkOhr

The police are to move into Hitler’s birthplace in the Austrian town of Braunau. The police, critics say, played a questionable role during the Nazi era. But what are the alternatives?https://ouo.io/KXA8tw7

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was indicted on one count of murder with a deadly weapon, a district attorney in the US state of Nevada said. Davis has claimed to have been in the car from which Tupac was shot in 1996.https://ouo.io/RHXYjS