Italy’s Culture Ministry said details discovered in an excavated bedroom show conditions under which enslaved people had to live in Pompeii.https://ouo.io/b8zQBt

Strikes by actors and screenwriters have brought Hollywood to a halt. Some productions are still going ahead — but there are no scabs at work. What’s going on?https://ouo.io/kK9D1d

Herta Müller was persecuted by Romania’s communist-era secret police because she dared to write what authorities didn’t want written. She left the country in 1987 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2009.https://ouo.io/7es4Yn

Herta Müller was persecuted by Romania’s communist-era secret police because she dared to write what the authorities didn’t want written. She left the country in 1987 and was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in 2009.https://ouo.io/hf8VR6

What do students learn about the Nazi era in German schools? DW visited a high school in one of Berlin’s most diverse neighborhoods to find out.https://ouo.io/WHE7C4j

The New Yorker is often hailed as the best US actor of our time. As De Niro, who starred in many gangster roles, turns 80, DW recalls some of his outstanding performances.https://ouo.io/3EMyCS

What do the Beatles, David Bowie and Adele have in common? They all rocked the walls of the Maida Vale Studios in London. Now, the BBC is selling the historic complex to film composer Hans Zimmer and business partners.https://ouo.io/r9G4ag

Harrison Ford’s legendary Indiana Jones character may have “hated” snakes, but the actor now has a reptile named after him. The serpent in question was discovered in the Peruvian Andes.https://ouo.io/5syKoM

Madonna turns 65. The pop icon is known for reinventing herself repeatedly. Is that why she’s so obsessed with plastic surgery?https://ouo.io/KPEVKV5

Frequent heat waves, droughts, and forest fires are wreaking havoc on Mediterranean countries this summer, which will have an impact on the future of tourism.https://ouo.io/SWZC9LL