In Short

CanberraFor decades, Elizabeth II accompanied Australians in their daily shopping – on the five-dollar banknote. But the popular monarch will be removed, because the central bank of Australia now wants to bring the culture of "First Australians" to paper money.

ParisA video released by a police union denounces an internal memo banning officers from chasing fleeing offenders. The memo coincides with a marked rise in crime.

EshoweVideos of South Africans in the province of KwaZulu Natal looting a broken-down truck that was delivering meat went viral on Twitter. A member of the French NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors without Borders, a medical humanitarian organisation, was also caught on camera stealing. The "doctor" appeared impervious to being admonished for theft.

BerlinThe delivery of Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, which has now been decided by the Scholz administration, is extremely controversial. According to current surveys, the majority of Germans think the decision is wrong.

EspooMarkku-Pekka Antikainen, a 59-year-old male Finnish farmer who took up figure skating at age 50 declaring himself to be "trans", performed under the female name "Minna-Maaria" at the opening ceremony of the ISU European Figure Skating Championships.

PragueThe Czech Republic is getting a new president: Ex-NATO general Petr Pavel has won the runoff against Andrej Babiš.

BerlinThe Germans have lost faith in their country as a leading economic nation. Once the pride of the EU, today only 39 percent of the population believe that Germany will still play a leading role on the world economic market in 15 years.

DavosGlobally, the wealth of the richest have increased massively. This is shown by a report by the Institute for Policy Studies, which has accused the WEF of ignoring the problem of the concentration of money and power. Switzerland has for a long time been a paradise for the super rich. It is teeming with millionaires and billionaires.

CairoThe Muslim educational institution al-Azhar University in Cairo has called on all the world's Muslims to boycott Sweden. Al-Azhar University is the premier Sunni Muslim institution of learning in the world and enjoys widespread respect among the world's 1,5 billion Muslims.

BerlinIn the spring of 2022, in response to the war in Ukraine, the German government launched the so-called “Bundeswehr special fund”. For the sum of 100 billion euros, the Bundeswehr was going to be modernized and decades of neglect in equipping the troops would be corrected.