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Urban wastebaskets today look like pop stars and talk like them, too. But whenever you need one, there isn’t one – why?

Where tourists cavort, trash piles up. Image: dpa

It’s a paradox: trash cans are everywhere and yet invisible. A young woman, for example, leaves a fast-food restaurant on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, holding a paper cup with the rest of her drink. She takes another sip, then throws it into the orange trash can hanging from a lamppost in front of the restaurant. The movement seems unconscious, routine. She hardly notices the bucket. Nor does the pensioner who, a little later, sinks a handkerchief into it – he does it casually.

Manuel Neuer is not named the best soccer player. But other Germans can rejoice: Joachim Low is the world coach and Nadine Kebler the best female soccer player.

Nadine Kebler is the best female soccer player of the past year. Also in the picture: Cristiano Ronaldo. Picture: ap

Manuel Neuer did not feel at all like a loser on the German evening in Zurich. "For me, it’s a complete success," said the world champion goalkeeper anything but contrite as he left the Fifa gala on Monday evening after personally missing out on being crowned World Footballer 2014.

In the conflict over the video app, the US president issues an executive order to force its sale. Also affected is WeChat. TikTok is fighting back.

The US president maintains a long obsession with China Photo: ap

U.S. President Donald Trump is apparently seeking to force the sale of the popular Chinese video app’s U.S. business with a new executive order against Tiktok. With the order, which is set to take effect in 45 days, Trump is banning U.S. citizens from "doing business" with Bytedance, the app’s owner. The app poses a "threat" to national security, the order released Thursday evening (local time) said. The app collects large amounts of user data and could allow the Chinese Communist Party to spy on Americans, it said.

After a racist phone call, the investigation against Amy Cooper is dropped. She takes therapy sessions instead.

A video of the birdwatcher proves the threat to Amy Cooper is made up Photo: Christian Cooper/ap

On May 25, 2020, the day African American George Floyd was killed by police officers, Amy Cooper called the police in New York’s Central Park for racial reasons. Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper had earlier asked her to leash her dog, as is required in that section of the park. White Amy Cooper then placed an emergency call, claiming that an African American man was threatening her life.

The dependence on Russia is to be ended. That is why Nasa, together with Boeing and SpaceX, will once again transport astronauts into space itself.

Allegedly on the moon: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. Picture: ap

Nasa wants to launch its space missions from American soil again in the future. On Tuesday, the U.S. space agency selected aircraft manufacturer Boeing and private company SpaceX to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming years. The target date for the first launch from Cape Canaveral is 2017. But safety standards will not be sacrificed to meet the deadline at any cost, Nasa stressed.

Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma are Mouse on Mars. "Dimensional People" is the name of their new work. It is the most convincing for a long time.

Have collaborated with 50 musicians on their new album: Mouse On Mars Photo: Nicolai Toma

In a video clip by the electronic duo Mouse on Mars, a horde of people wander through a swampy area. They are friends and colleagues from long ago in Dusseldorf and Cologne. They wear wigs, second-hand clothes and signs. Although Mouse on Mars act as a twosome per se, they are always also a social system that draws wider circles.