The effects of the economic and financial crisis, the growing world-political significance of the Asia-Pacific region and the radical changes in the Arab world are among this year’s key themes at the 48th Munich Security Conference (MSC). 
She sports a conspicuous tooth gap, doesn’t like walking in high-heels and would thus seem rather unsuitable for an international career on the catwalk: nonetheless Lara Stone is one of the most sought-after models who is attracting many looks this week in Berlin. The 28-year-old blonde beauty from the Netherlands is the face of the tenth Berlin Fashion Week. 
United Nations, European Union and Afghanistan: the current issue of .de – Magazin Deutschland reports on Germany’s foreign policy engagement and the country’s role as a global partner.
Whenwe think of computer-producing countries today, the USA and Silicon Valley or the South-East Asian countries spring to mind. It may come as a surprise, then, that Germany was where the digital revolution began 70 years ago. It was the Berlin inventor Konrad Zuse who developed the world’s first functioning computer, the Z3, back in 1941. 
In travel guides, Germans are not particularly renowned for their sense of humour. But if you take the trouble to travel around Germany – and perhaps even learn the language – you’ll soon find that even in the land of poets and thinkers people enjoy a good laugh! 
Overcoming death and living forever: the idea of immortality has fascinated humankind probably since the beginning of civilization. A particularly prominent cultural form of human striving for eternal life is the ancient Egyptian mummies cult. A special exhibition devoted to this subject, entitled ‘Journey Towards Immortality’, has been mounted by Frankfurt’s Archaeological Museum in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum of Florence. 
