Berlin – November 02, 2026 -- Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) will examine legal action if RWE concludes a planned LNG supply contract with ADNOC that would include fracking gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta formation.

Hanover – – November 02, 2026 -- Adults in Germany cover about 190 million kilometers per day by bicycle and e-bike, according to a longitudinal mobility study from bicycle insurer and leasing provider Linexo. The total splits into roughly 130 million km by conventional bike and 60 million km by e-bike, about 4,750 times the circumference of the Earth.

BAD HOMBURG – – November 02, 2026 -- Fresenius has secured exclusive rights to up to 37 biosimilar candidates under a development agreement with WuXi Biologics. The company calls it the largest development agreement announced in the biosimilars industry to date. The deal could lift Fresenius' portfolio from 29 marketed and pipeline molecules today to as many as 66 over the next decade, addressing more than €370 billion in originator list-price-based sales.

Cologne – November 01, 2026 -- Regina Ziegler, the German film producer behind more than 500 film and television productions, died on November 1 in Berlin at the age of 82, public broadcaster WDR announced.

Ziegler founded her own production company in 1973

Born in 1944 in Quedlinburg, Ziegler worked as a production manager before launching her company in 1973. Over the following decades it produced titles including "Solo für Klarinette" with Corinna Harfouch and Götz George, "Der Verleger" with Heiner Lauterbach, and "Die große Flatter" with Richy Müller.

Mainz – November 01, 2026 -- Regina Ziegler, who built a catalogue of more than 500 national and international film and television productions over five decades, has died at the age of 82, ZDF announced.

Ziegler founded her own production company in Germany in the early 1970s

Born on March 8, 1944, Ziegler was the first woman in Germany to launch her own production company, in a male-dominated industry. Since 2000 she ran the company jointly with her daughter, Tanja Ziegler.

Munich – November 01, 2026 -- German public broadcaster ARD and its film arm ARD Degeto have announced the death of producer Regina Ziegler, who founded her own production company in 1973 and built it into one of Germany's most significant independent producers over more than five decades.

Frankfurt – November 01, 2026 -- CJ BIO will present its animal nutrition portfolio at EuroTier 2026 in Hanover, Germany, from November 10 to 13, with reduced crude protein (Low-CP) diets as the lead topic at Hall 21, Stand A35.

Osnabrück – October 31, 2026 -- The share of births with one-to-one midwife care during the key phase of labor has doubled from one in four to one in two since Germany's nationwide midwife services contract took effect, according to the statutory health insurers' association GKV-Spitzenverband.

Munich – October 31, 2026 -- The German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) is considering returning its hosting rights for next year's World Championship if the financial risk becomes unmanageable, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared Russian national teams to return to international ice hockey for the 2026/27 season. The ruling overturned an earlier IIHF Council decision to keep Russia out.

SHENZHEN – October 31, 2026 -- SKYWORTH Solar has launched Solavita, a global brand that consolidates its smart microgrid portfolio into four product lines covering residential, commercial, utility and portable applications.