Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel has reported a peak of 72,120 new coronavirus infections in one day, figures from the Ministry of Health showed on Wednesday. By comparison, health authorities in Germany reported 112,323 new infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) disease control body within one day. Germany has about nine times as many…

Paris (dpa) – French actor Gaspard Ulliel has died at the age of 37 after a skiing accident, the French news agency AFP reported on Wednesday, citing his management and family. Several media reports said the accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the Savoie area. Ulliel was taken to a hospital in Grenoble in the…

Athens (dpa) – Greece raised 3 billion euros (3.4 billion dollars) in fresh money on Wednesday with a 10-year government bond. The country achieved «a satisfactory yield considering the prevailing international conditions,» Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said. According to the finance minister, the yield was 1.8 per cent, far lower than a similar bond in…