The wreck of the german warship has been located off the falkland islands, the falklands maritime heritage trust announced on thursday. The flagship of the east asia squadron of the imperial navy was found 98 nautical miles southeast of stanley at a depth of 1610 meters by underwater robots.

"The moment of discovery was extraordinary. We often chase shadows on the seabed, but when the "scharnhorst" when the first ship appeared, there was no doubt that it was one of the german ships," said expedition leader mensun bound. "We sent down an underwater robot to reconnoiter and almost immediately we were in a war trummer field. Plotzlich she emerged from the darkness, with crude cannons pointing in all directions."

After the death of 36 turkish soldiers in syria, turkey launched massive retaliatory attacks in the neighboring country. According to its own statements, turkey shot down two syrian fighter jets that had attacked turkish jets during the "operation spring shield".

Turkey also destroyed a drone, eight helicopters and more than 100 tanks belonging to the government of president basar al-assad, turkish defense minister hulusi akar said on sunday. This also increased the danger of a direct confrontation between turkey and assad’s ally russia.

Federal minister of the interior horst seehofer (CSU) has the compatibility of the duties of civil servants and party membership examined.

"The vetting applies in general, to right-wing and left-wing radicals alike, regardless of the latest afd decision by the federal office for the protection of the constitution," seehofer (CSU) told the newspapers of the funke media group. The interior minister received praise for this from the afd party. The civil service association dbb pointed out that the legal situation was already clear.

In view of the "overreaction of the police," the minister sees erdogan in particular as having a duty to do so. "Minister-president erdogan has a special responsibility to calm the situation. He must be aware of this responsibility," said westerwelle.

On friday evening, a large number of people again gathered peacefully on taksim square in istanbul.

The pyeongchang silver medal field hockey team loses two of its long-time members in one fell swoop and is finally history in its olympic lineup.

Captain marcel goc and goalie patrick reimer announced their retirement from the national team one and a half months after the biggest success in german ice hockey history, following star defenseman christian ehrhoff, who had even announced his career end in march. National coach marco sturm will thus be at the upcoming world championship (4.-20. May) forced to change and rebuild.

Heinz straub, a master carpenter from stralsbach, sometimes thinks long and hard before he says anything at all. We are standing in stralsbach's mountain church st. Oswald and look at the new cross that was placed there a few weeks ago in the church annex on the side of the altar and high above it in front of a dark wooden wall. Straub made the crucifix.

"It was a long story, says the 66-year-old. When asked about this story, heinz straub was silent at first. Finally he decides to answer the question. "In 1994, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the stralsbach parish, there was the idea for the first time to install a cross in the modern church extension. Now it is done. We have the cross."

Immediately before german president frank-walter steinmeier's state visit to greece, athens' financial claims for german crimes and material damage in the second world war are being discussed again.

The greek president prokopis pavlopoulos was allowed to emphasize the well-known demand for reparation payments in the three-digit billion range at his meeting with steinmeier, it was said in athens. The meeting will also be about the repayment of a forced loan, which is estimated at around ten billion euros.