Bernhard Schmid News Today

How can one achieve calm in the long-term in the French suburbs with their social problems, economic misery and ethnic discrimination? The French state has decided to call upon the help of Muslim organisations. By Bernard Schmid

In the 18th district of Paris, home to a large Islamic community, "L'Institut des Cultures d'Islam – Paris" has been founded upon the initiative of city authorities. Its task is to convey the diversity of Islamic culture. Suleman Taufiq visited the institute and interviewed its director Véronique Rieffel

An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity.

Attacks on Muslim establishments are on the increase in France. Most recently, the Grand Mosquée in Paris was daubed with racist slogans. Islamophobia and xenophobia are also featuring more prominently in the public discourse. Bernhard Schmid reports

Our Rights Roundup features titles from France, Greece, Finland, India and the United States–and some statistics from Germany.

Drought exposure in earlier generations in the field improves complementarity between offspring of various grassland species, making them more tolerant to drought in the future.

Various species endure evolutionary changes when a plant community is subjected to drought. An international study involving UZH researchers has now found that this leads to improved drought resilience over time.

When a plant community is exposed to drought, the different species undergo evolutionary changes. An international study with UZH participation now sh....

It all began with the Turkish-German recruitment agreement in 1961. The so-called "Gastarbeiter", the guest or foreign workers who came to work in Germany, were initially intended to do so only for a short time. But for many of the migrant workers it was all to turn out very differently. Vedat Acikgöz tells their story

It may just be the way the nominations fell out this year, but the fact is that the tense relations between France and Algeria have taken the spotlight in the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Hamid Skif describes the films which are causing a political storm