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Ukraine’s high jump world champion, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, won the World Athletics Indoor Tour competition in Cottbus, Germany.

Huge crowds of protesters have descended on cities in Germany as calls for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gain momentum.

Following a day full of mass protests, tens of thousands of people are again expected to take to Germany's streets on Sunday to rally against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its anti-immigrant stance. Police in Munich are expecting up to 25,000 participants while organizers of a rally in Cologne put the number of estimated demonstrators at some 10,000. Further protests are expected in several German cities, including Cottbus, Dresden and Chemnitz in the east. But the larges

The weekend of protests against right-wing extremism continued in Germany, as tens of thousands took to the streets on Sunday, with the largest protests likely to be in Berlin.

Huge crowds of protesters in Germany once again took to the streets on Sunday to rally against the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its anti-immigrant stance. In Munich, a massive turnout of at least 80,000 people led organizers to call off the event due to overcrowding on Sunday afternoon, according to police. Organizers and police had expected around 25,000 people at the demonstration and were surprised by the sheer size of the crowd. Many who turned up in Munich carried sign