Five years after Berliners voted to expropriate their landlords, the German capital finally has a government willing to do it. On Saturday, Die Linke, the Greens and the SPD presented the 30-page exploratory paper that will underpin their coalition agreement for the next Berlin Senate, and buried among the usual promises sits a plan to socialize, under Article 15 of the German constitution, every apartment a private landlord owns in Berlin above the first 10,000. The compensation for this act of municipal generosity: a hard cap of €16 billion which works out to about €105K per unit, or 58% of book value… and even that cap is conditional on “fiscal sustainability.” The bond market did the rest: Adler Group‘s 10% notes due 2029 plunged 20 points on Monday to a record low around 59 cents on the euro (they dropped as 53 earlier in the session), as creditors scrambled to price in the possibility that 43% of Adler’s yielding Berlin portfolio is about to be bought by the state at a 42% to 48% discount …

The face of a man who died on the Roman frontier in Scotland almost 2,000 years ago has been reconstructed from skeletal remains ahead of a major exhibition. An international team of experts used cutting-edge scientific techniques to determine the man’s genetic make-up and to help paint a picture of his life story. They discovered he was likely to have been in his early 50s when he died at Inveresk, East Lothian, sometime between AD 140-165. He was believed to have been born in southern Britain and had travelled hundreds of miles to the shores of the Firth of Forth. Image: The digital facial reconstruction of the man’s skull. Pic: NMS/PA Image: Pic: NMS/PA Analysis of his skeleton found that during his life he suffered several injuries and was certainly not a soldier at the time of his death as he could not have swung a sword. Experts noted that the man had limited use of his right arm following extensive bone growth around the elbow joint, which was likely caused by septic arthritis. He …

A golfer walks near log sections cut from trees at the East Potomac Golf Links, in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption i J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Trump has announced his plans to renovate the East Potomac Golf Links, a course in Washington D.C. that was already at the center of a testy legal battle. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump called the current course “old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect.” According to the post, renovations will begin Nov. 15, and the course will be closed for approximately 15 months. The area, 2 miles south of the White House, has been at the center of a heated legal battle for months. In February, a D.C. preservation group and two individuals challenged the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Parks Service over the planned renovations, arguing that a “championship-style golf course” would inflate tee-time costs for a golf facility that was originally intended to be “open to all people.” The Department of the …

SHANGHAI, Oct 18 : Alejandro Davidovich Fokina ended Rafael Jodar’s dream run at the Shanghai Masters on Sunday, battling back to beat his fellow Spaniard 1-6 7-6(5) 6-4 and clinch the biggest title of his career. The 25th-seeded Davidovich Fokina is set to climb 13 places to a career-high world number 13 when the rankings are released on Monday. Jodar, playing in his first Masters 1000 final and the youngest Shanghai finalist in tournament history, made a blistering start, broke for a 2-0 lead and again to take the opening set. Davidovich Fokina recovered from a break down in the second set and saved break points in three successive service games before edging a tight tiebreak to force a decider. The momentum swung decisively in Davidovich Fokina’s favour when he broke the 12th-seeded Jodar twice and sealed victory in two hours and 27 minutes. “I have a blank mind,” Davidovich Fokina said. “I don’t know what to say and I don’t know how I feel. Just a huge relief. “After the first set I had …