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The airlines restarting flights to and from Germany after CORONAVIRUS As Germany prepares to allow travel to more countries, we looked at what flights are available or coming up. Air traffic across the world came to a near-standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic. But gradually and slowly, countries are opening up to tourists again, and airlines are planning to increase their flight operations. From  June 15th,  the warning against tourist travel put in place by the German government to stall the spread of coronavirus will be lifted for EU countries. However, the warning is expected to stay in place for countries outside the EU until  August 31st. READ ALSO: These are the countries where Germany is planning to lift the travel warning Here's a look at some of the airlines slowly getting their timetables back on track. Lufthansa and subsidiaries Lufthansa  restarted many flights from  early June , with a focus on connect...

CORONAVIRUS in SPAIN – latest Health Ministry figures The latest  official figures * released by the Spanish  Health Ministry  on  Saturday 6 June  show a total of  27,135  deaths from  Coronavirus  in Spain – an increase of  1  in the past  24 hours . The figures also state there have been  67  deaths in the past  7 days . Friday’ s figures had shown an increase of  1  death in  24 hours  and  52  deaths over  7 days .  Thursday  had shown an increase of  5  deaths in  24 hours , and  56  deaths over  7 days . The current peak of recorded deaths related to  Coronavirus  in a 24-hour period in Spain was on  2 April , when  950  deaths were registered. The official figure released by the Health Ministry on  Saturday 6 June  for the total number of people who have tested...

Are Duolingo’s Arabic lessons useful for learners? DUBAI: Duolingo, an online language-learning portal with over 300 million users, recently added Arabic to its course offerings. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, launched the app along with Severin Hacker with the aim of creating a free language-learning platform in 2012. But with Arabic categorized as one of the “super hard” languages by the US Foreign Service Institute due to its complex grammar, varied dialects and rich lexicon, are the app’s “game-like lessons” enough - or even useful - for a learner? Hope Wilson, a learning scientist at Duolingo, wrote in an essay on the official website on June 26, 2019, that just because a language is difficult to learn doesn’t make it “un-learnable,” “After all, babies can learn to speak any language on earth - and so can adults, given enough time and effort,” he said. In theory, Wilson sounds right. But as Muhamed Al-Khalil, director ...