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46 percent do not like the plan of the german soccer league (dfl) to play the nine remaining games of the season in stadiums without spectators as soon as possible. This was the result of a survey conducted by the opinion research institute yougov on behalf of the deutsche presse-agentur. 34 percent of respondents, on the other hand, were in favor of ghost games.

There is even greater opposition to the provision of around 20.000 corona tests for those involved in the ghost games. 58 percent disapprove, only 22 percent approve of the planned mabnahme. The DFL had recently emphasized on several occasions that the regular tests of professional soccer players did not result in a shortage for high-risk groups or other groups in society. According to several laboratories, the existing test capacities were not exhausted anyway. If something changed in this situation, the football was withdrawn, it was assured.

Thanks to savings, however, oracle succeeded in increasing its profit by 8 percent to 2.1 billion dollars compared to the same period of the previous year, as the californian company announced on wednesday at its headquarters in redwood shores. The company thus performed better than analysts had expected.

Oracle has been struggling with poor hardware sales for some time, this time the drop was 14 percent. The group had taken over the server specialist sun microsystems. Oracle makes database software from home. Sales of new software licenses and subscriptions to cloud computing services increased by 5 percent.

US actor mahershala ali (44) has just been nominated for an oscar for his role in the racist drama "green book – a special friendship.

In real life, the african-american has faced discrimination himself – not because of the color of his skin, but because of his religion. "The government blocked us from buying a house (in los angeles) because we are muslims and they had to vet us first," ali told the german press agency. "We wanted to buy a rental house. The bank had to report to national security or some such agency that muslims were buying a certain property. It had to be approved first."

The event in las vegas marks the start of a trio of international trade shows: the mobile world trade show in barcelona at the end of february, followed at the beginning of march by cebit with its focus on digital technology in the enterprise.

2012 could be the year of mobile devices with new fast processors. "The more users ask for high-resolution content, the more important high processor performance becomes on mobile devices," says holger schmidt from taiwanese manufacturer asus, referring to videos and games. Quad-core processors make smartphones and tablet computers faster by processing user instructions in parallel in four computing cores.

Director hubertus knabe loses his post in the affair of sexual harassment of women at the stasi victims memorial in berlin-hohenschonhausen. Knabe is duly informed, at the same time he is released from work for the time being.

This was announced by the berlin senate cultural administration. "The foundation council has no confidence that dr. Knabe will initiate the urgently needed cultural change at the foundation, let alone be able to credibly represent such a change," was the reason given in a press release issued by the council. He had passed the resolution unanimously. Knabe could not initially be reached for comment. On monday he had said: "if there is criticism, it should be put on the table"."Knabe has been director of the memorial since 2001.

Many teams would probably consider the third place in the handball district upper league a success. Not so TSV rodelsee, which achieved this ranking last season. "You have to say that last year’s third-place finish was more of a letdown for us," says TSV coach radovan suchy, not wanting to hide the fact that the former third-division team’s performance didn’t necessarily make for a pat on the back.

For suchy, however, the course of the past season was not entirely unexpected. After TSV had waived its right to promotion in the 2017/18 season as champions of the upper district league, it was foreseeable that it would be difficult in terms of motivation. But there was no alternative to the waiver at the time, because the players would have been too rough in the landesliga, as the coach explains. So the rodelsee team once again competed only at the highest district level – and, in suchy’s opinion, did not make full use of their potential. "We had more potential, but we clearly lost the decisive games, so that it was not enough for more than third place," says the coach.