Bremen – September 07, 2026 -- Europcar has relocated its Bremen van-and-truck station from the Strom industrial area to the more accessible Neustadt district, adding passenger cars to the lineup at the same address.

Starting immediately, private and business customers can rent vans, trucks and now cars at the new site at Neuenlander Strasse 83. The location replaces the previous station at Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse 45.

One address now covers cars, vans and trucks

"With the new location, we're combining good accessibility with a significantly broader offering," said Thorsten Buschmann, station manager for Europcar's Bremen Neuenlander Strasse site. He added that customers can now find everything from cars to vans and trucks at a single address, with personal advice available seven days a week.

Munich -- German broadcaster ARD is marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with three new productions: a primetime documentary, a special broadcast, and an investigative podcast series.

A 90-minute documentary revisits New York's last carefree summer before the attacks

"SEPTEMBER," directed by Johan von Mirbach and produced by WDR, contrasts the everyday lives of New Yorkers during the summer of 2001 -- shaped by Fashion Week and the US Open -- with the parallel preparations of the 19 hijackers. The film combines personal testimonies with previously unpublished archive footage and interviews with voices from politics, media, and security agencies. It is streaming now on ARD Mediathek and airs on Das Erste on September 11 at 8:15 p.m.

Hamburg – September 7, 2026 -- Casio Computer Co., Ltd. unveiled the European premiere of its digital sound source "Akiko's Piano" at the Martha Argerich Festival 2026, held in Hamburg, Germany, from June 20 to 30, 2026.

The original piano survived the Hiroshima bombing

The upright piano at the center of the project was built in 1926 and damaged in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Restored in 2005, it has since been played by musicians including Martha Argerich and has carried a message of peace through its sound.

Casio recorded all 88 keys to preserve the instrument digitally

To carry the piano's historic tone into the future, Casio's European subsidiary, CASIO Europe GmbH, led a project that meticulously recorded the sound of each of the piano's 88 keys and rebuilt it as a digital sound source.

San Antonio – September 07, 2026 -- Operation Homefront has opened nominations for its 19th annual Military Child of the Year Award, with submissions accepted through December 1, 2026, for teens who will each receive $10,000, a laptop, and additional gifts if selected.

Seven Winners Represent Every Branch of the Military

The award recognizes one recipient from each of seven branches — Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and National Guard. Eligible nominees must be between 13 and 18 years old and legal dependents of a service member or military retiree, demonstrating excellence in academics, civic leadership, volunteerism, athletics, or the arts.

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands – September 07, 2026 -- KuCoin Web3 Wallet has upgraded its trading infrastructure, combining intent-based swaps and limit orders into a single self-custodial interface, the company announced.

The update integrates with UniswapX, PancakeSwapX and 1inch, letting users trade supported crypto assets and tokenized real-world assets directly within the wallet instead of switching between separate apps.

Intent-based swaps let solvers compete to fill orders

Through UniswapX and PancakeSwapX, eligible swaps can use intent-based execution: users state the outcome they want, and third-party fillers or solvers compete to execute the trade. Depending on the asset, network and available route, this can offer broader liquidity access, competitive quotes, gas-abstracted execution and protection against MEV attacks such as front-running and sandwich attacks.

Berlin – September 07, 2026 -- Acer has revealed the Acer SFF RTX Spark, a compact desktop design built to run advanced AI agents directly on a user's machine rather than in the cloud. The company showed off the design at its next@Acer global press conference during IFA 2026 on September 2.

The desktop packs supercomputer-level power into a small-form-factor case.

Powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, the machine is built to deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI compute alongside up to 128 GB of high-speed unified memory. Under the hood, it can include up to a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU paired with up to a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU.

Leipzig – September 07, 2026 -- Zoo Leipzig has opened Feuerland, a new coastal and marine habitat that recreates the Pacific coast of South America, giving visitors underwater views of seals and Humboldt penguins. The attraction officially opened on September 1, 2026.

A 100-meter tunnel puts visitors face-to-face with marine life

The centerpiece is a swimming pool holding more than five million liters of water, through which a tunnel longer than 100 meters runs, offering 360-degree views of the animals. A wave system keeps the water in motion, while separate beach areas give the animals space to rest away from public view.

Zoo director says animal welfare shaped every design choice

Zoo director Prof. Jörg Junhold said the design focused on both animal needs and new viewing angles for visitors, and he led guests into Feuerland to live music by the band Keimzeit.

Munich – September 07, 2026 -- Owners of older cars running on the R134a refrigerant could soon face pricier and harder-to-schedule air conditioning maintenance, according to Germany's ADAC motoring club. Tighter EU rules are further restricting the use of R134a, while no widely available, legally approved alternative exists yet for the existing vehicle fleet.

New cars have banned R134a since 2017

Munich – September 07, 2026 -- Huawei gave an early preview of its next-generation ambulatory blood pressure watch, the HUAWEI WATCH D3, at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, ahead of its official unveiling at the Huawei Innovative Product Launch on September 2.

Huawei's wrist blood pressure tech dates back to 2021.

The company entered the sports and health sector in 2014, gradually adding heart rate monitoring, SpO2 tracking and ECG recording before launching the HUAWEI WATCH D in 2021 -- its first wrist-worn ambulatory blood pressure monitor, certified as a medical device in China and the European Union. The HUAWEI WATCH D2 followed in 2024 with 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Cologne – September 07, 2026 -- German telecom provider congstar and the Gaming Ohne Grenzen initiative handed out the fourth annual Gaming ohne Grenzen Award at gamescom on August 26, expanding the ceremony to nine categories for the first time.

Three new prizes -- the Get Together Award, Best Feature, and Best Mobile Game -- joined the lineup this year, reflecting the growing range of accessibility tools built into modern games. Host Stefanie Langer led the ceremony at the Jugendforum NRW booth, with winners selected by a jury of gaming, inclusion, e-sports, and education experts, plus one community-voted prize.

Tiny Bookshop wins both the National and Community Choice awards

The relaxed bookstore simulation Tiny Bookshop took the National category for its point-and-click controls and lack of time pressure, then repeated the win in the Community Choice Award, edging out Forza Horizon 6 and Rhythm Doctor in the public vote.