About 2,000 troops from the US led military coalition were engaged in close in combat on March 4, 2002 with small pockets of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the rugged terrain of northeastern Afghanistan as part of an operation called Operation Anaconda. more...

Since the mid-1980s HONDA has been working on the development of humanoid robots for use within the human environment. more...

An educational traffic-film dealing with the problems of road traffic and the elderly. Various representative critical situations are highlighted in which “irrational” behaviour comes into conflict with the surrounding flow of traffic. more...

With the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the Soviet Union achieved an unexpected success in the space-race; it threw the West, and especially the USA, into a veritable crisis. Socialism seemed – at least at the level of science – to have made a significant advance. more...