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Driving licence in Spain

The driving license in Spain (permiso de conducir) is issued by the DGT, with EU-standard vehicle categories and a points system in force since 1 July 2006.

Driving licence in Sweden

The driving license in Sweden, known as körkort, is the national permit to drive motor vehicles, issued after theory and practical tests from age 18.

Driving licence in the United Kingdom

UK driving licence: DVLA-issued document for Great Britain (DVA for Northern Ireland), covering provisional-to-full licensing, A/B/C/D vehicle categories, 10-year renewals, fees, medical rules and post-Brexit exchange and IDP rules.

Driving licence in Turkey

The driving license in Turkey, or sürücü belgesi, is issued by provincial population directorates of the Ministry of Interior, with classes aligned to the EU model since 2016.

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 Bruce Beresford film adapted by Alfred Uhry from his Pulitzer-winning play, starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman; it won four Oscars including Best Picture.

Driving Rain

Driving Rain is Paul McCartney's 2001 studio album, his first of new songs since Flaming Pie (1997), produced by David Kahne in Los Angeles, featuring the title track, Heather, and the post-September 11 song Freedom; it peaked at UK number 46 and US number 26.

Driving under the influence

Driving under the influence (DUI), also called driving while intoxicated, is operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs or above a legal blood alcohol limit.

Driving wheel

A driving wheel, or coupled wheel, is a powered locomotive wheel that receives torque from the pistons or turbine and transmits it to the rail.

Drivn

Drivn is an India-based electric commercial vehicle leasing and financing platform founded in 2025 by Manav Bansal and Alpna Jain and headquartered in Gurugram, which leases electric buses and heavy trucks to fleet operators.

Drivy

Drivy was a Paris-based peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace founded in 2010 by Paulin Dementhon, which served six European countries before being acquired by Getaround for $300 million in April 2019.

Sep 29, 2026

Drizzle (astronomy)

Drizzle is an image-combination algorithm that resamples and combines dithered telescope exposures onto a finer pixel grid, developed for undersampled Hubble cameras and now standard in HST and JWST pipelines.

Drizzlecomb Linea

Drizzlecomb Linea is a 1,500-km-long linea on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered at 7.70°N, 111.70°W, adopted by the IAU in 2003 and named after a Celtic stone row in England.

Drizzt Do'Urden

Drizzt Do'Urden, also called Drizzt Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, is R.A. Salvatore's drow ranger hero of the Forgotten Realms, first appearing in The Crystal Shard (1988); 39 novels through Lolth's Warrior (2023), appearances in Baldur's Gate and Magic: The Gathering.

DRL (Doosan Robotics Language)

DRL (Doosan Robotics Language), also called Doosan Robot Language, is the Python-style scripting language used to program Doosan Robotics collaborative robots; it follows Python syntax but is only a subset.

DRL Coachlines

DRL Coachlines is a family-owned Canadian motor coach company based in Triton, Newfoundland and Labrador, operating the island's only daily bus service between St. John's and Port aux Basques.

DRL-17822

DRL-17822 (CAS 898911-09-6) is an oral, selective cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor from Dr. Reddy's Laboratories for dyslipidemia; it raised HDL-C 51-111% in Phase I, reached Phase II (NCT01388816), and was never approved.

Drmno Coal Mine

Drmno Coal Mine (Површински коп Дрмно) is an open-pit lignite mine in the Kostolac Coal Basin in eastern Serbia, opened in 1983 and supplying the Kostolac power plants.

Dro Fernández

Dro Fernández (Pedro Fernández Sarmiento), Spanish midfielder born 2008 in Nigrán; La Masia product, 2025 UEFA Youth League winner, Barcelona debut September 2025, joined Paris Saint-Germain January 2026 until 2030.

Drochlin

Drochlin, village in gmina Lelów, Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; about 458 inhabitants. Known for an excavated Przeworsk culture Roman-period cemetery (site 1) and a Late Roman settlement; a second Drochlin village lies in Podlaskie.

Oct 22, 2026

Droeba

Droeba (დროება, "The Times") was a Georgian political and literary newspaper published in Tiflis from 1866 to 1885, a foundation of the nineteenth-century Georgian press and closed by the censors.

Sep 19, 2026

Droege family

The Droege family of Düsseldorf owns Droege Group, an advisory and direct-investment firm founded in 1988 by Walter P.J. Droege and Hedda im Brahm-Droege, led by their son Ernest-W. since 2018.

Sep 19, 2026

Droege Group

Droege Group is a family-owned investment and advisory group headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1988 by Walter P. J. Droege and his wife Hedda.

Drogheda

Drogheda (Droichead Átha) is Ireland's largest town, 44,135 people in Census 2022, on the River Boyne spanning Louth and Meath. Founded under Hugh de Lacy (charter 1194), walled by 1334, sacked by Cromwell in 1649, near the 1690 Battle of the Boyne site.

Drohi (2010 film)

Drohi (துரோகி) is a 2010 Tamil action drama directed by Sudha Kongara Prasad. It stars Srikanth and Vishnu Vishal, set in the Royapuram slums of north Chennai.

Oct 3, 2026

Drohkaal (द्रोह काल)

Drohkaal (द्रोह काल), also Droh Kaal or Times of Betrayal, is Govind Nihalani's 1994 Hindi thriller starring Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah about undercover police fighting terrorists; remade as Kuruthipunal, a box office flop but acclaimed.

DROID (robot dataset)

DROID, the Distributed Robot Interaction Dataset, is an open-source dataset of 76,000 robot manipulation demonstrations gathered across 564 scenes and 86 tasks in labs, offices, and homes, released in 2024.

DROID-SLAM

DROID-SLAM is a deep learning visual SLAM system introduced in 2021 by Zachary Teed and Jia Deng of Princeton University, estimating camera trajectory and per-pixel depth from monocular, stereo, or RGB-D video.

Droit du seigneur

Droit du seigneur, also jus primae noctis or droit de cuissage, is the alleged medieval feudal lord's right to a vassal's bride on her wedding night; historians including Alain Boureau conclude it never existed and was a myth built from church continence rules and marriage dues.

Droitwich transmitting station

The Droitwich transmitting station is a BBC radio broadcasting facility at Wychbold, Worcestershire, opened in 1934 and best known for carrying BBC Radio 4 long wave until 2026.