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The article reviews some major recent developments in global complex geometry; the bibliography contains about 100 items. There are almost no proofs but the main ideas are thoroughly explained with many links to the original papers. The main emphasis lies on the birational classification of compact complex Kähler manifolds with non-positive Kodaira dimension, starting with a short introduction to the minimal model theory of Mori for projective manifolds and his main structure theorem for projective threefolds. Then the authors discuss their former results about non-splitting families of rational curves in compact Kähler threefolds and related structure theorems. A basic problem in the classification theory of compact complex manifolds is the moduli problem: describing the possible complex structures on a given topological manifold. The rigidity properties of \(\mathbb P^{n}\) and of special Fano and Moishezon threefolds are discussed and also results about possible complex structures on the sphere \(S^{6}\). The relation between the Kodaira dimension and the fundamental group of a compact Kähler manifold is considered. Finally the paper reviews results about the biregular classification of compact Kähler manifolds with semi-positive Ricci or holomorphic bisectional curvature and about the complex structure of a compact Kähler manifold whose anticanonical bundle carries a metric with semi-positive curvature. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0933.00014].