BERLIN: German authorities conducted raids across the country Wednesday, seizing explosives and arresting four people accused of founding a right-wing...
BERLIN: German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Tin Drum," an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died Monday at the age of 87, his...
BERLIN: Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school, Germany's top court said in a ruling that overturns an...
BERLIN: Germany’s parliament approved an extension of Greece’s bailout Friday but a record number of dissenters from Angela Merkel’s conservatives underscored...
BERLIN: Kiev, Moscow, Munich, Washington, Ottawa, Minsk and Brussels – all in a week’s work for Angela Merkel, whose tireless efforts to broker peace in...
MUNICH: Germany's Angela Merkel warned on Saturday that sending arms to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists would not solve the crisis there,...
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned a series of anti-Muslim demonstrations centred on the eastern city of Dresden, saying via an aide on Friday that...
BERLIN: With East Germany in the limelight of celebrations of 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, people who spent the Cold War in the capitalist...
BERLIN: Syria's neighbors are approaching "host-country fatigue" because of huge demand from refugees for housing, schools, jobs and healthcare and scant...
KIEV/BERLIN: Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels Monday of hitting a refugee convoy of buses with rocket fire near the eastern city of Luhansk, killing people...
BERLIN: The German government wants a quick and clear explanation from Washington for U.S. intelligence's apparent contact with a German man arrested last...
BERLIN/KIEV: Germany's Angela Merkel warned Moscow ahead of talks on Ukraine on Wednesday that economic sanctions remained an option unless it backed peace...
BERLIN: David Bowie's intensely productive Berlin period - when he made the iconic albums "Heroes" and "Low", launched Iggy Pop's solo career and kicked a...
BERLIN: President Xi Jinping said on Friday China would not take sides with the West or Russia over Ukraine, disappointing any hopes Beijing might add its...
BERLIN: Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave – who has conjured up so much horror, lust and murder as well as haunting love songs in three decades fronting...
BERLIN: He has rippling muscles, a cloak and the standard-issue briefs, but "Superhobo" is not your average comic-book hero: his torn bodysuit, shaggy beard...
BERLIN: Germany’s center-left Social Democrats Party dug in their heels Monday over the introduction of a minimum wage ahead of a second round of exploratory...
BERLIN: Conservative allies of Germany's Angela Merkel said on Wednesday they might agree to raise taxes to help lure the defeated centre-left Social...
BERLIN: Germany's Angela Merkel began trying to persuade her centre-left rivals to keep her in power on Monday after her conservatives notched up their best...
BERLIN: Germany sought on Wednesday to make it easier for skilled workers from outside the European Union to take a job in the country, trying to alleviate...
BERLIN: Germany's Roman Catholic Church said on Thursday it had decided to permit certain types of "morning-after pill" for women who have been raped, after...
BERLIN: Just past midnight behind a Berlin supermarket, two youngsters with torches strapped to their woollen hats sift through rubbish bins for food that is...
BERLIN: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday he saw U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden's offer this weekend of bilateral dialogue between...
BERLIN: If Angela Merkel’s conservatives draw any lesson from the latest election setback in Lower Saxony state for her bid for a third term as...
BERLIN: Until recently, German officials tended to downplay divisions with Britain when pressed about its semi-detached stance on Europe. Not anymore. Now...