Erik Kirschbaum

Africa's final remaining contenders in the World Cub will tackle Germany and France on Monday.

Germany's draw with Ghana has exposed the team's lack of a charismatic player who will take charge.

Nazi war criminal, Klaas Carel Faber, who escaped from a Dutch jail and lived as a fugitive in Germany for 60 years has died at the age of 90.

Women will always need access to termination services. They should be safe and accessible, writes <b>Eddie Mhlanga</b>.

Angela Merkel has won her toughest challenge yet as German chancellor by pushing through changes to a rescue fund for the eurozone debt crisis.

Angela Merkel faces the biggest challenge to her leadership with traditionally loyal allies openly criticising her approach to the euro zone crisis.

The Berliner Mauerweg follows the Berlin Wall's 160km route and the accompanying "death strip" that encircled West Berlin during the Cold War.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Greece's international bail-out must be accelerated for the sake of the entire eurozone.

European leaders sent out conflicting signals at the weekend over aid to Greece, with Angela Merkel urging Athens to solve its debt problems alone.

Rock stars from the 1960s and 1970s have been hitting Germany's lucrative concert circuit but many of the grandpa-generation acts have disappointed fans and provoked withering reviews in Europe's biggest music market. The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Genesis, the Police and Black Sabbath are among the acts appearing this summer in arenas between the Black Forest and the Baltic.

Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police on Wednesday, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a summit of major powers in northern Germany. Police used water cannons to push back demonstrators. Delegates from several Group of Eight (G8) countries said the protests were limiting their ability to move around at the summit venue.

Covering one of the world's top film festivals may seem like an enviable assignment, filled with leisurely afternoons spent in plush cinemas and evenings at cocktail parties rubbing elbows with the stars. True, it's hardly the world's worst job -- but no one believes a word when you explain it's actually 11 days of hard work.