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Deborah Cole works from Berlin. AFP correspondent, Berlin-based since '95. Angela Merkel watcher, feature writer, film festival sprinter, city walker. I left my heart on Vinegar Hill. Deborah Cole has over 11700 followers on Twitter.
According to the US department, Jakiw Palij concealed his Nazi past from immigration agents when he moved to the United States in 1949
With no other viable coalition in sight, Germany may be forced to hold new elections that risk being as inconclusive as September’s polls.
Barack Obama was personally informed of mobile phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002.
"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson abandons magic for pole-dancing and cat burglary in Sofia Coppola’s latest movie.
Joachim Gauck has become German president with a majority, marking the first time a former communist east candidate will serve as head of state.
A documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to superstar.
Germany says the worst of a killer bacteria outbreak spread by salad vegetables may be over as EU officials meet for urgent talks on the crisis.
Fears over Japan’s nuclear crisis triggered a poll debacle for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in its German heartland and a Greens triumph.
A warmly applauded Iranian drama emerged on Tuesday as a front-runner at the Berlin film festival, throwing the spotlight on the country’s film-makers
The united Germany remains marred by division 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.
Twenty years after the Berlin Wall tumbled in a peaceful revolution, world leaders will on Monday meet in a transformed Germany.
Angela Merkel was on Monday still on track to win re-election in two weeks’ time after her rival failed to land a knock-out blow in a TV debate.
Angela Merkel’s conservatives licked their wounds on Monday after polls raised doubts about their coalition’s chances of winning a looming election.
The booming narcotics trade via West Africa is a ”shocking” problem that could further destabilise fragile states in the region.
Austrian police say the man who held his daughter prisoner for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had no accomplices and planned his crime too meticulously to have…
Internet dating, speed dating and singles parties are starting to look old hat. In Germany, the public transportation services are becoming matchmakers and the demand has been…
Angela Merkel addressed Parliament for the first time as German Chancellor on Wednesday, faced with an urgent test over a kidnapped German woman in Iraq and the long-term…
