The German economy has shown signs of strain and raised fears across world financial markets that Europe is far from containing its crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged her party to set aside misgivings about the euro and accept integration as a solution to the debt crisis.
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/ 14 November 2011
German police have formally arrested a woman suspected of founding a far-right terror organisation that authorities say murdered nine foreigners.
As their country’s debt crisis situation worsens, Greek politicians have remained deadlocked around who to appoint as their new prime minister.
George Papandreou’s shock announcement that he will put Greece’s bailout to a referendum has threatened to intensify the eurozone crisis.
Europe’s leaders are claiming victory in the eurozone crisis after agreeing to new deals that halve Greek debt.
An apartheid-era foreign affairs official has been implicated in the fraud trial of two Germans with close ties to the country’s ministry of defence.
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/ 19 October 2011
A double-notch downgrade of Spain’s credit rating has piled pressure on Europe’s leaders to make progress on solving the region’s debt crisis.
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/ 14 October 2011
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have drawn up a package to counter debt crisis — but refuse to reveal details.
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/ 13 October 2011
With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates.
You know as a country these days that you are in some kind of financial crisis when Michael Lewis shows up.
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/ 29 September 2011
Having won their last 10 matches without conceding a goal, Bayern Munich are looking invincible, and experts fear the season could become boring.
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/ 29 September 2011
Angela Merkel has won her toughest challenge yet as German chancellor by pushing through changes to a rescue fund for the eurozone debt crisis.
A grim outlook for the US economy from the Federal Reserve and signs of a slowing in China and Germany has sent world stocks tumbling.
Pope Benedict urged the faithful not to leave the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday as he began a four-day visit to Germany.
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/ 20 September 2011
A rising concern among SA investors is the growing tension between the members of the eurozone — many of whom are major trading partners.
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/ 20 September 2011
International lenders told Greece it must shrink its public sector to avoid running out of money within weeks as investors dumped eurozone assets.
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/ 13 September 2011
Unconventional photography and thought-provoking slogans of Germany’s Pirate Party stand well out from the pack of usual regional voting posters.
Germany’s top court will decide on the legality of Europe’s rescue fund in a landmark ruling with major implications for future aid.
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/ 4 September 2011
Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has called for the creation of a "United States of Europe", saying the bloc needed a common government.
The German city of Bonn has introduced a parking meter for sex workers in order to tax those who just work the streets.
Angela Merkel faces the biggest challenge to her leadership with traditionally loyal allies openly criticising her approach to the euro zone crisis.
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed on the need for "concerted action" to spur global growth.
France and Germany unveiled far-reaching plans for closer eurozone integration, but maintained a common euro bond issuance would have to wait.
Germany have ended an 18-year wait for a victory over Brazil and Italy beat Spain in a meeting of the last two world champions in friendlies.
The Berliner Mauerweg follows the Berlin Wall’s 160km route and the accompanying "death strip" that encircled West Berlin during the Cold War.
Germans who got T-shirts bearing right-wing flags at a recent rock festival will soon find the print has given way to a message urging them to repent.
An audit of a German industrial company allegedly shows it paid R300-million to secure the sale of submarines to South Africa, media reports say.
Researchers in Germany have discovered Stone Age cave art including carvings of nude women that may have been used in fertility rites.
David Haye has said he will only shake the hand of Wladimir Klitschko when he visits him in hospital after their eagerly awaited unification bout.
Germany, which has so far stayed out of the Libya conflict, says it is investigating crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Gaddafi’s forces.
New data shows that bean sprouts are the most likely source of the outbreak of E. coli that has killed 30 people so far, Germany said on Friday.