The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for U.S.-based users of Google Maps ...

On February 29, 1984, a small town in East Germany witnessed a train disaster hidden by thick fog. Workers at the station never saw it coming. One moment, silence—then, a deafening crash. This is the ...

Germany was reunified on 1989 under western conditions. The experiences of its eastern half were not valued, creating fertile ...

Matthias Lilienthal will take over running the Berlin playhouse, which has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years.

POLITICO has processed 35 years’ worth of election data to find out why this month’s vote is messier than ever ― and what will happen next.

The process of industrialization, globalization and urbanization—spreading out from urban centers into the countryside—is one ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

Germany's two largest Christian churches have jointly denounced opposition leader Friedrich Merz's plans to pass motions on ...

The buyer of the Saalfelden Hinterlehen estate has now called in the German authorities on suspicion of fraud. This means that he has to explain himself both in Austria and to his neighbors.

Germany has been hit by a string of violent attacks, including a car ramming into a crowd at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in December, killing six people and injuring about 200.