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Young people in Germany back Angela Merkel and lean green

A poll of the under-18s gave Angela Merkel a lead, with 28% of the vote. The greens would poll 17% amongst younger voters, but in some areas, the extreme right would also do well in some parts of the country.

World

German elections: the challenges ahead

What challenges does Germany face as it prepares to elect its new leaders?

Germany

Merkel targeted by nationalist right on German campaign trail

The German chancellor runs the gauntlet of jeering opponents ahead of next Sunday's elections.

Germany

Angela Merkel opens Frankfurt Motor Show

Merkel opens Frankfurt Motor Show with call for action.

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Brazil

1977 hijacked plane to be restored in Germany

A German plane notorious for being hijacked in 1977 is being dismantled in Brazil in preparation for it's journey home.

Germany

German Election 360°: The digital dilemma

*This is one of nine episodes we are publishing ahead of the German elections.

Eco-Innovation

Bugatti breaks world speed record

All it takes is 42 seconds.

Germany

German Election 360° in Gelsenkirchen

This is the sixth of nine episodes we are going to publish ahead of the German federal elections on 24 September.

Germany

Air Berlin cancels 100 flights after pilots call in sick

Germany

Martin Schulz: ‘Europe must not be scared of Turkey’

Germany

German Election 360° - can a new government do more to encourage renewable energy?

Green energy is creating jobs in rural areas, but voters say the government should do more to help

Germany

German Elections 360: Voters hoping for change in Bremen

Inequality is one of the issues dividing voters in one Germany's poorest states

Germany

Berlin's Turkish community frustrated with Ankara's fading EU bid

Some felt stabbed in the back when Social Democrat Martin Schulz said that if he became Germany's next chancellor, he would "fight" to halt Turkey's formal EU accession talks, which started in 2005.

Germany

Merkel and Schulz go head-to-head on TV

Merkel and Schulz clash over migrant crisis in election TV debate

Germany

British world war two bomb safely defused in Frankfurt

Some 60,000 people had to be evacuated from the area in the biggest operation of its kind since the war

Germany

Thousands evacuated in Frankfurt ahead of WWII bomb disposal

In Germany's biggest evacuation since the second World War, thousands of residents in Frankfurt were forced to leave their homes this weekend as the authorities prepare to dispose of a World War II-era bomb.

Germany

Frankfurt begins evacuation of city centre as WWII bomb is prepared to be defused

A 1.5 kilometre-wide exclusion zone is being evacuated in central Frankfurt as bomb disposal prepares to defuse a 1.4-ton WWII blockbuster

Turkey

Merkel: Germany 'must react decisively' to detentions in Turkey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government may rethink its ties with Turkey after two more German nationals were detained there on what it suspects are political charges.

Germany

German border town issues iodine tablets over fears about Belgian nuclear reactor

An ageing Belgian nuclear plant near the German border has led authorities in Aachen to issue iodine tablets.

Germany

German Election 360°: Germany and gentrification

My name is Pamela, I am 43 years old, I have been living Berlin and I am a night club manager for over 20 years now.