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The Dark Years - an exhibition in Berlin of art during the years of the Second World War

“The Black Rooms” is a tense painting by Karl Hofer from 1943 and it sets the tone of a new exhibition in Berlin which traces art under the National

Economy

German business morale rises despite global uncertainty

German business morale has risen to its highest level for nearly 18 months, despite the slowdown in China, the Volkswagen scandal and more recently

Sport

Daniel-Andre Tande clinches maiden World Cup win in Germany

Norway’s Daniel-Andre Tande produced a stunning performance to clinch the first individual ski jumping event of the new World Cup season in

Sport

Germany ski jumping team take World Cup victory for 2nd year

Germany’s male ski jumping team edged Slovenia to win the season’s first World Cup. The winning team – of Andreas Wellinger, Andreas Wank, Richard

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Business Series

Volkswagen to cut capital spending and focus on future technologies

Volkswagen says it is to reduce capital spending to no more than 12 billion euros next year as it struggles with the enormous cost of its emissions

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Gender bending Japanese makeup ad wins top EPICA prize

Founded in 1987, EPICA is the only creative ad prize awarded by journalists working for marketing and communications magazines around the world

Economy

Investors play safe amid security concerns

European investors are said to have been returning to safer assets as markets focus on international security issues in the wake of the Paris

Germany

International friendly called off over bomb fears

Spectators have been evacuated from a football stadium in Germany which had planned to host an international friendly on Tuesday evening. The fixture

France

Football: Germany - Holland match called off in Hanover. Reports of explosives found in an ambulance

Germany

Germany-Netherlands friendly called off due to "security threat"

A friendly between the German and Dutch national football teams has been cancelled, reportedly because of a bomb threat. The stadium in the city of

Germany

Paris: police release five people arrested in Germany

Five people arrested in Germany in connection with last Friday’s attacks in Paris have been released. The arrests were made on Tuesday in the small

Germany

Germany: remains of at least 8 babies found in house

Police in Germany say the bodies of at least eight babies have been found in a house in a town close to the Czech border. The alarm was raised in the

Germany

German police find seven dead babies in apartment

The bodies of seven dead babies have been found in an apartment in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said, adding that they wanted to

Germany

Schäuble's 'refugee avalanche' remark whips up storm in Germany

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has caused a political storm by his comments on the migrant crisis. In an apparent swipe at his boss Angela

My Europe Series

Is Europe doomed because of Merkel's domestic troubles?

Europe’s “powerfrau”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has wielded her country’s power to tackle a devastating financial crisis, a refugee crisis and

France

German spooks under scrutiny over claims French Foreign Minister Fabius was spied on

“Spying among friends is not at all acceptable,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel when allegations emerged in 2013 that the United States had

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Santa makes an appearance in Germany

Santa Claus arrives at a post office in the small German town of Himmelpfort. Children from all over the world are encouraged to send their Christmas

World News

November 11: Lest We Forget

World

Winning back the trust of athletes and spectators after the doping revelations

The damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) could draw in other Russian sports which used the same laboratory which now stands

Germany

Remembering a giant of German politics....

Floral tributes as well as personal accolades have been paid to the former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who has died at the age of 96. He