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German Chancellor Angela Merkel 's conservatives and their junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats , are on course to win enough votes to form a narrow majority, a poll showed on Wednesday, before an election on September 22. Together with the FDP, Merkel's conservatives would take 46 percent of the vote in the parliamentary election, the ... (more)

US President Barack Obama talks to children at the presidential residence Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

A former enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger is expected to face more tough cross-examination by Bulger's lawyers when he returns to the witness stand for a third day.

It was a quiet part of the Father's Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion.

Now a veteran of the international summit scene, President Barack Obama wielded significant influence over the agenda at this week's Group of Eight meetings, but had only modest success in achieving the results he sought.

The German government, which rejected Obama's request five years ago, invited the president this year to speak at the 18th Century triumphal arch that has become a symbol of Berlin's re-unification since the divisions of the Cold War.

Beate Zschaepe, alleged member of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground, NSU, enters a court room in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Senior members of the German government have warned EU member states that German automakers could scale back or scrap production plans in their countries unless they support weakened carbon emissions rules, according to diplomatic sources.

Bid to change outdated international tax rules which allow companies to locate profits in low-tax countries to avoid paying tax on them in the countries where they were earnt George Osborne said he is hopeful of achieving "real concrete progress" at the G8 summit on tightening international tax rules.

Leaders of the world's most powerful countries feasted on local Northern Irish delicacies at the G8 summit in Lough Erne yesterday evening.

Desiree Hartsock is looking for love on ABC's " The Bachelorette 2013." The preview shown at the end of the June 17 episode indicates that next everybody heads to Germany for new adventures.

A phone call to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras from German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday appears to have triggered a spurt of bilateral diplomacy, with reports emerging on Monday that Samaras will have talks with Merkel in Berlin on July 3 on the sidelines of a European forum on unemployment while her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is ... (more)

It was 50 years ago, an old man's memory. But Berliners haven't forgotten the American president's visit in 1963, nor the speech that offered so much hope.

"Der Ring des Nibelungen," which begins with "Das Rheingold" on Monday, is part of the opera house's yearlong celebration of the bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Union members at online retailer Amazon's German operations have begun a two-day strike to ratchet up pressure on the company over pay demands.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was shocked at Turkey's tough response to anti-government protests but she stopped short of demanding that the European Union call off accession talks with the candidate country.

After the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland, President Obama travels to Germany to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

BONN, Germany - From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.

Europe is mired in debt and recession. Financial markets have hit violent ups and downs on fears that U.S. stimulus efforts may soon be scaled back.

U.S. President Barack Obama will seek the help on Monday of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's most powerful ally, to bring Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table and end a two-year civil war.