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BERLIN -- A headline proclaiming 'Huge Fire in the Reichstag' greeted Germans at newsstands Thursday -- and although the story is more than 70 years old, customers are snapping it [...]

BERLIN -- 'We must not be silent' about condemning anti-Semitism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against [...]

KLANDORF, Germany -- Yaron Svoray scrapes caked layers of dirt from a shard of glass, revealing a sunflower at the heart of a Star of David. He carefully turns it, [...]

BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel underlined Germany's support for Israel in comments released Saturday before a three-day visit to the Jewish nation, where she is to address the Knesset. Merkel, who [...]

BERLIN Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79. Mr. Stockhausen, who gained fame through [...]

BAD RODACH, Germany Saws clatter on the workshop floor, where craftsmen stamp out the rounded sides of what will become a red toy pushcar and slice dozens of dragon figures [...]

POZNAN, Poland On a sunny April morning in 1944, 6-year-old Alodia Witaszek was combed and scrubbed, sitting in the children's home that had primed her for membership in Hitler's master [...]

BERLIN Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel 'Das Boot,' has died at age 89, his museum and the office of the governor [...]

BERLIN Workers across Europe hauled away fallen trees and repaired power lines Friday after the deadliest storm to strike the continent in eight years killed at least 47 people and [...]

BERLIN Germany's culture minister and top museums want more transparency in the return of paintings stolen by the Nazis, responding to concerns that the nation's galleries risk losing scores of [...]

LATHEN, Germany A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 25 people the first fatalities on a [...]

BERLIN More than 60 years after the Nazis shut down Germany's only rabbinical school, the first rabbis will be ordained today in a ceremony welcomed by many as confirmation that [...]

DRESDEN, Germany - For many, the restoration of Dresden's domed 18th-century cathedral, wrecked by Allied bombs in World War II, is more than just the return of a cherished landmark: [...]

COLOGNE, Germany - He sailed the Rhine to fish for souls, spoke frankly to Muslims about terrorism, celebrated Mass for a million pilgrims to the accompaniment of African drums and [...]

WIESBADEN, Germany - A U.S. Army captain convicted in the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi was dismissed from the armed forces Friday, but the military court did not impose [...]

FRANKFURT, Germany - A European spacecraft that landed on Saturn's largest moon Titan twisted and spun as it tumbled to the muddy surface, scientists said Tuesday, revealing animated pictures of [...]

DARMSTADT, Germany - New, refined pictures from Saturn's moon Titan released Saturday show a pale orange surface covered by a thin haze of methane and what appears to be a [...]

DARMSTADT, Germany - A European space probe Friday sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon Titan, showing stunning black and white images of what [...]

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Spirit rover lay in critical condition Friday on Mars, coughing up only a few gasps of data, as engineers struggled to diagnose the ailment while preparing [...]

COLOGNE, Germany - Fourteen freed European tourists said Wednesday that they were treated humanely by their Islamic extremist captors in the Sahara, where they survived searing heat and six months [...]

FRANKFURT, Germany - The government began tearing down six more bunkers from Hitler's infamous West Wall on Thursday against the wishes of some German historians and war veterans who want [...]

Move over, Spider-Man. Sorry, Batman. The world's comic book industry has been invaded by samurai warriors Lone Wolf & Cub and super robot AstroBoy, whose fast-moving heroic capers are outselling [...]

FRANKFURT, Germany - German composer Norbert Schultze, whose song 'Lili Marleen' struck a chord with World War II soldiers fighting on fronts from Europe to Asia, has died at age [...]

BERLIN - Already Germany's most popular politician, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer emerged Monday as the big winner in national elections. His Greens party's strongest showing ever saved the governing coalition [...]

STUTTGART, Germany - Tipped by U.S. authorities, German police arrested a Turkish man and his American fianc?for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. military bases in Heidelberg on the anniversary of [...]

KARLSRUHE, Germany - One of the Sept. 11 hijackers boasted that he would kill thousands in an attack on the World Trade Center nearly a year and a half before [...]