From Yahoo! News : BRUSSELS – Representatives of six world powers met in Brussels on Friday to discuss possible measures against Tehran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities. The European Union said senior diplomats from the U.N. Security Council 's five permanent members plus Germany took part in the talks. President Barack Obama said Thursday the six nations will develop a package...
Gordon Brown abandons support for Blair as leaders of the EU's dominant centre-right bloc make clear they will only support a member of their own grouping Tony Blair tonight bowed out of the race to become the first president of the European Council when it became clear that centre-right leaders, who dominate the EU, are determined that the post should go to their group. Gordon Brown abandoned his...
Opposing groups try to find consensus on who should take presidential and foreign minister roles ahead of Brussels summit The leaders of Europe's main political tribes conferred in Brussels this afternoon in an attempt to hammer out a last-minute consensus on who should be the top two people running the EU's new Lisbon regime ahead of a crucial Brussels summit. While Christian democratic government...
Berlin - Growing exports and government spending will help to drive Germany along a recovery path next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday. Europe's biggest economy will grow by about 1.5 per cent in 2...
Lightning seems to strike twice in many ways for Usain Bolt. Breaking the 100m world record at a major championship, the Olympics in Beijing, China, in 2008, and doing the same a year later in 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Check...
Berlin - Many women comb their hair when it's wet and end up with a wad of hair in their comb and a hurting scalp. It's easier to comb hair when it's dry, said Stefanie Koehn, president of an association of hair stylists in Germany. That's because we...
Drawing from a recent event that he attended that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, the libertarian economics professor opines about how the world's liberals excuse the horrors of communism and socialism : "Alan Kors, University of Pennsylvania history professor, gave the evening's keynote address. What he revealed about the dereliction and character weakness of academics,...
Germany and France are to strike a deal on who they want for the coveted post of first permanent European council president, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced today, sparking anger in other European capitals over a feared Franco-German stitch-up. With 27 EU leaders going into a special summit tomorrow increasingly at odds over the twin posts of European Council president and EU foreign minister,...
Berlin - Germany plans to team up with France in the final choice of a leadership for the reformed European Union (EU), German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a cabinet meeting near Berlin Wednesday. Though she did not mention any names, she said...
Berlin - Germany's government skipped making any decision Wednesday on whether to appoint a controversial refugee leader, Erika Steinbach, 66, to the board of a planned Berlin museum. Poland objects fiercely to Steinbach, who is a legislator with Cha...
While politicians are busy participating in the numerous celebrations, exhibitions and extravaganzas in and around Berlin this year, they carefully avoid a question that has to be asked after two decades of a unified Germany, and that is the question of where we are. Unifying a country after decades of separation with entirely different development patterns on both sides is not a question of formal...
Berlin - Germany is not willing to keep troops indefinitely in Afghanistan and will step up pressure on Kabul to halt corruption, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said after a cabinet meeting Wednesday. He said western nations would be draft...
Berlin - Germany's parliament is to be asked soon to roll over authorization for the German military to operate abroad in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and off the coast of Lebanon, Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet decided Wednesday. Germany has ...
the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement, said merkel's cabinet agreed wednesday to extend the country's nato-led mission to afghanistan for another 12 to 18 months. BERLIN (AP) _ A source close to Chancellor Angela Merkel's government says Germany will extend its mission to Afghanistan for another year. The decision requires parliamentary approval.
Air Berlin, Germany's second biggest airline after Lufthansa, on Tuesday reported that its net profit more than doubled in the third quarter of this year on a 12-month comparison. The company posted a net profit of 95.2 million euros (141.4 million dollars) compared to 45.1 million euros in the third quarter last year. "Despite the remaining risks with respect to the economic environment and...
Mercedes-Benz’s fashion activities in more than 20 countries have gained a new face. Julia Stegner, an internationally acclaimed top model will make her debut as the fashion brand-ambassador at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Autumn/Winter 2009, which will run from January 28 to February 1 2009 at Bebelplatz, in the center of Berlin. At a current photo shoot for the new key visual, Julia Stegner
A WWII-set story as seen through the eyes of Bruno (Butterfield), whose Nazi-Officer father (Thewlis) has just been made the commandant of a concentration camp outside Berlin. Bruno’s eventual friendship with Shmuel.
Seat is commemorating a series of remarkable European awards for its all-new Ibiza super mini after the panel of judges in both Germany and the Netherlands designated it top of its class. Earlier this week executives from the Barcelona-based car maker flew to Berlin to gather a prominent ‘Golden Steering Wheel’ awarded by leading German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, one of Europe’s largest-selling names.