World chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India started the second game of his championship match against Russian challenger Vladimir Kramnik with a definite advantage...

Former Siemens AG chief Heinrich von Pierer will give up his supervisory board seat at Germany’s largest steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp AG.

In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple. He was a teenager in a death camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village,...

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk lamented difficulties facing writers in Turkey as the annual Frankfurt Book Fair opened Tuesday with his homeland as the featured nation, but...

Daimler AG said Tuesday that its North American truck division will drop its Sterling brand and end truck production at two plants in the U.S. and Canada by mid-2010 as...

A group of leading German economic think tanks said Tuesday that Europe’s largest economy is on the “brink of a recession” and have scaled back their...

Germany will provide as much as 500 billion euros ($681 billion) in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system, the country’s biggest government...

German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG is cutting 3,000 jobs and selling its stake in Inotera _ a joint venture with Taiwan’s Nanya Technology Corp. _ to Micron...

Germany and Italy want the European Union to resume talks on a political and economic pact with Russia that were frozen owing to Moscow’s war with Georgia.

German leaders worked Monday to tie up a rescue package for their banking system that officials said could be worth as much as $543 billion _ part of a coordinated...

Germany moved Friday against an outbreak of bird flu close to the Polish border, slaughtering 1,400 ducks and geese on a farm at Markersdorf near the city of Goerlitz.

Angelina Jolie isn’t giving away who she’s backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.

Eco Factor: A mountaineer’s hut in the heart of the Swiss Alps that stuns you with its visual grandeur and captures your attention with its 90% self-sufficient...

A scientist in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt believes he has uncovered tracks from the world’s oldest dinosaur. But the footprints at the center of...

A new film devoted to the violent career of the Red Army Faction has drawn sharp criticism from both the daughter of one of the left-wing German terrorist group’s...

A U.S. soldier has been charged in the gang-related beating death of another soldier at a base in Germany, the military said Wednesday.

A founder member of a left-wing terrorist group turned neo-Nazi went on trial in Germany Wednesday accused of publishing documents on the Internet denying the...

A private Yeti Airlines plane crashed Wednesday while landing in the Mt. Everest region during foggy weather in Nepal, killing 14 tourists from Germany and Switzerland...

An airport official says a Yeti Airlines plane has crashed in Nepal, killing 17 people, including 14 tourists from Germany and Switzerland and two Nepalese crew...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet decided Tuesday to extend Germany’s military mission in Afghanistan for 14 more months.