German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she was going into the G-20 summit with a mixture of confidence and concern, renewing a call for world leaders to produce firm agreements on market reform.

Barbie can add another dream job to her list _ Germany’s first female head-of-state.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will call a meeting of the European members of the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Berlin later this month to discuss a joint strategy before the April summit in London.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she is leaving “all options open” to stimulate Germany’s flagging economy, but repeated she still does not favor immediate tax changes.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that Germany faces a “year of bad news” in 2009 but insisted her government will do what is necessary to ensure Europe’s biggest economy weathers the financial crisis.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a tough stance against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, condemning his re-election last week as illegitimate and vowing in an interview with The Associated Press that the European Union would seek “all possible...

A text of the joint news conference that German Chancellor Angela Merkel held Wednesday with President Bush:___CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I see that there are quite a number of you who have made the trouble to.

Text of the news conference Saturday with President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Bush’s Texas ranch, as provided by the White House:BUSH: Thank you for coming. The chancellor and I had a series of discussions on important subjects,...

President Bush and his wife, Laura, will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a two-day visit at the president’s Texas ranch on Nov. 9-10, the White House said.Press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday the German leader will be at the Crawford,...