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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 9:49 am ET
Frankfurt - A North Korean junior national team on Monday visited the headquarters of the German Football Federation (DFB) and the nation's Olympic Committee (DOSB). The visits to the Frankfurt offices was part of a two-week visit to Germany of the u...
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UPI - Mon Nov 9, 12:29 pm ET
BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of former Communist countries Monday retraced the steps East Germans took to rush to West Berlin 20 years ago.
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CBS News - Mon Nov 9, 11:48 am ET
On Anniversary of Wall's Demise, German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thanks Former Soviet Leader for his Role in Historic Moment
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 8:43 am ET
General Motors chief executive Fritz Henderson flew to Germany on Monday to discuss the future of GM's Opel unit, a spokesman for the German automaker said.
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USA Today - Mon Nov 9, 2:17 pm ET
With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 9:10 am ET
A Russian-born German man who has admitted killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a frenzied court knife attack is to learn his fate on Wednesday in a case that has sparked outrage in the Muslim world.
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CBS4 Miami - Tue Nov 3, 1:44 pm ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is giving Congress a vivid picture of the life she led as a child in a subjugated East Germany, saying she is thrilled to speak directly to American political leaders. Monday marks 20 years since the Berlin Wall was pulled down, leading to the reunification of Germany and Merkel says her speech to Congress was meant to thank American for her support "throughout ...
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UPI - Mon Nov 9, 8:18 am ET
BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Berlin.
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International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 1:18 pm ET
It was, and largely remains, a taboo to suggest that West Germany had anything to learn from the East.
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The Tech - Tue Nov 10, 12:22 am ET
By Nicholas Kulish and Judy Dempsey THE NEW YORK TIMES Chancellor Angela Merkel led a gathering of world leaders in Germany’s capital Monday for a celebration of the night 20 years earlier when the Berlin Wall fell.
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Washington Post - Wed Nov 4, 12:00 am ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration Tuesday to take bold steps to address global warming, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with a climate bill.
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International Herald Tribune - Fri Nov 6, 7:19 am ET
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany discussed the event and the long path Germans have taken since then to bring the two sides closer together.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 9, 2:14 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A decade after the euro replaced the deutsche mark, Germany’s export-driven recovery is undermining European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet’s efforts to slow the currency’s record rise.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 3, 2:39 pm ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged quick agreement on a binding U.N. climate pact on Tuesday even as boycotts held back both U.S. and U.N. work on the deal.
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KTSM El Paso - Mon Nov 9, 8:53 pm ET
November 9th, 1989 - a day that changed not only Germany but the world. It was the day the Berlin Wall finally came down. "It was a really emotional, truly historical moment that my generation was able to witness," said Volker Samanns, a colonel in the German Air Force out of Fort Bliss. Growing up in Koln, West Germany, he never imagined the free society he grew up with and the oppressive state ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 3, 3:26 pm ET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the United States Tuesday to agree to binding climate goals, telling U.S. lawmakers in a speech to Congress there was "no time to lose" in the fight against global warming.
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EARTHtimes.org - 1 hour 46 minutes ago
Berlin - German investor confidence fell for the second month in a row in November, a key indicator released Tuesday showed. The Mannheim-based Centre for European Economic Research's (ZEW) index measuring the mood among analysts and institutional in...
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The Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Tue Nov 10, 12:06 am ET
John Cusack, Lady Gaga, Fergie and Robbie Williams all make an appearance on the German TV show "Wetten dass...?" (Bet it...?) in Braunschweig, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Nov 9, 10:10 am ET
The United States and Germany stepped up pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday to implement major reforms and crack down on rampant corruption. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told... United States - Hamid Karzai - United States Secretary of State - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Afghanistan
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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 46 minutes ago
German investor confidence fell in November from the previous month, a leading German survey showed Tuesday, reflecting doubts about the sustainability of economic recovery.