Stripping himself of the Star of David that marked him as a Jew, he went underground with his family, living by his wits and ...

Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children, has died. He was 100.

The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a less traditional final resting place for a pope, as is the method by which Francis chose to be buried here. Watch to learn more. Typically, popes are buried ...

The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...

The inflation rate in Germany, measured as the year-on-year change in the consumer price index (CPI), stood at +2.2% in March 2025. The inflation rate was +2.3% in both February and January 2025, and ...

Friedrich Merz of the CDU is expected to become the next chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz after Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and center-left Social Democrats agreed to ...

It's official: following elections at the end of February, Germany is set to get a new coalition government comprised of the conservative Union parties (CDU and CSU) and the centre-left Social ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has unveiled a new coalition deal between the country’s two major centrist parties in a bold and optimistic speech in Berlin on Wednesday, hours after ...

A new poll shows the Alternative für Deutschland is now Germany’s most popular political party, marking another turning point for the right-wing group’s rise. The anti-immigration ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the leaders of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) reached a swift coalition agreement on Wednesday. The deal came amid intense pressure on ...

Friedrich Merz sealed a coalition deal with the Social Democrats, paving the way for the German conservative leader to become chancellor at a time of acute domestic and geopolitical turmoil.