Berlin News

Per Mertesacker bags tying goal in extra time for 2-2 draw against defending champion Wolfsburg

Natalie Geisenberger has led a German 1-2-3 sweep at a women's luge World Cup race, and world champion Erin Hamlin of the U.S. finished ninth. Geisenberger set a track record in her first run on Saturday and finished in a...

German Sutil will be entering his fourth season with the team in F1. And Italian Liuzzi's performances after being promoted to the race team from test driver for the last five races of last year have earned another chance. Team...

Flexing his muscle on the broadcaster�s board, Roland Koch, the CDU Premier of the state of Hesse, blocked ZDF director-general Markus Sch�chter�s push to extend Brender�s contract for another five years. Brender is now expected to end his 10-year tenure...

K�hler kills controversial internet child pornography law Published: 28 Nov 09 17:01 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091128-23585.html President Horst K�hler has hammered another nail in the coffin of the former government�s controversial law to block child pornography...

The future of Germany 's mission in Afghanistan was thrown into doubt today after a government minister resigned under growing pressure to admit his involvement in a campaign of misinformation over an air raid in which civilians were killed.

The German commander an a senior German defense minister are forced to resign because the report about the deadly strike which has killed dozen Afghanistan civilians On September 4. According to Afghanistan government the air raid has killed 69 Taliban...

The director general of the BBC yesterday indicated that there would be a reduction in the scale of its popular website, and possibly the closure of some of its digital channels or radio stations, following claims from politicians and rivals...

John Demjanjuk suffers from bouts of mental absence and will enter court in a wheelchair on Monday to fight charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, the 89-year-old's lawyer said. His victims' families insist he must face...

German publishing giant Axel Springer has backed out of a deal to buy a 29% stake in Turkish group Dogan Yayin due to an ongoing tax dispute between the media company and the Turkish government over a potentially crippling $3.3...