Germany

Berlin hopes efforts on youth jobs will help its image in Europe

BERLIN - German alarm that their country is blamed for austerity measures compounding the problems in the euro zone helps explain Berlin's bilateral efforts to tackle youth unemployment in some of the countries worst affected.

EU leaders talk tough on tackling Amazon, Google over taxes

BRUSSELS - Britain, France and Germany called for stricter rules to stop companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon aggressively avoiding taxes in austerity bitten Europe, while acknowledging they had done nothing unlawful.

Tech, Media, France, 22 May 2013

Germany takes bilateral paths to tackle EU jobs crisis

BERLIN - Germany is banking on bilateral deals to fight record youth unemployment in the euro zone, agreeing to cooperate with several countries to bypass pan-European bureaucracy.

22 May 2013

Germany backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list

BRUSSELS - Germany will throw its weight behind a British drive to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, German diplomats said on Wednesday.

World, 22 May 2013

Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74

LOS ANGELES - Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group's manager Tom Vitorino said.

Entertainment, Fashion, Music, 20 May 2013

Chief executives and the itch to quit

LONDON - On approaching his 60th birthday this year, long-serving Tullow Oil boss Aidan Heavey told staff he felt "like two 30 year-olds".

France, Italy, Spain, Lifestyle 16 May 2013

Daimler unveils make-or-break S-Class flagship

HAMBURG - Germany's Daimler pulled the covers off its new flagship Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury saloon on Wednesday, a critical product launch for a company struggling to make a dent in the lead that rivals BMW and Audi enjoy in sales and profit.

15 May 2013

Germany can't stop euro zone from sinking into longest recession

BRUSSELS/BERLIN - Germany's economy crept back into growth at the start of the year but not by enough to stop the euro zone from contracting for a sixth straight quarter, and France slid into recession. | Video

World, France, 15 May 2013

Column: Scrambling for the immigrant elite

- A new era has arrived in immigration. Many countries - the United States, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands - have for decades taken in poor immigrants with the express intention that they would do work that native citizens had become reluctant to do. The labor was either too hard, too cheap or too dangerous for the locals.

France, 14 May 2013

Divisions hamper Europe's plans to tackle failing banks

BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank clashed with Germany on Tuesday over how quickly the euro zone should complete a system to deal with failing banks.

14 May 2013
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London attackers known to British security services

LONDON - Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said Thursday. | Video

Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the cards?

Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this day.