Gordon Brown's carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders. Angela M...
AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
A prominent German cardinal has urged Chancellor Angela Merkel to apologize to Pope Benedict XVI for her unusual public criticism over the Vatican's h...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
President Obama's remarks highlight how quickly and seamlessly his national security team was able to construct a commendably hard and soft power approach to the AFPAK crisis.
Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green
How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?
Spiegel | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
As the global economic downturn worsens, the industrialized nations are at odds over how to fight the crisis. Obama wants the Europeans to introduce a...
AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 04.01.2009 | World
BRUSSELS — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion euro (dollar) bailout for eastern Europe on S...
AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
BERLIN — European leaders mounted a united front against the global financial crisis Sunday, proposing sweeping new market regulations, but it r...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Pope Benedict is cut from completely different cloth than Pius. It is time for this courageous leader to unequivocally denounce holocaust-denying bishops and morally compromised Popes.
AP | JESSICA MANN | Posted 03.13.2009 | Style
BERLIN — Barbie can add another dream job to her list _ Germany's first female head-of-government. Toy company Mattel Inc. debuted the Chancell...
The Independent | Andreas Whittam Smith | Posted 03.09.2009 | World
Pope Benedict must have thought he knew exactly what he was doing when, on 21 January, he lifted the excommunication of four bishops, among them a Hol...
Spiegel Online | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
Pope Benedict XVI made it clear on Wednesday that he regrets the uproar caused by bringing a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson, back into t...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.08.2009 | Comedy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the 2009 International Toy Fair yesterday to kick-off the five day event. The Nuremberg-based gathering boast...
The Independent | Tony Paterson in Berlin | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
Germany's four-year love affair with its own Bavarian-born Pope was in tatters yesterday after Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the pontiff of giving ...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — Criticism of Pope Benedict XVI has come from various quarters _ Muslims, Jews, members of his own flock. But in the latest papal...
AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a "very clear" rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican's r...
English Xinhua | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- China and Germany have vowed to make joint efforts to stabilize the global economy amid the ongoing financial and econ...
The Independent | Tony Paterson | Posted 01.16.2009 | World
Hollywood and Hitler made it the language of on-screen baddies. Before that Mark Twain had already famously dismissed it as "awful". Now American come...
nytimes.com | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 01.15.2009 | World
So here's the situation: the economy is facing its worst slump in decades. The usual response to an economic downturn, cutting interest rates, isn't w...
Financial Times | Bertrand Benoit | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, turned the tables on her international critics on Wednesday by accusing the US and other governments of making "...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
In a major win for all consumers, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to put Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key p...
David Paul | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
"The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind." Samuel Johnson. After decades of fretting over the low American savings rate, Americans are putting ...
The New York Times | Posted 11.12.2008 | Home
European financial and political leaders agreed late Sunday to a plan that would inject billions of euros into their banks in a bid to restore confide...
Bloomberg | Simon Kennedy and Sandrine Rastello | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business
European leaders meet today to forge a new set of measures to combat the credit freeze after their failure to act a week ago contributed to the worst ...
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home
Exactly how many Republican administrations do Americans need before they realize they're all the same? Grandiose deficits. Financial compensation to buddies. Attempts to privatize everything except their own colossal business failures.
Times London | Jonathan Oliver and Bojan Pancevski | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business