The coming year will demand courage from the country’s politicians. But if they succumb to anxiety and idling, there will be ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday lost a confidence vote in parliament, placing the country on course for an early election in February. Scholz secured the backing of 207 lawmakers in the ...

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz's invitation to withdraw ... (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) Merz, from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party once led by Angela Merkel ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Chairman of the Christian Social ... Source: AFP / Ralf Hirschberger / AFP via Getty Images What else to know: Friedrich Merz, the top candidate of the conservative ...

He now wants to unseat Chancellor Olaf Scholz and take over as Germany's ... Karl-Bernd Karwasz /teamwork/imago images Merz hails from the rural Sauerland area of Germany's most-populous state ...

On Saturday, Saxony-Anhalt’s governor Reiner Haseloff and German chancellor Olaf Scholz adressed crowds gathered at the scene ...

At least one person is dead and 68 people have been injured after an attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market in the central ...

French judges have sentenced Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of aggravated rape and drugging her. Fifty other men were found guilty in the mass rape trial ...

“The pictures are terrible,” said city spokesman Michael Reif ... Picture: Frederic Scheidemann/Getty German Chancellor Olaf ...

A car ploughed into a crowd at a German Christmas market on Friday, killing at least two people, including a small child, and ...