Berlin News

Delta Flight 78, a nonstop between New York and Berlin, is an old Pan Am route left over from when only "allied" name carriers were allowed to fly through the Soviet-approved air corridors over East Germany ...

Even with OPEC pumping oil at record levels oil supplies are tight, sending already-high oil prices soaring despite sliding demand in the U.S. and Europe.

Oil prices pushed back above $142 a barrel Tuesday on worries about tight supply and possible armed conflict between Iran and Israel.

Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet.

Laura Balda learns how to hold the violin at the Venezuelan Youth Symphonic Orchestras system school in San Sebastian de los Reyes, Venezuela, Thursday, April 17, 2008.

OneWorld.net note: Corruption is a fundamental cause and catalyst of the global water crisis, which currently threatens the lives of billions of people around the world, says a new report from a global ...

SAN SEBASTIAN DE LOS REYES, Venezuela - A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and laundry hangs ...

June 23, 2008: Bobby Brown arrives at the 21st annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.

June 21: People watch from a boat on the Tisa River as millions of endemic insects Palingenia Longicauda, Europe's largest mayflies, mature and begin to fly from the river near the town of Kanjiza, some 100 ...

New York will have a "back to the future" feel starting next week, thanks to the opening of the Whitney Museum's eagerly awaited exhibition, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe." As if to keep ...

Nan Hoover, a New York born pioneer of video art, has died in the German capital Berlin at the age of 77, her website and her agent Rene Schmitt said Sunday in Frankfurt.

Dustin Wimmer walked away with his fourth overall win at this weekend's seventh round of the ITP Tires/ Moose Racing AMA/ ATVA National Motocross Championship at Unadilla MX in New Berlin, New York.

A report from our Berlin correspondent on design in culture. In Japan, where it started in 1980, Muji offers a dizzying array of products; original-yet-generic. They're branded "no brand." The Japanese call ...

Last month Lou Reed became the latest rock icon to foray onto satellite radio when he launched "New York Shuffle," a weekly free-form show on Sirius co-hosted by producer Hal Willner .

Left, Sarah Jessica Parker at the New York premiere of "Sex and the City" in a Nina Ricci gown designed by Olivier Theyskens.

" By the loosest use of the term, Hallo Berliin is a hot dog cart. And yet, no common hot dogs are sold from the rolling pushcart parked here at 54th Street and 5th Avenue.

High-powered New York criminal defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina is on the verge of buying AS Roma - Rome's storied pro soccer team, The Post has learned.

An anonymous fax leads to accusations that Deutsche Telekom was monitoring board members' and journalists' phone calls.

BERLIN &#151 Intel Corp is in talks with the St Petersburg government about a potential investment that may involve manufacturing, St Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Oseevsky disclosed to the local press.

For those of you green tech types who have occasion to be on the west coast in mid-June, there are two conferences you might want to drop by.