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The pressure is continuing to build on German Defence Minister zu Guttenberg after media reports suggest a lethal airstrike ordered by German forces in September targeted Taliban fighters, not stolen tankers.

German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said he did not wrongly force the resignation of two top military officials, and attacked opposition leaders calling for his resignation.

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit speaks to LGBT elected and appointed officials at the recent International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference.

WITH the prospect of Western military intervention in the former Yugoslavia looming ever closer, Germany yesterday categorically ruled out its participation in any actions that may be planned.

Attending a conference of Indians and Pakistanis hosted by the German NGO Friedrich Ebert Stiftung which is affiliated to the Social Democrat Party in Germany, I realized how little we know about Pakistan generally, but specifically about Balochistan.

Otto Lambsdorff, left, with Gerhard Schroder in 2001. The death was confirmed by Karl-Matthias Klause, a spokesman for the German Embassy in Washington.

A media report accuses German lawmakers of acting in the interest of defense industry lobbying groups by delaying purchase decisions for military equipment for German troops in Afghanistan.

When a new European Parliament convened in Strasbourg last July, its makeup reflected a major trend: socialist and social democratic parties had chalked up historic losses in elections the previous month.

The fate of thousands of asylum-seekers in Germany is being decided at a meeting in Bremen.

To stand underneath a nuclear reactor is a rare, unnerving experience. In the control-rod drive chamber at the Kruemmel nuclear power plant near Hamburg, where spars of boron carbide and hafnium are pushed upward into the reactor to regulate the fission of uranium nuclei that happens a few metres above, everything is dead quiet.

President Obama sent his top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , to Europe on Thursday to press sometimes balky NATO allies to contribute thousands of additional troops to his new strategy for turning the tide in the Afghanistan war.

Next year the three highest political positions in Switzerland will be held by women, although women only got the vote in federal elections in 1971.

A chronology of key events: 1237-40 - Mongols invade Russia, destroying all of its main cities except Novgorod and Pskov; Tatars establish the empire of the Golden Horde in southern Russia.

A broadcasting freedoms row has deepened in Germany after the administrative board of the public television channel ZDF voted 7-7 not to extend the employment contract of its editor-in-chief. Calls mounted on Friday for the case of Nikolaus Brender to be taken before Germany's Constitutional Court, which has a post-war record of ruling in favor of ...

The head of the German armed forces resigned Thursday over accusations that the military withheld information on a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in September that killed civilians as well as insurgents.

Alan H. Fleischmann was 24 when he saw the Berlin Wall fall. He was in Germany as a Deutcher Bundestag fellow, studying international economics at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat and serving in the German Parliament working for former Chancellor Willy Brandt and his foundation, as well as other leading members of the Social Democratic Party.

The educational content of the Hamas children's Web site Al-Fateh is not a form of pedagogy, but an "indoctrination to suicide bombing," said David Oman, the director of communications for the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education on Tuesday at a press conference at the Regent Hotel.

Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare a ' perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium' While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers , family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start.

IT HAD the trappings of any other political party convention in Germany: the same airless arena, the same corporate kiosks offering free ballpoint pens.

Earlier this year, before Angela Merkel's re-election as chancellor, the BBC's then Europe editor, Mark Mardell, called Germany "the most grown-up country in the world". Whether you share that judgement or not, Hans Kundnani's superb chronicle of mainly West German politics over the past 50 years shows the country's remarkable transformation since ...