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As President Barack Obama weighs the U.S. military's options in Afghanistan, the White House is getting some unsolicited advice from someone who knows the territory: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan 20 years ago and says today that the U.S. cannot prevail there.

Germany and Hannover 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke has died after being hit by a train and German police have confirmed that first indications point to suicide.

An ultraconservative British bishop who was fined 12,000 euro $16,822 in Germany for denying the Holocaust has appealed the fine, his lawyer said Tuesday.

The trial of an 88-year-old man accused of murdering three civilians in wartime Holland as part of a Nazi hit squad was postponed Tuesday until next week on medical grounds.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves her signature at the remaining chunks of the Berlin Wall Sunday, a day before the 20th anniversary of the wall's collapse.

Prosecutors on Monday demanded a life sentence for a man who admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world.

Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday.

Like most people, I had slept through the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was Friday, Nov.

German automakers BMW AG and Audi AG said Monday their October sales improved as the global downturn showed signs of waning and demand for luxury cars improved.

Fox News reports that the WH is taking heat over our celebrity President's decision not to attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall: The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say ...

In early November 1918, Lance Cpl. Adolf Hitler was recuperating from war wounds in a military hospital in the town of Pasewalk, located in German Pomerania.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, in the most revealing description yet of his half-decade as a KGB agent in Dresden under communism.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

About 40 world leaders plan to go to Copenhagen next month to boost the chances of clinching a U.N. climate deal, the United Nations said Friday as preparatory talks wound down with scant progress.

Dominoes to fall like the wall Giant, illuminated foam dominoes snake a mile along the former path of the Berlin Wall on Saturday, two days before they are to be tipped over to symbolize the fall of communist governments in 1989.

The foundation stone was laid in Cologne, Germany Saturday for the cathedral city's first purpose-built mosque, after long-running arguments had delayed its construction.

Boxer David Haye turned giant killer as he won victory in his bout with the "Beast from the East". The 29-year-old Londoner saw off the colossal Nikolai Valuev, despite an 11-inch height gap and seven stone weight difference, to be named the new WBA World Heavyweight Champion.

BERLIN: Angry German workers protested Thursday over General Motors' shock refusal to sell its European unit Opel and plans to cut 10,000 jobs, moves slammed as a slap in the face for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

U2 performed a short set in Germany on Thursday, November 5th to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.