In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

A man has been arrested after the knife attack in the southern German state of Bavaria. The motives for the stabbing are still unclear, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

A four-engine strategic type used throughout WWI, the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI was the most numerous bomber built by the German military-industrial complex, according to Military Factory. The aircraft ...

For decades, German politics and elections epitomised stability, often described as boring. Few parties in parliament, clear majorities, and two-party coalitions provided political and economic ...

US President-elect Donald Trump wants members of the NATO military alliance to devote five percent of their national output to defence, a demand that has already been rejected as too high by German ...

BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said the second presidency of Donald Trump would bring clarity for the European ...

The insurgent far-Right party of Alice Weidel is flying high as elections approach next month - Jens Schlueter/AFP ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Olaf Scholz became German chancellor with a pledge to modernise and jolt Europe’s largest economy from ...

Germany’s economy, the largest in Europe, contracted for the second year in a row in 2024, official data showed Wednesday, underscoring the challenges facing the region as it tries to get ...

Germany has been struggling with a cost of living crisis and decreasing export demand. According to preliminary data published on Wednesday, the German economy shrank by 0.2% in 2024. This is the ...

German GDP contracts 0.2% in 2024, exports fall 0.8% First back-to-back annual contraction since early 2000s Fall in full-year GDP in line with forecast Fourth quarter's 0.1% fall suggests no ...