In the coming year, Germany will likely experience a small, but unmistakable, crack in the separation between church and state — or, to be more specific, between state and mosque. If all goes according to the plan proposed in February by a national...

Norbert Denef says for years he couldn’t speak about the crimes committed against him during his childhood in Germany. He grew up, got married and became a father, but never managed to tell his family what was lingering inside him and about the...

Responding to news that a popular German magazine was banning thin models from its pages in favour of “real women”, Largerfeld said that those who criticised models for looking bony or anorexic were fat “chip-eating”, jealous...

When U.S. President Barack Obama visits Germany this Thursday and Friday, he is likely to get a reception as warm as the demonstration of sympathy he enjoyed in July last year. And yet, Obama’s high standing among Germans is likely to fall if he...

The day before a key NATO summit in Bucharest, the French government announced Tuesday it would send several hundred troops to reinforce the alliance’s operation in Afghanistan. Lisa Bryant reports for VOA from Paris. The decision by...

A secret stash of porno movies made by the East German army during the Cold War has been discovered. During the ’80s, an amateur film circle was set up in a barracks in Biesdorf, East Berlin, in order to provide blau movies for the army top brass...