Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:29 PM EDT
Ian Baldwin is director of a research institute at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Society and has a Ph.D. in ecology from Cornell University. But the American scholar has run afoul of German police for bandying about his doctorate without permission.
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Fri Mar 7, 2008 6:54 PM EST
When Germany's Greens first entered parliament 25 years ago, few imagined that the protest party — with its penchant for beards, jeans and sunflowers — would one day become a sought-after ally for conservatives.
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Thu Mar 6, 2008 6:53 PM EST
Researchers at the former Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp have finished compiling a list of nearly 12,000 Germans who died there during its use as an internment camp by the Soviets after World War II.
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Wed Mar 5, 2008 3:11 PM EST
The German military, it seems, has been traveling too much on its stomach.
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Tue Mar 4, 2008 9:55 AM EST
A modern reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's head — using computer modeling techniques — shows the composer as a strong-jawed man with a slight underbite, his large head topped with short, silver hair.
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Mon Mar 3, 2008 11:49 AM EST
A modern reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's head — using computer modeling techniques _x shows the composer as a strong-jawed man with a slight underbite, his large head topped with short, silver hair.
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:43 PM EST
The former West Germany's most-secret place — an underground bunker designed to shelter the government in case of nuclear war — officially opened Thursday in its new incarnation as a Cold War museum.
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Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:40 PM EST
A German lawmaker and part-time treasure hunter claimed Thursday he may have found where the Nazis stashed pieces of the storied Amber Room treasure plundered from the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:01 PM EST
German prosecutors said Friday they arrested a 45-year-old German-Pakistani suspected of providing financial and logistical support to members of al-Qaida in southern Afghanistan.
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