&#39;Soul of Germany&#39; is devastated by blaze
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Hundreds of thousands of priceless antique books were feared destroyed or badly damaged yesterday by a fire that swept through a 16th century German palace.
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By Louise Egan BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A week after a firekilled nearly 200 people in a Buenos Aires rock club that hadlocked its emergency exits, mourners held their biggest protestyet as pressure mounted for the mayor to resign.
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Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire on Thursday night at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, in the eastern city of Weimar, officials said on Friday.
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Firefighters are to spend a second day at the scene of a blaze at a stately home almost destroyed by fire.
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As Chancellor Angela Merkel  seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8  summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power  plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.
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Fireworks thundered and flashbulbs popped all around the darkened stadium, illuminating the German players&#039; brilliant white shirts and the thousands of flags that waved in their honor. Fans screamed and sang for an hour afterward, savoring the lingering moments as hosts of the World Cup. And that was after the consolation game.
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Germany sent condolences to southern Asian countries which were hit by the biggest earthquake in 40 years Sunday and expressed its willingness to offer assistance.
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Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der&#39;s Social Democrats suffered another humiliating defeat in regional elections in the west German state of Saarland yesterday where his party lost nearly
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A fire apparently set off by welders doing roof repairs seriously damaged Bonn's opera house Monday, just two weeks before the scheduled start of its fall season with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, the city's ...
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Some 40,000 volumes damaged in a fire at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, September 2 have been transported to the Book Preservation Center in Leipzig for deep-freezing and eventual ...
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The game had ended long before and a thunderstorm was breaking out, yet die-hard German fans were still at the stadium, singing the chant now heard across the country. &quot;Berlin, Berlin, we are going to Berlin,&quot; they sang, referring to the site of the July 9 World Cup final.
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BOXBERG, Germany  - As Chancellor Angela Merkel seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8 summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.
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Thousands of irreplaceable books were feared lost or damaged in a fire at one of Germany's most precious libraries, though some 6,000 historical works &#151; including a 1534 Martin Luther Bible &#151; were saved by a chain of people who spirited them away from the flames, officials said Friday.
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German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a fresh setback in elections in the small western state of Saarland today, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut into the country - s cherished network ...
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A blaze in at the historic Anna Amalia Library in the city of Weimar has consumed thousands of works from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der&#39;s ruling Social Democrats were dealt a heavy blow yesterday by voters in two east German states where anger at high unemployment and economic reforms
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FRANKFURT -- While the British public reacted to the latest terrorist strike there with stoicism and a practiced determination to get on with life, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat that has yet to materialize here.