Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem ...

Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of its reunification this month. To Europeans born since, it must be hard to imagine ...

Founded in 1947, the third and youngest of Berlin’s great opera houses is the Komische Oper—the comic opera. In the rubble of war, it took up residence in ...

October 3 is a public holiday all over Germany commemorating the reunification of the once divided nation. But why was ...

The 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York this year will be remembered for its particular focus on Palestine.

Berlin is set to rename Hofjägerallee after former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 35 years after German reunification. Kohl, who ...

Considered the architect of German reunification, Helmut Kohl has long been an honorary citizen of Berlin. "We will enter into discussions with city districts with the goal of naming a prominent ...

Since 2019, the KRG’s Ninth Cabinet has redefined governance—advancing roads, power, water, digitalization, and diplomacy ...

Ella Wildridge, who has died aged 79, was one of Scottish theatre’s great unsung heroines. As a translator and dramaturg fluent in German ...

In the 1920s, the mansion of the Jewish banker Franz von Mendelssohn in the leafy Grunewald district was a prominent center of Berlin’s cultural life. The great-nephew of the composer Felix ...

Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation. A photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, ...