The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out a coalition agreement on Friday. Here are the main issues: HOW DID WE GET ...

The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.

Germany’s new parliament has elected as its speaker a conservative former minister. She called Tuesday for civilized debate ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to break years of fiscal stringency to counter the erosion of the transatlantic ...

The Reign drew 1-1 with Gotham to open the NWSL season on a rainy Saturday night in front of 8,467 fans at Lumen Field. Adames’ 71st-minute goal canceled out a 47th-minute set-piece score by ...

The Reign finished 13 th in the 14-team NWSL last season and missed the postseason for the first time since 2017. The club is plotting a worst-to-first comeback, which will be tough with the ...

Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and winner of Germany’s Feb. 23 election ... Germany’s debt brake came into force in 2009, during former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reign and ...

The Chinese Foreign Office and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel have now commented on the allegations surrounding a possible cover-up.

Former pupils of a late Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse have questioned why a church apology did not contain details of the “evil” cleric’s time as a teacher in Co Antrim. Fr Patrick ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who helped lead last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday. Photo: Jeenah Moon ...