Berlin is getting a new airport. The new building, named after former chancellor Willy Brandt, should be able to handle 27 million passengers annually. But the bad news for Luxury travellers: Berlin’s (convenient) Tegel airport will close, and few new di

Lufthansa carried a record number of people in and out of Manchester last year, the German airline announced. Tweet The carrier saw an 8.5 per cent increase in passengers to 697,915, during 2011. It announced the figures as it gears up to launch a new da

An employee of the federal archive responsible for the files of the former East German secret police, the Stasi, walks past sacks containing the torn remains of Stasi documents on Jan. 25, in Magdeburg, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The reconstruct

Here, in one sentence, is the gist of Frank Jacob’s 1,500-word op-ed in the New York Times this week: Divided cities are bad, and we should strive to reunite them – except for Jerusalem, which we should instead strive to redivide, even though it will lik

Should be in prison I have watched MacShane for years and I don’t think he knows the difference between lying and speaking the truth. Not surprised he’s a Euro-fanatic. McClaim should lose his McJob. McShame is a liar says: One of life’s mysteries why Po

By J. C. Suresh Courtesy IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – When an international commission headed by Nobel laureate Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and t

Janey Buchan, who has died at the age of 85, was a cultural and political activist in the fiercest tradition of Glasgow's working class. Though she came to be on first-name terms with artists such as Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl and Billy Connolly, and poli

Das Denkmal wurde von der Fördergemeinschaft von Tierpark Berlin und Zoo Berlin e. V. gemeinsam mit dem Zoo Berlin initiiert. Der Künstler Tabachnyk lebt in Nürnberg. Dort gibt es bereits eine Bronzefigur von Willy Brandt von ihm, im Nürnberger Tierpark

She was married to Norman Buchan, Labour MP for West Renfrewshire and then Paisley South, for 44 years until his death in 1990. Mrs Buchan's son said: "We were all intensely proud of her. Her interests went right across politics and the arts. "She was a

BERLIN — Whether one bear needs three memorials in a single city is debatable. For Knut the polar bear , that unusual, some might be tempted to say excessive, distinction is on the verge of becoming a reality. Last month, fans unveiled a white marble mar

BERLIN — They used to be Germany ’s kingmakers. The Free Democratic Party stood for civil liberties, limiting state interference and fostering the market economy — a tradition they will try to defend Friday when the party holds its annual New Year’s get-

North Korea's Kim Jong Il died according to South Korean media. He will be succeeded by his son Kim Jong Eun, who has been officially groomed for this role for about 2 years now. There is no question that markets will be volatile for a week or two. As of

Today is Sunday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2011 with 13 to go. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Venus. Evening stars are Mercury, Saturn and Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They inclu

WSJ: Developing Countries Want To "Claim Their Portion Of The Promised Pot Of Climate Gold." From a Wall Street Journal editorial on the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa: All of this raises the question of what purpose this conference served

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R), stands in silence after laying a wreath in memory of the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide during World War II in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocau

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