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Deutschland Angela Merkel mit deutscher Flagge (picture-alliance/dpa/M. Kappeler)

Chancellor for everyone

What does the word "German" mean to people? The chancellor's answer is a typical, Merkel-style response, says Ines Pohl.

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Chile police unveil declassified WWII Nazi spy documents

Apartment for rent: Foreigners need not apply

US man 'gave top-secret documents' to China

Opening for diplomacy with North Korea?

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel mit Bratwurst (picture alliance/dpa/M. Reichel)

Merkel's A-Z on what it means to be German

Amid a fierce debate on the best attributes of German culture, a popular tabloid has printed Chancellor Angela Merkel's A-Z list. But she admitted that there are probably as many answers as there are residents.

Court to decide owner of Hitler's house

The Austrian government has seized the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born. But the former owner of the house has challenged it and pulled the state to the constitutional court.

Bildergalerie China Hundefleisch (Reuters/K. Kyung-Hoon)

Dog meat festival - it's a man-eat-dog world

Despite protests and international criticism, an annual dog meat festival is being held in the southern Chinese town of Yulin, where dog meat is considered a delicacy. Residents say dog meat is part of their tradition.

Pandas in zoo cages (picture-alliance/AP Photo/P. Post)

Our obsession with animals is schizophrenic

Chinese pandas are coming to Berlin. How sweet! Or not? Best-selling German writer and philosopher Richard David Precht believes our relationship to animals is contradictory.

Liberal mosque in Berlin draws criticism

Deutschland Eröffnung liberale Moschee in Berlin (picture-alliance/dpa/M. Gambarini)

Men and women pray side-by-side, and there's a female imam who doesn't even wear a headscarf. For many in the Islamic world, these things are inconceivable. A new liberal mosque in Berlin has been causing a stir.

Social media criticism for new Berlin mosque

Appliances guzzle more energy than we thought

Domestic appliances use up to double as much energy as stated on their energy labels, according to an EU product survey. Outdated official tests are "vulnerable to misuse" by manufacturers, warn the report's authors.

Filmfest München (Filmfest München/S&L Medianetworx GmbH)

Munich Film Festival kicks off

The 35th edition of the Munich film festival has opened with Claire Denis's “Let the Sunshine In.” An epic new Hitler documentary and Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled" also await.

Walter Gircke - Photo of the Januar uprising in Berlin in 1919 (Ullstein Bild)

How photography revolutionized the press

Barely a century ago, the invention of photojournalism turned the press landscape upside down. A new exhibition at Berlin's German Historical Museum reimagines a photographic revolution.