South of the Amalfi coast, is the less visited but equally beautiful Cilento region, a Unesco World Heritage site with sandy ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has recognized 13 additional sites as part of humanity's heritage. During its session in New Delhi, India, the committee honored locations such as the Via Appia in ...

German leaders significantly ramped up criticism of Israel on Tuesday, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz decrying massive IDF airstrikes on Gaza as Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned Berlin ...

Germany must have a stronger army than Britain, its chancellor has said, as he committed to spending 5 per cent of annual GDP on defence. In his first major address to the German parliament ...

As Merz is crowned chancellor, Europe should prepare for its most French-style German leader in decades.

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor at the second attempt.

BERLIN— In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz ‘s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II failed by six votes in parliament on Tuesday, a stunning defeat ...

To Goethe, whose influence is quite manifest in Blumenbach's writings, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach may already have been one of the deplorable specialists of the younger generation; to ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz’s party has approved an agreement to form a coalition government with a center-left rival ...

Friedrich Merz, CDU candidate for chancellor and federal CDU chairman, attends the CDU federal committee in Berlin, 28 April, 2025 AP Photo The results are expected to be published on Wednesday.

In the 18 th and 19 th century, the Thuringian town had already made a name for itself as the home of great literary, musical and artistic minds, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich ...

The painting was an oil on canvas by Johann Berthelsen, a Danish self-taught artist born in 1883. “He did a lot of New York scenes. William Randolph Hearst had one in his collection,” Sikes said.