BERLIN, July 8 (UPI) -- Germany has employed two former high-ranking officials to lobby for rival pipeline options to secure natural gas for Europe.

BERLIN, June 11 (UPI) -- Germany's Social Democratic Party is in crisis after disastrous European election results just three months before the country's national elections.

KALININGRAD, Russia, May 20 (UPI) -- The Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany should be seen as part of European efforts to diversify the energy sector, a former German chancellor said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, April 15 (UPI) -- The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline from the Baltic Sea will position Germany as a major energy hub for European customers, the Russian premier said.

MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Shareholders of British-Russian energy firm TNK-BP welcomed former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as an independent director.

BERLIN, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea to Germany will go into operation by October 2011, the head of the pipeline consortium said.

MOSCOW, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Top officials with Russian energy giant Gazprom and the Hungarian state bank discussed the construction of the South Stream natural gas pipeline.

BERLIN, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- German spies in Iraq sent coordinates of targets in Baghdad to the U.S. military, according to a report by a German newsmagazine.

BERLIN, June 9 (UPI) -- When U.S. President George W. Bush visits Europe for the last time in his presidential career this week, no demonstrators will line his path. It's not that Bush all of a sudden has become popular -- he simply is too lame of a duck to be worth the trouble.