BERLIN, March 29 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce she will not be at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a German official confirmed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Germany's left party is surging, driven by tax evasion and business scandals, with ominous implications for Europe's hopes of escaping recession.

BERLIN, July 15 (UPI) -- Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble is being called undemocratic in some quarters for his vocal demand for tougher anti-terror laws throughout Germany.

FRANKFURT, Germany, July 12 (UPI) -- The recent spate of attempted terror attacks on Britain has Germans debating the issue of liberty versus security.

BERLIN, July 9 (UPI) -- Germany's interior minister is under fire for proposing the death penalty for some terrorists.

BRUSSELS, June 28 (UPI) -- A tentative deal between the United States and the European Union would cut the amount of information shared about air-travelers, it was reported Thursday.

BERLIN, April 27 (UPI) -- Germany's interior minister says national intelligence agencies will stop monitoring suspects' Internet activities without legal approval.

BERLIN, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Germany has dissolved an independent commission set up 16 years ago to find money owned by state institutions in the former East Germany. The commission was created by Lothar de Maiziere, the last prime minister of East Germany, to follow "curious transfe

BERLIN, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Germany's Deutsche Oper opera house has canceled this year's production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" over concerns that the opera may upset Muslims. The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported the Berlin opera house canceled the upcoming show from producer H