The leaders of the world's most powerful economies are deeply split over how to fight a downturn that is intensifying around the globe, with no nation in a position of strength as finance ministers gather to talk about the crisis. ...more

March 14, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion-dollar bailout for eastern Europe on Sunday, suggesting that additional aid be given to struggling nations on a case-by-case basis. ...more

March 2, 2009

NATO's top official chastised Germany and France for refusing to commit more troops to Afghanistan, but the two European powers skirted the issue Saturday even while agreeing that Washington should not be left to fight international conflicts alone. ...more

February 7, 2009

The Vatican, bowing to the growing furor over Pope Benedict VXI's decision to accept a return to the church of a prelate who denied the Holocaust, made a dramatic turnaround Wednesday and demanded the bishop recant. ...more

February 4, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a "very clear" rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican's rehabilitation of a former bishop who questioned whether 6 million Jews were gassed by the Nazis. ...more

February 3, 2009

"We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews. ...more

November 10, 2008

"We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews. ...more

November 9, 2008

Leaders from Asia and Europe on Saturday called for new rules and stronger regulation of the global monetary and financial system at the close of a two-day summit in Beijing as China assumed a new leadership role in the crisis. ...more

October 26, 2008

The Kremlin said Sunday that Russia's military would begin withdrawing its forces from Georgia today, although it was not clear how far or how fast the troops would move. ...more

August 18, 2008

Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg, Germany, last week would kill her, and she died alone. ...more

July 4, 2008