Knut's private digs are in the southwest corner of the Tiergarten, a densely-wooded park that is Berlin's downtown oasis much as Central Park is to Manhattan in New York City. The entire zoo, a maze of footpaths among 1,400 species of 20,000 fenced-in animals, covers some 80 acres. Only the 500 species of birds and snakes are caged. ...more

September 7, 2008

Just when you think you've got the presidential race figured out, something comes along to upend your carefully wrought conclusions. ...more

August 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama stood before a sea of cheering admirers on Thursday and sought to inspire fresh cooperation among American allies to defeat terrorism and other threats. ...more

July 25, 2008

Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the Nazis' long-ignored gay victims, a monument that also aims to address ongoing discrimination by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing. ...more

May 28, 2008