German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected as unacceptable, arguments that the UK should leave the European Union if London refuses to sit back in a dispute over the European Commission’s (EC) next president. Merkel told the German parliament on Wednesday that she was aware of London’s objection to her favored candidate for EC presidency, Jean-Claude Juncker, but hoped that the UK would remain... 

The 74 year-old German President, Joachim Gauck, has called on Germany to accept more of the policies that are causing Germans to become a minority in their own nation. “Our country needs immigration,” Gauck said at Bellevue Palace, according to Spiegel.de. “We do not lose if we accept diversity.” […] “a great distance has already been covered.” […] “[however] all the side... 

Thousands of activists took to the streets of Germany and Spain on Saturday to protest the EU’s policies as the union prepares for parliamentary elections at the end of May. In Germany, the EU’s powerhouse, people participated in a day of anti-Brussels protests in Hamburg and the capital Berlin. A rally in Berlin broke out into clashes between protesters and police. Around 1,000 people marched... 

Artists impression of gas cloud G2 falling onto Sag A* As gas cloud G2 speeds towards Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s center, astronomers are getting ready to have some of their questions answered. At least the devouring, expected in March-April, promises to be a spectacular view. As Sagittarius A* is located almost 26,000 light years away from the Earth, the collision itself... 

Scientists warns that a dry and hot weather phenomenon known as ‘El Nino’ is likely to hit most parts of the earth in the second half of this year. Researchers in Germany announced that the phenomenon could spew out huge amounts of heat this year, on summer 2014. While the menacing El Nino weather pattern appears to be ready to blow massive amounts of heat into the atmosphere, there is a 75 per... 

The Americans have recently been discrediting the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia as a side act of propaganda. The US has been relentlessly demonizing Russia and its President. Putin’s Financial support and the reaction of rioting protesters in Ukraine by Washington and Berlin is not a collateral act of propaganda, but proof of basic U.S. strategic thinking. Spokesperson for the United States... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) chats with Ukraine’s opposition leaders Vitaly Klitschko (L) and Arseny Yatsenyuk in Berlin on February 17, 2014. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with two Ukrainian opposition leaders just hours after the Ukrainian government granted amnesty to jailed protesters. Merkel held the meeting with Ukrainian opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko and Arseni Yatsenyuk... 

Many see German policy in the European Union as a forceful advancement of Germany’s interests at the expense of other countries – EU members. There are even suspicions that the crisis in the EU is a project of Germany designed to secure the economic recovery (the European Commission even started an investigation). Berlin is not going to stop in its plans. In late 2013 the European Commission... 

German media outlets say that the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder over his opposition to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. In 2002, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s predecessor was placed on the NSA’s list of the people who were under surveillance, Munich’s daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcaster NDR reported on Tuesday, based... 

Countries spying on their allies sow distrust that could result in less, rather than more security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned. She particularly referred to the surveillance and spying activities by the US and the UK. “But does that make it right for our closest allies, like the United States or Britain, to access all imaginable data – arguing that it helps their own security... 

The cemetery in Bavaria, Germany (A). The skeleton of a victim of the Plague of Justinian (C). Objects (E) from the grave (B) that helped scientists to estimate the plague victim’s death as occurring between 525 AD and 550 AD. A tooth from which the genome of the plague was extracted (D). Scientists have reconstructed the genome of the first recorded bubonic plague and compared it to two later pandemics.... 

The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an interview to German TV. Edward Snowden chose the German ARD broadcaster to make his first TV interview ever since he became a whistleblower. The interview was made in strict secrecy in an... 

Over 80,000 people in southern Germany have signed an online petition against a plan to teach children about LGBT lifestyles in school – an initiative put forward to promote tolerance towards sexual minorities. A new education plan, which should come into force in 2015, has sparked a bitter dispute in the state of Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of the country. Thousands of parents and teachers... 

German Ambassador Peter Witting The UN human rights committee unanimously passed a ‘right to privacy’ resolution sponsored by Germany and Brazil that protects the right to privacy against illegal surveillance, following revelations about NSA spying. The resolution states that surveillance and data interception by governments and companies “may violate or abuse human rights.” This... 

The rising unemployment rate in Germany has forced an increasing number of people to permanently move to campgrounds in an attempt to save money. According to a report published by Spiegel Online International on Wednesday, thousands of people have transformed campsites from holiday spots to residential communities. They say they cannot afford living in urban areas. “Over the last 10 years, more...