Kate Connolly

German president calls upon UK to stay in EU

BERLIN: Germany’s president called for English to be made the language of the EU as he appealed to the UK to stay in the European Union. Joachim Gauck earned applause for his remarks made in Berlin on Friday during Published 23 Feb, 2013 11:03pm

‘Cold War’-type spies on trial

THE neighbours had always considered their names odd — Mr and Mrs Anschlag, meaning ‘attack’ — and the fact that she was often seen in the garden of their whitewashed, detached house making phone calls in the Published 16 Jan, 2013 09:01pm

Lesson for Catalonia from Czechoslovakia

LONDON: Secession can be a bit like breaking a biscuit: crumbs everywhere and two pieces that don’t seem quite as appealing as the original Published 20 Nov, 2012 08:42pm

World’s narrowest street

YOU might well call it a fissure, a gap or a chink. But the folks of Reutlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, western Germany, are adamant that a 31cm divide between two houses is in fact a street. Published 13 Jul, 2012 12:00am

Animal punditry out of control

IT started with Paul, an ordinary octopus who garnered worldwide attention after spending the summer of 2010 correctly predicting the results of Germany’s eight World Cup matches. Published 30 Jun, 2012 03:01am

Exhibition on Hitler opens in Berlin

BERLIN A groundbreaking exhibition about Adolf Hitler opens in Berlin on Friday, the first time since the war that a... Published 16 Oct, 2010 12:00am

Merkel: how it went wrong

AMID daily headlines declaring `Merkel losing control over the coalition` and `Government on verge of collapse?`, a... Published 21 Jun, 2010 12:00am

Baby food enters adult market

THE world`s largest baby food manufacturer has said an increasing number of adults are turning to its pre-cooked,... Published 21 Mar, 2010 12:00am

Going green

WHEN Al Gore was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time as lecturing on the need to save... Published 17 Mar, 2010 12:00am

The Nazis` `blockbuster` revisited

BERLIN It is still one of the most notorious films ever made a rabble-rousing, antisemitic product of the Nazi era,... Published 27 Feb, 2010 12:00am

Polanski misses his own premiere

THERE was a gap on the red carpet Friday night at the Berlin film festival. It was believed to be the first time in... Published 15 Feb, 2010 12:00am

Stolen data

ANGELA Merkel, the German chancellor, signalled her government`s readiness on Monday to purchase stolen secret Swiss... Published 03 Feb, 2010 12:00am

East Germany`s last banned film

IT was the misfortune of Hande Hoch Oder Ich Schiesse (Hands Up Or I`ll Shoot) to have been made at a time when... Published 08 Aug, 2009 12:00am

Millionaire zones

THE plans of a Swiss canton to attract the super-rich by offering them the chance to buy property in exclusive,... Published 27 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Nabokov`s last wish

The last unpublished work of one of 20th century`s greatest writers may be close to being destroyed in fulfillment ... Published 03 Feb, 2008 12:00am