COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

"Si nolis bellum para pacem!" THE November revolution of 1918 relieved Germany of her various monarchies. At that time nothing seemed more obvious than that the artificial states which had been ...

A stone in Rhineland-Palatinate with a citation in the local dialect reading, roughly translated: "Where the axis of the world gets oiled up, and we watch out that nothing happens to it". Photo: DPA ...

António Guterres is right to flag the important role of business leaders in the drive to foster inclusive growth and opportunities (“Progress towards sustainable development is seriously off track”, ...

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