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Student Anahita Rehbein from the southwestern city of Stuttgart won the Miss Germany 2018 competition on Saturday. “It is a dream come true for me. I could hug the whole world,” she said. The 23-year-old beat out...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That quote, attributed alternately to the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu and the Renaissance writer and philosopher Machiavelli, might have been on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mind on...

Arriving for a meeting with EU foreign ministers, Federica Mogherini, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, said Saturday’s UN resolution calling for a 30-day truce was a “necessary and encouraging step, but a first step.” “Now that resolution...

Unlike most languages, when Icelandic needs a new word it rarely imports one. Instead, enthusiasts coin a new term rooted in the tongue’s ancient Norse past: a neologism that looks, sounds and behaves like Icelandic. The...

The news broke at three minutes to four on a chilly winter’s afternoon in a two-sentence bulletin. “The Communist party of China central committee proposed to remove the expression that the president and vice-president of the People’s...

At least 29 people have been killed in the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta since the UN security council passed a resolution demanding an end to the fighting, as Bashar al-Assad’s forces continue to defy...

A confrontational film on intimacy and sex, “Touch Me Not” by Adina Pintilie won the most prestigious award of the Berlin International Film Festival. Silver Bears were also awarded in different categories. The Berlin International Film...

Bulgaria’s minister of tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, says it is time the EU started regulating online accommodation platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com. Over 40 per cent of Bulgarian hotels listed in booking.com are not registered with the Ministry of...

Temenuzhka Petkova said she will quit her ministerial post after a small business whose owners she knows was announced as the buyer of the largest Bulgarian private energy company. Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova submitted her...

The main Bosnian Serb opposition party, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS,  nominated party leader Vukota Govedarica as its candidate for president of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serbian-dominated entity in elections this autumn. The 41-year-old leader of the Serbian Democratic...