Angela Merkel has said Islam has become a part of Germany and is urging her fellow citizens to show tolerance for Muslims.

German retirement age should be raised to 70, two of the country’s leading think tanks urged today.

Angela Merkel was sworn in for a second term as German chancellor today, a month after her party won national elections.

Germans vote today on whether to return the nation’s first woman chancellor to a second term in office following a lacklustre campaign centred largely on economic issues.

ALBANIANS have voted in a general election that is seen as crucial for the country’s European Union aspirations, with surveys showing the two main rivals neck and neck.

ALBANIANS have voted in a general election that is seen as crucial for the country’s European Union aspirations, with surveys showing the two main rivals neck and neck.

An explosive device killed a conservative politician as he drove through northern Albania today, 10 days ahead of the country’s parliamentary election, police said.

DEFECTING Progressive Democrat leader Ciarán Cannon has been warned to forget his former policies if he wants to be a part of Fine Gael.

Czech conservatives and the ruling Socialists are running neck-and-neck ahead of the two-day elections that start today and are likely to be the closest since the fall of communism.

South Africa’s highest court today ruled it is unconstitutional to prevent gay people from marrying, paving the way for the country to become the first to legalise same-sex unions on a continent where homosexuality remains largely taboo.

Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic party today overwhelmingly approved a coalition agreement with Social Democrats that will make her Germany’s first woman chancellor.

Angela Merkel is to be formally approved as Germany’s next Chancellor on November 22, should a coalition with the Social Democrats succeed, members of her Christian Democratic party said today.

A BAR owner who planned to host a lap dancing session tonight has cancelled the event because he said he didn’t realise the controversy it would cause.

Less than a fortnight before a general election, a member of Sweden’s opposition Christian Democrats has shocked her conservative party colleagues

Less than a fortnight before a general election, a member of Sweden’s opposition Christian Democrats has shocked her conservative party colleagues by calling for more pornography on television.

German prosecutors have agreed to let off Helmut Kohl with a £100,000 fine after investigating the former chancellor’s central role in a party financing scandal.