Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a new two-year term as leader of Germany’s main conservative party after stressing her determination to prevent a repeat of last year’s huge migrant influx.

GERMANY: Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a shop selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for a prize contest — yet left the suds themselves untouched.

Prosecutors in Germany have charged a doctor with negligent bodily harm for declaring a 92-year-old woman dead, only for her to awaken again in a refrigerated room at a funeral home.

Tommy Barker gets with the system for this post-and-beam home on Compass Hill, above Kinsale harbour.

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Karl Albrecht, the reclusive German businessman who became one the world’s wealthiest people after co-founding the Aldi discount supermarket chain in the 1960s, has died. He was 94.

Karl Albrecht, co-founder of the Aldi grocery store empire and one of the world’s richest people, has died in the western German city of Essen at the age of 94.

At least six people have died in western Germany as heavy rain, hail and high wind battered the region.

WHEN Cork City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty opens at Cork Opera House on Thursday, it’s probably safe to say the majority of the audience will be women.

Thousands of mourners watched in tears today as German rescue workers lit one white candle for each of the 21 people crushed to death in a tunnel at the Love Parade techno music festival.

A memorial service was held today for 21 people who were crushed to death at the Love Parade techno music festival in Germany.

The Pope is refusing to comment publicly on individual sex abuse cases rocking the Catholic church because they were not his responsibility, his private secretary said today.

THE Pope will address Ireland today in an unprecedented letter apologising for widespread Catholic child abuse.

The Pope will address Ireland tomorrow in an unprecedented letter apologising for chronic Catholic child abuse.

RARE examples of Adolf Hitler’s early paintings during his time as a struggling artist sold for more than £95,000 (€106,000) yesterday.

Four Irish boats will contest tomorrow’s semi-finals at the opening World Cup regatta in Linz, Austria.

A MAN once voted the country’s top GAA fan kicked off a campaign yesterday for Cork to twin with Sunderland.

FINANCE ministers from the Group of Seven rich nations meet in Germany today and tomorrow, and are divided over whether or not the club should send markets a message on the weak yen.

FOREIGN-EXCHANGE rates will be a central theme when finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich nations meet in Germany this week, Deputy German Finance Minister Thomas Mirow said yesterday.

US TREASURY Secretary Henry Paulson was aiming a shot across Europe’s bow about currency intervention, rather than Japan’s, when he warned that he opposed any such bid to alter relative currency values.

UCC DEMONS star Colin O’Reilly, the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague’s leading Irish scorer last season, has signed a professional basketball contract with ETP SW Essen in Germany.

AFTER England v Portugal in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday, our delayed late-night rail connection via Essen back to base camp in Heidelberg was doing a passable impression of the Marie Celeste until we pulled into Frankfurt station at about 3.20am.

Pope John Paul today skipped his traditional appearance at his window overlooking St Peter’s Square the day after Easter following a Holy Week during which he was unable to speak.

People’s hands flew to their faces and some wept as they witnessed Pope John Paul’s struggle in front of a microphone, where he managed only a few sounds before he gave up and delivered his Easter blessing with a sign of the cross.

For the German media, the No 1 story in football will be played out tonight. Steve Aldridge reports from Munich.

WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has no intentions of hanging up the gloves after his impressive seventh-round stoppage of Rudiger May in Essen.

The European Central Bank has been urged not to raise interest rates too quickly as the current low level of rates in the euro zone is aiding the modest economic growth in Germany.

A British company angling to take over management of water supplies for 500,000 West Virginia residents in the United States today denied reports it was the United Kingdom’s worst polluter for two years.

German police today arrested 11 members of an extremist Islamic group on suspicion they were planning terrorist attacks.

Ralf Schumacher has reportedly been involved in a crash on a German motorway.