Eastern Germans vote, think, and feel differently than western Germans, as the results of regional elections make clear. To help tackle the underlying economic causes of this divide, the federal government should encourage foreign investment in the east, writes Dalia Marin.

Some 20,000 residents in the western German city of Cologne have been forced to evacuate their homes after authorities discovered a 200kg (31.4 stone) bomb from the Second World War.

GERMAN prosecutors yesterday charged a 90-year-old former member of Hitler’s SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.

GERMAN investigators have launched a probe into claims part of a legendary statue of Saddam Hussein being offered by an internet auction house is a fake.