By Catherine Drew Berlin 06 June 2006 watch World Cup Preview report With just days to go before the World Cup kicks off in Germany, preparations have entered the final stages. Twelve German cities wi...
By Steve Schy Washington 16 May 2006 Host Germany is favored to top Group A at the next month's 32-nation World Cup football finals. No World Cup host has ever failed to make it out of the group stage...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 April 2006 The President of FIFA, Joseph Blatter says he is confident Germany has taken all measures needed to ensure a safe, clean and entertaining World Cup. He says the ga...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 January 2006 Israel and Germany are considering withholding economic aid from the Palestinians, following the Islamic militant group Hamas' stunning victory in Palestinia...
By Lisa Bryant Berlin 12 January 2006 Six decades after the Holocaust, Germany's Jewish population is soaring, thanks, largely, to a flood of new Jewish immigrants from former Communist countries. Ind...
Germany's extraordinary World Cup story begins in Switzerland in 1954. It was the first time since the war Germany had been allowed to enter the tournament. We were not allowed to take part in 48 at t...
7th of July 1974 on the World Cup final in the Olympic Stadium in Munich, West Germany, the hosts and favorites to win, up against the masters of total football, the Dutch. But in the most dramatic st...
IN THE NEWS - Germany Awaits a New Leader, and a New Day By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, October 15, 2005 I'm Doug Johnson with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The major political parties i...
Douglas Bakshian U.S. plans to withdraw 30,000 troops from Germany are a sign of changing international conditions, according to a German government spokesman, and he says the move comes as no great s...
Schroeder: Germany Ready to Contribute to Iraq's Reconstruction Ruth Elkins In a short news conference after a working dinner in Berlin Thursday evening, Mr. Schroeder said Germany is ready to contrib...