In 2019, at a bar in Berlin, three friends were having a drink when they started considering a radical idea: What if the middle of their then car-centric city became essentially car free? Over the ...

Valeriya Safronova is a reporter based in Vienna. She almost moved to Berlin in 2012 but settled for regular visits instead. May 1, 2025 Berlin is home to bureaucrats and hedonists, lobbyists and ...

A large-scale excavation in the middle of Berlin has uncovered artifacts and structures dating back eight centuries, including the foundations and machinery of the city’s first electrical plant, which ...

BERLIN – For the first time in 14 years, the city of Berlin has a new mayor. Inauguration at City Hall on Tuesday night featured a transition in power from seven-term outgoing Mayor Paul Grenier, a ...

The European Union’s largest economy has a long history with das auto, for better and worse. Many foreign tourists in Germany have a speed-limit-free trip on the autobahn among their bucket list items ...

Berlin’s Mayor Kai Wegner has been facing calls for resignation for playing tennis while the city’s residents were facing a ...

Berlin will have a new mayor for the first time in 14 years. Mayor-elect Robert Cone has served in the National Guard and works at the federal prison in Berlin, where he’s been part of union ...

BERLIN (AP) — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted that locals were at risk of falling ill, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the ...