And what can other countries learn from it? During the 19th century, the Ruhr was the driving force behind Germany’s rapid evolution from a loose confederation of small states into the most ...

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have developed a new method that allows them to visualize the contribution ...

The following message was addressed to the world last week by Wilhelm Marx, German Chancellor: On Jan. 11, a year ago, the French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in violation of the ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT With over five million residents, it is Germany’s largest urban area and the third-largest in the European Union, right behind London and Paris. The Ruhr is ...

As Germany’s richer areas prospered, with Bayern and Stuttgart in the south and Hamburg and Werder Bremen in the north sweeping up all of the 1980s’ West German Bundesliga titles, the Ruhr ...

THE withdrawal of the last French and Belgian police forces from the Ruhr ends the effort of France to use a club in collecting reparations from Germany. The Ruhr basin--about the size of the State of ...

Gelsenkirchen, in Germany's western Ruhr area, is the poorest city in the country. Garbage lies about in the streets and parks, and vacant and derelict apartments are a frequent sight. Every ...

A research team from the University Alliance Ruhr, Germany, has found a catalyst that can be used to convert ammonia into the energy carrier hydrogen and the fertilizer precursor nitrite.