Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the right-wing AfD party has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city — Gelsenkirchen — individuals are ...

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 fourth ...

Joseph served in the Army Combat Engineers Battalion, and at the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. He had seen bodies piled to ... educational requirements embodied in the White Plains school district, which ...

Europe's largest economy contracted for a second consecutive year in 2024, its worst performance in two decades. And ...

Here are five reasons for Germany's ongoing economic slump: Moscow's decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in ...

Shocking aerial photos have revealed the extent of dereliction of the World War Two airfield, where Guy Gibson and the other ...

Lars Baumguertel wants Germany's politicians to get out their cheque books. The 58-year-old executive runs one of the last surviving manufacturers in Gelsenkirchen, a former coal town in the ...