Berlin joins Munich, host of the 1972 Olympics, Hamburg and a joint bid by cities in the heavily populated Rhine-Ruhr region ...

Berlin would hold the Olympic beach volleyball next to the Brandenburg Gate if it is chosen as Germany's bidder for the 2036 ...

The German state of Bavaria has backed Munich's Olympic aspirations and North Rhine-Westphalia has agreed to support the ...

The Ruhr region is characterised by heavy industry. This is also unmistakable in football - here at a demonstration by miners in Bochum's Ruhrstadion in 1997 ...

The reality of the Ruhr has just been made plain in a startling request advanced in Brussels by the region’s political leaders. They asked the Common Market for economic aid. The world’s ...

It was known that preparations for an overthrow had been made earlier in the Ruhr region. On August 8, 1919, the Association for the Protection of Common Economic Interests in Rhineland and Westphalia ...

Germany has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2045. "The entire Ruhr region, and Gelsenkirchen in particular, shows how constant change is needed to sustain economic growth," he told Reuters ...

The power outages were quickly restored in most cases but in some of the worst cases: In Paris, firefighters responded to nearly 40 calls from people stuck in lifts as the city lost power Scores of ...