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The European Union and Russia said on Friday they had agreed on what areas should be covered by a wide-ranging partnership treaty without setting a deadline for it.»

The new US embassy opens in Berlin Friday with a festive ceremony and George Bush, senior, one of the fathers of German reunification. DW's Uta Thofern says the occasion merits a positive look back at US-German ties.»

UNESCO will allow Dresden to keep its world heritage status, but said that construction of a four-lane bridge must come to a halt. If the bridge project goes ahead, Dresden's Elbe Valley could lose its status in 2009.»

There were mixed reactions from the European financial sector and politicians to the news to the European Central Bank's (ECB) first rate hike in more than a year.»

Germany, where angry dairy farmers recently poured milk down drains for 10 days to protest low prices, has become the world's top cheese exporter, according to new data.»

The major developing countries are being drawn into climate-control policies under a process initiated during the German presidency of the Group of Eight, officials said in Berlin ahead of the G8 summit in Japan.»

German tennis player Rainer Schuettler is as surprised as anyone to be preparing for a Wimbledon semi-final against Rafael Nadal on Friday, July 4.»

Independence day celebrations in Belarus were brought to a halt by an explosion that injured 50 people in Minsk.»

Readers wrote in this week to discuss Mugabe's re-election in Zimbabwe, assisted suicide in Germany and the proposal to build a monument to US President Reagan in Berlin.»

A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film "Metropolis" found in an Argentine film museum was shown to journalists for the first time. The cut reveals some the extent of director Fritz Lang's original vision.»