Germany struggles to manage its mushrooming wolf population.
SPREMBERG, Germany — Surrounded by a flock of 250-odd black-faced sheep near this northeastern town, Frank Neumann jams his green Trilby hat on his head before a gust of wind sends it flying, then chuckles as his 120-lb sheepdog leaps up to lick his face. The bearlike Pyrenean mountain dog is people-friendly, but it's no pet. Before the stocky
As the global market for electric and hybrid cars expands, Germany is also betting on another alternative power source.
STUTTGART, Germany — At the Mercedes-Benz headquarters here, a showroom display illustrates the rapid evolution of the iconic luxury brand’s hydrogen-fueled cars. In a 1992 prototype, the fuel cell takes up the entire cargo area of a delivery van. Across the room, today's model — now merely the size of an average television set — is displayed in
Meet Kreuzberg’s friendly neighborhood drug dealers, the reason behind a controversial proposal by the new mayor to legalize marijuana in the park.
BERLIN, Germany — Young parents push strollers through the sprawling green oasis of Goerlitzer Park in Berlin’s hip Kreuzberg district on a sunny afternoon. Yuppies in colorful windbreakers treat their pampered pets to a taste of freedom in the central dog run. And on the footpath surrounding them, every bench is occupied by young black men in
Founded to fight copyright restrictions and internet policing, the party failed to capitalize on discontent over the Snowden revelations.
BERLIN, Germany — Bruno Kramm works a crowd dressed in an entirely black tuxedo and a crooked top hat resting on his orange hair. Around him, thousands of people in dreadlocks, T-shirts and thriftshop-chic attire wave signs and shout slogans. They’re protesting internet surveillance ahead of national elections this week. It’s an issue Kramm