The air is filled with dust. A group of teenage boys is kicking a ball around the uneven playing field. It’s a far cry from the silky soft green turfs in German’s professional soccer stadiums. But it’s here in...

Two world records. Two Olympic gold medals. Reigning world champion over 50 and 100 metres. And so very nearly it didn't happen. Britta Steffen gave up swimming after the Olympic games in 2004. She...

Phillip Rösler is the epitome of a modern history maker. Appointed Federal Minister of Health on October 28, 2009, Rösler became the first German with Asian roots to serve as a Minister in the German cabinet. As if that wasn’t enough, the 36-year-old is also the third youngest minister in German history.

Two young men in puffy white jackets and matching hats and pants huddled outside a Berlin subway stop on a recent morning. Their job was to hand out samples of the small-format “Welt Kompakt,” newspaper, yet another attempt by a traditional publisher to lure readers back from the Web.

Gestapo Sturbannführer Dieter Hellstrom cocks his Lugar under the table and points it at his enemy with an arrogant smile. Yet his confidence is quickly replaced by the crushing weight of his own mortality when he realizes there is also a gun pointed at him. As schnapps-fuelled Nazi soldiers laugh and sing the background, Death begins walking