The Latest Breaking News from Berlin

Niko Kovac’s heart is ‘attached to Hertha’ but his surging Wolfsburg showed them little mercy in a Bundesliga rout

The West's move to send tanks to Ukraine was greeted enthusiastically from Kyiv, Berlin and Washington

They are expensive and hard to maintain. They run on jet fuel. And they are difficult to operate.

Berlin (AFP) - Borussia Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl on Wednesday said the club wants to hold onto English teen star Jude Bellingham "for a long time".

Warsaw (AFP) - Poland on Wednesday vaunted the key role its tenacious diplomatic wrangling played in Germany deciding to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine after weeks of feet dragging by Berlin. 

After much pondering and perhaps prevaricating, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has broken with a seven-decades-old non-aggression policy by greenlighting tank deliveries to Ukraine. How momentous is this moment? Did Scholz dither and cave to pressure, or did he drive a hard bargain to make sure Berlin did not go out…

German chancellor’s hesitation about sending Leopard 2 vehicles finds sympathy among public

Washington joins Berlin in agreeing to send tanks – but offer will only go so far to keep Russians at bay

My interest in electoral reform began in New Zealand in 1987, taking me to London and Berlin to campaign and research. MMP won out but National and Labour still do not like changes that might threaten their dominance, writes Philip Temple

Russian activist hackers knocked several German websites offline on Wednesday in response to Berlin's decision to send tanks to Ukraine, although Germany's BSI cyber agency said the digital blitz had little tangible effect.

Kyiv seeks to break ‘taboo’ on supply of aircraft as defence ministry announces withdrawal from Soledar