The Latest Breaking News from Berlin

Conductor and pianist says he can ‘no longer achieve the level of performance required of a general music director’

Maestro Barenboim previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The German government is moving forward with plans to purchase the Israeli Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile defense system. The German news agency learned from security sources in Berlin that the US would disclose information that would be transferred to Germany relating to the technical aspects of the weapon system. The US…

Germany’s biggest police union has called for concerted action to prevent a repeat of the violence toward officers, firefighters and medical personnel seen in Berlin and other cities during the New Year’s celebrations

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Artist whose prevailing subject was intense love in all its forms, from romantic to erotic and spiritual

The new European Sleeper service will launch in May and will link up London St Pancras, Brussels, Amsterdam and Berlin in just over 12 hours without breaking the bank

The budget airline will be offering flights to all the top holiday destinations from Edinburgh and back for as little as £30, in a limited release of cheap seats.

Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.