The popularity of most politicians follows a similar course. Some grow to be palatable enough to win an election and then fall increasingly out of favour before eventually being booted out. Their ...

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel received her nation's highest honor Monday – becoming only the third leader to claim the award. Merkel received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Germany is set to get a new chancellor, an acclaimed documentary examines the leadership and legacy of a ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party congress in Hamburg, Germany on December 7. The sign reads: "Thank you Angela Merkel". (REUTERS Photo) HAMBURG, December ...

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has received the country's highest honour, the Order of Merit. Mrs Merkel, who was chancellor for 16 years, received the award at a ceremony in the German ...

Premiering at Telluride, “Merkel,” Eva Weber’s documentary on former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, seems like a star-studded fête featuring many world leaders and dignitaries, such as former ...

A Feb. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows several images of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Adolf Hitler. "The Fourth Reich began on November 22, 2005, when Angela Merkel ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel about a new chapter of leadership in the United States. Angela Merkel served Germany as chancellor for 16 years, the only ...

BERLIN — The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in November, nearly three years after her 16-year tenure leading one of Europe's biggest powers ended. The roughly ...

Little is known about how Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel is spending her retirement, and that seems to be the way she likes it. Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for ...

Time owes whatever readers it has left a solemn apology. Today, Germans are suffering the bitter fruits of nearly every major economic and geopolitical decision Merkel made as chancellor. Start with ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was sworn in for her fourth term on Wednesday. BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been a key U.S. ally in the past, but has disagreed with Trump ...