BERLIN: The World Health Organization warned Thursday Europe was seeing the first outbreak of a lethal bacteria, as its death toll climbed to 18 and the first suspected cases were reported in the US.
The WHO advisory came as German and Chinese (...)
The 60th Berlin Film Festival wrapped up Sunday after crowning Roman Polanski best director, although the filmmaker who is under house arrest in Switzerland over a 1977 sex case missed the premiere of his latest movie.
Polanski won the plaudit (...)
A big-budget German movie about the Nazis most successful propaganda picture and the pact with the devil sealed by its lead actor premiered to boos Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival.
Jew Suss - Rise and Fall by Oskar Roehler tells the true (...)
The debut feature of an Afghan-German director joined the running for the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival Wednesday, one of a clutch of features taking a fresh look at Islam at this year s event.
Shahada (Faith), the film school graduation (...)
Leonardo DiCaprio called the traumatized World War II veteran he plays in the latest Martin Scorsese film the most demanding role he has done for the director, ahead of its world premiere Saturday.
Oscar-winner Scorsese and his favorite actor (...)
Roman Polanski s new film The Ghost Writer premieres Friday at the 60th Berlin Film Festival but the director, under house arrest in Switzerland, will be a no-show at the red-carpet gala.
The Ghost Writer stars Pierce Brosnan as a former British (...)
The Berlin Film Festival, now in its 60th year, was a child of the Cold War, a propaganda tool of the Allies, and a frequent political battleground that reached far beyond the cinema doors.
The anniversary has given the Berlinale, as the event is (...)
DRESDEN: Elwy Okaz told a German court Monday how his pregnant wife was murdered before his eyes in a frenzied Islamophobic attack, in a case that has inflamed tempers in the Muslim world.
On the first day of the trial of Russian-born German (...)
DRESDEN: A man accused of killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in court in a frenzied Islamophobic attack went on trial in Germany Monday in a case that inflamed tempers throughout the Muslim world.
Prosecutors say the defendant, Alex Wiens, then (...)