Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005, and she held that position until she retired in 2021. She was the first ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, Freedom, which is astonishing when one considers how little of substance she ...

Angela Merkel celebrates her 65th birthday on Wednesday, but despite speculation about her health she intends to stay chancellor until the end of her current term in 2021. A series of severe ...

For the past five years Angela Merkel has been lauded the most powerful woman in Europe. Today (25 August) her influence has seen her top Forbes' World's Most Powerful Women list. This political ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop ... Catherine the Great, the German born Czarina of Russia who is one of history’s most powerful women. “She is almost by default the ...

(JTA) — After a German court criminalized the nonmedical circumcision of boys in 2012, Angela ... born president of the Conference of European Rabbis. His organization in 2013 honored Merkel ...

Though she was born in Hamburg, Merkel’s Lutheran minister ... Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP) If this ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop ... Catherine the Great, the German born Czarina of Russia who is one of history’s most powerful women. “She is almost by default the ...

Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor ... part of the peace project of European unity, which had been born of two catastrophic world wars. The former British prime minister, Winston ...