DANIEL NIEMANN

People gather at a former water house, a small shop that sprung up in the 19th century to encourage workers to drink affordable water rather than beer or schnapps, that is now a kiosk in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
In Germany’s financial capital, traditional water houses bring people of all classes together
Frankfurt has become Germany’s financial capital, known for the country’s only high-rise skyline. But look closer to the ground and you’ll find a tradition that brings rich and poor, bankers and punks together.
 
Peruvian farmer Luciano Lliuya speaks to the media in front of glacier pictures held by activists at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, before a first hearing of his climate damages case against the German energy company RWE for its carbon emissions, which may have been contributing to the melting of a nearby glacier that could flood his home, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A Peruvian farmer takes German energy giant RWE to court in a fight to hold polluters accountable
A German court has started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s case against major energy company RWE. His lawsuit argues that global warming fueled by the firm’s historical greenhouse gas emissions ultimately poses a risk to his home.
 
Immo Ortlepp performs to imitate a stag in heat during the German Championship of Deer-Calling at the hunting fair in Dortmund, Germany, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Think you can bellow like a stag? German hunters compete in a national deer calling championship
German hunters tried to convince the jury at a national stag calling championship that they can imitate a bellowing red deer most realistically.
 
Service employees offer "Dubai Chocolate" in a Lindt shop to customers during the sell of limited bars of the Chocolate, in Aachen, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Niemann)
Swiss chocolatier serves up Middle Eastern flavors as ‘Dubai chocolate’ craze hits Europe
Hundreds of curious shoppers, many equipped with rain gear and folding camping stools, lined up for hours in the western German city of Aachen Thursday to get a first taste of a trendy new confection known as “Dubai chocolate.”
 
In this combination image left to right; Economist Daron Acemoglu in Athens Greece, Oct. 14, 2024, Economist Simon Johnson in Washington, Oct. 14, 2024, and Economist James A. Robinson in Chicago, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

Nobel Prize
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 economists who found that freer societies are more likely to prosper
The Nobel memorial prize in economics has been awarded to three U.S.-based academics who studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper.
 
FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”
 
This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (Princeton University via AP and Noah Berger/AP Photo)
Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the prize Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.
 
This photo combo shows 2024 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, left, and Victor Ambros, professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on and off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it.
 
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Matthias Maurer of Germany demonstrate their training in lunar surface simulating conditions for future moon missions, like the Artemis lunar exploration program led by NASA, at the opening of the new LUNA facility at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
For European astronauts, this place in Germany is the next best thing to the moon
It will be years before the European Space Agency can send one of its astronauts to the moon, but the agency says it’s time to start practicing as it opened a facility in Germany that will let astronauts train in conditions like those on the lunar surface.
 
A participant clears the bar during the first German Hobby Horsing Championship in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany’s first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt
Germany’s first hobby horsing championship has got underway in Frankfurt this weekend with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.
 
Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz lays a flower at a church, near the scene of a knife attack, in Solingen, Germany, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Thomas Banneyer/dpa via AP)
German leader vows tougher knife laws and more deportations after fatal attack in Solingen
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.
 
The alleged perpetrator of the knife attack in Solingen is escorted from a helicopter in Karlsruhe, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (Uli Deck/dpa via AP)
The suspect in the Germany attack was motivated by Islamic State group ideology, prosecutors say
A 26-year-old Syrian man has been ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack.
 
People lay flowers near the scene of a knife attack in Solingen city center, Germany, Saturday Aug. 24, 2024, after three people were killed and at least eight people were wounded Friday night at the festival. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
Islamic State group claims responsibility for knife attack that killed 3 in Solingen, Germany
The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight more at a crowded festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary.
 
Police and ambulances near the scene where people were killed and injured in an attack at a festival in Solingen, western Germany, the German dpa news agency reported, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP)
An attack at a festival in a German city kills 3 people and seriously wounds at least 5
Authorities say an attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen. Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9:30 p.m.