FANNY BRODERSEN

Janine Massnick, a woman of Germany's Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority, shows a traditional decorated Easter Egg at a Easter Market in Schleife, Germany, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
These Easter eggs have been decorated by the Sorbian community for thousands of years
Members of Germany’s Sorbian community carry on the tradition of decorating Easter eggs. It’s part of the culture of the Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority.
 
People attend a demonstration ahead of a ceremony renaming the street Petersallee into Maji-Maji-Allee,at the so called African Quarter, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large swaths of Africa. Immigrants from Africa such as Mnyaka Sururu Mboro are helping shed a light on that part of history.
 
An election poster of the far-right anti-immigrant party Alternative For Germany party AfD, with with the slogan reading "It's time for a country that is still a home country", is displayed in a street, in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Migrant groups say racist attacks increase in German city after deadly Christmas market violence
Migrants who have settled in the German city of Magdeburg say they have experienced a sharp increase in racism and anti-immigration sentiments following a deadly Christmas market attack last year.
 
Police officers remove a protestor from the street during a demonstration ahead of the AfD's national party conference, in Riesa, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Daniel Wagner/dpa via AP)
Far-right party’s convention draws protests as Germany’s election campaign warms up
Thousands of people have demonstrated against a convention of the far-right Alternative for Germany, blocking some roads and delaying the meeting’s start as the country’s major parties launched their campaigns for next month’s general election.
 
Terumi Tanaka, a representative of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, bows after speaking during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Japanese survivor of atomic bomb recalls its horrors in Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
A Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of an organization of survivors.
 
Representative of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Terumi Tanaka, speaks during a press conference ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)
Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Putin to understand the destructiveness of nuclear weapons
Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop making nuclear threats.
 
South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaks during a news conference at the Swedish Academy in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden, Friday Dec. 6, 2024. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)
Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea
South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country.
 
Christian Brueckner, center, stands in the courtroom at Braunschweig District Court before the start of the trial, in Brunswick, Germany, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (Michael Matthey/dpa via AP)
German court acquits McCann suspect of unrelated sexual offense charges
A German court has acquitted a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in a trial on charges of unrelated sexual offenses.
 
Governor of Brandenburg and Germany's Social Democratic Party, SPD, top candidate for the state election Dietmar Woidke arrives at the party's election event after first exit polls announced in Potsdam, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Scholz’s Social Democrats hold back the far right in German state vote
The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. They gained a narrow edge over a growing far-right party.
 
People stand in the line to buy doner kebab while the Turkish cook prepares the doner kebabs, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Turkey wants to regulate Germany’s beloved döner kebab street food
The döner kebab is beloved in Berlin. In Turkey, the dish originally was made of lamb and sold only on a plate. But in the 1970s, Turkish immigrants in Berlin opted to serve it in a pita and tweak the recipe to make it special for Berliners.
 
German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz watches the media at a joint news conference with Markus Soeder, Christian Social Union party leader and state governor of Bavaria, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German opposition Christian Democrats tap leader Friedrich Merz as their candidate for chancellor
Germany’s opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union has chosen its leader Friedrich Merz to be its candidate for chancellor in next year’s national election.
 
Emily, a new born Rothschild's Giraffe, born on Aug. 11, 2024. stands in front of her mother Katharina, during a name giving event at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Naming 2 baby giraffes is a tall order for a Berlin zoo
Naming two baby giraffes turned out to be a tall order this summer for a Berlin zoo. After the half-siblings were born on June 24 and Aug. 11 in the Tierpark, one of the city’s two zoos, officials turned to a school class and the 18-year-old daughter of the zoo director for inspiration.
 
Currywurst, Germany's sausage with curry sauce, served on a cardboard platter with French fries and mayonnaise at Konnopke's Imbiß, a fast-food joint under the tracks at the Eberswalder Straße U-Bahn station, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 24, 2024. The currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on offer at the European Championship this summer. The currywurst is considered a fast-food delicacy in a country where the humble sausage enjoys great importance. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Underappreciated outside Germany, will the currywurst win new fans at Euro 2024?
The currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on offer at the European Championship this summer. The pork sausage garnished with curry sauce can be served with skin or without.
 
Erdina Laca, a 45-year-old asylum seeker, shows her special payment card in front of a grocery store, in Eichsfeld, Germany, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Across Germany, cities and counties are introducing new payment cards for asylum-seekers. The new rule, which was passed by parliament last month, calls for the migrants to receive their benefits on a card that can be used for payments in local shops and services. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it’s designed to curb migration
New payment cards are being introduced for asylum-seekers in Germany. The new rule was passed by parliament last month. It calls for migrants to receive some of their benefits on a card that can be used for payments in local shops and for services.