Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 - Getty Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful ...

Katharina Thalbach as retired-chancellor-turned-amateur-detective Angela Merkel, in “Miss Merkel” on MHz Choice. Courtesy of MHz Choice This review covers two German TV movies under the title “Miss ...

Last Wednesday, at about noon local time in Germany, the question of who the most powerful woman in the world is became harder to answer. Until then, the easy response was Angela Merkel, the ...

BERLIN — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she felt “sorrow” at Donald Trump’s return to power and recalls that every meeting with him was “a competition: you or me.” In an interview with ...

Telluride: A comprehensive look at the former German chancellor follows her indirect path to becoming the most powerful woman in the world. If Germans are notoriously stoic, then Angela Merkel is ...

Once upon a time Germany’s Angela Merkel was feted as “the chancellor of the free world.” Now a growing chorus of critics at home and abroad is chastising the former leader for everything from a ...

The former German leader was known for speaking Russian and keeping diplomatic ties with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. It was also during her term that Germany stepped up its energy links to ...

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed. Merkel apparently has ...

Editor's note: Angela Merkel steps down Wednesday after 16 years as Germany's chancellor. Earlier this fall, NPR caught up with some people who remembered her earliest days as a politician and asked ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recalled her impression of Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, saying the new American president-elect showed a “fascination with the ...