Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

As friends do, France and Germany have supported each other through recent calamities, too. Chancellor Angela Merkel sped to ...

May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flood warning on Monday morning for the Red River near Gainesville, stating that "major flooding is occurring and is expected to continue." The agency ...

But in the decades since French forces were among the victors of World War II, which ended in Europe with Nazi Germany's surrender 80 years ago, neighbors France and Germany have built a powerful ...

His partner in reconciliation was Konrad Adenauer, who as West Germany's first chancellor led its recovery from the Nazi disaster. Adenauer had himself been one of Nazism's victims, spending ...