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 ...

Angela Merkel wrote a 736-page memoir to secure her crumbling legacy. The effort is backfiring. Her new book, “Freedom”—published in late November in nearly 30 languages—is riling up even some of her ...

Angela Merkel has set out to secure her reputation in a 700-page memoir in which the former German chancellor defends her 16 years in office. Critics increasingly believe that her leadership led ...

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 ...

After a decade and a half, the era of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming to an end. Having chosen not to run in national elections this month, she will become the country’s first premier to ...

The center-left Social Democratic Party in Germany has narrowly claimed victory in an election that marks an end to the 16-year era of Angela Merkel’s conservative chancellorship. We look at what this ...

BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel will leave office as one of modern Germany’s longest-serving leaders and a global diplomatic heavyweight, with a legacy defined by her management of a succession of crises ...

How will she be remembered? For all the justified criticism of Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor – that she is a master of getting through crises without ever quite resolving them – she will be ...

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will step down in September after a remarkable career on behalf of her nation. But she leaves behind a controversial pipeline partnership with Moscow that will ...

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 accomplished much but leaves a disappointing legacy. With partners in France and America, she held Europe together through the global financial crisis, sovereign debt meltdowns in ...

Germans vote Sunday for a new parliament and government, and longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to step down when a new government is formed. Loveday Morris, Berlin bureau chief at The Washington ...