German voters head to the polls with conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz promising a rightward shift. The far-right AfD, ...

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to ...

More than 59 million Germans will vote for the next German leader at around 12:30 pm in a high-stakes election that comes amid a far-right surge and the dramatic return of Donald Trump.