Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.

At the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony, winners in 12 competitive categories and three special prizes addressed ...

In 87-year-old Harlan Boer’s memory, Dutch flower fields and the smell of cooking bratwurst and schnitzel are as clear as the sight of machine guns and barbed wire.

Northwestern Beijing's Yanqing district has unveiled immersive nighttime experiences that merge cutting-edge technology with ...

But the opening of La Fondation, a 58-room hotel with interiors by the New York-based design firm Roman and Williams, might ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock ...

Get ready for Berlin International Youth Theatre ( BIYT) to whisk you away on a wild ride of romance, mischief, gender-bending and 1980s bangers in their new production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has nearly 23% of its portfolio invested in Apple and Amazon, two artificial intelligence stocks where Wall Street sees material upside. Apple led the market in ...

The Tuesday Russian assault comes under fire. It took months of bloody fighting, but in December, Russian forces occupied the ruins of Kurakhove, a fortress town anchoring Ukrainian positions on ...

Remember how riveting it was to watch Bran hang out in a tree for pretty much all of Season 6? Remember how that was somehow more interesting than his interminable journey into Nowhere, Westeros ...

The Berlin Wall’s fall in 1989 set off a cascade of popular uprisings across Eastern Europe, toppling communist regimes that had long relied on Soviet support. Similarly, Iran’s adventurism in ...