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1 The Way We Became the G-8 Bunch: The Summit Episode
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2 Picture It: Party Practice
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3 Picture It: Mid Laugh
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4 Take Me to Your Leader: Germany
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5 Front Page: Ceasefire in Basra, Tibet Trouble, HUD Resignation
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6 Ja or Nein? Holding US Election Rally at German Landmark
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7 Germans Raise Steins to Oktoberfest, and Drunk Driving?
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8 Picture It: Long Flight?
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9 The Obamas Host Germany's Angela Merkel For a Warm Evening Dinner at Their Place
Barack and Michelle Obama welcomed one of the world's most powerful women, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to the White House tonight for a state dinner under the stars. Joined by her husband, Joachim Sauer, Merkel became the first European leader to get the American state dinner treatment since Obama came to office in 2009. Tonight, guests will enjoy the capital's late-Spring heat, dining Read more
Hillary Clinton shows her good humor today as German Chancellor Angela Merkel presents her with a potentially awkward present: a framed front-page article comparing their midsections. The German Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper ran a photo of both powerful women from the waist down, asking readers "Which one is Merkel and which one is Clinton?" The White House is hosting the gift-bearing German Read more
Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Fastnacht, whatever you call it, the countdown has begun for the great day of sin on March 8. But much celebrating is to be done between now and then. In Germany, these performers prepare for Women's Carnival Day, which kicks off carnival next Thursday. Doing whatever they please, women rule the day and drink late into the night. Men can join, if they settle the checks! Read more
Is this mean? I jest. I love Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, and Germany. I saw far worse pictures of her all over Berlin last year anyway! Here she is with President Obama during the always-fun Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington DC yesterday. Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her fellow German politicians gathered in Berlin yesterday to kick off that city's beer festival. Beer lovers will tap Munich on Saturday, when Oktoberfest officially begins. Guenther Beckstein, the governor of Bavaria, which includes Munich raised eyebrows recently when he said, "If one drinks the two liters over six or seven hours at the Oktoberfest, it is still Read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel thinks the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of German unity, makes an inappropriate backdrop for a Barack Obama Summer speech. Monolithic American political figures have given historical speeches in the German Capital. In Berlin, John F. Kennedy declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" and President Ronald Reagan ordered the USSR to "tear down this wall" in front of the Read more
The G-8 Summit gets underway in Hakkaido, Japan today; a three-day meeting of the leaders of the eight countries invited, plus a representative of the European Union. Grown from the concept of a forum of the major industrialized democracies after the 1973 oil crisis, more have been invited until 1997 when the last member, Russia, was invited at the initiative of then US President Bill Read more
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for his followers to end fighting in Basra, the ceasefire coming after six days of violence in the port city. In return, al-Sadr is demanding concessions from Iraq’s government. Those concessions include general amnesty for his followers, release of all imprisoned members of the Sadrist movement who have not been convicted of crimes, and a return of Read more
Royal engagement: William and Kate kick off a lifetime of charity appearances Jack White and Karen Elson are throwing a divorce party Find out more about Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin Who beat Pippa Middleton for rear of the year? Sexualized activism: PETA's nude campaigns The Obamas host Germany's Angela Merkel for a state dinner Americans are more likely to support abortion Read more
