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A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel Bradley from Trinity College Dublin successfully demonstrated that iron age people who were buried in Dorset from 100BC…

Friedrich Merz says he will boost border controls if he wins power in next month’s elections

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner

Insolvencies and job cuts have clouded confidence in Germany's auto town, Luedenscheid.

Conservative parties and far-right AfD lead in polls, with CDU’s Friedrich Merz likely to become chancellor

Injuries are getting worse but a win in Germany would prove valuable

By avoiding the standard cliches, the far-right leader comes across as moderate even as she backs extremist rhetoric, says historian Katja Hoyer

Spurs head to Germany aiming for a return to form

Donald Trump's return to the White House has darkened the mood in Germany a month before elections, as multiple crises shake the foundations on which Europe's biggest economy built its post-war prosperity.