In a rare TV interview with BBC Newsnight, former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi answers accusations that he once referred to German chancellor Angela Merkel in derogatory terms.

In images shown live on European television stations, Berlusconi appeared to gesture to his phone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as if to explain why he wasn’t proceeding with other NATO ...

For a woman who is seen around the world as a disciplinarian, given to lecturing her European partners on the dangers of drowning in debt, the most surprising thing about Angela Merkel is her ...

And it embarrassed even the notoriously tasteless Daily Mail. The tabloid reports, “The alleged remarks — too vulgar to repeat but referred to sex and Mrs Merkel’s physique — were picked ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she had to consider whether she is a "feminist." She joined NPR's Mary Louise Kelly to discuss her new memoir, Freedom.

In her memoir, Angela Merkel doesn’t take the chance to make amends.

To state the obvious: Angela Merkel, who has just won a third term as German chancellor, isn’t very macho. Her preferred free-time pursuit is recreational nature walking. (Also, baking: she ...

Sarkozy: «With Angela Merkel we pushed Berlusconi to resign, he had become pathetic» In the book by the former French president, the reconstruction of what happened in 2011, when Berlusconi ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-left challenger in this year's German election has dismissed former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi and comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo as "clowns ...

Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped ...