Esme Nicholson

Germany's dense green spruce forests are being decimated by parasites and climate change. It's unclear if planting different kinds of trees would help stop the decline.

Protesters set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Iraqi Embassy in Denmark's capital of Copenhagen, the latest such incident to draw condemnation from Muslim-majority countries.

The war in Ukraine dominated the annual conference in Germany, as Vice President Kamala Harris accused Russian forces of crimes against humanity.

Germany is firing up coal plants and importing liquefied natural gas to shore up energy supplies. Activists are carrying out increasingly disruptive protests, gluing themselves to roads and runways.

The group hoped to replace Germany's government and install a new head of state known as Prince Heinrich XIII, prosecutors say. Some 3,000 officers were involved in Wednesday's police operation.

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to China to meet with President Xi Jinping on Friday, he is under political pressure at home, and from Washington, to rethink Berlin's relationship with Beijing.

Germany has welcomed dozens of the oldest refugees fleeing Ukraine — those who survived the Holocaust during World War II. They've now narrowly escaped death for the second time in their lives.

At Berlin's main train station, hundreds of volunteers distribute food, hot drinks, diapers, toys, warm coats and a helping hand to the Ukrainians disembarking daily.

Olaf Scholz did not elaborate on specifics during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday but he did pledge a new round of financial assistance to Kyiv.

Departing German Chancellor Angela Merkel chose three songs for her farewell ceremony this week. One of them, an East German hit from the '70s, caused some surprise in Berlin.