In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German empire, set up the world’s first statutory health-insurance system with the Health Insurance Act, which included paid sick leave. Bismarck’s ...

The U.S. put nationwide, year-round daylight saving into effect during World War II starting on Feb. 9, 1942, thinking it would help conserve energy, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Exclusive: Ahead of the 80th anniversary of liberation, bestselling Tattooist of Auschwitz author Heather Morris on the unseen diary that sheds fresh light on the horrors of the Holocaust ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

British freedom and greatness became the theme of German panegyrics, and the British Empire, in those halcyon days, was not even grudged. That was the time when Englishmen and Germans were ...

ECB rate cuts lift DAX to new highs, but inflation data and Trump’s trade threats pose risks. Can the rally hold?

After years of waiting tables at Peter Luger in Brooklyn, he opened Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Manhattan, the first of 35 ...

But Schweitzer was also a product of his time. Born in 1875 in Alsace, then part of the German Empire, and today eastern France, he was influenced by the ongoing and brutal colonialization of ...

Marlene Engelhorn, heiress to a German fortune, joined protesters in Davos. She told BI the wealthy already hold too much ...

One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’ In a conversation with AfD leader Alice Weidel on X, Musk concurred ...