“That is the legend of the Ruhr,” says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. “Today it corresponds to reality about as well as the ...

The division between Germany’s East and West did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. An invisible “wall” still runs across the country when key demographic indicators are mapped.

Kanye West was photographed at the 2025 Grammy Awards in a T-shirt and jeans while his wife, Bianca Censori, showed off her ...