Walking past the "Coffee Bar", advertising "breakfast and bakery" and the "Midtown Grill" offering "great steaks, chops and seafood", you could easily be in downtown Manhattan or Central London. But this is in fact Potsdamer Platz, in the very heart of Berlin, the scene for the launch of a new campaign on Thursday to protect and promote German, a move ...

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Well, you should, at least according to Germany's foreign minister. Guido Westerwelle drew plenty of sarcastic remarks when he insisted on speaking German to a British reporter just after his election to parliament four months ago. Now, he's making it his official ...

Sana Rahim was born in the cowboy country of southeastern Wyoming, to Pakistani parents who had emigrated so her father could earn a doctorate. She speaks Urdu with her family, but can't read or write the language. She recites prayers in Arabic, but doesn't know exactly what ...