COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany's Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal.

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

If you walk over the bridge, you will come to the old part of town. That's where our famous cathedral is. It is one of the most visited sites in Germany. It took 750 years to build it. Cologne ...

Election posters of various parties are pictured near Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.

For anyone who’s been searching for signs of love in this world, there was proof of it this Valentine’s Day on the Eiffel Tower, where a couple embraced in a kiss that was 674 steps above the avenues ...

Cologne, Germany, June 23, 1963: Led down the steps by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and trailed by a security detail, President John F. Kennedy leaves the famed Cologne cathedral after Mass.

Germany is bringing in some local knowledge for its Nations League quarterfinal against Italy. Germany coach Julian ...