The Voice of America (VOA) went on air February 1, 1942, nearly two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II.

The only known recordings of Germany’s "Iron" Chancellor Otto von Bismarck have surfaced in the former laboratory of US inventor Thomas Edison. (Scroll down inside to listen to recording). 

The Wall Street Journal launched a German edition, breaking into the German market with what its editor promised would be a new, international, perspective.

Hungary's highest court has overruled sections of a new media law, claiming it interferes with press freedom. It is the latest challenge to the conservative government.

Italy and Greece scored the lowest among euro-area countries in a global corruption ranking as their inability to tackle graft and tax evasion exacerbated the debt crisis.

Germany is compiling personal video accounts of the events that shaped its turbulent 20th century history as part of a project to construct an internet-based "memory of the nation" accessible to all.

The media web portah The Huffington Post plans to launch its German-language edition within the next six months, the website Meedia.de said this week.

She refused interviews ever since the World War II ended, but now the 100 year old secretary of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels has finally broke the self-imposed silence.

News Corp is planning to launch a German-language online version of The Wall Street Journal, according to a published report.

Italy's right-wing newspaper Libero has found a whipping boy for the country's worsening financial condition: Germany's Chancellor Angelo Merkel is shown on its front-page with a Hitler mustache.

A call to end anonymity for online bloggers following the Norway massacre has been slammed by opposition and even the conservative FDP.

A last-minute deal by the United States parliament to avoid a federal debt default has left the major Swiss newspapers decidedly unimpressed. swissinfo.ch reports.

German celebrity weekly 'Bunte' has fired two employees for reportedly seeking to get hold of photos and videos of a top politician taking drugs and engaging in sex parties.

Although Maria Shriver is seeking spousal support from Arnold Schwarzenegger in her recent divorce filing, she may not need it. She's being offered millions to write a tell-all memoir.

A new website allowing visitors to decide the sexiest members of the German parliament has become an internet sensation, The Local reports. Female MPs from the socialist party The Left are leading the pack (Photo: Ivonne Ploetz, the winner). 

The American Idol judge and the pop-sensation Jennifer Lopez suffered a wardrobe malfunction while shooting live for a German TV show.

A new German TV show has invited viewers to use the Internet to solve a murder mystery. The project is also meant to educate users about data protection. Photo: Vasco and Dina.

Several European television networks have temporarily stopped airing episodes of The Simpsons that poke fun of nuclear meltdowns.

Red Bull founder and CEO Dietrich Mateschitz has said his Red Bull TV programs of sports, music and lifestyle could soon be screened in the United States.

Does nobility matter in present day German politics? The question was raised during a popular talk show that focused on Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’s carefully groomed image.

Australian film producer Emile Sherman is not surprised: the smears against The King's Speech have started even before the Academy Award nominations are announced this week.

Germans love free thinkers, but they're apparently not so hot on free speech. The reactions to Arizona have revived the spectre of anti-Americanism in Germany, argues Malte Lehmingfrom the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.

Two young Germans are being investigated for hacking the computers of pop star Lady Gaga and others to obtain and then sell unreleased music files.

U.S. diplomats describe Germany Foreign Minister as arrogant, vain and critical of America, and Chancellor Merkel as indecisive, documents released on Sunday showed.

The administrator for all .de domain names, DENIC, announced that it would begin supporting the German letter "ß," also known as an "eszett" and pronounced as an "ss," in domain names.

Many top German firms are blocking access to Facebook and similar sites over fears of industrial espionage.

German publishing group Axel Springer, which has operated the license to publish the Russian edition since 2004, says it’s not extending the deal. 

Markus Koch, center, of the German television station n-tv was the first foreign journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of n-tv's presence there, Koch was givcn the honor last Wednesday to ring the closing bell. To his left on the balcony above the trading floor is his n-tv colleague, Katja Dofel.

The New York Times on Thursday blasted Germany as being driven by selfishness and nationalism in times of crisis triggered by free-spending Greeks and bubbles in countries like Spain.

A leading consumer umbrella group urged Germans to abandon the social networking website Facebook unless it scraps planned changes to its privacy policy.