NEXT year’s Berlin Film Festival will kick off on 5 February with political thriller The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. Directed by Tom Tykwer, the film traces the criminal business transactions that finance war and

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama left Germany for France on Friday after drawing 200,000 cheering fans to an open-air speech in Berlin aimed at burnishing his foreign policy credentials. He will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday kicked off a European tour in Berlin, saying he wanted to signal a fresh start in transatlantic ties from the city where the Cold War was won. Obama, who arrived from Israel, met first with