Distribution of MI cases by reason of hospital admission and death outside hospital for rural and urban regions in Germany by age group and sex, 2012–2018 combined. Credit: Preventive Medicine (2023).

BERLIN (Reuters) - Quitzdorf am See offers charming forest, heath and lakeside scenery, but shares a problem with other such communities in rural eastern Germany: many of its young women have gone. A ...

As Germany heads to polls on Sunday, and with conservative Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) being the frontrunner to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, rural ...

White clouds still billow from the cooling towers of a coal plant near Spremberg in Germany's ex-communist east but the end is in sight as Berlin phases out the dirty fossil fuel. Thousands of jobs ...