you'll be pleased to know you can look forward to an longer lie-in on Sunday as the clocks are set to go back once again. Daylight savings time (DST), which is known in German as Winterzeit ...

While dark mornings are inevitable in winter, turning the clocks back gives us an extra hour of natural light. At least 15 minutes' exposure to natural daylight, as early as possible in the day ...

Germany purchased these islands from Spain in 1899 after Spain’s defeat by the United States in the Spanish-American War. Japan took them over after World War I and the United States ...

Germany’s government on Wednesday significantly downgraded its forecasts for economic growth, expecting the economy to contract for a second year in a row, as the traditional driver of the ...

Daylight saving time began in March, always on the second Sunday of that month, when we set our wall clocks one hour ahead for "spring forward." In November, daylight saving time "ends," and we'll ...

The first clock change was introduced by the German government in 1916 during the first world war as a means of saving energy - the longer the daylight hours lasted, the less electricity required.

The move is seen by grammar purists as a further encroachment of English into German. Traditionally, apostrophes have not been used to indicate possession in German-speaking countries. The Council ...

Marlboro-maker Philip Morris said Tuesday it planned to close down its two production sites in Germany, citing falling demand for cigarettes among Europeans.

Germany hopes the measures will allow it to fill gaps in the health industry — for instance in nursing homes and hospitals — as well as in the IT and construction sectors.

0615 GMT – The tight trading ranges in recent days shouldn’t mask German Bunds’ specific weakness beneath the surface, says Christoph Rieger, head of rates and credit strategy at Commerzbank ...

One of the largest suppliers, ZF, announced this year that it would cut up to 14,000 jobs within four years, citing a drop in demand for electric vehicles among the reasons. Last year, the German ...

However don't forget to manually change your alarm clocks, analogue wall clocks ... in the UK a year after his death. Soon after, Germany and Austria also adopted Daylight Saving Time.