Germany

Five-times World Cup winners Brazil had claimed victory in their last 62 games at home. But that all changed in the 2014 semi-final, leaving the host nation – and the interwebs – reeling.

As France and Germany prepare for their last-eight encounter in Brazil, we look back at one of the most exciting – and notorious – matches ever, the 1982 World Cup semi-final in Spain.

Hamburg’s Hagenbeck zoo shows off Germany’s first walrus calf, born two weeks ago, which keepers call a “sensation”.

With unemployment at its lowest since reunification, a growing economy and a chance of winning the football World Cup, a new study suggests Germany is at its most optimistic in history.

Cave expert Johann Westhauser, 52, who injured his head in a rock fall and was trapped in Germany’s deepest cave system near the Austrian border for 12 days, has finally been brought to the surface.

Ukraine’s new President Petro Poroshenko says he will not give up Crimea and will press for further ties with the European Union, but warns Ukraine must settle for better relations with Russia too.

World leaders and world war two veterans gather in Normandy to mark 70 years since D-Day, when allied forces landed in German-occupied Europe.

Far-right and anti-Europe parties claim major victories across the continent – is this the turning of the tide?

With the prospect of success in this week’s European elections, right-wing parties are creating a new, Eurosceptic bloc. Pauline Lockwood looks at the policies behind this new political grouping.

Scottish nationalists are not the only ones trying to redraw the map of Europe. Here are 10 other countries with serious independence movements.

Until he was exposed by using an incorrect pigment, Wolfgang Beltracchi was the world’s most successful art forger. Channel 4 News meets the man whose forgeries are now valuable in their own right.

Michael Schumacher, the former F1 driver who suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident last year, is showing “moments of consciousness and awakening”, his agent says.

England supporters are having to pay a hefty £90 for the latest World Cup replica shirt – but compared to other nations going to Brazil they may not be getting such a raw deal.

The US and EU failed to anticipate President Putin’s response to events in Ukraine. But as Andrew Wood writes, the west can benefit from the situation – provided it is firm and sticks together.

The escalating crisis in Crimea has set a number of western powers against Russia in a battle of words that includes threats of “costs” and allegations of illegal behaviour.