A slow, but steady, tightening of the poll numbers in Germany is threatening Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new centre-right coalition, and could, if it accelerates, even complicate her ambition to serve a second term as Chancellor. Opinion...

As the Beijing Olympics draw near, archaeologists are reporting the discovery of the long-lost chariot race track at the Greek birthplace of the games.

Global warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies. Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently...