Carl Mortished @ The Times UK takes a look at what links the "honest burghers of Saxony" with the mayhem and chicanery of the American sub-prime mortgage market.

Who's the world police, now? Germans holidaying abroad this summer are being called on to “look beyond the palm trees” and pester staff in ­foreign airports and hotels about human rights concerns, the Berlin foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Cameron Abadi @ Der Spiegel considers the New York festival exhibition at the newly renovated House of World Cultures, a gift from the US to Berlin fifty years ago, "even though trans-Atlantic relations are not what they were in 1957".

The Explainer, Christopher Beam (Slate) last week answered the question, why are European railway workers always striking? Because they're so powerful. That's why.