Another German high-official was recently in the middle of a discussion about a supposedly problematic Ph.D. thesis. After the popular politician and defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the ...

Annette Schavan, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, announced her decision after returning from an official trip to South Africa (AP) From reproductive rights to climate change to ...

German chancellor Angela Merkel , right, and education minister Annette Schavan, left, arrive for a statement in Berlin Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. Germany's education minister has resigned after a ...

Germany’s embattled Education and Science Minister Annette Schavan has resigned over a plagiarism scandal, dealing an election-year blow to Angela Merkel’s government. A university panel on ...