Tickets to the world’s largest board game fair, Germany’s SPIEL Essen 2025, sold out this year, with 220,000 people attending to get first looks at more than 1,700 new board games from 948 exhibitors, ...

Thanks to an innovative approach, the German city has catapulted from an industrial wasteland to one of Europe's greenest cities. Located in the heart of western Germany's long-time industrial Ruhr ...

Coal, steel and heavy industry all featured prominently in Essen's past. But now the reinvented Ruhr region hub is showing off its environmental credentials as 2017's European Green Capital. Samantha ...