Merkel this week concluded her attendance at her final Cop summit as Germany’s leader, marking more than a quarter-century as an international figure, writes Borzou Daragahi ...

ANGELA Merkel has dressed to impress for the opening of the Bayreuth's legendary annual opera festival in southern Germany - while calls for her to cap migration grow louder.

In 2008, Angela Merkel attended the inauguration of Norway’s new national opera house in Oslo. For the occasion, she wore a customary black theater gown with a deep cleavage .