Horst Kohler, a former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who became a popular German president, has died aged 81. Kohler, who was head of state from 2004 to 2010, died on Saturday morning ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country's ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File) German President Horst Koehler, right, hands over the credentials to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the president’s residence ...

Later that morning, former chancellor Angela Merkel broke her silence in the election campaign with a stinging rebuke of Mr Merz, her CDU successor. It was “wrong”, Mrs Merkel said ...

Merkel won power, but nearly blew a huge poll ... Köhler resigned in dramatically abrupt fashion on May 31, 2010. He cited criticism over a radio interview he gave following a visit to German ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill on tighter immigration control ...