Nicholas Kulish The New York Times

Throughout the crisis in the euro zone, as governments have fallen, debt burdens have mounted and economies have stagnated or shrunk, Germany has floated above the fray. While its economy has hummed along nicely, its leaders have steadfastly insisted that the path to redemption for the debtors lies in austerity and suffering.

The authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque there where several of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks had met because it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later.The Masjid Taiba mosque, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, was "closed effective immediately," a...

A Muslim congregation applied in November to build a minaret and three golden cupolas on the roof of the old movie theater it had converted into a mosque.

Throughout the crisis in the euro zone, as governments have fallen, debt burdens have mounted and economies have stagnated or shrunk, Germany has floated above the fray. While its economy has hummed along nicely, its leaders have steadfastly insisted that the path to redemption for the debtors lies in austerity and suffering.

The authorities in Hamburg said Monday that they had shut down the mosque there where several of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks had met because it remained a source of radicalization nearly a decade later.The Masjid Taiba mosque, known at the time of the hijackings in 2001 as Al Quds mosque, was "closed effective immediately," a...

A Muslim congregation applied in November to build a minaret and three golden cupolas on the roof of the old movie theater it had converted into a mosque.