Later I come to a sort of German industrial hall of fame. The Ruhr region was the Silicon Valley of its day, memorialized here by a double life-size statue of Alfred Krupp, a 19th-century ...

Deep in the heart of Germany's Ruhr Valley, a column of 25,000 angry blue-collar workers and their families has taken to the streets of Bochum, waving banners and red union flags, beating drums ...

amidst the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley. It highlights the father's early morning routine as a factory worker, the children's school life, and the mother's role in managing the household.

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been ...

Bottrop sits in the Ruhr Valley, a dense stretch of towns and suburbs home to 5.5 million people. Some 500,000 miners once worked in the region’s nearly 200 mines, producing as much as 124 ...

Last week the French stated that they would confiscate all the Ruhr Valley industries, punish sabotage with death and resistance with imprisonment. This order, not yet promulgated, in no way ...

The idea of visiting the Ruhr valley for pleasure would strike most people as a bad joke. The name conjures an image of smokestacks and slag-heaps and abandoned gasworks as far as the eye can see.

Schalke 1 - Borussia Dortmund 1 (Bundesliga, February 20, 2009) Schalke went ahead in the 20th minute, Halil Altintop supplied the cross and Kevin Kuranyi hit a fantastic bicycle-style strike on ...