A memorial of candles, flowers and soft toys for the victims of a knife attack in Aschaffenburg where police arrested an Afghan man as the mai…
Merz says US President Donald Trump has little interest in Europe
A voter wearing a traditional Bavarian dress casts her ballot in Kochel, southern Germany
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at a polling station in Potsdam near Berlin
Friedrich Merz, whose CDU/CSU alliance won Germany's election, is now set to become Germany's next chancellor
Supporters hold up signs reading 'Chancellor' and 'Merz' during the final campaign event of the Christian Democratic Union party in Munich
Supporters of Germany's conservatives cheer as exit polls predict win
The AfD's Alice Weidel after the election night party in Berlin
Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union
Bavaria's state premier Markus Soeder, who heads the CSU, the sister party of Merz's CDU