KAANAPALI, Hawaii -- After an outdated stanza of the German national anthem was sung during the opening ceremonies, the United States took a 1-0 lead and was ahead in the other opening match in its ...

Germany has embarked on a heated debate about its national anthem as the country continues to wrestle with its identity 70 years after its post-war rebirth and amid lingering tensions over its ...

The United States Tennis Association has apologised after a version of the German national anthem associated with the Nazi era was accidentally sung at a tournament in Hawaii. The obsolete first verse ...

Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a ...