Many households and businesses in south-west Berlin face days without electricity after high-voltage power lines were damaged by a fire which city authorities said Sunday was a result of a politically...

Berlin's mayor said on Monday the German capital's core infrastructure needed better protection two days after an arson attack on a power station left tens of thousands of people without power.

Early on Saturday morning, a fire on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal to a power station damaged several key power lines, affecting the city's Nikolassee, Zehlendorf, Wannsee and Lichterfelde dist...