Paper apologises for Kohl front page

Berlin: A left-leaning German newspaper is apologising for a front-page headline on the death of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl that some considered distasteful. The conservative Kohl, who spearheaded Germany’s reunification in 1990, died on Friday at age 87. On Saturday, the daily Tageszeitung’s headline was “Blooming Landscapes,” an allusion to Kohl’s promise of an economically flourishing eastern Germany, over a picture of wreaths. It did not go down well with readers.