The leaders gathered on a footbridge over the Rhine River separating France and Germany.

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He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Ruhr and crossed the Rhine River into Nazi Germany.

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Markus Hecher is the owner of Burg Rheinstein, a castle on a scenic stretch of the Rhine River that dates back to the 13th century.

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But in one of the driest Novembers on record, Rhine River levels have dropped dramatically, revealing an unusually large trove of unexploded bombs in its bed.

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Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on the city on the Rhine river for the two-week conference, and Bonn police told the AP they are prepared for violence.

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The far bank of his Rhine river, for example, is tilted up too high, creating a scene, much as in a painting, that is optically wrong but expressively right.

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They were exposed 65 years after being dropped when water levels in the Rhine River fell to record lows, prompting what officials said was the biggest evacuation since the war's end.

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As the train steamed along the Rhine Valley, the river sparkling in the sunshine, Slovak documentary maker Matej Minac told his story.

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There's no magic in the Yangtse River any more than the Volga, Rhine or Hudson.

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But for decades, industrial and domestic waste flowed untreated into the river and, not surprisingly, the Rhine was seriously polluted from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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