Danish businessman Claus Ruhe Madsen became the first non-German to win the mayor's office in a major German city Sunday with his election victory in Rostock.
About 10,000 people had to leave the centre of the northern city of Rostock on Wednesday morning because of the planned disposal of an aerial bomb from World War II.
Police in northern Germany detained one man suspected of plotting "significant" crimes against the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, after finding numerous weapons at his home.
Sweden's Migration Minister Morgan Johansson has urged refugees in northern Germany to stay put, after declaring that the Nordic nation is now unable to guarantee beds for all asylum seekers.
Sewan Latchinian, the ex-director of Rostock state theatre, is taking his former employers to court after they fired him for comparing their cultural policies to those of Isis, it was announced on Wednesday.
German police arrested an American man after he allegedly called prison officers Nazi pigs, and said they were using Gestapo methods - criminal insults in Germany.
A group of German students have developed a computer app to reunite cyclists with stolen bikes and hinder theft. A year after launching, <i>Fahrradjäger</i> was on Monday picking up speed.
A man with a long history of sexual violence was arrested in northern Germany after a teenage girl he had kidnapped and repeatedly raped managed to escape and raise the alarm.
An antifascist group has claimed responsibility for chopping down a tree planted at the weekend to mark Germany’s worst xenophobic attack in Rostock 20 years ago, saying the tree was a “slap in the face” to the victims.
Thousands gathered in Rostock at the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the country’s worst xenophobic attack since the war. The Local’s <b>media roundup</b> shows how the president failed to impress by sticking to the past.
A young man hears his doorbell late at night and finds a newborn baby on his doorstep – this not the start of a third-rate Hollywood comedy, it happened in Germany on Wednesday.
Staying sexually active in old age keeps your brain ticking, according to a recent study in which 70 percent of those Germans over 75 said they were happy with their antics between the sheets.
Two German anti-globalisation protesters detained for five days in 2007 to prevent them from demonstrating against a G8 summit won a victory at the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday.
Nuclear material and dangerous chemicals for the nuclear power industry are reportedly being shipped through the Baltic port city of Rostock without anyone being informed.
Police said on Friday that the man who was beaten to death in Rostock on Thursday was killed in a senseless argument over whose drinks wagon was better-looking.
Up to 50 MPs in Germany's ruling coalition may vote against the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism (EFSM), according to a eurosceptic MP in the government's junior partner, the Free Democratic Party.
More than 25 centimetres of new snow disabled traffic throughout northern Germany on Saturday, particularly in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where Baltic islands have been cut off.
A burglar breaking into a workshop outside of Rostock chose not to steal the construction company’s expensive equipment – opting instead for calendars of scantily clad women.
After the latest football violence left 29 police slightly injured in Rostock, the police union on Wednesday demanded Germany’s leagues pay up to €50 million a season to combat hooliganism.
After a passionate debate at their annual party conference in Rostock, the Green party decided against calling for an immediate military withdrawal from Afghanistan in favour of a step-by-step solution.
