A series of missteps before and after the deadly attack on a Berlin Christmas market on Monday are leading people to ask how authorities didn't prevent the tragedy.
German police are searching for a Tunisian man whose ID document they found in the truck used to attack a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, German media report.
Update: The German Interior Minister said it was "very upsetting" that Greece had not launched an international search when the man now suspected of raping and murdering a German student went missing in their country.
On Thursday morning a flight carrying 34 rejected asylum seekers arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul. They were the first people to leave Germany in a highly contested programme of "collective deportations" to the war-torn country.
The German Defence Minister was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday aiming to conclude a training deal for Saudi military officers, eliciting sharp criticism from German left-leaning parties.
German public broadcaster ARD came under fire on Tuesday, accused of having ignored a rape-murder case in which an Afghan refugee is the top suspect for fear of fueling anti-migrant sentiment.
The German government pleaded for calm on Monday after the arrest of a teenage Afghan asylum seeker for the alleged rape and murder of a German student triggered fresh criticism of the country's liberal refugee policy.
A German rail dispatcher who admitted that his negligence caused a train crash that killed 12 people has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key ally on Sunday night as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after losing a referendum on constitutional reform. But anti-immigrant populists in Germany welcomed the result.
German officials confirmed that an agent with the country's domestic spy service, the BfV, was in fact a suspected Islamist. Then media reported he had also once been a porn actor. Here's what we know so far.
The most recent Lufthansa strike that started last week has now impacted more than half a million travellers as it continues this week. Here's what you need to know about how it could affect you.
US President-elect Donald Trump received an invite to Munich from the arch-conservative leader of Bavaria this week, and even won praise from the leader of the far-left Die Linke (Left Party).
Update: German flagship carrier Lufthansa said on Thursday that it would scrap 830 scheduled flights for Friday as a pilot strike extends into a third day.
Update: Germany's flagship carrier said it would cancel 912 flights on Thursday after nearly 900 flights were called off on Wednesday due to an ongoing pilot strike.
Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa said it would cancel nearly 900 flights on Wednesday because of a strike by pilots, causing travel disruptions for tens of thousands of passengers in the latest escalation of a long-simmering pay dispute.
Volkswagen intends to cut 30,000 jobs by 2020 as part of a huge savings plan aimed at helping the German auto giant recover from the dieselgate emissions cheating scandal.
German police on Tuesday raided 200 sites across ten states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
The pilots' union Cockpit announced on Monday that it will be calling new strikes on Lufthansa flights after talks with Germany's largest air carrier broke down.
Police started rolling out high security measures in central Berlin on Monday in anticipation of Barack Obama's final visit to Berlin as President of the USA.
After a Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Thursday, German soldiers shot dead two men who approached the compound on motorbikes, according to Spiegel.
Update: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned on Wednesday that US foreign policy will become more unpredictable after Donald Trump was elected president, making things "more difficult".