The public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig on Monday began legal action against a Bad Harzburg man who allegedly killed his wife with a hunting bow and arrow.
Health expert for the Social Democrats (SPD) Karl Lauterbach has called for health insurance companies to “rethink” their policies for the unemployed, for whom psychological problems are on the rise.
A German couple going on vacation had to change their travel plans on Sunday after the husband joked to security personnel that the metal objects showing up on airport security x-ray machines were parts of a rifle.
Two Germans announced a new world record for the longest-running tennis match after wrapping up 30 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds of play late on Saturday.
A Swedish right-wing extremist with ties to German neo-Nazis may have moved his home base into a €3.3-million villa in the Berlin suburbs, German newsmagazine <I>Der Spiegel</I> reported on Saturday.
The man accused of ripping the head off a Madame Tussauds wax figure of Adolf Hitler in Berlin is unlikely to be fined because he is on the dole and unable to pay, German newsmagazine <I>Focus</I> reported on Saturday.
Underfed models will have no place on the runways or in ads of German fashion houses, according to a voluntary agreement signed on Friday by German fashion industry representatives and sponsored by Germany’s health minister.
A newborn found last week in the Weser river in northern Germany did not die of natural causes but was killed after being born, forensic tests have shown.
A six-year-old girl is in the hospital with a broken leg and possibly fractured spine after her mother threw part of a sofa out of an attic apartment which hit the child.
German train passengers faced delays on Friday when Deutsche Bahn recalled their ICE-3 trains for inspection after a defective axle popped off tracks in Cologne this week, the national railway operator announced on Friday.
Cars mounted with roof-top cameras on them have been trolling the streets of Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt, taking pictures for Google’s “Street View” service. But German data protection officials fear it breaches citizens’ privacy.
Germans can continue their customary complaints about the weather, because the soggy, moody weather is here indefinitely, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Thursday.
Another strike at German flag carrier Lufthansa came one step closer as wage negotiations between the airline and the Verdi services union collapsed on Thursday, according to a Lufthansa spokesperson and the union.
The German Olympic Sport Federation is conducting a probe into the histories of all German coaches and officials, and those found to have been involved in the East German Stasi secret police will not be allowed to participate in the games, the <i>Leipziger Volkszeitung</i> reported on Thursday.
Police raided some 600 homes and businesses in Germany, Switzerland and Austria on Wednesday in an investigation of two online companies thought to be selling chemicals used to make illegal drugs.
A 22-year-old German man has been arrested after wearing a swastika t-shirt out to buy groceries in Kevelaer in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police reported Monday evening.
Police in the German state of Hesse have ended a feverish investigation of reports that a brown bear was on the loose in Lahn-Dill county, saying on Monday that the witness probably mistook a circus llama for the deadly beast.
