Berlin might be Germany’s biggest city, but its network of parks, woodlands, waterways and undeveloped spaces make it popular with wildlife as well as people. <b>Hannah Cleaver</b> went to see what happens when their interests collide.
Go for a walk in the wooded Harz region and you could end up face-to-face with a wild lynx. <b>Hannah Cleaver</b> reports on the efforts to reintroduce the tuft-eared cats to German forests.
German Health Minister Philipp Rösler surprised observers and infuriated the pharma industry on Friday by launching a tough-seeming package to reduce drug costs including mandatory price cuts.
The head of Germany’s independent drug watchdog has criticised the pharmaceutical industry for allegedly trying to muzzle his institute for its often critical stance on drug companies.
Once a menacing death strip during the Cold War, Germany’s stretch of the Iron Curtain has been transformed into a leafy nature refuge, as <b>Hannah Cleaver</b> reports.
German politicians say they’re concerned about the spiralling cost of health care. But as Hannah Cleaver reports, they also appear content to let pharmaceutical firms charge far more for medication that is cheaper elsewhere.
A man shot dead by police in central Berlin on Thursday evening attacked the two officers with pepper spray, wrestled a pistol from one of them and shot at him before being gunned down himself.
Police in Munich say they have an important new lead in their quest to find a woman who was filmed by three men as they drugged and raped her during Oktoberfest two years ago.
German authorities said on Friday they would need another two days to work out whether an internet threat from the teenager who went on a deadly rampage at his old school this week was a hoax.
<b>The hunter has become the hunted in Saxony, with a reward of €10,000 being offered for information leading to the prosecution of whoever shot and killed a rare wolf.</b>
<b>Israel has said it will honour Wilm Hosenfeld – the German officer made famous by Roman Polanski’s film “The Pianist” – for aiding Jews during World War II. Hannah Cleaver speaks to his daughter.</b>
Hamburg’s police chief has banned his officers from wearing woolly hats, even when out on patrol in sub-zero temperatures – because it does not go with their uniforms.
One of the two men accused of the radioactive poisoning murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko would go to London to talk to prosecutors – but is scared of being turned over to German detectives investigating a Hamburg connection.
Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has criticized Georgia for the war over South Ossetia, calling Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili a gambler, and warning against allowing the country to join NATO.
Two sensitive subjects have crashed into each other in Berlin, with a row over an article in a German Arabic language magazine warning readers that shaking the hands of gay men can transmit diseases.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to have stern words with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev over the conflict with Georgia when she meets him on Friday in the Black Sea city of Sochi.
A drug-addicted homeless man who slept for nine years in a luggage locker at Düsseldorf's main train station could face jail after Deutsche Bahn took him to court for repeated trespassing.
