Police were forced to break up a massive snowball fight in Leipzig at the weekend after some of the 200 participants started attacking trams and buses, according to daily <i>Die Welt</i>.
The University of Leipzig celebrated its 600th anniversary on Wednesday, as German President Horst Köhler warned the country’s educational system was “chronically underfinanced.”
A German tourist has been arrested at the gates of Florida’s Walt Disney World for making a joke about carrying bombs into the amusement park, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
Several thousand students are planning to demonstrate for improvements to the education system and against tuition fees on Tuesday in Leipzig as the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) meets to discuss reforms.
With celebrations underway across Germany to celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Communist East German regime, a new survey says a surprising number of Germans wouldn’t mind seeing the barrier go back up.
Three stressed-out bears in the Leipzig zoo are shedding their fur, leaving them virtually naked as temperatures creep towards freezing, the zoo told The Local on Wednesday.
Hoping to step out of Berlin's shadow, the eastern German city of Leipzig will host its fifth annual Designers’ Open event this weekend to highlight the city's up-and-coming creative scene.
More than 100 people were arrested in Leipzig on Saturday evening after police broke up a demonstration by neo-Nazis and then tackled a large group of anarchists.
Thousands of spectators are expected at the battlefields south of Leipzig over the weekend to watch around 800 history buffs re-enact the Battle of the Nations, which proved decisive in Napoleon’s eventual defeat.
German President Horst Köhler may have made embarrassing factual errors in his speech on Friday celebrating the October 9, 1989 demonstration in Leipzig, his office has admitted.
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents <b>Soula Parassidis</b>, a Canadian soprano singer who now performs at the Leipzig Opera after arriving with nothing but a suitcase.
The town of Plauen in Saxony is seeking to insure its place in history books, alongside Berlin and Leipzig, with plans for a memorial to East Germany's peaceful demonstrations on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The accused murderer of eight-year-old Michelle confessed to the crime and apologised to her parents as his closed trial began at a Leipzig court on Monday.
An 18-year-old inmate of a juvenile home in Saxony was repeatedly tortured by other inmates and eventually committed suicide. Prosecutors have charged two inmates with attempted murder the magazine <i>Focus</i> reported Sunday.
Each year, the eastern German city of Leipzig becomes a Mecca for thousands of gothic scene fans for four days of gloomy goodness. <b>Rebecca Miller</b> documents the darkness.
New findings by a German-American team of researchers show that Neanderthal childbirth may have been just as difficult – if more primitive – than in humans.
A German publishing house is releasing a full-length German translation of the Koran in audio book form on Thursday, coinciding with the opening of the Leipzig book fair.
<b>A 19-year-old has been arrested after turning himself into police for the murder of 8-year-old Leipzig girl Michelle, the <i>Leipziger Volkszeitung</i> reported on Monday.</b>
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday called for a memorial to German reunification in the eastern city of Leipzig – the scene of mass demonstrations leading to a peaceful revolution in communist East Germany.
New Year’s celebrations in several German cities were marred by violent skirmishes with the police – but a million people gathered peacefully to ring in 2009 at the country’s largest <i>Silvester</i> party in Berlin.
The highest German prizes for historical preservation will be awarded in Leipzig on Wednesday, honouring institutions and individuals for their work to save the country’s jewels from the past.
