A landlady who kicked a pensioner out of his home of 40 years due to his excessive smoking habit was well within her rights, a judge has confirmed. The man had failed to respond to repeated complaints.
In the latest instalment of <b>My German Career</b>, The Local spoke with <b>Muhammad Waqas</b>, who after working various student jobs to finance his education recently started his first full-time job as an analyst with power company E.ON.
Authorities believe a serial arsonist is responsible for starting several fires in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) over the last few weeks.The latest blaze, which broke out on Friday night, destroyed a gazebo.
A Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" opera has been cancelled in Düsseldorf after realistic death scenes distressed audience members, the opera house said Thursday.
Managers at Düsseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports cancelled hundreds of flights on Friday morning and advised passengers to expect long delays, as they were hit by another day of strikes by security personnel.
Passengers at Düsseldorf Airport faced long delays and flight cancellations on Monday, as security personnel walked off the job in an ongoing labour dispute.
Strikes by security staff disrupted flights on Thursday morning at the Cologne-Bonn and Düsseldorf airports, after union personnel walked off the job for the third time in recent weeks to push for higher pay.
<i>Rosenmontag</i>, the climax of Germany's Karneval celebrations, kicked off in the Rhineland on Monday morning, with parades, music, fancy dress and free-flowing beer.
Customs officers confiscated a foreign currency cheque worth €54 million on Friday after catching an Iranian man trying to smuggle it illegally into the country at Dusseldorf airport.
Despite a drop in foreign investment worldwide Germany has managed to attract more overseas money to domestic projects, according to <i>Wirtschaftswoche</i> magazine.
Borussia Dortmund conceded a late equaliser to draw 1-1 at home to 10-man Fortuna Düsseldorf on Tuesday as Bayern Munich's lead at the top of the Bundesliga leaders remains a commanding eight points.
The mayor of Düsseldorf admits his city is “respected but not liked” and launched a campaign to try to get outsiders to change their minds – taking the :D grinning emoticon symbol as new logo.
The weekend got off to a catastrophic start for the Hamburger SV football club, after fans started a fire in the stadium, Rafael van der Vaart was injured and the team's hotel was evacuated over a false alarm. On top of that HSV lost the match.
German police checking a British man’s truck were astounded to see he was driving on tyres bearing the slogan “Made in German Democratic Republic” – the former socialist East which collapsed more than 20 years ago.
Düsseldorf risks becoming a “luxury ghetto”, as it does not bother to use its social housing budget, leaving the city centre to developers, a housing official warned.
A German family returning from holiday were amazed when their own car drew up beside them at the airport doors – and other people got in. The vehicle they had left safely in an airport car park was being used by a shuttle service firm.
An elderly athletics official measuring a javelin competition died on Sunday afternoon after being speared in the face and neck at a Düsseldorf contest.
Workers on the underground network in the western city of Düsseldorf stopped work after digging up a 34-kilo woolly mammoth tusk more than 10,000 years old, city officials said on Tuesday.
Four suspected al Qaida members went on trial in Düsseldorf on Wednesday accused of planning to set off a shrapnel bomb in a crowd to cause a blood bath – and then to detonate another one once rescue services arrived.
Two wolves will be the stars of a modern dance performance in front of a live audience in Germany it emerged this week, prompting outrage among animal rights activists.
"No Border" activists protesting the deportation of asylum seekers occupied the French consulate and party headquarters of the Green Party in Düsseldorf for several hours this weekend. Further protests were planned for Sunday.
Police watched for nearly a year while customers at a German brothel were regularly drugged so their bank accounts could be raided, and photographed naked with prostitutes so they could be blackmailed.
Pimp, gangster, docu-soap star and now jailbird. Bert Wollersheim, the Dusseldorf “Red Light King” is in police custody accused of drugging, blackmailing and stealing over €100,000 from punters at his brothels.
