Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to his birth country in September is booking out, with one church service already oversubscribed by eager Catholic worshippers and more than 120,000 ticket requests logged for his five public events.
A chapter of the German-Japanese Society (DJG) on Monday invited young Japanese people to stay for several months in Erfurt to avoid the dangers of possible nuclear fallout from the Fukushima power plant.
A man in Erfurt swallowed €145 in cash after an acquaintance demanded he give him his welfare benefit to settle an outstanding debt, daily <i>Bild</i> reported Friday.
A growing number of Germans have taken up a new hobby they call “urban exploration,” by breaking and entering crumbling structures to create photo documentations of the historic spaces. But property owners aren’t amused.
The German solar industry, once at the forefront in its field, has been hit hard by the bad economy and increasing competition from Asia, the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported Monday.
A squat house in Erfurt, associated with the kidnapping of talking TV bread loaf <i>Bernd das Brot</i>, burned down on Wednesday night, police reported.
<i>Bernd das Brot</i> – a talking loaf of bread from a children’s TV show – has been freed after spending 11 days held captive by leftist squatters, Erfurt police reported late on Sunday.
A pig's head has been found stuck to the entrance gate of a Jewish cemetery in eastern Germany next to a cloth with "six million lies" written on it, police said on Tuesday.
Two historic Renaissance buildings in Erfurt's old city centre in the eastern German state of Thuringia burned early on Thursday morning, a police spokesperson said.
State prosecutors in the German state of Thuringia have requested a 10-year juvenile detention for a 22-year-old mother accused of killing three of her babies as a teenager.
The ruins of the World Trade Center and naked senior citizens wearing Mickey Mouse masks will share a stage Saturday, when a German theatre's sell-out reinterpretation of a Verdi opera opens.
