The German city of Frankfurt has become the latest to cancel its traditional Christmas market as the nation
struggles to halt an alarming rise in coronavirus infections.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday said that the far-right defeat in Austria's presidential election was "a good omen" for Europe.
Violence broke out in central Frankfurt on Monday evening when left-wing demonstrators attacked a small Pegida demonstration, leading to serious clashes with the police.
Thousands of German tax-evaders have contacted the authorities to clear their books and pay up what they owe. They are possibly inspired by the example of Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß - or the increased chances of getting caught.
The Whitsun (<i>Pfingsten</i>) long weekend should be glorious, with clear skies and temperatures of 20 to 27 degrees Celsius predicted for most of Germany, national weather service the DWD reported on Friday.
Tourists spent a record number of nights in Germany last year, the country's statistics office said Thursday, with visitors from abroad registering a sharp increase despite gloomy economic conditions.
Hamburg’s main railway station has been named the worst for train delays in a new survey of 20 German stations. The best was Stralsund in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Two people were killed, several people injured and thousands more had their electricity cut after a storm front causing hundreds of thousands of euros of damage battered Germany on Wednesday night.
Terrific thunderstorms late on Monday left emergency services overstretched in parts of Germany, as phone calls flooded fire departments. Hamburg was especially hard hit.
The president of the elite European Business School, Christopher Jahns, was arrested in Frankfurt on Monday under suspicion that he misused his position to benefit private firms he co-owns.
After a lengthy thaw that brought rain and torrents of snowmelt to much of Germany, wintry temperatures and snow will return in the coming days, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Wednesday.
Floodwaters continued to rise in parts of Germany on Monday amid warmer temperatures and melting snow. While the situation in the west remained critical along the Rhine and Mosel, rivers in the centre and east of the country had stabilized.
Thawing snow and ice, combined with rain over the weekend left towns along rivers in Germany underwater, with preparations being made across the country for more flooding.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday renewed her call for a tax on international financial markets, insisting she would not give up the fight despite hefty opposition from her global partners
Much of Germany will spend Easter under cloudy and rainy skies with only the eastern part of country likely to see much sun, the German Weather Service (DWD) forecast on Thursday.
Balmy springtime temperatures of up to 21 degrees Celsius will arrive by mid-week for sun-starved Germans recovering from the harsh winter, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Monday.
Users of the popular travel website TripAdvisor have ranked Germany's top 25 hotels, with the winners ranging from glamorous towers in Berlin to family-oriented establishments near amusement parks.
Premiers from German states with Opel plants clashed on Monday with Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle over his insistence that the struggling carmaker would get no federal financial help.
Munich has been crowned Germany's most economically successful city for the sixth year in a row, according to a new survey published in weekly business magazine <i>WirtschaftsWoche</i> on Friday.
Pilots have been reporting an increasing number of potentially deadly attacks on commercial jets with laser pointers during night landings at major German airports.
Looking for a way to expose her young daughter to both music and English, <b>Rhea Wessel</b> discovers singing children’s songs can be a challenging yet rewarding pastime.
Seven students from the state of Hesse have brought home an unwelcome souvenir from their graduation vacation to the Spanish island of Mallorca – swine flu.
The German mortgage bank Hypo Real Estate (HRE) was granted a last-minute "multi-billion euro" credit line from a consortium of German banks that allowed it to avoid declaring bankruptcy, it said Monday.
The European Central Bank and the world's top monetary authorities on Thursday announced a huge onslaught to boost the liquidity available to troubled global money markets.
