The Swiss city of Basel and Freiburg in Germany are located a short distance apart. But how does life differ in each place? And which is best to live in? From wages and the population to salaries and travel, here's a look at the two cities.
Bundesliga club Freiburg were dealt a blow when it emerged Wednesday that evening kick-offs will be banned at their new
€76 million stadium because of fears over noise.
A German court on Monday jailed a Spanish man for 10 years for repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy whose mother and stepfather sold him to paedophiles online.
A mother and stepfather charged with selling their young boy online for sex went on trial in southern Germany on Monday, in a case that police say is one of the most atrocious they have investigated.
A south German court on Wednesday sentenced a soldier to eight years in prison for raping a young boy whose mother allowed him to be abused in exchange for money.
Anti-Islam protesters placed funeral candles outside German Chancellor Angela Merkel's electoral office together with photos of young women who have been stabbed to death, some by asylum seekers, police said Friday.
A mother who allegedly sold her young son for sex has been arrested along with six other suspects in a case being described as the most serious child sex abuse investigation in the history of Baden-Württemberg.
A German court on Friday sentenced
a Romanian truck driver who confessed to the rape and murder of a jogger to life imprisonment, after he came under suspicion for the 2014 killing of another woman.
Hussein K. is currently on trial over the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student. He told migration authorities he was 17 and that his father was killed in Afghanistan. But now his father, alive and well in Iran, has told the court his son is 33.
A Romanian truck driver confessed to the murder of a female jogger as his trial opened in Freiburg on Wednesday, after also coming under suspicion for the 2014 killing of a French exchange student in Austria.
Alarmed locals alerted the police on Saturday after the river Dreisam in the university town of Freiburg turned bright green. But police say the liquid doesn’t pose a health risk.
A long-distance truck driver has been charged with the rape and murder of a 27-year-old jogger, whose body was found in the woods on the outskirts of Freiburg in November last year.
The young refugee, who has been put on trial for the rape and murder of a teenage student in Freiburg last year, admitted his guilt in an extensive statement to the court on Monday.
Update: The German Interior Minister said it was "very upsetting" that Greece had not launched an international search when the man now suspected of raping and murdering a German student went missing in their country.
The German government pleaded for calm on Monday after the arrest of a teenage Afghan asylum seeker for the alleged rape and murder of a German student triggered fresh criticism of the country's liberal refugee policy.
Only weeks after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found in a river in the wealthy southern city of Freiburg, another woman's body has been found. Both had been raped before their deaths, police say.
A middle-aged man from southern Germany has died after being attacked by a group of men who took umbrage with the fact he was urinating in the vicinity of a church.
<b>UPDATE:</b> A man threatened to set fire to a fast-food outlet in southern Germany on Thursday night with 12 people inside. The 14-hour stand-off ended on Friday morning when armed police stormed the restaurant.
Schalke 04's disastrous Bundesliga form continued Saturday as they slumped to a 3-1 defeat at home to Freiburg to leave them with two points from their last six league games.
