Germany's customs service said Friday it had seized a 4.5 tonne cocaine shipment, the country's largest ever, with an estimated street value of one billion euros.
A collision between a vintage sailing ship and a container vessel in Germany injured five people and sunk the wooden ship which had just been restored at a cost of €1.5 million ($1.7 million), police said.
No-one enjoys getting stuck in a Stau — a traffic jam. And sadly, the scourge of congestion is particularly bad in some German cities. Here are the worst spots.
Several people were injured on Wednesday morning after a regional train collided with a truck near Rendsburg in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
An elderly man who had been trying to park his car drove into a shopping centre in the northern German city of Hamburg on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
What is life really like in the "Pearl of the North"? Our readers in Hamburg shared give their insights into what life in the city is really like. And some had some harsh words for the locals.
Despite the school holidays, the union Verdi has announced a so-called 'warning strike' for Thursday at Hamburg Airport, affecting at least 30,000 passengers.
He's under house arrest in Moscow without a phone or the internet, yet Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's new opera is set to premiere in Germany on Sunday.
Activists from feminist group Femen singled
out Hamburg's red light district for an International Women's Day protest on
Friday, breaking down a gate that seals off a notorious street of brothels.
What's the best thing about working in Hamburg and what is the one thing you really shouldn't do in the city? Help us build up our guide on life in the city of Hamburg by answering these few questions. We will then share your answers with fellow readers in upcoming articles.
Costing €700 more than originally planned, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie was once the butt of jokes in the Harbour City. Now it's among its top tourist attractions.
Hamburg police are investigating the murder of a Syrian pharmacist and refugee activist who was killed in an axe attack in the city’s Harburg district on Tuesday evening.
The docks are eerily quiet at Cologne's main port on the mighty River Rhine, with hundreds of containers piled up and awaiting their journey north on one of Europe's busiest commercial arteries.
A convicted Moroccan accomplice in the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the United States has been expelled from Germany and sent back to Morocco, police said.
St. Pauli fans were greeted with stink bombs and excrement as their team battled to a 0-0 draw with Hamburg in the Hamburg derby Sunday, but fears of clashes between supporters proved unfounded.
Police in Germany are expecting more than a thousand hooligans to clash with trouble already brewing ahead of Sunday's league match when Hamburg and St Pauli meet in the city's first derby for seven years.
With 4,000 British expats and a rich trading history with the island across the North Sea, Hamburg is Germany’s most anglophile city. Centuries after Hamburger merchants first made contact with their London counterparts, Brits have held a special status in the Hanseatic city. Despite the prospect of losing financially from Brexit, Hamburg clings onto a nostalgic vision of Great Britain.
The bodies of two men who went missing while taking a dip in the Elbe river have been found. Their disappearance at the weekend sparked a large scale search.
There are many good reasons to spend a weekend in Hamburg, one of them being the possibility to reach interesting sights and cultural highlights by foot. Here’s a short guide to how you can explore Hamburg’s Old Town on your own.
Authorities in Hamburg said
on Wednesday they would ban some diesel vehicles from two major arteries to improve air quality, making the German port city the first to take the long-feared step.
