At least three people were seriously injured at the Cologne Karneval when horses pulling a carriage bolted and ran into a crowd on Monday. The parade was temporarily stopped.
After the opening of the €2.5 million facility in southern Germany, animal burial experts have called for pet owners to have the chance to be buried alongside their beloved pets.
A 48-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant horse and fetus found south of Frankfurt is the oldest of its kind known to science and contains unusually well-preserved evidence of tissue from the womb, researchers said Wednesday.
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen was the unexpected star at the opening ceremony of the International Equestrian Federation's European Championship on Tuesday evening, taking part in a display put on by the Germany's state stud farms.
German police on Wednesday recovered two life-sized bronze sculptures of horses worth millions that once stood outside Adolf Hitler's chancellery but vanished in the year the Berlin Wall fell.
A rash of suspected horse poisonings in western Germany, which has reportedly killed more than 50 animals, has turned out to be a deadly illness which comes from the creatures eating certain tree seeds.
Germany's five-time Olympic medallist in equestrian events Isabell Werth was handed her second sixth-month ban on Tuesday after being found guilty of giving her horse illegal stomach medicine.
A woman in Bavaria made a startling discovery as she went to prepare for a morning ride – there was someone already on her horse, and he was passed out drunk on top of it having spent the night there.
Danedream won Europe's most prestigious horse race the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday to give Germany only their second win in the race in a record time of 2 minutes 24.49 seconds.
A nighttime procession of youthful riders in Lower Saxony on Thursday ended in a dramatic accident when more than 100 frightened horses injured at least 44 people, most of them children.
A former US military base in Hanau, Hesse, is to become home to a group of endangered horses next month in an effort to conserve the habitat and protect the rare animals.
Dogs have always enjoyed wide acceptance and man’s best friend, but a German team of scientists has revealed that horses may have been domesticated more than five millennia ago.
Bavarian police on Monday said a man who tried to take his horse with him into a public toilet over the weekend caused over €1,000 in damages after the animal balked.
