The German luxury car maker Daimler said on Wednesday it would launch a financial services unit in the United Arab Emirates to offer credits which conform to Islamic law.
A Düsseldorf publisher has cancelled print of a murder mystery because of fears that its subject matter – an honour killing – would put employees at risk for Islamist retaliation, according to news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
German authorities said on Friday that they had arrested a Turkish-German man on suspicion of obtaining bomb-making materials and recruiting people for Islamist terror network al-Qaida.
Berlin school officials and parents are disappointed after an administrative court granted a Muslim high school student the right to pray in between lessons, daily <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> reported on Wednesday.
After a three-year legal battle, an Islamist under surveillance by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has been allowed to name his young son “Jihad,” daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
Interior Ministry Wolfgang Schäuble on Thursday downplayed the threat of an imminent terrorist attack in Germany before the general election in September.
German prosecutors said on Tuesday they would push for a life sentence against a man charged with the brutal xenophobic murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman, dubbed the "veil martyr."
With just over a month to go before Germany's general election, daily newspaper <i>Die Welt </i> reported on Friday that an unprecedented number of Islamist videos encouraging holy war against the country have flooded the internet.
Germany has some four million adherents to Islam, but as <b>David Wroe</b> reports, a small group of Muslims is making a big effort to become a recognised part of German society.
A 29-year-old German convert to Islam confessed in court on Monday to plotting devastating bombings against US soldiers and diplomats stationed in Germany.
The Dresden public prosecutor’s office has charged a man who stabbed a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a courtroom with murder - more than three weeks after her death sparked outrage around the world.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blamed Germany for the murder of a pregnant Egyptian woman in a Dresden courtroom, state media reported late Sunday.
Muslims across Germany prayed on Friday for a pregnant Egyptian woman murdered in Dresden last week, a killing that provoked outrage and anti-German sentiment in her home country.
A Muslim woman is stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom and nobody seems to care. <b><a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a></b>'s Andrea Dernbach comments on Germany’s problematic relationship to Islam.
Calls are growing in Germany for Islam to be granted the same legal status, rights and duties as other recognised religions, with the idea forming the main focus for this week’s Islam Conference.
Six foreign hostages, including five Germans, kidnapped this month in Yemen are alive and being held by Shiite rebels, a tribal source said on Monday. Three other hostages were found dead last week.
An Islamic cleric who has called for the death penalty for homosexuals has been invited to speak at a mosque in the Berlin neighbourhood of Neukölln, the daily <i>Tagesspiegel</i> reported Thursday.
Members of the so-called Sauerland Cell, on trial for plotting to kill Americans in Germany, said in court Tuesday they are preparing to make confessions.
Security officials are warning of an increased likelihood of al-Qaida terrorist attacks against German nationals before the country's general election in September, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported.
Berliners voted Sunday in a referendum on religious education in schools that goes to the heart of how Germany's sizeable Muslim minority is integrated into modern society, reports <b>AFP's</b> Simon Sturdee.
