A man from the German state of Hesse has won €15.3 million in the lottery after discovering a forgotten ticket in his coat pocket six months after he bought it.
Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on Saturday when a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia.
A Bavarian ski resort's advertising slogan that could be offensive to English speakers - but is based on the name of a German mountain - has been banned at the upcoming skiing World Cup.
After spending more than a decade in a German prison on false murder charges, the recently released prisoner has been asked to pay a six-figure sum for "bed and board" during his time in custody.
For the last 17 years a worldwide army of online sleuths obsessively tried to figure out the title of what has been dubbed "the most mysterious song on the internet".
Lasse Stolley was looking for a change in scenery after a planned apprenticeship fell through. So nearly two years ago the teenager began living on German trains.
Germany's Scheffelbrücke might not seem like much to look at, but by some accounts it is the most expensive bridge in the world. Here’s what you need to know.
The Federal High Court (BGH) is used to dealing with some of the most high-profile crimes in the country. But on Friday it announced its ruling on a rather different deliberation - whether it is permissible to trim branches hanging over into one's garden.
Doctors at a hospital in Munich had to perform emergency surgery on a young woman at the weekend after she was hit by a cannon ball during rehearsals for the anniversary of the death of a medieval king.
An online dispute between teenage nerds spilled out into the real world on Monday night when over 150 youths threatened to storm the house of a Youtuber known as Dragon Lord. Police eventually had to kettle the unruly crowd.
We have already brought you the weirdest surnames carried by famous people. Who could fail to laugh at the meaning behind footballer Bastian Schweinsteiger's name? But it gets really bizarre when you start to browse through the German telephone book.
A road authority in northern Germany has confirmed that it has attempted to make contact with elves and trolls in order to improve safety on a particularly treacherous stretch of motorway.
It’s been one year since two pandas arrived in Berlin on 24th June 2017, and they’ve got a very particular breakfast routine in Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten.
After their son devised a creative way to tidy up his room, the parents of an eight-year-old boy in the small town of Eschwege, Hesse are now several thousand euros in debt.
After embarking on a cruise with his family to Norway, a boy from Berlin returned home to an unwelcome bill amounting to €12,000, German media reported on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, alarmed onlookers informed police in the town of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, that an elephant was wandering the streets of the Heddesdorf neighbourhood.
A football-mad farmer in Bangladesh has unfurled a homemade German flag stretching 5.5 kilometres in a
bizarre act of devotion to his favourite team ahead of the World Cup.
From now on Germany’s brewers will not be able to describe their beer as “wholesome”, after the Federal High Court (BGH) slapped down a brewery’s claim that this was an appropriate description.
A Penny Market discounter in Hanover emptied its shelves on Monday of products pollinated by bees to draw attention to the significant effect it would have on consumers if bees died out.
