German ministers promised on Friday to ramp up security and put more police on the streets to quell public fears, two days after a racist gunman killed nine people.
It's the dawn of a new era in Bavaria but despite claims of a political earthquake, things might not change that much. One thing is for certain though: German politics is anything but boring.
Hundreds of neo-Nazis were expected to congregate on Friday, which marks Adolf Hitler's birthday, for a two-day festival in a small eastern German town where anti-fascist groups have vowed
counter-protests.
Leonardo da Vinci's treasured painting "Lady with an Ermine," a work belonging to Poland that was stolen by the Nazis, has gone on display in Germany for the first time since World War II.
The Social Democrats suffered a resounding defeat in Sunday’s election. <b>Lorenz Maroldt</b>, editor-in-chief of Berlin daily <a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a>, believes the beleaguered centre-left party can now deal with the issues it has neglected for too long.
Pirates attacked a German-owned cargo ship flying under a Maltese flag and captured its 17-strong crew overnight in the Gulf of Aden, officials said Saturday.
