A 23-year-old man who unearthed treasure worth up to €575,000 with a metal detector is facing embezzlement charges after trying to claim his windfall as his own.
One in six Germans take their holidays at the same place every year, a new survey shows. Whether they reserve the same sun lounger each time around remains open to question.
Germany claimed a historic gold dive medal at the world aquatic championships, taking its first synchronized diving gold at a global championships and their first world diving title since 1973, in Barcelona on Sunday.
President Barack Obama follows John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan in his Berlin speech on Wednesday. Can he match being a Berliner or calling for Gorbachev to tear down that wall? <b>The Local List</b> has six other famous US quotes about Germany.
Famous for making new, long words by sticking several existing ones together, the German language has lost its longest word, after a change in the law killed the mighty <i>Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz</i> (beef labelling monitoring assessment assignment law).
Nearly 90 percent of all top jobs in Germany's publicly owned companies are occupied by men, prompting a women's manager group to complain of improvements coming in only "homeopathic" doses.
Police in Germany launched a nationwide raid targeting dozens of suspected child abusers, raiding the homes of around 40 people over the last few days, state officials announced on Tuesday.
With most Germans hoping US President Barack Obama will be re-elected, the country is to see what happens on Tuesday. In a special-edition Zeitgeist, <b>The Local</b> asked what Berliners thought.
While German officials talk about building new museums, they should first copy their British colleagues and open their collections to the people for free, says <b>Matthias Thibaut</b>, the <i>Tagesspiegel</i> newspaper’s London correspondent.
Police are hunting thieves who stole a mummified hand from a church in western Germany, leaving the small congregation heartbroken over the loss of their popular relic which had been in a box for more than a century.
Angela Merkel’s junior ruling coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, is putting its best foot forward despite facing almost certain wipe-out in May's election in Germany’s most populous state.
Hundreds of thousands of Germans are likely going without power simply because they can’t afford the bills, according to a North Rhine-Westphalian consumer organisation studying the problem.
German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp said Friday it booked heavy losses in its business year just ended owing to massive €2.9 billion ($3.9 billion) in writedowns on its US and stainless steel businesses.
The British WWII bomb discovered in Koblenz is causing an even bigger evacuation effort this week than when it and many others were dropped over the city in 1944, destroying nearly everything.
Plans are being made to evacuate nearly half the residents of Koblenz next weekend so that a 1.8 tonnes British WWII bomb found in the Rhine River can be defused. Two hospitals and a prison are within the evacuation zone.
Germany signed the "guest worker" agreement with Turkey 50 years ago which allowed companies to fill empty workplaces with Turks and changed the country forever. Süleyman Cözmez was one of the thousands who came - and and stayed.
An emotional Lewis Hamilton produced one of the finest wins of his career on Sunday, when he confirmed McLaren's Formula One renaissance with a dazzling victory in the German Grand Prix.
Germany's Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich warned of the danger of cyber attacks Thursday as he opened a special computer defence facility meant to thwart hackers and online terrorists.
Schalke 04 will face English giants Manchester United in the semi-finals of the Champions League after beating holders Inter Milan 2-1 on Wednesday to knock-out the holders 7-3 on aggregate.
Voter approval for Chancellor Merkel’s conservatives has dropped by three percentage points after her unconvincing reversal on nuclear energy following the disaster in Japan, according to a poll released just days ahead of a critical state elections.
People living in the Munich area are paying double the national average for real estate and residential rentals, according to a survey that reveals massive property price differences across the country.
Despite erratic weather that will bring rain and temperatures as warm as 10 degrees Celsius in southern Germany this week, much of the nation can expect a “White Christmas,” the German Weather Service (DWD) predicts.
The blizzard “Petra” hammered Germany with more snow on Friday, causing countess road accidents, shutting down air traffic and trapping hundreds of people in an icy train.
Anti-nuclear campaigners are organising demonstrations and rallies in 50 cities across Germany on Monday, to show opposition to the transports of radioactive waste due to travel through the country in the middle of December.
