Top politicians attacked a senior official from Germany’s central bank on Sunday after comments about Jews, the latest in a string of controversial remarks that have provoked a storm in the country. Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the six-man board...

Officials in western Germany say at least 19 people have been killed and 80 injured in a stampede at the famed Love Parade techno music festival in the German city of Duisburg. The annual event is meant to celebrate music, love and peace. Rescue...

German prosecutors are investigating whether Russia’s main nuclear exporter broke European rules by routing Iran-bound cargo through Europe—an incident that diplomats say turned into a major battleground as world powers hashed out international...

A father and his 18-year-old daughter were killed today when a 50-ton boulder broke off a cliff and landed on top of their home, police said. Two more people - the man’s wife and their 16-year-old son - were pulled from the rubble of the house in...

Extremadura’s socialist government has launched a €14,000 (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration”. “Pleasure is in your own hands” is the slogan of a campaign...

They’re the bane of city drivers everywhere: those traffic lights that invariably turn to red just as you approach, making even the shortest journey a stop-start affair.But now a German car-maker has come to the rescue – with a device that...

When protesters in Cologne last month managed, with the blessing of the city government, to prevent the holding of an “Anti-Islamification Congress,” the cancellation of the event was widely hailed in the German and international media as a victory...

A BOSS forced teenage girls to take off a piece of clothing every time they got a question wrong in job interviews.

A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.