The progress of several tonnes of nuclear waste being transported a final 20 kilometres to Germany's Gorleben storage facility was hindered by protesting environmentalists on Monday.
Thousands of members of IG Metall, Germany's biggest industrial union, walked off the job in a series of limited strikes early Saturday morning to demand an eight percent pay increase in the metalworking and electronics sectors.
The spat between football skipper Michael Ballack and German national trainer Joachim Löw is apparently over, after the Chelsea player said he will apologise for his criticism of the coach's treatment of senior players.
The German cycling world suffered two major shake-ups on Thursday when public television broadcaster ARD cancelled coverage of the Tour de France next summer and the German Cycling Federation (BDR) called off the Tour of Germany entirely.
German researcher Harald zur Hausen has been awarded half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Intitute announced in Stockholm on Monday.
The German job market is proving resilient despite turbulence on the global financial market, as figures released on Tuesday showed unemployment in Europe’s largest economy sank to its lowest level in 16 years in September.
The Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, has labelled Germany “the Fourth Reich” amid a dispute with Berlin over efforts to hinder tax evasion in the tiny Alpine statelet.
The European Commission will bring new court action against Germany in a long-running stand-off with Berlin over a law shielding Volkswagen from takeovers, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
