Qatar’s interest in taking a stake in German luxury carmaker Porsche is in danger amid hesitation from its main shareholders, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Wednesday.
The number of children at a Japanese school in Germany who have tested positive for swine flu has risen to 46, in addition to three of their parents, local officials said Friday.
As Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to meet Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne to discuss the future of carmaker Opel on Tuesday, Berlin had to deny Economy Minister Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg had mooted a total liquidation of GM’s German unit.
The German government on Monday agreed to dairy farmers’ demands for tax breaks to help farms hit by falling milk prices as some 6,000 protestors marched on Berlin with tractors.
Germany's national hockey team goaltender Robert MĂĽller has died following a long battle with a brain tumour, his team the Cologne Sharks announced on Friday.
A German appeals court overturned a five-year jail sentence on Monday for an obese bus driver who fatally squashed his wife by falling on her during a booze-fuelled row.
Economy minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg called for a dramatic revision of German tax laws in an interview published Sunday by <i>Welt am Sonntag</i>.
Passengers on a plane were hurled from their seats and 14 people injured when their flight from Munich to Lisbon hit a patch of severe turbulence over the Alps on Saturday evening.
Italy's Fiat, trying to drum up support in Berlin on Monday for audacious plans to snap up GM’s Opel unit and merge it with Chrysler to create a new global auto giant, agreed to keep open three Opel plants in Germany.
At least 200 people were arrested in Berlin on Friday night after May Day demonstrations in the southern Kreuzberg district descended into hours of fighting between rioters and police.
A Saudi Arabian woman now weighs just 37 kilogrammes (81 pounds) after doctors in Berlin removed an 18-kilogramme (40-pound) bone tumour from her pelvis, the hospital said on Friday.
The German national football team won against Wales in Wednesday night’s World Cup qualifying game, but star players Michael Ballack and Lukas Podolski had an unseemly confrontation that got physical during the 2-0 victory.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama have agreed to work closely together on an array of important security and economic issues one week before a bilateral summit in Germany.
A supermarket worker in southern Germany was stunned to discover 28 kilogrammes (62 pounds) of cocaine while unpacking crates of bananas, police reported on Friday.
German deputies on Friday approved a first reading of legislation that could lead to a nationalisation of the Hypo Real Estate bank and the expropriation of US shareholder Christopher Flowers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday said the world’s two biggest exporters would work together to help combat the global economic crisis.
An overwhelming majority of Germans wish they could have a Teutonic version of US President Barack Obama, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
Bayern Munich returned from their winter holidays looking as though they meant business judged by the way JĂĽrgen Klinsmann's men swept aside VfB Stuttgart 5-1 on Tuesday.
German billionaire Adolf Merckle, who was in talks with banks to save his troubled industrial empire, has committed suicide by stepping in front of a train.
Two policemen tried for the death of an asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone - who burned alive in a jail cell - were acquitted on Monday in the eastern German city of Dessau, sparking a scuffle in the courtroom.
