Young people who commit violent crimes in Germany often go unpunished, according to a report in the newsmagazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>. Most cases are dropped or offenders given suspended sentences.
A majority of Germans could do without changing their clocks an hour twice a year, according to a new survey. Women especially don't care much for springing forward or falling back.
After calling off its sold-out European tour, German teen rock band Tokio Hotel has cancelled upcoming US dates, according to German tabloid daily <i>Bild</i>, because the group's lead singer is being treated for a cyst on his larynx.
In the wake of allegations that the more than 100 animals have 'disappeared' from the Berlin Zoo, its director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz has admitted to aiding in the deaths of four wild cats in 1991.
The planned construction of the high-tech Transrapid maglev train in Bavaria has been cancelled due to massive cost increases, Germany's transportation minister announced on Thursday.
Only days after a German woman was killed after someone threw a wood block onto her car from an Autobahn overpass, a motorist in the Ruhr Valley avoided injury in a similar incident.
A 24-year-old German man in has been sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for habitually riding public transportation without a ticket, the district court in Essen announced on Tuesday.
Some 40,000 German doctors are expected to join a protest on Tuesday of the country's medical policies by closing their practices across the country until the end of the week.
Despite the strong euro, steady orders are fostering unexpected new growth in the German metal and electronics industries, according to the employer’s association <i>Gesamtmetall</i>.
A 33-year-old mother of two was killed on Sunday when an unknown person threw a wooden block from a motorway bridge. The block crashed through the windshield and hit the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Six years since the initial deployment of German troops to Afghanistan, politicians in Berlin have started to speak of a gradual withdrawal. A defence ministry official also says that Germany will not cave to US pressure to expand its presence there.
The CSU, the Christian Social Union of Bavaria and sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU, is putting forward its own tax concept that would see more money in the pockets of average working citizens and families.
Hundreds of peace activists took the streets of major German cities on Saturday in traditional Easter marches. This year, the focus was on Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx, has spoken out against the decision by private German broadcasters to show violent action movies over the Easter holidays.
The global boom in biofuels could have dramatic consequences for the food supply in those developing countries that export crops for biofuels, an official at the German development ministry warned on Saturday.
Most of some 7,500 new recruits to the hard-line socialist Left Party in Germany last year came from states in the former West Germany, party leaders told news agency DPA this week.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is calling on the Chinese government to raise the media blackout in Tibet, mass-circulation newspaper <i>Bild</i> reported ahead of its Saturday edition.
