It is starting to look like to be someone in Germany you have to pay back taxes on money that has been stashed away in a tax haven. The spate of apologies is being prompted by a race-against-time clause, a law professor told The Local.
It sounds like a delicious farce - Hartmut Mehdorn, boss of Berlin's delayed international airport is facing compensation claims issued by Air Berlin - filed when the CEO of the airline was... Hartmut Mehdorn.
How many times do you check emails, news sites and social networking sites each day on your smartphone? Most people have no idea, say a group of German scientists, who have developed an app to help people regain control.
We've all done it - woken up somewhere strange after too much booze the night before. But a bull faces the rest of his life in captivity after drinking two bottles of vodka.
German doctors are fighting to keep a system which measures whether medicines do what they actually promise - while the new government says it will be scrapped.
A German man has reportedly been killed in a US drone attack in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although a convert to Islam, he was said to be in contact with German security officials.
The central state of Hesse is set to be the third in Germany to require police officers to wear identification numbers, while others have been wearing cameras in a pilot project to try to reduce the thousands of attacks against them.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under fire for missing Nelson Mandela's memorial in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Although dozens of world leaders made the trip, she stayed in Berlin.
A cannabis farmer was caught out by his own cack-handedness when a cable he set up to power a growing system in his Berlin flat started smoking, setting off alarms. Firefighters called the police who took away 150 plants.
As world leaders pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, many ignore how little their countries supported his struggle. Germany, as ever, has a particularly complex history as Gottfried Wellmer, an activist and researcher told The Local.
The Constitutional Court is again considering whether to ban the neo-Nazi NPD. Is Germany's democracy strong enough to handle a handful of unpleasant nutters spouting hatred? It should be, but needs a hand, says Hannah Cleaver.
Germany's states are making a renewed push to ban the country's best-known neo-Nazi party, arguing it is basically the same as Hitler's party, and is damaging democracy.
Deutsche Telekom is planning to cut at least 6,000 and possibly as many as 8,000 jobs at its IT subsidiary T-Systems, the business newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
Berlin's record-breaking police motorbike display team has disbanded, a lack of cash forcing them to hang up their green leathers for the last time this week.
A senior policeman has won a fight to keep his job despite being convicted of rape and assault - his employers in Bavaria tried to sack him but a court said he could stay.
Christmas trees badly tied to car roofs can turn into deadly weapons if a driver stops suddenly, Germany's motoring association has warned - after conducting a crash test to show the frightening results.
A group of apes in a German zoo have been given a television in their enclosure and can choose between films - while a researcher watches them to see if they prefer action, romance, food or family topics.
Germany's 'Youth Word of the Year' comes from a Turkish word meaning boss or chief. 'Babo' is the best teenage slang word of 2013, according to a vote organised by dictionary publisher Langenscheidt.
German universities are breaking ethics rules by taking millions of euros from the US military for research projects into munitions, environmentally-friendly explosives and drone software, critics claim.
Meet Schildi the bionic tortoise. He was found with a missing leg having probably been abandoned by his owners. Vets in Germany who patched him up and fitted him with a Lego wheel say he's moving nicely now.
Politicians on Wednesday closed a number of privately run homes for troubled children in northern Germany, where kids were physically abused and bullied by staff.
The clocks went back a couple of weeks ago and we should be used to dark mornings and early evenings by now. It is difficult, but don't despair! This week the Local List looks at seven ways Germany is better now the nights are drawing in.
Britain's ambassador in Berlin was summoned to the German foreign ministry on Tuesday and reminded that spying from embassies is illegal after reports that the embassy was home to a spying operation.
