Dairy farmers who dumped truckloads of milk in protest of EU policies last week in Saxony-Anhalt are now under investigation after more than a tonne of fish died in a nearby pond over the weekend, a police spokesperson told The Local on Monday.
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist, architect and activist behind Beijing's âBirdâs Nestâ Olympic stadium had emergency brain surgery in Munich on Monday night for injuries sustained in a beating by the authorities.
A new study shows that German food companies often misrepresent the sugar and fat content of their unhealthiest products, according to the country's consumer protection agencies.
Two construction workers were slightly injured after a World War II-era aircraft bomb detonated beneath them at Ulmâs central train station, federal police said on Thursday.
The long, lazy Indian summer days are swiftly coming to an end, but as The Localâs <b>Kristen Allen</b> reports, there are few better ways to soak up the season than a relaxing and affordable jaunt to the canals of the Spreewald nature preserve.
Bavarian police said on Monday they had confiscated a valuable painting likely stolen by the Nazis after it turned up on an antiques appraisal TV show.
Munich police are calling for witnesses to reveal the owner of valuable 17th-century painting stolen by the Nazis that recently turned up on an antique appraisal television show.
As the federal election approaches, The Local's new series on politicians with non-German roots features Green party MP Omid Nouripour, an Iranian-born Hessian who says his background gives him a special appreciation for democracy.
Two weeks after Hessian police arrested a man who bombed a family's home in Viernheim near Mannheim, officers closed roads early on Wednesday to transport three trucks full of explosives and other weaponry confiscated from his apartment.
Greens in Washington DC have founded the first chapter of a German political party in the United States ahead of Septemberâs national election. The grass-roots initiative hopes to encourage absentee voting by Germans abroad.
While US-director Quentin Tarantinoâs new Jewish revenge film âInglourious Basterdsâ has garnered mixed reviews elsewhere, German critics are exalting the bloody fantasy as a cathartic departure from typical World War II films.
One of the most iconic products of communist East Germany, a little car called the Trabant, will make a comeback at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt this September. And this time itâs electric.
Police were forced to close a bridge in the Bavarian town Schwandorf overnight to clean up millions of dead mayflies that created a dangerous slime after their yearly mating frenzy.
Germany's Ministry of Family Affairs accused EU statisticians on Tuesday of using inaccurate birth rate data in a new study that placed it dead last among European countries.
Stuttgart police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man who bled to death Thursday morning after he jumped head first into a swimming pool at a disco, a spokesperson told The Local on Thursday.
The Bavarian authorities are holding a âmarriage swindlerâ accused of fleecing more than âŹ100,000 from four women over several years with false declarations of love, a police spokesman told The Local on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Tamil activists protested the Sri Lankan governmentâs new choice for deputy ambassador to Germany in Frankfurt on Monday, alleging that Major General Jagath Dias is a war criminal.
The Dresden Zoo renamed a primate they had called âObamaâ in response to charges of racial insensitivity by the Initiative for Black Germans (ISD) last week. The Local spoke with the groupâs director about why the zooâs response still isnât good enough.
Facing accusations of racial insensitivity, the Dresden Zoo has been forced to rename a baby primate called âObama,â according to information obtained by The Local on Friday.
The German office of the President has officially approved US President Barack Obamaâs top choice for the next ambassador Phil Murphy, according to news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> on Thursday.
Controversial Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens plans to preserve the late Michael Jacksonâs body in a dancing pose for display using his plastination process, a spokesperson told The Local on Monday.
A dog in Erkrath discovered a live World War II-era hand grenade while on a walk this weekend, police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia told The Local.
If facing aggressive traffic on a bike (with no helmet, of course) and shouting vagrants donât pump enough urban adrenaline into the veins of angsty Berliners, now they can jump off the cityâs tallest building. The Localâs <b>Kristen Allen</b> survived the 100-metre plunge.
Bringing new meaning to the phrase âHoly crap,â a perfectly preserved 300-year-old broom has been found in a Benedictine monastery latrine in Paderborn, city archaeologist Sven Spiong told The Local on Wednesday.
