It's not easy to balance work with your personal life – but new research has found three German cities are particularly good at helping their residents get the best of both worlds.
Since the launch of the new high-speed route linking Berlin with Munich in December, the route has carried two million passengers, DB reported this week. This exceeds the company’s expectations as it is twice as many riders as in the same period the previous year.
51-year-old Michigan native and ex-Fox News commentator Richard Grenell was officially appointed by the U.S. Senate as ambassador in Germany on Thursday. Curious to know more interesting facts about him?
On November 9th, 1989, the wall that divided east and west Berlin came down. At the time, there was exuberant joy over the border being opened. But are old divisions still being felt? And how different is the east from the west today?
Thomas Quasthoff left behind a sparkling career as a concert bass-baritone last year to pursue new projects. Now he stars in a comedy show in Berlin's West End. One of the country's most acclaimed performers, he is our German of the Week.
Germany's favourite American celebrity, David Hasselhoff, left the Celebrity Big Brother house on Tuesday evening, just four days after he entered. There are conflicting theories as to why.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their coalition partners are set to win enough votes to continue to govern Germany after the general elections in seven weeks' time, a poll said Thursday.
After three people died in Germany's Baltic waters this week, police are warning bathers not to underestimate the power of the sea. The body of a young man was also pulled from a lake in Berlin on Thursday.
John Kerry on Tuesday makes his first trip as US Secretary of State to Berlin, a city where his boyhood bike rides during the Cold War helped shape his world view.
While the family and friends of a young man who was beaten to death in Berlin have pleaded with the top suspect, who fled to Turkey, to return to Germany, officials say getting him back will not be easy, <i>Die Welt</i> reported on Sunday.
German grandparents could be legally entitled to time off work to help look after new grandchildren, initial details from a family ministry proposal suggest.
As Bayern Munich gears up for Saturday’s Champions League final against Chelsea in Munich, other battles are also shaping up elsewhere in German football.
German President Christian Wulff's office was aware of alleged improprieties by his former spokesman as early as 2010, a magazine reported on Wednesday as pressure increased on the embattled head of state.
A storm front swept across Germany on Sunday evening, pummelling several states with rain and, in some areas, ping-pong-ball-sized hailstones. Mud and water was washed across roads and railway tracks causing several accidents.
Newly revealed documents show that Germany's first post-war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was prepared to hand over West Berlin to communist East Germany in exchange for eastern areas of the country.
German banks had to replace nearly a third of all their cash machines last year because they were too easy for criminals to manipulate, according to the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> on Wednesday.
Former Berlin rapper Deso Dogg, who quit music to become a radical Islamic preacher, is facing weapons charges after police raided his home and found ammunition.
A male nurse is under investigation for sexually abusing at least three young boys in the intensive care ward of a Berlin hospital and filming the attacks, prosecutors announced late Tuesday.
Vegetarian activists exposed their hoax on the German media on Thursday, revealing a new Berlin restaurant supposedly looking for human 'donors' was a public relations stunt to highlight the human cost of eating meat.
Insurers are paying a hefty toll for this season’s brutal winter and are expected to cover tens of thousands more accidents this year, a media report said on Friday.
A regional Berlin court on Friday sentenced a 42-year-old woman to eight years in prison for manslaughter after she admitted to smothering her newborn infant.
Eight German soldiers were injured – one seriously - on Wednesday morning in two attacks by Taliban insurgents in the northern Afghan region of Kunduz, the Defence Ministry reported in Berlin.
The German parliament voted Tuesday to lift Nazi-era convictions of wartime "traitors" whose names, 70 years after the fighting started, had still not been cleared.
