The German train drivers union (GDL) on Friday announced that negotiations with Deutsche Bahn over pay and conditions had failed. So-called 'warning strikes' are expected to follow.
Temperatures across Germany are set to plunge this weekend as Bavaria braces for an icy spell, with parts of the Alps and the Bavarian Forest forecast to be hit by heavy snow.
It's human nature to look for a loophole, shortcut or workaround to the rules, but most of the advertised 'dodges' to the EU's 90-day rule are nothing of the sort.
A woman was killed and 20 people were injured after a coach travelling from the German capital Berlin to Trieste in Italy came off the road in Austria.
Ministers approved a new bill that will overhaul citizenship rules and permit dual nationality in Germany on Wednesday - marking a major step forward for one of the government's flagship reforms.
The hunt for a wild animal, initially believed to be a lioness roaming the outskirts of Berlin, ended on Friday with officials suggesting the sighting was more likely a boar.
Around 5,000 people had to leave their homes in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel on Monday night for the defusing of a World War II bomb, with consequences stretching into Tuesday morning.
Normal service has resumed at Düsseldorf and Hamburg airports after activists from the Last Generation group stuck themselves to the airport runways on Thursday morning - but calls for action against the activist group are growing louder.
Austria and Switzerland have officially joined the air defence initiative known as "European Sky Shield," initiated by Germany, in response to the changing security situation in Europe.
The constitutional court in Karlsruhe struck another blow to Germany's fiercely debated Heating Bill on Wednesday evening as it delayed a key vote on the climate reform plans.
Strikes expected to be held next week have been narrowly averted as German rail union EVG agreed to enter an arbitration process with Deutsche Bahn - but a members' vote on unlimited strikes will continue.
After a heated debate in the Bundestag on Friday, German MPs have voted through a number of wide-ranging reforms to immigration that will make it easier for skilled workers to enter the country.
After intensive talks with Deutsche Bahn broke down on Wednesday, German rail union EVG is holding a ballot to decide whether to call a prolonged national strike.
A 21-year-old American woman has died after being assaulted and pushed down a slope by a US tourist near the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria, police said on Thursday.
In 2022, approximately 168,500 foreign nationals were naturalised in Germany - the highest number of naturalisations recorded within a year since 2002. What's behind the increase?
From an exciting new initiative for young people in Germany to shop closures, here are the big changes coming to the Bundesrepublik during the first month of summer.
German government ministers are reportedly close to a final deal on reforming Germany’s citizenship laws – but anxiously waiting citizenship applicants will probably have to wait until autumn to see the new rules hit the Bundestag.
A German court on Tuesday sentenced five members of a criminal gang to up to six years in prison for snatching priceless 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in what local media have dubbed the biggest art heist in modern history.
A 53-year-old man opened fire in a production
hall at a Mercedes factory in Germany on Thursday, killing two people, police
said, adding that the suspect had been arrested.
German transport union EVG on Thursday called a new round of strikes on the country's rail network as workers demand higher wages to cope with high rates of inflation.
