For refugees, landing in a new environment can be tough: new language, new laws, new people. The German government, though, is particularly concerned about one subject: sex.
A small town in northern Germany has sent the Israeli government a bill for €1,263 after it helped pull two secret services agents out of a muddy field they’d gotten stuck in.
A car-chase over a forgotten handbag, a young lothario who got more than her bargained for, and more. Bavarian police had their hands full with strange goings-on on Tuesday.
Milk might be white gold to most farmers, but one cattle farmer in eastern Germany had an even more lucrative white substance swilling around in his barns.
It was the kind of Facebook phenomenon that's become common in recent months: someone posts an image complaining of advantages given to refugees and wins hundreds of likes and shares.
A town in the former east German state of Thuringia wants to leave the socialist-ruled state and become part of wealthy Bavaria. But the reasons are economic, not political, says the deputy mayor.
It appears that an animal lover’s hopes of keeping a parrot menagerie have shuffled off its mortal coil - after their squawking ruffled a few too many feathers.
A businessman from Baden-Württemberg was treated as a possible terror suspect by police in a small Bavarian town after he asked for directions in the town square.
Zoos across Germany are trying to tempt visitors in this Valentine's weekend with information about the love life of animals – but there's plenty of interesting facts amid the marketing.
Apparently affirming the stereotype that Germans always obey those in authority, a man drove into the river Elbe on Thursday after blindly following his Sat Nav.
A couple of revellers at a Carnival celebration in northern Bavaria seem to have destroyed a stranger’s car with their excessively passionate lovemaking.
Cleaners mistaking modern art for rubbish is a problem as old as the style itself. But instead of getting downhearted, artist Romana Menze-Kuhn saw the destruction as part of the art.
There was a special delivery to the Tierpark zoo in the former East of the capital this week – left-over Christmas trees for the elephant herd to chow down on.
Police got involved after a stash of gold worth millions was dug up in the back garden of a house in eastern Bavaria – just after the owner of the house had died.
A woman in southern Germany got rid of an old handbag at a recycling centre, little knowing that her husband had been keeping the large sum of cash inside.
