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The AfD is undoubtedly stronger following the Saxony and Brandenburg elections. But it will be shunned by other parties when it comes to forming state governments. What does it all mean?
Germany's far-right AfD party surged to new strengths in elections for two eastern states on Sunday, exit polls
said, reflecting anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy and a wealth gap 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell.
Dozens of German "Extinction Rebellion" protesters on Tuesday chained themselves to the fence of Angela Merkel's chancellery, demanding she declare a "climate emergency".
Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a suspected accomplice of the attacker who ploughed a truck through a busy Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 and killed 12 people.
German cuisine doesn’t really have the reputation that countries like Italy or Japan enjoy when it comes to catering to a global palate. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t cities where Bratwurst and Sauerkraut sell like hot potatoes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
confirmed on Saturday she would start talks with liberals and Greens to try to
form a new coalition government after last month's election.
The German comedian behind a “smear poem” which outraged Turkey and unleashed hot-tempered debate on freedom of speech across Europe has spoken for the first time since the affair - and he had sharp words for the Chancellor.
Most people probably wouldn't think of Germany's national rail operator as the most likely organization to put you at the wheel of an electric car. But Deutsche Bahn (DB) is to pilot a hire scheme from this week in Berlin.
A privately-funded ship sets off to the Mediterranean sea from the German port of Bremerhaven on Thursday, hoping to save refugees from drowning as they make the dangerous crossing on unsafe boats.
Young people are aware of the need to care for and protect the environment but place it low on their list of personal priorities, a new study has found.
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.
World leaders gathered in Paris for the COP 21 climate conference must find an "ambitious, comprehensive, fair and binding" way to stop global warming, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.
Tourists and business travellers visiting Germany are often surprised when they reach to pay for their beer, metro tickets or even a large restaurant bill that their credit cards are not welcome. Habits, however, are slowly changing as younger consumers leapfrog from cash to convenient electronic forms of payment.
Green Party security expert Konstantin von Notz told The Local on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel is failing to restore faith in the German-US partnership following fresh spying revelations.
The Bundestag (German parliament) inquiry into spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) has chosen a former judge to examine lists of targets given to German spies by the Americans.
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has decided to reorganize the agency to stop a repeat of the US National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal that has engulfed it this year.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the Catholic Church in Germany, has warned his flock not to push the Church to go against its traditional teaching about homosexuality and divorce after they called for change.
Marooned on a naval base in northwest Germany, pinned down by advancing Allied forces and Adolf Hitler dead, the
last leader of the Third Reich hammered out the surrender order.
Bayern Munich silenced their critics with a comprehensive win over Porto in the Champions League on Wednesday. But that didn't stop them having to pay Schalke 04 €2 million for the privilege.
A student in Münster has made a freedom of information request to the North Rhine-Westphalian authorities, demanding to see copies of the Abitur (high school final exams) before he has to take them.
Germany's first national minister with Turkish roots, Aydan Ozoguz, will have to implement a hard-won dual citizenship deal that however fails to satisfy all of the Turkish community's demands. She is The Local's German of the Week.
