One of Manchester United's most important players admitted he had a nasty moment on Tuesday when the team's landing in Germany was aborted at the last minute and the pilot had to pull the plane up to swoop round and try again.
A global expat study has named Germany as the world's best country for raising children abroad and the second best place for expats to live in the world. But it scored badly for social life, making friends and staying healthy.
Germany's Social Democrats said Friday they will begin talks with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, who are trying to put together a "grand coalition" with their election rivals.
The Social Democrats will meet on Friday evening to discuss going into government with Angela Merkel. But concerns are so strong that this could upset party members that leaders are expected to call for a full party vote on any negotiations.
As Germany explodes with outrage over evidence that Chancellor Angela Merkel's government not only knew about but also benefited from US spying, The Local's <b>media roundup</b> looks at how it could affect September's election.
Ten weeks before German elections, Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-left rivals have gone on the attack over reports of sweeping US online surveillance and German cooperation, sparked by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.
A wild bison has been born in Germany for the first time in centuries. The lead female of a herd released from captivity in April gave birth to the calf on May 5th, it was revealed on Tuesday.
Borussia Dortmund's Germany star Mario Götze will likely miss Saturday's Bundesliga showdown against Bayern Munich after tearing his left hamstring in Tuesday's semi-final at Real Madrid.
An off-colour joke by US comedienne Joan Rivers suggesting German model Heidi Klum was as "hot" as a Nazi shoving Jews into a death camp oven has prompted international outrage.
"Child's Pose," a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania's new ruling class, won the Golden Bear top prize at the 63rd Berlin film festival Saturday night.
A teenage glider pilot died on Saturday after crashing into a house in Lower Saxony. Four more people died on Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed and caught on fire in Bavaria.
Organisers of the world’s biggest information technology fair CeBIT in Hannover are appealing to residents of the city to give delegates a lift, as the public transport system was paralysed by a strike.
German industrial giant Siemens is reportedly working on a deal to forgo millions of euros owed by Greece as compensation for its corrupt business practices in the country.
Police are slowly uncovering a group of paedophiles who worked as volunteers at a Berlin park miniature steam train ride – and used the opportunity to sexually abuse boys who came to help.
The small industrial state of Saarland has a new premier after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected on Wednesday to lead the unwieldy coalition government.
German tax authorities have reportedly recovered €1.6 billion this year from citizens who had stashed their cash in secret accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
As the debate about immigration and integration rages on in Germany, conservative Bavarian politician Alexander Dobrindt said on Friday that the country must protect the German language in its constitution.
Genetically modified corn has been grown in seven German states in breach of a national ban after contaminated seeds were sold to farmers, the environmental group Greenpeace revealed Monday.
As Chancellor Angela Merkel defended Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday against accusations of inappropriately promoting the business interests of friends and family, his political allies said such attacks were a threat to German democracy.
The exceptionally harsh winter this year has spurred enterprising criminals in Lower Saxony to steal a tonne of road salt, a police spokesperson told The Local on Monday.
