Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has paid €875 towards the €10 million ($12.7 million) transfer deal to bring Germany striker Lukas Podolski from Bayern Munich back to Cologne.
An adult education centre in Cologne is offering a cooking course where students can learn to conjure a five course meal for just €3, Cologne daily <i>Express</i> reported on Tuesday.
Despite a chilly drizzle, Cologne’s <i>Karneval</i> parade lived up to its festive reputation on <i>Rosenmontag</i> or Shrove Monday in the heart of the predominantly Roman Catholic Rhineland region of Germany.
Karneval organisers in Mainz have altered a model of a nun in an airport scanner after protests that she was shown topless, wearing just suspenders pants and a tattoo under her clothes.
Violence at the start of Cologne's bacchanalian Karneval celebration on Thursday evening was more intense than usual, police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported on Friday.
The Cologne <i>Karneval</i> committee has decided not to let a float parody of Chancellor Angela Merkel travel topless through the city during its <i>Rosenmontag</i> parade next Monday.
Vendors and event planners for Cologne’s wild <i>Karneval</i> festival are feeling the pinch of the economic crisis, daily <i>Express</i> reported on Tuesday.
German international striker Lukas Podolski will return this summer to former club Cologne from Bayern Munich, where he has had an unhappy time since joining in 2006, a Cologne official said Sunday.
News this week that the first Turkish Karneval club had been founded in Cologne with the aim of making the wild and boozy festivities a more civilised matter befitting Muslims has turned out to be a TV spoof, broadcaster RTL revealed on Friday.
While the Rhineland readies for the traditional “fifth season,” or <i>Karneval</i>, the Turkish community in Cologne has founded the first foreign carnival club (TKVD) to take part in the wild and boozy festivities in their own way, the organisation revealed during Wednesday.
Obesity is a common problem in Germany, but some industries face a shortage of qualified trainees because an increasing number of young people are too fat to begin their careers, a study released by the German Sport University in Cologne reveals.
Unknown perpetrators have cut off the tops of some 2,400 Christmas trees and sprayed them with diesel fuel in the town of Kamp-Lintfort in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to Cologne daily <i>Express</i>.
Just another example of the Teutonic affinity to bureaucracy: The enforcers of Germany's hated GEZ broadcast licence asked a Bochum family cat to pay for its own TV and radio, daily <i>WAZ</i> reported on Friday.
A 51-year-old Bonn man has gone on trial for starting a fire in his apartment that he hoped would kill his neighbours, Cologne daily <i>Express</i> reported on Tuesday.
The trees are decorated, the ferris wheels are rolling and the smell of mulled wine and roasted nuts are in the air - hard times are ahead for scrooges as the first batch of Christmas markets open across Germany on Monday.
The Cologne Cathedral is the most beloved tourist attraction in Germany, according to a new poll published by the German Tourism Association (DTV) on Thursday.
About 40 men have agreed to a Cologne brothel owner’s offer of lifelong free entry in exchange for getting tattoos of the establishment logo on their arms, daily <i>Express</i> reported on Friday.
Two engineers bailed out of a freight train after the brakes failed, leaving it to roll six kilometres from Frechen to Cologne, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported on Tuesday.
Cologne’s traditional carnival season kicked off on Tuesday at 11:11 am in the city centre, where some 70,000 revelers were expected to turn up to party in costume.
A 10-year-old Cocker Spaniel has become the most recent victim in a spate of pet poisonings near Cologne that have pet owners and parents worried, daily <i>Express</i> reported on Monday.
A Cologne district court on Friday fined a man €2,400 ($3,076) for stealing 100 grammes of pork sausage from a supermarket in a drunken fit of hunger.
