A huge shipment of Nestle's crunchy KitKat chocolate bars was stolen in Europe, the brand said, warning that the heist risked causing shortages in stores right before Easter.
A high-profile case has brought the topic of deepfakes and online sexual harassment to Germany's frontpage headlines. Here's the story that grabbed the nation's attention, and what lawmakers are doing about it.
Four men were jailed in Berlin on Wednesday for being part of a network that stored weapons for potential attacks in Europe under the direction of Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Police staged raids across Germany on Tuesday as part of a probe into an arson attack last year that knocked out high-voltage power lines and caused a partial blackout in Berlin.
Germany plans to crack down on sexualised deepfakes, the government said Friday, as a prominent TV personality accused her ex-husband of spreading AI-generated pornographic images of her online.
A Berlin court on Thursday jailed a Syrian man for 13 years for a jihadist-inspired knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital's Holocaust memorial.
Germany on Wednesday said it would crack down on organised crime by making it easier to seize the cash, luxury vehicles or properties of suspected criminals.
Police in Nuremberg have uncovered a scheme in which paid stand‑ins used forged identity documents to sit German language and naturalisation exams for migrants. We look at what it could mean for foreign residents applying for German citizenship.
A railway passenger fatally assaulted a train conductor in Rhineland‑Palatinate after being asked to show his ticket. The attacker has since been arrested.
Germany has arrested five people for exporting goods worth at least 30 million euros to Russia, including to more than 20 arms companies, in violation of EU sanctions, prosecutors said Monday.
German prosecutors and police on Wednesday searched Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt and its office in Berlin in an investigation over suspected money laundering offences, officials said.
People in Germany, and across Europe, continue to rely on strings of numbers or the names of their favourite football teams as passwords, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Following a massive power outage that affected an estimate 100,000 people in the German capital, federal authorities are now offering a million euro reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible.
Following the arrest of a woman accused of spying for Russia in Berlin, Germany has summoned Russia's ambassador and moved to expel a diplomat suspected of being a handler.
A German-Ukrainian woman was arrested in Berlin Wednesday on suspicion of spying for Russia by passing on information on military aid to Ukraine, prosecutors said.
A man went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of ramming a car into a crowd in Munich last year, killing a two-year-old girl and her mother and injuring dozens.
German prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged two Ukrainians with plotting to send exploding parcels from Germany to parts of Ukraine on the orders of a Russian intelligence service.
A German juvenile court starts the so-called "White Tiger" trial Friday in which a man is accused of multiple sadistic online crimes including coercing a 13-year-old to die by suicide.
German federal prosecutors on Tuesday launched a terrorism investigation into an arson attack on high-voltage cables that caused a power blackout impacting 45,000 Berlin households.
Anger is simmering in parts of Berlin where an arson attack claimed by a far-left group has caused a blackout that has plunged tens of thousands into icy darkness in mid-winter.
Police in Berlin said Sunday they suspected a far-left group of being behind an arson attack that has left tens of thousands of homes in the German capital without power.
Thieves looted €30 million from 3,200 Sparkasse safe deposit boxes in Gelsenkirchen, in what is believed to be Germany's biggest bank heist in decades. Customers reacted with fury on Tuesday.
Germany deported a man to Syria for the first time since the civil war broke out in that country in 2011, the interior ministry in Berlin said Tuesday.
Security has been tightened at German Christmas markets after recent deadly attacks. But if some online videos were to be believed, they've become barbed-wire fortresses guarded by armoured personnel carriers.
