Greens MP Hans-Christian Ströbele has raised the stakes in the political controversy over Germany’s tank sale to Saudi Arabia, suggesting bribe money may be involved in the deal.
German health authorities were forced to restart their search for the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak, after researchers Tuesday declared Spanish cucumbers were not infected with the same lethal bacteria.
As Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Canada for a G20 summit, Sigmar Gabriel, the head of Germany’s centre-left opposition Social Democrats, on Friday backed US criticism that her government’s proposed austerity measures posed a threat to the global economy.
<b>What do the country homes of dentists in eastern Germany have to do with the election of country's next president? Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British newspaper The Times, explains.</b>
The opposition Social Democrats in January will try to question Chancellor Angela Merkel over the deadly Afghan air strike affair as they broaden their political attack on the government, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported Tuesday.
German pooches are getting the royal treatment as owners dish out more than €5 billion each year for pedicures, winter jackets and even wedding dresses for their dogs, the German Kennel Club (VDH) said on Monday.
A Muslim woman is stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom and nobody seems to care. <b><a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a></b>'s Andrea Dernbach comments on Germany’s problematic relationship to Islam.
Germany’s <i>Wattenmeer</i> – North Sea mudflats which are feeding grounds to millions of migratory birds and a unique ecosystem – was made a world natural heritage site by UNESCO on Friday.
An intoxicated truck driver stopped by a Kaltenkirchen police station to ask for directions after he lost his way, but left the station without his driver’s license, police in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein reported on Tuesday.
<b>Whimsical plans to make depressed eastern Germany economically viable abound, writes AFP's Emsie Ferreira. A fake tropical paradise has already gone up near Berlin and a gigantic pyramid could be next.</b>
