An upgraded historic railroad set to open in December will shorten the time it takes to reach BER airport from central Berlin, and provide more links to Dresden.
Large parts of Dresden's old town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge.
Many foreigners in Germany may think of Dresden primarily as a hub for far-right politics, or for its bombing during World War II, but there’s more to the Saxon capital.
Residents within a kilometre radius were evacuated Thursday morning after a large undetonated bomb was found in the centre of Dresden during construction work on a bridge.
After a bridge collapsed in the eastern German city of Dresden, experts say it's a wake-up call to sort out the county's ailing infrastructure. How bad is the situation?
A bridge partially collapsed in the eastern German city of Dresden early on Wednesday, with authorities saying no one was injured but that there was a risk of further sections crumbling.
Many people enjoy stollen at Christmas time, and stollen from Dresden is particularly well-renowned. Bakers in the city adhere to a specific recipe, but they also have a few tricks.
German police said Tuesday they have arrested
one of two fugitive twin brothers from the so-called Remmo clan wanted over
their suspected role in snatching priceless jewels from a museum in the city
of Dresden.
German police on Tuesday arrested three
suspects over a spectacular heist a year ago in which more than a dozen
diamond-encrusted items were snatched from a state museum in Dresden.
Alleged supporters of a far-right militant group went on trial in Germany on Monday accused of taking part in
attacks against officials, refugees and anti-fascist activists.
A visit to Dresden is to constantly be amazed at what glorious things are there — and also looking around in near constant disbelief that so many elegant buildings could have been built so recently.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Germans to "defend democracy" on the 75th anniversary of the destruction
of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, as the emboldened far right rattles the political establishment.
The destruction of Dresden in 1945 is still deeply rooted in Germany's memory. Even 75 years later, the struggle for neutral interpretation remains, and Neo-Nazis want to turn guilt to innocence.
The bombing of Dresden in 1945 was widely seen as retaliation for what happened in Coventry in the UK five years earlier. Since then, close links have been forged between the two.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned on Sunday that Jews could leave Germany on a "massive" scale if urgent action was not taken to stem rising anti-Semitism.
Police have received 516 tip-offs following the burglary at the Green Vault in Dresden on November 25th, amid calls for greater security in the art world.
Investigators in Germany on Thursday offered a half-a-million-euro reward for information about the spectacular heist in which robbers snatched priceless diamonds from a state museum in Dresden.
A 49-carat diamond which analysts estimate to be worth up to $12 million was among over a dozen jewel-encrusted items snatched from a German state museum in a spectacular heist, the museum confirmed Wednesday.
On Monday, thieves broke into Dresden's Green Vault in the early morning. Watch the incident, described as one of the biggest museum heists of all time, caught on CCTV footage.
Monday's Green Vault break in was dubbed the largest art theft in Germany since World War II. Here's how it happened, what was stolen, and if there's hope of finding the objects.
Burglars made off with three priceless diamond sets from a state museum in Dresden, police and museum directors confirmed Monday, in what German media have described as the biggest art heist since World War Two.
A German state museum with one of the biggest collection of baroque treasures in Europe has been raided by thieves, police said Monday, with media estimates of losses of up to a billion euros.
