Just hours before the German national team takes on Turkey in the Euro 2008 semifinal on Wednesday evening, football fans from the North Sea to the Alps were gearing up for massive public sporting spectacle.
The European Commission opened a probe Tuesday into state aid to Frankfurt’s Hahn airport and contracts with low-cost carrier Ryanair to ensure that they respect EU rules after receiving complaints.
German auto manufacturer Daimler said on Tuesday it would buy back about 96.4 million of its own shares, some 10 percent of its outstanding stock, for up to €6 billion ($9.3 billion).
Heavy drinking known as “coma boozing” among youth in Germany is becoming more of a problem for public health care insurers, the regional daily <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> reported on Monday.
German inflation reached 3.0 percent in May as the cost of energy stoked consumer price increases in the biggest European economy, figures released Friday by the Federal Statistics Office showed.
Thousands of whooping, flag-waving Turkish-Germans took to the streets on Wednesday night to celebrate Turkey’s 2:1 victory over Switzerland in the teams’s first Euro 2008 match.
German industrial production declined further in April, the ministry of industry said Friday, another sign that Europe's biggest economy is slowing down.
Germany's central bank said Friday that growth in Europe's largest economy might be more subdued over the coming months, but it expects a pick-up later as global conditions improve and inflation abates.
German police and customs workers arrested seven alleged major drug traffickers in possession of €7 million worth of cocaine at the Frankfurt airport on Tuesday.
European finance and political chiefs toasted on Monday the European Central Bank's tenth anniversary even as record inflation cast a pall over the party.
Warren Buffet, the world's richest man, arrived in Germany last week with his cavernous wallet looking to buy solid, family-run firms in the country's world-beating small and medium-sized business sector.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, is in talks to buy the German subsidiary of US banking giant Citigroup, Citibank, <i>WirtschaftsWoche</i> magazine reported on Friday.
<b>More and more Germans are working the hours that suit them best. Kasia Dawidowska explores the ‘flexitime’ phenomena in the region around Germany’s business mecca Frankfurt.</b>
The German insurer Allianz and Commerzbank have put forward a joint bid for Postbank worth €10 billion ($15.7 billion), the weekly <i>Manager Magazin</i> reported on its website Thursday.
Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jews from the gas chambers, but after 1945 he fell into obscurity and poverty and died without the recognition he deserved, writes AFP's Simon Sturdee.
A "disturbed" 50-year-old German with no driving licence was restrained by police with pepper spray after leading them on a bizarre night-time motorway chase, officials said Wednesday.
"Extraordinary" price rises badly dented German investor confidence in April, the ZEW institute said Tuesday as it reported a surprise drop in its closely watched monthly sentiment indicator.
The man blamed by 16,000 disgruntled Deutsche Telekom shareholders for excesses that wiped out their investments defended his actions in court on Monday in a landmark lawsuit.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed on Sunday moves by banks towards greater self-regulation following the subprime credit crisis, saying people should have heeded Berlin's warnings last year.
