Joachim Löw ended speculation about his immediate future when he confirmed Tuesday that he would stay on as coach of Germany despite the disappointment of the Euro 2016 semi-final defeat by France.
Berlin last had a seat at the highest table of international security in 2011-12. Now the Foreign Minister has announced that Germany wants the role again.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has criticised NATO for having a bellicose policy towards Russia, describing it as "warmongering", the German daily Bild reported.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged
European leaders to protect EU borders or risk a "return to nationalism" as the continent battles its worst migration crisis since the Second World War.
Germany's right-wing populist AfD believes that France and southern European countries should be excluded from Europe's common currency, the party's top officials said, AFP reported.
Germans are increasingly concerned as neighbouring countries suffer suicide bombings and shootings. Has the country escaped so far thanks to tough police or by not being a target?
Instagram may only be Germans' sixth-favourite social netork, but savvy young Germans girls have capitalized on the trend. 19-year-old German Pamela Reif is now making a living thanks to the two-million strong following she's built.
Germany's top consumer rights organization Stiftung Warentest revealed that 16 of 21 chocolate spreads they tested contain potentially cancer-causing toxins. An all-clear for Nutella though - the beloved Italian brand is fungus-free and flavourful as ever.
Benjamin Melzer is pushing boundaries: the 29-year-old German model and activist is the first transgender man to adorn the front page of Men's Health in Europe.
Frothing up passions: barista Daniel Gerlach pours dazzling images into cappuccinos and cafe lattes. After taking the German throne, he is now shooting for the World Latte Art Championship.
Sixty per cent of all German assets are in the hands of just 10 percent of the population. That puts Germany among the frontrunners for inequality in the Eurozone.
A pilot veered of course from his scheduled root in north-west Germany to steer his plane in a bizarre sequences of curves. But the end result made sense out of the apparent chaos.
With the first day of March comes - technically - the first day of spring, and with that a wide range of activities that have been missing over the dark, dreary months of winter. Here are 10 things you can do to wish winter a very un-fond farewell.
Germany will face the Netherlands in a friendly on Tuesday with chancellor Angela Merkel and senior ministers to attend in a show of solidarity following the Paris terror attacks.
Germany's hardline finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Sunday hailed a change in tone in talks with Greece over its next bailout but warned Europe would closely monitor the pace of reforms in Athens.
Germany coach Silvia Neid said she found the referee's decision-making 'sad' in her country's 2-0 semi-final defeat to the USA in the Women's World Cup in Montreal on early Wednesday morning.
German prosecutors said on Thursday they had dropped their probe into a 93-year-old former Nazi SS officer over a Second World War massacre in Italy because he suffers from dementia.
Germany's foreign minister warned Sunday in comments to a newspaper that any attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol would be a clear violation of a week-old ceasefire accord.
Defying national stereotypes, it is British footballers who will be braving the freezing cold to take to the pitch on Boxing Day, whilst Germany's players are already sunning themselves on their winter break until the end of January.
The Pegida movement (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) was unknown three months ago. Now it's making Dresden famous - for all the wrong reasons.
He might be bald, and fat, but onscreen Homer Simpson doesn't look a day over... let's say 45. Unlike the actor who voices Homer for German audiences who is, in fact, 85 and still going strong.
