Some 8,000 residents of the city of Göttingen have been able to return home after a bomb disposal unit defused four WWII bombs discovered during building work.
Germany said on Tuesday it will deport two men arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack, despite the fact that while their parents are foreigners, they were both born in the country.
Two men arrested in Göttingen earlier this month over suspicions that they were plotting an "imminent" terror attack are no longer under investigation due to insufficient evidence, but they will still be deported.
A court in Göttingen acquitted a doctor on Wednesday of charges of attempted manslaughter after he had manipulated patients' data to push them up the organ transplant list.
Hospital wards are normally off-limits for dogs - rules on hygiene forbid them from visiting sick owners. But one hospital in Lower Saxony is encouraging a rather different attitude.
German scientist Thomas SĂĽdhof won the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week. Thirty years after he left for the US, the Stanford professor who says he would love to return to Germany is our <b>German of the week</b>.
Less than a week until the general election and Germany's Green Party leader faces part of his past he thought forgotten. The politician put his name to an election manifesto in 1981 pushing for paedophilia to be legalized.
Gardeners in Göttingen, central Germany, have had to rip up hemp plants from the city's flower beds after a pro-cannabis group planted the seeds. The distinctive leaves do not, head of town planning said, look good alongside marigolds.
New rules to encourage people to donate their organs take effect on Thursday, yet interest has been stagnant since the start of the year – and two scandals surrounding the corrupt allocation of donated organs will not have helped.
An investigation into people waiting for donated livers being pushed up the waiting list has been launched at a Munich clinic following scandals in two other German hospitals.
The donor organ waiting list scandal unfolding in a German hospital, where it seem doctors changed medical records to push patients up the lists, could date back nearly 20 years, it emerged on Monday.
A leading German doctor is under investigation for allegedly changing medical records to make people appear sicker than they were – bumping them to the top of organ transplant lists ahead of desperately ill people.
Foreigners who want to change their names to Germanic ones have been told by a court that wanting to fit in is not a good enough reason to choose new monikers.
Police in the German state of Lower Saxony said on Wednesday they had arrested a man who racked up more than €7,000 in phone sex bills while staying at a hotel in Göttingen.
