Authorities are investigating the sale of highly poisonous substance nicotine sulphate to more than 200 companies that allegedly used the poison, media reports said on Friday.
Just in time for Easter, German celebrity chef Sarah Wiener’s new television series confronted young viewers with the bloody reality of where their meat comes from by butchering a rabbit before their eyes, daily <i>Hamburger Morgenpost</i> reported on Monday.
The German tanker Longchamp has been released two months after being hijacked by Somalian pirates, the Hamburg-based shipping company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement announced on Saturday.
<b>Many Evangelical Americans might consider Europe a godless place, but as David Wroe reports, questioning the theory of evolution and teaching Creationism is on the rise in Germany.</b>
Meteorologists this week booted up one of the fastest supercomputers in the world to improve German weather forecasting – if not Germany's notoriously bad weather.
A Mickey Mouse toy included with the most recent edition of the Disney character’s comic book has made a mockery of German police, who are investigating reports that it picks up scanner dispatches.
A Hamburg bishop on Thursday said the Catholic Church must rethink its “taboo” stance on condoms, contradicting controversial comments made by Pope Benedict XVI blaming them for making the AIDS epidemic in Africa worse.
The <i>Currywurst</i> – Germany’s answer to the hotdog – will soon receive the acknowledgement it deserves after a museum dedicated to the sausage treat opens in Berlin this summer.
A researcher from a tropical disease research institute in Hamburg has been hospitalised after possibly being infected with the deadly Ebola virus in a laboratory accident, doctors announced on Tuesday.
<b>Hamburg police said on Friday that they had been forced to shoot a man in his apartment out of self-defense when he became violent late on Thursday evening.</b>
<b>With the 19th annual German Cheerleading Championships set to begin this weekend in Bremen, the country’s 40 best squads are aiming to gyrate and tumble their way to victory.</b>
Tuesday may be the last day for zealous Karneval goers to drink themselves into frothy oblivion before the onset of Lent, but new figures show Germans are only moderate consumers of beer – averaging as little as one bottle per day.
Hamburg and the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Tuesday bailed out the beleaguered HSH Nordbank with a fresh capital injection of €3 billion and guarantees totalling €10 billion.
Hamburg’s police force has drawn up highly controversial plans to clear the city centre of homeless people, punks and drinkers during shopping hours.
Motorists in Germany had to contend with snow and wintry driving conditions on Tuesday morning, as meteorologists forecast up to 40 centimetres of snow in some areas.
A German-Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison for the “honour killing” of his sister on Friday, creating mayhem in the court room as family members screamed, assaulted journalists and attempted suicide.
Germany’s most famous prostitute Domenica Niehoff – who gained fame for becoming advocate for the rights of sex workers in the 70s and 80s – has died after succumbing to serious illness this week.
A cold snap brought snow and traffic problems to parts of Germany on Tuesday, and even more snow is on the way, according to weather service Meteomedia.
A French court on Thursday sentenced a German Al-Qaeda militant to 18 years after finding him guilty of plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue that left 21 dead.
