Thousands of public workers staged temporary strikes in a wage dispute with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city-state of Hamburg on Thursday, shutting down schools and local administration offices.
Investigators have determined that the bloody corpse of a man found under a Hamburg train overpass was not the victim of a crime, but a suicide, police announced late on Tuesday.
Police in Hamburg had to temporarily close down a main street and metro line on Tuesday morning after someone found the bloody corpse of a man thought to have plunged from a train overpass.
The number of influenza-related deaths in Germany is expected to rise this flu season due a wave of infections more intense than years past, the head of the National Centre for Influenza at the Robert Koch institute Brunhilde Schweiger told German broadcaster <i>Deutschlandfunk</i> on Tuesday.
Coach Martin Jol hailed Hamburg's 1-0 win over Bayern Munich on Friday as the best moment of his time in charge as a first-half header from Croatian striker Mladen Petric took his side top.
A recent video posted on Youtube by suspected Islamists specifically threatened to launch attacks in Berlin, Cologne and Bremen, according to a report by German news magazine <i>Focus</i>.
The tables turned for German pop icon Dieter Bohlen on Monday when he testified before a LĂźbeck court over a series of robberies that included his home, where thieves grabbed some âŹ150,000 in goodies five years ago.
Thousands of people marched in demonstrations across Germany on Saturday afternoon calling for a halt to the violence in the Gaza Strip, just hours before Israel announced a unilateral cease-fire.
Perk up gourmet coffee lovers, a Hamburg coffee shop is selling beans harvested from the faeces of an Asian civet that eats ripe coffee berries and partially digests them, daily <i>Hamburger Morgenpost</i> reported on Friday.
British-owned Mecom, publisher of dailies <i>Berliner Zeitung</i> and <i>Hamburger Morgenpost</i>, has sold its German holdings to Cologne-based media group M. DuMont Schauberg just three years after entering the market, the company confirmed on Tuesday in London.
The Airbus A400 military transport plane is too heavy and does not deliver on performance, the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> newspaper reported on Monday.
Food discount giant Edeka, whose merger with the Plus stores has been approved, plans to create 8,000 new jobs this year as the global financial crisis sends more people to cheaper shops, its CEO says.
Hamburgâs police chief has banned his officers from wearing woolly hats, even when out on patrol in sub-zero temperatures â because it does not go with their uniforms.
The parents of the German-Afghan victim of an âhonour killingâ by her brother last year refused to testify in a Hamburg court on Monday. Meanwhile state prosecutors have also accused her father of abuse.
Snow and black ice caused numerous accidents across Germany overnight and early Monday morning, but sunshine is expected to break through the clouds by afternoon.
Bayern Munich have snapped up Hamburg's Croatian international star Ivica Olic, who will join the Bavarians in the summer, Bayern said Saturday on their website.
The German environment protection organisation <i>Deutsche Umwelthilfe</i> has declared controversial zones restricting traffic in urban areas highly successful in the fight against particulate matter air pollution.
The winter is set to hit Germany with a vengeance this weekend. The German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Friday that a cold front will bring sustained snowfall and frosty temperatures of minus 20 Celsius to the country's north and east.
New Yearâs celebrations in several German cities were marred by violent skirmishes with the police â but a million people gathered peacefully to ring in 2009 at the countryâs largest <i>Silvester</i> party in Berlin.
German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday warned against making a new government stimulus package into an âorgyâ of construction work on the countryâs roads.
Helmut Schmidt, the chain-smoking former German chancellor who is enjoying a revival of popularity after being kicked out of office more than 25 years ago, turns 90 on Tuesday. But while he's being lionized by the media, Schmidt would rather just be left alone.
A riot broke out late on Saturday in Hamburg after a demonstration of about 1,000 people attempting to show solidarity with recent protests in Greece descended into violent scuffles with police.
School children have tried to poison their classmate at a primary school in Hamburg because she was too smart, daily <i>Express</i> reported this week.
