State health officials said on Wednesday they were gearing up to fight swine flu across Germany ahead of the new school year. Teachers are celebrating the return of soap after budgetary cuts left many school restroom dispensers empty.
Archaeologists in have discovered fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen, the Hessian state science ministry has announced.
A man in Viernheim surrendered to police on Thursday morning after a tense overnight standoff after barricading himself in his apartment and injuring a family of four with a bomb the day before.
A man barricaded himself inside his apartment in Viernheim near Mannheim on Wednesday after igniting explosives that injured a family of four. Police believe he may have been involved in another blast in a neighbouring town.
Three controversial secret CIA prisons built after September 11, 2001 to house alleged terrorists were planned from Frankfurt, The New York Times reported this week.
The dreaded ’Ndrangheta clan of the Italian Mafia has established a growing foothold in Germany, according to a report from the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BKA) obtained by weekly newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i>.
Germany's DFS air traffic authority is planning to record internal discussions between their control tower employees after an embarrassing near-collision in Frankfurt last month, daily <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> reported on Tuesday.
Seven students from the state of Hesse have brought home an unwelcome souvenir from their graduation vacation to the Spanish island of Mallorca – swine flu.
Incidents of alcohol poisoning and abuse among people between 50 and 60 years of age have risen in states across Germany, health insurer DAK confirmed on Wednesday.
Widespread day care strikes hit several German states on Tuesday, as pre-school teachers returned to the picket lines to press their ongoing labour dispute.
A low-pressure area named after the Norse god Odin brought storms and flooding to central Germany on Monday, but summery weather is on its way soon, according to the German Weather Service (DWD).
The number of swine flu cases in Germany rose to 31 over the holiday weekend, all of them related to travel in the US, the Berlin-based Robert Koch Institute reported on Monday.
Though Opel and Arcandor have dominated the headlines, over 1,100 German companies have asked the government for help weathering the current financial crisis, the <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i> reported Sunday.
Deutsche Bank spied on shareholders critical of the bank’s management, the spouse of one of the company’s directors and workers’ representatives, the daily <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i> reported Saturday.
A 15-year-old was apprehended by police in the Hesse town of Kirchhain after threatening a school killing on an internet forum, authorities reported on Friday.
The amount of cocaine found in Red Bull Cola is completely harmless, despite being pulled from store shelves in several states after experts found traces of the narcotic in the drink, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) said on Tuesday.
Germany will choose its preferred bidder for General Motors' Opel unit by early next week, a minister said Wednesday, after the stricken US auto giant said there were at least three potential suitors.
Some 600 Tamil demonstrators blocked traffic at the Frankfurt train station on Sunday afternoon as they tried to draw attention to their plight in Sri Lanka, police said.
The weather will get sunnier and temperatures will rise steadily next week as a high pressure system moves into Germany, the German Weather Service reported Saturday.
Italian automaker Fiat has denied a report that it plans to slash 18,000 jobs by closing or scaling down 10 factories in Europe in a possible takeover of Germany's Opel.
Italy's Fiat, trying to drum up support in Berlin on Monday for audacious plans to snap up GM’s Opel unit and merge it with Chrysler to create a new global auto giant, agreed to keep open three Opel plants in Germany.
Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne, fresh from forging a partnership with US giant Chrysler, headed to Berlin on Monday to discuss his plans for General Motor's unit Opel with German officials.
Nadja Benaissa, singer in the popular German girl band No Angels, was released from police custody in Frankfurt on Tuesday after being arrested ten days ago on suspicion of infecting a lover with HIV.
