Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous work La Bocca Della Verita set a new record price for the Old Master's works in London on Wednesday night, fetching £9.3 million (€12.1 million) at the Sotheby's auction house.
Police arrested eight Italian citizens on Tuesday morning at Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg on suspicion of involvement in the ’Ndrangheta, Calabria’s feared mafia organisation.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday that EU member states remain "far from consensus" on how to distribute refugees between them.
Germany found out on Wednesday it will have to take in the largest number of refugees under the European Commission's new quota system which aims to rehouse 60,000 people over the next two years.
Prosecutors in Hanover are investigating a police officer who is alleged to have brutally mistreated at least two refugees and then bragged about it over instant messaging application WhatsApp afterwards.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that "everything" would be done to prevent more migrants dying in the Mediterranean in their quest for a better life in Europe.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière called on Friday for state governments to speed up deportations of failed asylum applicants, in the latest round in a war of words between the federal government and the states.
New plans from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees would see Syrian refugees relocated from overtaxed southern EU members to the wealthier north, the UN refugee agency told The Local on Thursday.
Munich prosecutors are set to return 543 stolen books - including first editions by Galileo and Copernicus - to Italy on Friday, after recovering the trove from a Munich auction house in a real-life crime thriller.
The eurozone's deep divisions were set to be given an airing in Florence on Friday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel days before crucial elections in Greece.
UPDATE: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said only crew remain on board a ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea. Rescuers battled stormy conditions, including hail, to rescue hundreds of passengers, though at least seven are known to have died in the incident. There were 18 Germans on board, it was reported on Monday.
Italy's constitutional court has ruled that victims of Nazi-era war crimes can sue Germany in Italian courts, rejecting a UN ruling and provoking a strong reaction from Berlin on Friday.
A homeless German man was arrested on Wednesday night after allegedly stabbing four policemen in the centre of Rome. One witness described "panic in the street" as the attacker flew at his victims with a knife and hammer.
Ice cream makers from around the world will gather in the Italian city of Rimini to exhibit their creations at the 'Gelato World Tour' this weekend, with three Germans in the finals.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Tuesday pledged support for his Italian colleague in the struggle to manage refugees trying to reach the European Union via its southern coast.
UPDATE: The German government on Monday dismissed as "absurd" remarks by former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi about the Holocaust which have sparked outrage across Europe.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she was "very impressed" with the stimulus and reform package of Italy's new centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
“What do you do when you fail to make it at home? You go to Berlin and fail to make it there.” That at least is the premise of a new movie by two Italian directors who capture the humour of being a foreigner in the capital.
An Italian court on Friday handed a life sentence in absentia to a former German army corporal for the wartime massacre of 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia that inspired novel and Hollywood movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Italian authorities appeared at a loss on Thursday over what to do with the body of German Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died last week while living under house arrest for massacring 335 civilians.
The funeral of a German Nazi war criminal was cancelled late on Tuesday after clashes broke out between protesters and far-right activists on the eve of a major Holocaust ceremony. The body is now set to go to Germany.
