Five people were left dead after a hostage-taking during a home eviction in southwestern Germany Wednesday, including the presumed gunman, police said.
Germanyâs highest civil court has set out a process by which web hosts can avoid liability for libellous blog posts, in a decision which Google described as striking a blow for freedom of expression and information in the internet.
Germany's highest court is so overloaded with cases it is considering introducing special fees of up to âŹ5,000 to keep people from submitting appeals deemed frivolous and unlikely to succeed.
The elephants and hippos at Karlsruhe Zoo were rescued in dramatic circumstances on Friday night after a fire which had already killed a number of animals threatened to spread to their enclosure.
Prisoners have a right to protection against offensive symbols such as neo-Nazi graffiti and gross breaches of hygiene such as excrement smeared on their cell walls, Germany's constitutional court ruled Friday.
A team of German researchers have designed the worldâs first âcloakingâ device capable of rendering a three-dimensional object invisible. The development puts scientists one step closer toward creating a functional type of invisibility.
Germanyâs highest court got a new leader on Friday. The institutionâs Vice President Andreas VoĂkuhle will take over as his predecessor Hans-JĂźrgen Papier leaves following 12 years of service.
A policeman was killed on Monday night when his patrol car collided with a tram in Karlsruhe â the latest in string of serious streetcar accidents in the southwestern German city.
Being billed as the most comprehensive exhibition about the Vandal civilisation ever, a new show about the notorious Germanic tribe opens on Friday at Baden's state museum in Karlsruhe.
Germanyâs high court strengthened the rights of gay couples on Thursday, ruling that government employees with registered civil unions are entitled to the same pension plans as married couples.
Germanyâs high court began hearings on Tuesday over whether the <i>Hartz IV</i> welfare benefits for some 1.7 million children are sufficient to cover their daily needs.
After the constitutional courtâs ruling that reforms in parliamentary law will be necessary to green-light the EUâs Lisbon Treaty, the German parliament agreed on Wednesday to speed up the process in time for Irelandâs referendum on October 4.
A court in the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe has fined a tram driver âŹ1,800 for sending pictures of his genitals to passengers in his train via Bluetooth.
A 20-year-old student from Karlsruhe, Doris Schmidts, won the "Miss Germany 2009" title on Saturday night in a contest that attracted a record number of entries from women around the country.
A Porsche test driver lost control of a secret prototype car and died in an accident on the A5 motorway near Darmstadt early on Friday morning, police in the German state of Hesse said.
Dino Drpic, the new Croatian defender at Bundesliga side Karlsruhe SC, apparently wanted 69 put on his jersey as an homage to the fiery love he has with his vixen pop star wife Nives Celzijus, but the German football league nixed the naughty number.
Bayern Munich coach JĂźrgen Klinsmann reckons the defending Bundesliga champions will recover from their worst start to the season in 31 years â and predicts victory over Karlsruhe on Saturday.
