The collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989 robbed the town of Hitzacker in Lower Saxony of its major tourist attraction. Twenty years later, its is still looking for ways to bring the visitors back.
Law enforcement officers staged nationwide raids on Monday as part of an investigation into a Chinese human trafficking ring providing “specialty cooks” to restaurants across Germany.
Police in Hannover on Wednesday removed 26 protestors from a site where a pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim is slated to build a lab to test animal vaccinations.
More than 6,000 role-play enthusiasts pulled on their costumes to become Vikings, elves, knights, orcs, and goblins this weekend at the international ConQuest 2009 meeting.
The head of Lower Saxony’s domestic intelligence service will be fined for causing a bomb scare with his forgotten briefcase at a political gathering this week, police told daily <i>Braunschweiger Zeitung</i> on Friday.
One of the two so-called flat-rate bordellos closed down this week after police raids has been allowed to reopen in Heidelberg, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
Tired of flash mobs holding gatherings in Braunschweig’s Schlossplatz square, the city says it is forbidding the social networking phenomenon, according to a report published Tuesday by the news site <i>Zeit Online</i>.
German autobahns will probably become parking lots this weekend as school vacations begin in southern Germany and come to a close in much of the north, auto club ADAC said Monday.
<b>Volkswagen’s takeover of Porsche is a wreck of epic proportions for fans of the fancy sports carmaker. But Henrik Mortsiefer from Berlin newspaper <a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a> argues the saga might not be over just yet.</b>
Ferdinand Piech, the grandson of the inventor of the VW Beetle, was more than ever the Germany's auto godfather on Thursday after his vision of a Volkswagen-Porsche tie-up prevailed.
After years of industrial and familial battles, Europe's biggest car marker Volkswagen appeared close Thursday to taking over fellow German carmaker Porsche.
More than 35,000 people came out to see the 35th annual Duhner <i>Wattrennen</i>, a series of horse races that took place on the tidal flats near Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony on Sunday.
Dozens of people were injured in a pileup involving 259 cars on the A2 motorway in the state of Lower Saxony late on Sunday, police reported. Ten of the injured are in critical condition.
Speculation mounted on Friday on whether embattled Porsche executive Wendelin Wiedeking would keep his job amid moves to merge the carmaker with Volkswagen.
Owners of sports carmaker Porsche are close to an agreement which would combine the heavily indebted company with Volkswagen and sell VW stock options to Qatar, according to press reports on Thursday.
German sports car maker Porsche rejected Saturday an "ultimatum" issued by Volkswagen to accept by Monday a proposal for cross-ownership leading eventually to a merger.
Germany’s <i>Wattenmeer</i> – North Sea mudflats which are feeding grounds to millions of migratory birds and a unique ecosystem – was made a world natural heritage site by UNESCO on Friday.
The controversial salt-mine nuclear waste storage facility in Asse, Lower Saxony is not only crumbling but also contains unknown amounts of explosive, it has emerged.
The <i>Klimahaus</i>, or Climate House, in Bremerhaven opened on Thursday, with city planners hoping it will become an environmental tourist draw for the northern city.
Sports car manufacturer Karmann has produced its last vehicle, which left its factory on Monday, amid a row between management and unions over the reasons for its insolvency.
Activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest on top of the reactor dome of the Unterweser nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on Monday.
