The days of slowly losing patience trying to find a parking space and then ditching your ride in a rush to catch a plane or train could soon be over thanks to self-parking cars being developed in Germany.
The opposition will soon have a majority in Germany's upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat - and are planning to use it to push through a minimum wage and alter the disputed child care subsidy.
The Lower Saxony state election on Sunday night was followed by a morning of political poker within Angela Merkel's coalition partner, as FDP leader Philipp Rösler out-manoeuvred his rival, offering to resign in order to keep the top job.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will be forced to size up her election year strategy on Monday after a narrow defeat to the centre-left opposition after a cliffhanger result in Lower Saxony's state poll.
Lower Saxony's state election turned into a cliffhanger on Sunday night, as it was unclear whether the governing centre-right coalition would hang on to power.
Voters in the German state of Lower Saxony headed to the polls Sunday in a regional test for Chancellor Angela Merkel, eight months before a national election.
Not many German state premiers receive visits from UK royalty, but <b>David McAllister</b> is special because he's half Scottish and a British subject. This Sunday our <b>German of the Week</b> faces the voters in Lower Saxony's election.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Sunday face their first test at the polls ahead of this year's general election, with a state vote in Lower Saxony that could prove decisive for her flailing coalition partners the FDP. AFP's Deborah Cole reports.
Philipp Rösler, the head of Germany's beleaguered Free Democrats (FDP), on Sunday made a last-ditch attempt to placate his party critics ahead of a crucial state election in Lower Saxony later this month.
British troops could be leaving Germany earlier than planned - Lower Saxony state premier David McAllister said he was expecting a new announcement in January.
German police mounted a mass search for a kidnapper after phone calls from an unknown man saying he had taken a little girl prisoner. But when they tracked the caller down, he admitted making the whole thing up while high on drugs.
The infamous naked sledging competition in the Harz mountains, which thousands of people have been waiting for since the last icy run in February, has been cancelled for 2013 over safety fears, it was reported on Friday.
German police arrested the husband of a Catholic verger after she was found dead in the cellar of the church she worked in on Saturday morning. Some reports suggest the couple, who were separated, had ten children.
Armed police gave a German family a nasty shock when they stormed the wrong house in the middle of the night, training weapons on the bewildered inhabitants. Two women are receiving treatment for shock, it was reported at the weekend.
Drivers in north-western Germany should watch their speed on Wednesday, as two German states and the Netherlands will be launching a joint effort to crack down on speeders.
German authorities told more than 1,000 people in northern Germany that they could go home on Tuesday, after being evacuated a day earlier due to a chemical accident in a Kraft Food factory.
Around 2,000 people were evacuated from their houses on Monday night after a chemical accident in a food factory in Lower Saxony sparked a catastrophe alarm.
It might not be a novel way to raise cash, but the volunteer fire brigade of Bad Laer have come up with possibly the hottest topless charity calendar ever. Luckily, they have the tools to douse the inevitable flames of passion.
German state prosecutors in Lower Saxony were forced to admit a disastrous gaffe on Friday after they sold a suspected murderer's getaway car – with the weapon still inside.
British nuclear fuel rods arrived on Germany's North Sea coast for the first time since the 1980s on Sunday. The ship delivering them attracted some protesters on land and sea, but the journey was generally peaceful.
A German soldier lost his nerve when three young wolves followed him on a night exercise, stopping when he stopped and getting closer when he carried on walking – just like a game of “What’s the time Mr Wolf?”
A German crane driver unloading a freight train on Sunday morning got a shock when she found a very hungover man among the goods. He had climbed on board some 175 kilometres away and nodded off.
Military officials and police investigating the rape of a soldier who was left tied up and gagged in a locker in a Lower Saxony barracks, say they are no closer to finding the woman’s attacker.
Nearly half of young prisoners are physically attacked in jail in an average month a new study shows. The authors said violence in prisons must be reduced if those returning to society are to be reasonable neighbours.
A teenage glider pilot died on Saturday after crashing into a house in Lower Saxony. Four more people died on Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed and caught on fire in Bavaria.
