In about four months, Germans in Saxony Anhalt will vote in a state election that could see the far-right AfD party take power. What would the party's proposed policies mean for the foreign residents who live there?
It had looked like Magdeburg's Christmas market, the region's largest, might be cancelled after the state's security authority threatened to withhold approval for the event. Now the even is back on, with police having agreed to extra precautions.
Nearly a year after a tragic attack was carried out at the Magdeburg Christmas market, this year's festival is threatened by closure. Here's why a state authority has refused to issue a permit for the event, and why the city's Mayor is pushing back.
A Saudi doctor went on trial in Germany Monday accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas market, killing six people and wounding more than 300 in a rampage that shocked the nation.
The Saudi suspect in a deadly attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany in December will face six charges of murder and 338 charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The German government, under fire for failing to prevent a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market, argued on Monday that the tragedy would have been hard to prevent and said that the suspect appeared to be mentally disturbed.
German security and intelligence chiefs are due on Monday to face questioning about the car-ramming attack that killed five people and wounded more than 200 at a Christmas market 10 days ago.
Three days after Germany's deadly Christmas market attack in which a Saudi man with anti-Islam views was arrested, both the far-right AfD and counter-protesters were due to hit the streets on Monday in the bereaved city of Magdeburg.
The German government has pledged to fully investigate whether there were security lapses before the Christmas market car-ramming attack that killed five people and injured over 200.
The suspect in Germany's car-ramming attack on a Christmas market that killed five people and injured hundreds more faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday.
Shocked survivors recounted the moment a car attack on Friday turned a glittering Christmas market in eastern Germany into a scene of death and carnage.
World War II ended almost 75 years ago, but works of art confiscated by the Nazis are still regularly unearthed by
major auction houses, which contribute actively to their restitution.
Two men pretending to be police officers stopped a driver near Magdeburg in central Germany on Wednesday, claiming he was speeding, and drove off in his car.
Thousands of spectators gathered to watch the annual naked sledging championships in Germany on Saturday. Not to be put off by the mild temperatures, an artificial ski slope was created.
At least 24 people including a pregnant woman and driver were injured on Friday morning in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, when two trams crashed into each other at a station.
An explosion and gunfire shattered the silence in the normally sleepy eastern German city of Magdeburg on in the early hours of Friday morning, as police became embroiled in a shoot-out with bank robbers.
A US World War Two bomb has shut down the centre of Magdeburg and forced 10,000 people to leave their homes after being discovered near the city’s train station on Wednesday.
Several newspapers received an anonymous letter on Sunday morning threatening to damage dams set up to hold back flood waters in eastern and northern Germany.
Flood waters rose in eastern Germany Saturday, forcing the evacuation of homes and a hospital. The eastern German city of Magdeburg was under particular threat.
Get The Local flavour of Germany with our series offering an insider's take on their hometown. This week, Gitanyali Dayinta Ratitia talks about her adopted town, Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt.
Nearly 40 years ago, the African nation of Mali gave former East Germany a baby crocodile as a gift. Now, Theophila is over three metres long and lives in Magdeburg's water treatment plant where she has become a local legend.
A pair of 18th century mummies are to go on display in eastern Germany. Preserved naturally thanks to an unusually draughty crypt, experts are excited to show them off to church visitors.
Fans of Magdeburg football club, languishing at the bottom of the fourth tier of Germany's league, came up with an innovative way to try and turn the team's fortunes – big, multi-coloured arrows to help misfiring strikers locate the goal.
