A giant rake, boats, and night cameras have all failed in the hunt to catch a snapping turtle which bit a boy in a Bavarian lake. The village is now filling the lake up with water again and laying traps brought in from America.
The Local is running a guide each day this week to Germany's biggest political parties, ahead of the election on September 22nd. Today we turn to Chancellor Merkel's Bavarian allies - the Christian Social Union (CSU).
Notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving is planning to visit Berlin in September - but may have to sleep on a friend's a couch, and hold his meeting in a living-room, as hotels in the German capital have united to boycott him.
Thousands of travellers were stranded at airports across Germany and the rest of Europe at the weekend after Spanish air traffic controllers went on a surprise wildcat strike.
Bayern Munich player Franck Ribery has addressed the media storm raging around him about an underage prostitute. The 27-year-old Frenchman admitted to relations with the call girl, but said he didn't know she was so young.
Municipal councils across Germany struggling to pay for repairs to their roads have been told they could apply for federal funding to fill in the potholes by defining the work as noise reduction measures.
Rising star Toni Kroos was both chief playmaker and goalscorer on Sunday in Leverkusen's 3-0 win over Hoffenheim that knocked his parent club Bayern Munich off the top of the table.
Bayern Munich qualified for the Champions League second round after dominating Juventus for 90 minutes in Turin, Italy, thumping their hosts 4-1 to knock them out of the competition.
National rail operator Deutsche Bahn is now offering eco-tickets for corporate customers to encourage sustainable travel, the company announced on Monday.
Real Madrid are ready to shell out another €55 million ($76 million) for French star Franck Ribery, although his club Bayern Munich have again insisted the playmaker is not for sale.
Germany's 20 wealthiest families have lost about €40 billion in the economic crisis in share values alone, the financial magazine <i>WirtschaftsWoche</i> reported in its latest edition.
Germany’s two main Christian churches used traditional Christmas sermons to lambaste unbridled greed and an inhumane capitalist system for supposedly leading to the global financial crisis this year.
German reinsurance group Munich Re on Monday said it has agreed to buy the specialty insurer HSB Group from troubled US giant AIG for $742 million (€531 million).
