The jailed gigolo accused of blackmailing Germanyâs richest woman will face a Munich court by March of 2009, daily <i>SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported on Friday.
The German semi-conductor group Infineon on Tuesday issued a gloomy report for itself and its loss-making memory-chip unit Qimonda, as it posted an annual loss of âŹ3 billion ($3.8 billion).
German plastic surgeons can now apply for a seal of approval on their finished operations in a push to improve the quality of the industry, according to Munich daily <i>tz</i> on Monday.
Customs officials at the Munich airport got a nasty surprise this week when they discovered an airmail parcel from South Africa that contained a rotten monkey head, the main customs office reported on Wednesday.
The trees are decorated, the ferris wheels are rolling and the smell of mulled wine and roasted nuts are in the air - hard times are ahead for scrooges as the first batch of Christmas markets open across Germany on Monday.
Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan has signed a short-term contract Thursday on loan to German giants Bayern Munich after impressing coach JĂŒrgen Klinsmann on his 10-day trial.
German property lender Hypo Real Estate expects to suffer heavy charges in 2009 after flirting with bankruptcy this year, the bank said in a statement on Monday.
A Catholic priest who was dropped from a position in Austria for taking part in wild gay sex parties, is working for a Munich parish and even celebrating mass, according to newsmagazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
Brandenburgâs capital Potsdam has been named the worldâs 8th best historic place, according to National Geographic Travelerâs fifth annual destination-stewardship survey released this month. The survey named the city âone of Germanyâs most important cultural centres.â
Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan has taken a step closer to a move to German giants Bayern Munich after impressing coach JĂŒrgen Klinsmann on his 10-day trial in the Bavarian capital.
New York-based star architect Daniel Libeskind has announced he will design a new synagogue in Munich for the cityâs liberal Jewish community in 2018.
German property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) posted on Wednesday a third-quarter net loss of âŹ3.1 billion ($3.89 billion) and said it expected more bad news by the end of the year.
Germany's richest woman, who was recently blackmailed by an ex-lover, hit the news again Thursday. But this time it was strictly business with a takeover worth almost a cool billion euros.
A baby born in a Munich S-Bahn commuter train will receive a lifelong free ticket to ride the cityâs public transportation system, the rail operator announced on Wednesday.
Though the US election will take place thousands of kilometres away and in the middle of the night for those of us living in Germany, there are plenty of ways to tune in to the final showdown between Obama and McCain - both from home and in the company of excited party-goers.
German engineering group Siemens said on Tuesday it will sell its half of a computer joint venture with Fujitsu to the Japanese group for around âŹ450 million ($566 million).
BMW, the German luxury car maker, said on Tuesday that it could no longer give a forecast for 2008, after it was hit head-on by the international financial crisis.
Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany and an heiress to the BMW fortune, paid out âŹ7.5 million to a Swiss gigolo who threatened to release secretly-filmed movies of the two having sex.
Troubled German property lender Hypo Real Estate has obtained a âŹ15 billion ($19.3 billion) state loan guarantee under the government rescue plan for the banking sector, a spokesman said late on Thursday.
Bavarian Halloween fans are in for a shock on Friday night, when party-going zombies, witches and other monsters will be horrified to see their celebrations shut down at midnight for the Church holiday All Saints Day.
He is as loved by Hoffenheim fans as much as he is loathed by supporters of their Bundesliga rivals, but German entrepreneur Dietmar Hopp has realised his dream of putting his team top of the league.
The days might be getting shorter and colder in Germany, but that didn't stop two amorous couples from getting busy in public in recent unrelated incidents in Munich and Dresden.
