Consumers are paying very different prices for petrol, heating oil and natural gas in Germany depending on what region they live in, according to a comparison released on Tuesday by consumer magazines <i>Guter Rat</i> and <i>Das Haus</i>.
The daughter of Franz Josef StrauĂź, the late conservative premier of Bavaria, said on Monday the leftist terrorist group the Red Army Faction (RAF) planned to kill him with a model airplane wired with explosives in 1977.
There's no dress code at Oktoberfest, but the pressure for women to make a fashion statement via their choice of dirndl is great. One prominent female visitor though, has spawned “dirndl-gate” by rejecting the garment in favour of a more modest jacket.
Bayern Munich coach JĂĽrgen Klinsmann could only rue his side's 'black' Saturday as Werder Bremen routed the defending Bundesliga champions 5-2 in Munich.
There are few places left in Europe where you can still enjoy a cigarette and a tipple, but the huge beer tents of the 175th annual Oktoberfest starting in Munich this Saturday are one of them.
Transportation Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee on Thursday called for a dramatic expansion of bicycle use in Germany's cities as a means to combat climate change.
With Germany currently shivering amid unseasonably chilly temperatures, organizers of Munich’s Oktoberfest fear the city’s famous beer festival starting this weekend could give new meaning to drinking a cold one.
Bavaria's state premier GĂĽnther Beckstein on Tuesday came under fire for saying that driving after drinking two litres of beer at the upcoming Oktoberfest is perfectly acceptable.
A 90-year-old German, sentenced in Italy in absentia to life in prison for a Nazi war crime, pleaded innocent Monday at the start of a trial in Germany in one of the last cases of its kind.
A 90-year-old German, sentenced in absentia by an Italian military court to life in prison for a Nazi war crime, faces trial in Germany Monday in one of the last cases of its kind.
This year's Oktoberfest will be a bit safer after 23 known hooligans and five chronic pickpockets have been banned from the Bavarian beer festival, Munich daily <i>tz</i> reported on Friday.
Anyone able to get outside on Thursday should enjoy the last hurrah of summer in Germany, as temperatures are set to drop dramatically heading into the weekend.
For the fifth year in a row, Munich is Germany's most economically successful city, according to a new study published in weekly business magazine <i>Wirtschafts Woche</i> on Friday.
Welcome to the Bad Kissingen hotel: No room service, no bed, no wi-fi - no room at all in fact. Here in what is officially one of Germany's weirdest hotels, you sleep in a field.
<b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, has decided to lace up his <i>Lederhosen</i> this year and find out the true meaning of Munich’s Oktoberfest.
<b>This autumn Munich water management experts and the Goethe Institute will present their successful Isar River restoration project to Los Angeles city officials in hopes that they'll be inspired to return the city's concrete riverbed to its former glory, writes The Local's Kristen Allen.</b>
A smoking Air Dolomiti plane aborted take off this weekend at the Munich airport – an event the airline said was “not alarming” at the time. But amateur videos of passengers leaping from the flaming plane have scandalized the German media on Tuesday.
Police in Bavaria have uncovered a huge international paedophilia pornography ring, which has already resulted in hundreds of investigations in Germany and the collection of data from thousands of suspects in 98 countries.
German police believe a family of four from Pullach near Munich was on the Spanair flight that crashed in Madrid on Wednesday killing at least 153 people.
China may resurrect a plan for the first long-distance route for the German-engineered high-speed maglev Transrapid train, official Chinese press agency Xinhua reported on Monday. But the project is likely to be delayed three years from its original timetable.
Stuttgart, bidding to dislodge last season's Bundesliga winners Bayern Munich, got their campaign off to a solid start on Sunday by winning 3-1 away at promoted Borussia Mönchengladbach.
All eyes will be on Munich's Allianz Arena when defending champions Bayern Munich kick off the new Bundesliga season on Friday against Hamburg under the gaze of new coach JĂĽrgen Klinsmann.
With Munich is celebrating its 850th anniversary this summer, <b>Ben Knight</b> heads to Bavaria to find how a city of bourgeois affluence and magical beer is marking a special birthday.
While Bayern Munich have been conspicuous by their absence in Germany's transfer market this summer, their rivals have been splashing out in preparation for their assaults on the Bundesliga titles.
