Germany's conservative CDU party will pick a new leader on Saturday from three candidates: moderate Armin Laschet,
arch-conservative Friedrich Merz and outsider Norbert Röttgen.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party said Monday it would push back a congress planned for early December to elect a new leader due to a surge in coronavirus infections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) is planning for equal representation of women within the party, according to sources. Here's how and why.
Berlin's police department said Wednesday that its officers were "only human" after they were expelled from the security force for next week's G20 summit after hardcore partying that earned them hero status from the German capital's clubbing scene.
Carnival season kicked off with a bang across Germany on Friday. For some the mad chaos is an absolute highlight, but for others it's a strange and foreign world.
It started with a single message on WhatsApp. It ended with more than 100 police officers being called in and public transit and traffic being shut down.
Germany's anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant Pegida movement said Monday it is seeking to found a political party but stressed it would not seek to draw votes from populist far-right group AfD.
It's party season, and to help you seamlessly blend into German life and culture we've put together our top ten ways you can avoid embarrassment while you're keeping out the winter chill.
On Sunday March 15th at 2 pm, the streets of Berlin's Kreuzberg district will turn green as the city's Irish community invites one and all to become their honorary countrymen for St Patrick's Day.
Large parts of Germany come to a standstill for carnival, the six days before Lent when half the nation lets its hair down for a wild party that shouldn’t be missed, writes David Crossland.
Alaaf! The Rhineland is in full Karneval swing, but not all the festivities were peaceful, as police were called to dozens of fights and pulled revellers out of the crowds on Thursday.
New Year's Eve is upon us and 2014 is a year that was certainly worth giving a proper send off to for Germany (remember the time we won the World Cup?). Here are some options for a big Silvester, as the evening is known in Germany, night out in your city.
A married couple in Frankfurt, who organized around 450 paid for sex parties while claiming unemployment benefit, have been accused of fraud after allegedly cheating the tax man out of €1 million ($1.3 million).
Germany's Pirate Party are meeting just over four months before general elections to chart a course out of a crisis that has seen its poll ratings sink amid internal squabbling.
For the first time ever, there are likely to be more Greens than Free Democrats in Germany by the end of the year, new estimates predict. The Green party is the only major political party that gained new members in 2012.
A house party organized on Facebook by teenage twins descended into chaos on Thursday night with the arrival of hundreds of uninvited revelers. Local police were forced to stop nearby trains when rioters got on the tracks.
The official New Year's celebrations in the German capital drew over a million people on Saturday night. Overcrowding meant that the two-kilometre "party-mile" in front of the Brandenburg Gate was closed at 10 p.m.
A huge party in the western town of Wuppertal organized anonymously via Facebook resulted in a riot on Friday night, leaving 16 people injured and three charged with public order offences.
Former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has ruled himself out of the running as a chancellor-candidate for the Green party. The Greens are currently enjoying a ratings high, already fuelling speculation about potential candidates for the 2013 election.
