Berlin-based journalist Musa Okwonga argues that in the wake of the Cologne attacks, it's the fact of sexual assaults against women - not the race of the attackers - that we should focus on.
UPDATED: Police in Cologne have "no leads" on the perpetrators behind dozens of sex attacks committed against women in the western cathedral city on New Year's Eve, officials said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Germany's authorities and media have been tiptoeing around the issue of sexual violence committed by immigrants and refugees for too long - giving the far right ammunition in their battle against the mainstream, argues Jörg Luyken.
Men of ‘Arab background’ were likely responsible for sexual assaults on dozens of women in central Cologne over the New Year, police said on Monday - as a social media storm accused police and media of a cover-up.
Police finally have caught a man responsible for three rapes in northern Bavaria in 2008 after his DNA turned up at a break-in a different part of the country.
Two American men working at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany sexually assaulted a German teenager in 2013, a US district court jury ruled on Thursday.
Germany's ambassador to India stepped into a university admissions row after a professor said she wouldn't accept a male Indian student for an internship because of the country's “rape problem”.
A German historian estimates in a new book that French, British and American soldiers raped 860,000 Germans at and after the end of the Second World War, including 190,000 sexual assaults by American soldiers.
Charges have been laid on behalf of 13 women against a former high-ranking doctor after it was discovered he was abusing unconscious women who volunteered for his medical study, it was reported on Wednesday.
A 34-year-old woman from Bavaria was allegedly sexually abused and held prisoner for nearly a week in the US, according to police. The woman had flown to North Carolina for a man she met online.
A German doctor convicted of sexually abusing four female patients while working in Norway is now working full-time as a doctor in Germany, Norway's Dagbladet newspaper has reported.
A 30-year-old man from Bavaria, who crept through the streets and spied on women in their apartments, has admitted to raping an 86-year-old woman as she slept in her bed.
The chance of being convicted of rape in Germany has more than halved in the past two decades to fewer than one in ten, a major study revealed on Thursday.
Germany is one of the few countries in Europe where the morning after pill is not available over the counter. Family planning experts told The Local why they are fighting for this to change.
A German charity worker was allegedly raped while sleeping on a train in southern India on Friday – the second European to report a rape in the country within a week.
A senior policeman has won a fight to keep his job despite being convicted of rape and assault - his employers in Bavaria tried to sack him but a court said he could stay.
As the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women approaches, the last installment of The Local's Sex in Germany series looks at crime. Why does country's definition of rape divide opinion?
Police in Frankfurt have appealed for information to help catch a man who attempted to rape six women in the city. Police have received around 200 potential leads.
A German man who spent seven years in jail after being falsely accused of rape by his daughter was acquitted on Tuesday. The court heard how she made up the story as a girl as revenge for her parents' divorce.
A Berlin woman was reunited with her stolen dog on Sunday only to discover that it had likely been sexually assaulted. There may be more than one attacker, vets said.
