At least 547 boys at a German Catholic choir school fell victim to sexual and physical abuse in what some later compared to "prison, hell or a concentration camp", an investigator's report said Tuesday.
Victims of child abuse at the hands of Regensburg cathedral choir priests and teachers are set to receive compensation ranging between €5,000 to €20,000 by the end of next year.
Fresh cases of abuse in Regensburg cathedral choir were revealed by investigators on Friday, who said at least 231 children have been abused by priests and teachers since the 1950s in a scandal that has rocked the Bavarian city.
Residents of the town of Regensburg in central Bavaria have found a rather clever way of blocking demonstrations by the far-right Pegida movement – by block-booking all the town's squares for their own rallies.
A man from northern Bavaria hired to work on preparations for next month's G7 meeting of world leaders sent a posthumous letter threatening a poison attack on their hotel.
The diocese of Regensburg announced on Monday it is cooperating with the victims' organisation White Ring to investigate sexual and physical abuse at the Domspatzen Choir, Die Welt reported.
Police in Kelheim said on Friday they had arrested a man who hoarded guns, ammunition and bomb-making material in a nuclear-proof family bunker he built fearing an attack by Russia.
German police are investigating after a five-year-old girl was killed and her three-year-old sister seriously injured when a car being followed by police smashed into a launderette where they were with their mother.
As part of our summer tour of Germany's UNESCO World Heritage sites, we explore the old city of Regensburg in south east Germany, now a vibrant university town steeped in medieval history.
Police in Bavaria ended a week-long crocodile hunt empty-handed on Monday after experts concluded that their prey was probably a harmless beaver after all. A witness prompted a frantic search in and out of the water.
British scandal rocker Pete Doherty is suspected of drunkenly stealing from a music store in the picturesque Bavarian city of Regensburg, where he is filming a costume drama also starring French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Dozens of restaurants and bars in the Bavarian city of Regensburg have joined forces to begin a new initiative to refuse service to neo-Nazis after a violent right-wing attack on one of their own, the group said this week.
Twenty students from the University of Regensburg plan to live and train in the style of Roman gladiators from 79 AD and stage a battle for scientific research this summer, the project's Bavarian organisers said on Monday.
The child sexual abuse scandal in Germany’s Catholic Church continued to spread on Friday as a spokesperson confirmed abuse at Regensburg’s cathedral school for their famous boys' choir, the <i>Domspatzen</i>.
Not everyone in Germany is experiencing football fever during the European Championships this summer – <b>David Hein</b> reports on baseball’s equivalent of the UEFA Cup.
<b>While on a princely trip to Bavaria, David Wroe decides to go postal in Regensburg by delving into the mediaeval history of the House of Thurn and Taxis.</b>
