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Germany star Mario Götze on Thursday admitted being frustrated by his lack of finishing as Borussia Dortmund had to settle for a goalless draw at Malaga in the Champions League quarter-final, first leg.
The fire brigade pulled 34 people from a burning apartment building near Cologne on Wednesday night just moments before they would have died a fiery death.
Protestors handed out fake zero dollar bills at US military bases across Germany on Wednesday to demand a raise for the 22,000 civilian workers employed by the Allied armed forces.
Zoos in North Rhine-Westphalia are under intense financial pressure as the cold keeps visitors away and the chill economic climate kills off corporate sponsorship, an investigation by a German regional paper showed this week.
In the latest instalment of My German Career, The Local spoke with Costa Rican architect Roberto Ovalle about mastering the language, and how German bureaucracy can be both a blessing and a hindrance in the building world.
A swarm of performing fleas due to appear in a show at a fair in the town of Mechernich in North Rhine-Westphalia have perished in freezing conditions.
German discount supermarket Aldi is hitting the open road - from next week it will sell cheap intercity bus tickets. Until this point, a rail monopoly meant strict laws left no room for long distance bus travel.
Party-goers in the more conservative bits of Germany will be hanging up their disco pants as an Easter “dance ban” comes into force starting Thursday evening.
The area which gave rise to the name Neanderthal will run out of public funding for archaeology in two years - North Rhine-Westphalia state government is phasing out its financial support.
Hitting Germany's roads around the Easter holidays will require serious patience, with the country's drivers' association ADAC warned of widespread traffic jams, particularly on Thursday afternoon and Good Friday.
An odd echo during a phone call might not be the connection - it may mean you reached someone on the toilet - as more than a quarter of young Germans say they hit answer while on the loo. More than one in ten pick up while in the shower.
A German couple who snatched a Czech baby from her pram in front of her mother's eyes and stole her across a border, have been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
The long, cold, dark winter could cost Germany up to €6 billion in extra healthcare and lost productivity as people stay away from work sick, a new study suggests.
German carmaker Opel, the loss-making arm of US auto giant General Motors, said Friday it will press ahead with plans to phase out auto production at one of its Bochum factory at the end of 2014, earlier than planned.
As northern Germany stares out of the window wondering when the snow will stop, little hope came from the country's national weather service (DWD), which said the record-breaking wintry weather will continue until Easter.
Widespread strikes at Germany's airports began on Thursday as Lufthansa employees walked out of the job in a fight for more pay. By 7:30am, 700 flights had been cancelled, with Hamburg and Frankfurt worst affected.
German airline Lufthansa said on Wednesday it will cancel nearly 500 European flights on Thursday during planned warning strikes by ground staff and other divisions within the group.
Heavy snow overnight snarled early morning traffic across much of eastern Germany on Tuesday, as a renewed winter onslaught made for treacherous driving conditions.
Germany's top state prosecutor on Monday took control of an investigation into a suspected plot to assassinate a xenophobic politician by Islamist extremists.
Arctic winds brought fresh snowfall in northern Germany on Monday morning, causing traffic chaos as truck drivers lost control of their vehicles, skidding across and blocking several motorways.
Train passengers across Germany were expected to experience serious problems on Monday morning's early commute as members of a rail workers' union staged a nationwide walk-out over a wage dispute.
German hopes of the arrival of warmer, more seasonally appropriate weather have been dashed as meteorologists warn that a new low-pressure front over the British Isles will account for more unsettled conditions.
