From Saturday until New Year's Eve, fireworks will be sold throughout Germany. But as warnings over safety and pollution intensify, are fireworks still a big part of German culture at Silvester?
Pyrotechnic-mad Germany loves to see in the New Year with a bang but concerns about climate change have prompted several major retailers to take fireworks off the shelves this year, local media said Friday.
Cologne police on Monday released previously unseen video footage of the chaos at the city's main train station on New Year's Eve, when hundreds of women reported sexual assaults and thefts by large groups of foreign men.
Almost three months since the wave of sexual assaults and robberies in central Cologne on New Year's Eve, the first suspect has been charged with a sexual crime.
North-Rhine Westphalia has launched an inquiry into how such large numbers of sexual assaults and other crimes were allowed to happen at Cologne's main train station on New Year's Eve.
Groups of men sexually assaulted women in Frankfurt on New Year, police report - as the number of complaints of sexual assault in Hamburg has risen to nearly forty.
Nobody cares to eat alone, but for decades Germans have rung in the New Year by watching a little-known British comedy skit "Dinner for One." The Local explains a Teutonic tradition.
Berlin tourism officials are gearing up for what may be the world’s biggest New Year’s Eve party on Monday, the daily <i>Berliner Zeitung</i> reported on Sunday.
Germans can start stocking up on New Year's fireworks as of Friday, but they're being advised to revel with care: The case of a man who bled to death, apparently due to an illegal firecracker, has police warning of the dangers of contraband pyrotechnics.
The brother of skiing champion Annemarie Gerg was killed on New Year’s Eve when a homemade firework exploded unexpectedly, according to a Monday media report.
More than a million people gathered at Germany’s largest New Year’s party in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Saturday night to ring in 2011 with a fireworks spectacle.
Chancellor Angela Merkel used her New Year's address to stress the importance of the euro to Germany, after polls showed voters going cool on the single currency following the Greek and Irish debt crises.
A man from Saxony-Anhalt has become the first major casualty of the New Year’s pyrotechnic orgy by blowing off his left hand with a firecracker, police announced Thursday.
New Year’s Eve without fireworks is unthinkable for many Germans, but giddy pyromaniacs could face hefty fines for recklessly blowing things up near churches, hospitals and quaint thatched-roof houses.
Despite the freezing weather forecast for New Year's Eve, Berlin is expecting hundreds of thousand people to come to Germany’s biggest <i>Silvester</i> party at the Brandenburg Gate.
Germans are likely to go SMS-crazy this New Year's Eve. The mobile phone trade organisation Bitkom said that networks are bracing themselves for an onslaught of New Year's wishes.
A truck laden with fireworks for New Year’s celebrations went up in flames on Tuesday morning, temporarily closing the A9 motorway in Bavaria between Munich and Nuremberg.
