The city will mark the anniversary with a gathering for relatives and survivors at Breitscheidplatz and the the bells of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church will ring 12 times.
The Government wants to relax licence rules so that car drivers can ride motorcycles that reach speeds of over 100km/h without having to take a test, German media reported Thursday.
German unions on Tuesday called
for nationwide "warning strikes" in the public sector this month after state and local governments rejected their demands for a wage hike.
German police have warned that Germany's Euro 2016 match against old foes Poland could be the next flash point for hooligan violence when they meet in Paris on Thursday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted on Friday that she had made a "mistake" in her initial reaction to the poem, but held that the investigation against the comedian should still be allowed.
Barack Obama's visit to Hanover on Sunday will be the first time that a US President has visited the Lower Saxon capital's fair. And officials are taking it quite seriously: banning waving out of windows and locking down roads.
Taxi-hailing app mytaxi will no longer be allowed to offer customers 50 percent off trips, a court in Frankfurt has decided, saying that the deals represent unfair competition.
Can you imagine how Germany must have been before the successive catastrophes of the 20th Century? Now you don't have to – thanks to a new collection of rare colour images The Local has had a sneak peek into.
An Airbus plane suffered an unusual accident at Berlin's Schönefeld airport in the early hours of Wednesday after it collided with a light mast on the taxiway.
Criminals used so much explosive while trying to rob a bank near Berlin on Wednesday night that they blasted a wall and part of the roof off the building - and may not even have got away with any loot.
German security authorities will be closely watching both known Islamic fundamentalists and far-right extremists who might join an anti-Islamic backlash in the coming days, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said on Saturday afternoon.
Two young women from western Germany are being hunted by Turkish authorities on suspicion of involvement in a recent spate of terrorist attacks by Isis.
Germany's most important stock market index continued to suffer the effects of plunging confidence in Asia on Monday, losing around four percent of its value after a sharp fall in early-morning trading.
German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp said on Friday it had won a contract worth more than a billion euros ($1.3 billion) to build a number of fertiliser plants in the United States.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Germany’s attitude to its Turkish minority on his arrival in Berlin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a "guest worker" agreement between the two countries.
It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at the German capital's legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest and most unusual urban gardens. AFP’s Deborah Cole reports.
Daimler and Deutsche Telekom may have to strike a billion-euro compensation deal with the government over the disastrous introduction of a truck road toll in Germany more than six years ago.
Following Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to phase out of nuclear power by 2022, major energy-consuming companies say the decision puts Germany’s international competitiveness at risk.
Two US servicemen were shot dead at Frankfurt Airport and at least two others seriously injured on Wednesday after a man opened fire on bus for American soldiers. Both US President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel expressed shock and outrage.
Two regional websites for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were hacked on Tuesday by unknown perpetrators claiming to be Turkish following controversial comments by her conservatives on immigration.
The French head of the European Central Bank on Monday differed sharply with his possible German successor over a radical switch of ECB policy to buy up government bonds which critics say could stoke inflation.
The aristocratic house of Thurn und Taxis wants to build the world's largest solar park in Bavaria. But as <b>Kyle James</b> reports, the plans have angered their commoner neighbours.
