Police in southern Germany warned this week of a dangerous new form of alcohol abuse among teens ā using tampons soaked in vodka to get drunk quickly and hide the smell. The practice poses grave health risks, they said.
A Berlin city politician on Wednesday called for a crisis meeting on cyber-bullying after an online conflict escalated into the brutal group beating of a 17-year-old who was apparently trying to mediate the row.
A 17-year-old German teen faced a court on Thursday for holding two boys like slaves in the attic above his parentsā apartment and forcing them to steal for him.
Three young German parliamentarians have organized a network video game party in the Bundestag for Wednesday evening. Their aim is to familiarize fellow politicians with the world of gaming, but not everyone wants to play along.
Four teenagers have been arrested for beating a man into a coma in a Berlin metro station. The attack has caused widespread outrage for its senselessness and brutality.
One sixth of German girls aged 10 to 18 have been sexually harassed on the internet, and one third of youngsters in that age group have had disturbing experiences online, a government study has found.
Youth fire volunteers in North Rhine-Westphalia are caught in a neo-Nazi scandal after they were photographed giving a Hitler salute, media reported Thursday.
Police in Germany staged nationwide raids Tuesday on members of a far-right group suspected of trying to organise a camp to train young extremists, seizing neo-Nazi material.
A 77-year-old pensioner shot and killed one of five masked intruders in his Lower Saxony home, police said on Tuesday. The other four burglars remain on the loose.
Two teenagers were sentenced to more than three years in jail on Thursday for beating a man in a Hamburg train station to death after he declined to give them ā¬0.20 in pocket change.
German sports apparel giant Adidas said Monday it hoped to win sales of more than ā¬1 billion with a new brand aimed at the lucrative 12 to 19-year-old market that is already being launched in Asia.
Whatās it like living as a homeless youth in Germany? <b>Melanie Sevcenko</b> spoke with <b>Maria Speth</b> about her new documentary ā<i>9 Leben</i>,ā which lets street kids tell their own tales.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a series of joggers over the last several months, Bavarian police announced on Wednesday.
Teens today may not be growing up too quickly after all. A new study on German youth sexuality revealed on Thursday that boys and girls are waiting longer to have sex and then having less of it than they were just five years ago.
Police in the northern German city of OsnabrĆ¼ck said on Wednesday they were investigating allegations of sexual abuse among youths at a summer camp on the Dutch island of Ameland.
A German court on Tuesday threw out the case of a schoolteacher against a pupil who allegedly tormented her by scrawling pictures of rabbits on the blackboard to aggravate her rabbit phobia.
Youth services have been alerted after a German father abandoned his 14-year-old son at a Bavarian rest stop following an argument, police in the southern state reported on Monday, calling the incident āunbelievable.ā
A 17-year-old known as the āā¬0.20 delinquentā for fatally beating a man over pocket change has allegedly attacked his teen girlfriend just six weeks after being released from police custody ahead of a retrial, according to the authorities in Hamburg.
Berlin police continued to search on Friday for a prominent judge in a wooded area near the cityās Heiligensee neighbourhood after her car was found there earlier this week.
Two teenagers have been nabbed for attempting to blind pilots landing at the Hamburg Airport with a laser pointer this week after being hunted down by a police helicopter.
Tom Kaulitz, a member of German pop band Tokio Hotel, reportedly suffered a two-day erection after overdosing on Viagra for a sex party with groupies in Taiwan.
