An inebriated American tourist was beaten up in the German city of Dresden after he repeatedly raised his arm to give the Nazi salute, police said Sunday.
It has no royal family, Eiffel Tower or Big Ben, but that does not stop Germany being home to some of the tackiest souvenirs lining Europe's tourist trail.
Police are searching the greater Schengen area outside Germany for a couple who went missing a month ago at the iconic Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria.
People who rent out whole apartments online are threatened with huge fines under a new rule in the German capital. But that isn’t stopping many landlords from continuing to cash in.
After another record-breaking half year of tourism, Berlin is now Europe's third most popular destination behind London and Paris. But it seems there's still some work to be done if Berlin wants to catch up with its rivals any time soon.
Record numbers of tourists are visiting Berlin, many of them drawn by its vibrant party scene and tolerance. But the mayor of one busy tourist district is now calling for curbs on excessive noise and unruly behaviour by visitors.
Kenyan police said on Friday a female tourist shot dead in the coastal city of Mombasa was from Germany, the second such killing of a foreign visitor by gunmen there this month.
Germany's tourism industry is booming, but what sights should you visit beyond the cities? With the help of our readers, The Local List has come up with a German Bucket List of ten things to see and do while you're in the country.
With summer holiday season approaching, The Local List this week has scoured the length and breadth of Germany to find some of the most unusual sites for you to visit. How many of our ten have you seen?
A German couple holidaying on the Portuguese island of Madeira have been found dead at the bottom of ravine, three days after they went missing, authorities said on Saturday.
Stranded by floods and lost, a German backpacker survived for about two weeks in Australia's inhospitable Outback on a diet of insects, police said on Friday.
A German tourist was missing in Australia's rugged Kakadu National Park, police said Saturday, expressing grave fears that he had been gone more than 24 hours without drinking water in intense heat.
The drowned body of a 22-year-old American teacher who went missing a month ago in Frankfurt has been found in the Rhine River, police announced on Tuesday.
<b>A German tourist from Munich has been arrested in New Zealand for spraying graffiti on a glacier and nearby boulders. His punishment? Scrub it off the UNESCO World Heritage site.</b>
