Germany's leading airline Lufthansa posted Thursday a first-quarter net loss of €256 million ($290 million) as the sector was slammed by the ongoing recession.
Passengers forced to wait for delayed trains in Germany must now be compensated after the Bundestag, or the lower house of parliament, passed new legislation on Friday.
The European Commission launched an anti-trust probe against German airline Lufthansa and six other air alliance members Monday on suspicion of collusion on transatlantic routes.
The German government said Thursday it would nominate Rüdiger Grube as head of the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn after its former boss resigned amid a staff spy scandal.
The embattled chief of German national rail service Deutsche Bahn, Hartmut Mehdorn, stepped down on Monday amid an ongoing scandal that has revealed the company spied on its own employees and journalists.
A spying scandal Deutsche Bahn expanded in scope on Friday to include not just surveillance of employees, but also journalists and scientists who were particularly critical of Germany's state-owned national rail operator.
The German car industry is already feeling the first positive effects of an environmental bonus brought in at the beginning of the year, German auto industry association VDA said on Sunday.
Two of Germany's biggest railway unions demanded more explanations from the state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn on Saturday to explain why it spied on more than half its workers between 2002 and 2003.
A 70-year-old man who pushed a 13-year-old girl into a travelling underground train in Munich has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for aggravated battery.
Thousands of Brandenburg residents could come under suspicion for being neo-Nazis or right-wing sympathisers because of the letter and number combinations on their licence plates.
Hundreds of Berliners who end up in prison each year for riding public transportation without tickets are stressing the city’s already overcrowded prisons, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported on Monday.
There is at least one air traffic collision alarm per day in the skies over Germany, a study from the Institute of Railway Systems Engineering and Traffic Safety (IfEV) in Braunschweig revealed on Tuesday.
Germany will reimburse €3.0 billion ($3.9 billion) to taxpayers in coming months following a ruling by the country's highest court deeming a trimmed tax break for commuters unconstitutional.
A 40-year-old Dortmund man repeatedly punched a public bus driver late on Wednesday because he didn’t like his “driving style,” police reported on Thursday.
Less than two days after 20 people died tragically in a bus fire near Hannover, unknown suspects set the back of a public bus in Detmold alight, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported on Thursday.
Customers hoping to see fewer crowded Deutsche Bahn trains will have to wait until February 2009 when full service is restored on its high speed lines.
Is there an "Animal" endangering the streets of Bavaria? Police traffic cameras recently captured a puppet speeding, but the culprit turned out to be a hot-footed British driver with a sense of humour.
