Germany’s highest court in Karlsruhe decided on Wednesday that a local consumer tax on throw-away packaging for food is legal. Now other cities in the region may follow suit.
As of Tuesday, shops, restaurants, cafes and museums are all open again in the southwestern town of Tübingen, where a pilot project is being conducted to see whether mass testing can replace lockdowns as an effective means of suppressing the virus.
Tübingen's mayor Boris Palmer says he can't cope with Berlin's 'mixture of crime, drug trafficking and poverty'. Nothing works in the capital, says the Green politician. Does he have a point?
German prosecutors said on Tuesday they have asked judges to fine three scientists at the prestigious Max Planck Institutes for animal cruelty over experiments on monkeys' brains.
Police in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, warned against calls for vigilante justice on Friday after a video showing teenaged girls attacking a classmate was uploaded to social media.
Whether a hearty guffaw, a surprised shriek, or a suppressed snort; every time someone laughs around us, our brains must interpret what it means. As German scientists have discovered, it's more complex than one might think.
Overweight people have a tougher time when it comes to landing a job according to a German study which showed recruiters discriminate against them – with fat women facing the most prejudice.
Palaeontologists have dug up fossils of turtles literally caught in the act at a German site – the first time fossilised vertebrates having sex have ever been found.
A team of scientists in Germany have discovered why people tend to walk in circles when lost in locations as diverse as the Sahara Desert and German forests.
