The German financial market watchdog BaFin has placed a moritorium on German operations of the biggest Icelandic bank Kaupthing, following its nationalization.
A crewman of a British World War II bomber shot down over Germany in 1944 whose remains were only identified this year will be buried in Berlin next week, a Royal Air Force spokesman said on Thursday.
Germany does not need to nationalize any of its banks but this could change if the global financial crisis gets any worse, Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück told business daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> on Thursday.
German and British customs officers on Thursday said they have uncovered a band of gold smugglers dodging the tax authorities by trafficking the precious metal through the Frankfurt airport.
Far fewer people than previously thought may have died in the infamous Allied firebombing of Dresden at the close of World War II, according to a new assessment by historians.
German police in the state of Hesse on Thursday have arrested a man suspected of murdering a 20-year-old student from Nottingham, England in an incident that appears to have been sparked by an online dispute.
British forces stationed in Münster have welcomed furry reinforcements in the form of two royal regimental ferrets just prior to their deployment in Iraq.
VfB Stuttgart is under fire for allegedly doctoring a photo of their new keeper Jens Lehmann for the club’s yearbook this season to rid it of the emblem of his old team Arsenal FC and a Nike swoosh.
Germany‘s best-selling daily newspaper <i>Bild</i> on Friday opened a second front in what could be called the holiday war by attacking Russian tourists for spoiling German vacations in Turkey with “whores and vodka.”
A hobby historian says he's discovered that Posh Spice, also known as Victoria Beckham, is a descendant of a German communist from Heilbronn who was close to Karl Marx.
The German department store chain Hertie said on Thursday it had filed for insolvency and signalled signalled problems with one of its owners, the British financial group Dawnay Day.
Star British author and essayist Nick Hornby says he prefers reading his work to Germans over his countrymen in Britain, according to UK daily The Times on Thursday.
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British sibling artist duo Jake and Dinos Chapman have defaced a series of Adolf Hitler’s water colour paintings for their new exhibition entitled “If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be.”
A British holidaymaker was awarded compensation by a court because there were too many German tourists at the hotel he booked in Greece, newspapers reported on Saturday.
Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Martin Jol has been named as the new coach of Bundesliga side Hamburg SV, according to reports in the German media on Wednesday.
The South East of England has been hit by a bad smell this Saturday that the British are calling "The Great Stink" as the result of German pigs and a strong easterly wind.
RWE, the second biggest German energy group, is ready to offer almost £11 billion (€13.7 billion, $21.7 billion) for British Energy, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
Porsche has launched a court challenge in Britain against plans by London's mayor to impose hefty pollution charges on high-emissions vehicles entering the city centre.
