Germany Germany orders Facebook to stop collecting WhatsApp user data Facebook in Hamburg has been ordered by the German data protection agency to stop collecting and storing user information from its WhatApp messaging app. 27/09/2016
Markets Deutsche Bank's shares rise on sale of Abbey Life Deutsche Bank shares rose on Wednesday as it sold its British insurance business Abbey Life, albeit at a loss. 27/09/2016
Sci-Tech Photokina keeping people in the picture The image has never been so widely available and the photographic industry is providing a wide range of technology to slake this contemporary thirst. 27/09/2016
Germany Two bombs explode in Dresden One device was at a mosque, the second at an international conference centre in the east German city. No one has been hurt. 27/09/2016
Germany From Aleppo to Saarbrücken The life of a Syrian refugee since he moved to Germany in 2015 26/09/2016
Markets Monday blues as Deutsche Bank and energy sector pull down European stocks European stock markets are suffering a nervous Monday as investors sold off energy company and bank shares - with Deutsche Bank the biggest loser. 26/09/2016
My Europe Series The fear factor? Populist alternative rises in German politics State elections have propelled Alternative für Deutschland, or A-f-D, into Berlin’s legislature for the first time. 23/09/2016
Germany On a high - The rise of Germany's populist AfD party A new poll suggests Germany’s anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party – or AfD – is winning more support than ever before. 23/09/2016
Economy German economic growth to slow says finance ministry Germany's economic growth will slow in the second half of this year the finance ministry has said due to weaker foreign demand for goods. 22/09/2016
No Comment Baby gorilla born at Frankfurt Zoo Frankfurt Zoo introduced the world to its new pride and joy on Wednesday. 22/09/2016
Germany Germany: teenage refugee arrested over possible ISIL ties Police in Germany say they have arrested a 16-year-old Syrian refugee in Cologne on suspicion of having links to ISIL. 21/09/2016
No Comment Oktoberfest in Munich Oktoberfest actually begins in September (September 17 to October 3 this year). 21/09/2016
No Comment Germany: the oldest hot air balloon race Balloonists from 12 countries launched late on Sunday from Gladbeck, Germany for the start of the 60th Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett, aviation’s oldest and most prestigious hot air balloon… 20/09/2016
Germany German SPD back CETA deal Germany’s Social Democrats have finally given their backing to a trade deal between the EU and Canada. 20/09/2016
Germany Germany: Mea Culpa from Merkel on migrants after election drubbing German leader Angela Merkel faced the press on Monday after her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) suffered their worst ever result in Berlin, at local elections, in the latest sign of a backlash 19/09/2016
Germany Voters punish Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy in Berlin poll Chancellor Angela Merkel's Conservatives have suffered their second electoral blow in two weeks. Support for her Christian Democrats (CDU) has plunged to a post-reunification low in a Berlin state vot 18/09/2016
Germany Berlin goes to the polls in a challenging vote for Merkel Berlin is at the polls in Germany’s second regional election in two weeks. 18/09/2016
Germany Crucial German vote looms on huge CETA trade deal Opponents of the parallel CETA and TTIP agreements organised mass protests in seven cities across Germany on Saturday. 17/09/2016
Germany Oktoberfest opens under heightened security Oktoberfest in Munich has opened amid heavy rain and even heavier security. 17/09/2016
Cinema Fatih Akin adapts best-seller 'Tschick' Fatih Akin’s latest movie ‘Tschick’ is a coming-of-age story about two boys who steal a car and embark on a life-changing road trip through Germany. 16/09/2016
Germany Berlin elections loom, but is another setback on the horizon for Angela Merkel? Berlin is set to vote on Sunday in Germany’s second regional elections in as many weeks and all signs are pointing to another blow for Chancellor Angela Merkel. 16/09/2016
Germany 80 Germans clash with a group of young asylum-seekers in Bautzen About 80 Germans have clashed with a group of 20 asylum seekers in the eastern town of Bautsen. 15/09/2016
Economy Merkel tells German companies to speed up hiring of refugees Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany needed "viable solutions" to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met bosses of leading companies. 15/09/2016
Business Series Bayer to buy Monsanto in latest agrochemicals consolidation A huge merger has been announced in the agriculture world as German drugs and crop chemicals company Bayer has won over US seeds firm Monsanto. 14/09/2016
Germany 'ISIL trio' from Syria arrested in Germany The German government said three young Syrian men arrested in the north of Germany were members of so-called Islamic State (ISIL). 13/09/2016
Germany Merkel starting to feel immigration backlash in Germany A million refugees arrived in Germany in 2015, with the peak migration being reached in September, when Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to open the frontiers. 13/09/2016