Germany

Cinema

New German film addresses Nazi child 'euthanasia'

Director Kai Wessel's film 'Fog In August' ('Nebel im August') addresses a dark period in German history - the Nazis' "euthanasia" programme.

10/02/2017

Germany

Germany's Merkel pushes for faster deportations of failed asylum seekers

The aim is to get more failed asylum seekers out of Germany – and faster.

09/02/2017

Economy

Germany goes for gold

Germany's central bank is moving faster than planned to bring much of its gold reserves to Frankfurt from storage in places like New York and Paris.

09/02/2017

Germany

Islamic terror plot thwarted after raids, say German police

Police in Germany say they have arrested two Islamic extremists during dawn raids in the central city of Goettingen.

09/02/2017

Cinema

Movie fans queue early for the Berlinale

Movie fans arrived early determined not to miss out on tickets for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival – The Berlinale.

09/02/2017

Germany

Politics walks the red carpet in Berlin

Barriers and walls hang over the opening of 67th Berlin Film Festival.

09/02/2017

Sport

Philipp Lahm announces retirement

Germany and Bayern Munich legend Philipp Lahm will retire at the end of the season

08/02/2017

Germany

Dresden: Syrian anti-was sculpture faces wrath of far-right protesters

An anti-war sculpture by a Syrian-born artist has provoked protests by far-right supporters in the German city of Dresden.

08/02/2017

Germany

German launch raids against Third Reich supporters

German police target groups who want to see a return of the Reich

07/02/2017

Germany

Germany: Syrian 'selfie' refugee sues Facebook over fake news

Anas Modamani rose to fame after a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a refugee shelter in Berlin.

06/02/2017

Germany

Merkel gets party backing to fight Germany's election

Germany's centre-right political parties have agreed to nominate Angela Merkel as their candidate to run for chancellor in the country's election in September.

06/02/2017

Next Series

Smart Fashion: What do our clothes say when they talk to us?

Smart fashion: the clothes and accessories we wear could tell us things we don't already know

06/02/2017

Next Series

Takeaway: Smart fashion

This shirt knows how much you eat Collar sensors feel when your swallow food or liquids Smart fashion can help people live healthier lives These eyeglasses also use textile sensors The sensors measure

06/02/2017

Sport

Austria's Stefan Kraft a high-flyer in Oberstdorf

Austria's Stefan Kraft seals Oberstdorf victory

04/02/2017

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Trump gets his wall

A tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around the United States, in a dig at President Donald Trump’s plan to build a f

04/02/2017

Germany

Germany's biggest ever cocaine haul seized

Customs officials in Germany have put on display the country’s biggest ever cocaine haul.

04/02/2017

Business Series

Deutsche Bank: the worst is behind us

Crisis-plagued Deutsche Bank is insisting the worse of its troubles are behind it even as it announced a Q4 loss of 1.9 billion euros.

02/02/2017

Germany

Man arrested in Germany, 'wanted' by Tunisia over Bardo attack

A Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack, is also wanted by Tunisia over links to an assault on the Bardo museum in Tunis.

01/02/2017

Business Series

Deutsche Bank fined over Russian money laundering

Deutsche Bank failed to prevent around $10 billion (9.29 billion euros) in suspicious trades out of Russia between 2011 and 2015.

31/01/2017

Germany

Schulz: "a stronger Europe means a stronger Germany"

The former president of the European Parliament has been nominated to lead Germany's centre-left Social Democrats into the country's upcoming election.

30/01/2017

Germany

Postmortems ordered for six teens found dead in Germany

The father found the bodies of his daughter, son and four others in a garden house in Bavaria.

30/01/2017

Sci-Tech

Robots start work on the farm

Smart connected farms were a hot topic at the ‘International Green Week’ in Berlin.

30/01/2017

Business Series

Toyota loses out to Volkswagen as world's top carmaker

Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's top selling carmaker despite the German company's diesel emissions scandal.

30/01/2017

Germany

Nazi propagandist Goebbels' wartime secretary dies at 106

Brunhilde Pomsel said she knew nothing of Nazi atrocities and lived her life in obscurity until her story was unearthed in 2011.

30/01/2017

Germany

Schulz nominated as SPD candidate to take on Merkel for German Chancellor

In Germany, the centre-left SPD has chosen Martin Schulz as its candidate in the battle to become the country’s next chancellor.

29/01/2017

Sport

Ski Jumping: Flying Poles seal Willingen team event

Poland celebrated only their second victory in a World Cup team ski jumping competition on Saturday.

28/01/2017