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'Game of Drones': heart of US strike operations 'in Ramstein, Germany'

New evidence purporting to detail how the large U.S. military base at Ramstein provides crucial relay information for drone operators in America's Southwest could embarrass the German government.

17/04/2015

Sport

Bayern Munich tensions

Bayern Munich’s long-time team doctor Hans Mueller-Wohlfahrt has surprisingly resigned following the club’s Champions League loss to Porto. According

17/04/2015

Germany

Families of Germanwings crash victims attend memorial in Cologne

Almost a month on: family members gather in Cologne to remember the 150 who died in the Germanwings crash.

17/04/2015

Sport

Klopp to leave Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp will leave the Bundesliga club in the summer after both parties agreed to terminate his contract. The

15/04/2015

Germany

Juergen Klopp steps down as Borussia Dortmund coach

15/04/2015

Germany

G7 foreign ministers have 'world peace' top of their agenda

A meeting of G7 foreign ministers in the German city of Lübeck gets down to business today focusing on world conflicts. Those taking part represent

15/04/2015

Germany

Ministers meet in Berlin to try and preserve Ukraine's fragile truce

Ministers meet for talks in Berlin to discuss Ukraine's fragile truce and to focus on how to implement the political elements of the Minsk peace deal.

14/04/2015

Germany

Right-wing Dutch politician speaks at anti-Islam rally in Dresden.

Right wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders spoke at a meeting in Dresden of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement on Monday. The crowd fell far short of the

13/04/2015

Germany

German author Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning writer of The Tin Drum, has died

Controversial German author Günter Grass has died at the age of 87. His publisher said he passed away at a clinic in Leubeck in northern Germany on

13/04/2015

Germany

German novelist Guenter Grass dies

German novelist and Nobel Prize winner Guenter Grass has died, aged 87. He was best known for works such as “The Tin Drum.” Grass was born in the

13/04/2015

Germany

Lufthansa doctors 'recommended continued treatment for Lubitz'

The German newspaper Bild says Lufthansa doctors had recommended that pilot Andreas Lubitz should be given psychological treatment, despite

12/04/2015

Germany

Buchenwald: 70th anniversary of Nazi concentration camp's liberation

Survivors and veterans have been gathering at what was Buchenwald Concentration Camp to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation on April 11

11/04/2015

Germany

Germanwings to sue woman who claimed to be a grieving relative

Germanwings parent company Lufthansa is considering taking legal action against a woman it says took several free flights from Germany to southern

09/04/2015

Sport

First Michael now Mick as Schumacher's son begins Formula 4 career

As his farther’s slow rehabilitation from a near fatal skiing accident continues his son Mick Schumacher is following in his dad’s illustrious

08/04/2015

Germany

Germany dismisses Greece's demand for billions in war reparations

Bavaria's state finance minister has called Greece's World War Two reparation claims "inappropriate" and "not very clever"

08/04/2015

Germany

Anti-Islam group PEGIDA invites far-right figure Geert Wilders to rally

It is attracting fewer demonstrators than in the past, but the German anti-Islam group PEGIDA is making new attempts to revive itself. Several

06/04/2015

Germany

More questions about medical oversight of pilots after Alps crash

Further questions are being asked about the quality of checks on pilots in the wake of the French Alps plane crash. Germany’s Federal Aviation Office

06/04/2015

Germany

Protests in German town after suspected arson at asylum shelter

Residents of an eastern German town held a protest on Saturday, in solidarity with refugees following a suspected arson attack on a building intended

04/04/2015

Germany

Germany: Arson suspected after fire at asylum seekers' residence

Police are probing a suspected arson attack on a building intended for asylum seekers in eastern Germany. Two Germans – currently the only people

04/04/2015

Germany

Germanwings co-pilot lied to doctors, Bild reports

02/04/2015

Germany

Lufthansa's claim of 100% pilot fitness jars credibility

Germany’s airline Lufthansa, parent company for several other airlines as well, is trying to recover and stabilise its credibility in the aftermath

01/04/2015

Germany

Lufthansa knew that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had suffered severe depression

Lufthansa now says that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who crashed a plane in the French Alps last week – killing 150 people – told its flight training

31/03/2015

Germany

Germanwings crash likely to lead to a near-300-million-euro insurance claim

The Germanwings crash is going to cost the insurance companies a pretty penny. Parent company Lufthansa is already liable to pay the families of each

31/03/2015

Germany

Unconfirmed reports and speculation mount over Germanwings crash

As authorities attempt to find the most likely explanation for the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps, the media continues to hunt for clues

30/03/2015

Germany

Forensic scientists find 78 different DNA strands so far at Germanwings crash site

Six days after a Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps killing all 150 people on board and the search for human remains is making slow

30/03/2015

Germany

Germany: Scuffles between left- and right-wing protesters in Dortmund

In Dortmund, scuffles broke out between police and left-wing counter-demonstrators during a right-wing march through the German town. Anticipating

29/03/2015