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Germans might not know it, but they desperately need the moral guidance of a re-instated royal family, the great-great grandson of the last Kaiser,...

Karamba Diaby hopes to become the first black member of the Bundestag this September, making him The Local's German of Week. More...

After a recent documentary lifted the lid on sex tourism in Germany, The Local spoke with Andrew M., an American who flies over several times a year...

In the latest instalment of My German Career, The Local spoke with Arpan Kava, who after coming to Berlin to do a Masters degree in engineering,...

Since the last extreme floods in 2002, a total of €530 million has been invested in flood prevention. Der Tagesspiegel's Robert Ide argues that this...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German newspaper on Monday that European powers would "pay the price" if they sent weapons to rebel forces...

German outrage at the US President has peaked as Barack Obama is due in Berlin. But accusing him of Stasi methods over the surveillance scandal...

A man in the small southern German town of Straubing gave a school boy outside a bank €185 in cash, because he didn't feel like paying his ex-wife...

A Dutch man who tricked German authorities into believing he had been living wild in a forest for five years, and had no idea who he was, has been...

Traditional German bakeries are losing dough as consumers increasingly turn to supermarkets and corner shops to get their 'fresh' bread. Now they've...

Despite the scandal over the US Prism spy programme, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is planning to invest €100 million to improve its...

Police officers in Starnberg, near the southern German city of Munich, shot dead a man threatening them with a knife on Friday afternoon. It emerged...

A German dentist who was so desperate for cash that he cut off his own finger for the insurance money has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to...

Deutsche Bahn has fired more than 30 managers who were involved in bribery - and is withdrawing from a slew of countries where corruption is rife. ...

A rejection by Germany's highest court of the European Central Bank's controversial OMT bond purchase programme would have serious consequences for...

Deutsche Bahn has been given the green light for its passenger trains to use the Channel tunnel between France and England, Eurotunnel said on...

Nearly half a million people in Berlin celebrated on Saturday the 21st annual gay-lesbian city festival - the largest gathering of its kind in...

The German government has refrained from criticizing the new US plan to deliver strategic weapons to the Syrian rebels out of respect for Obama, but...

Flood waters rose in eastern Germany Saturday, forcing the evacuation of homes and a hospital. The eastern German city of Magdeburg was under...

Large swaths of Germany may be underwater, but the week ahead should be sunny for most regions, national weather service the DWD said on Monday. Rain...