Forum: The Local (Germany)

Artists have transformed Hamburg's HafenCity University underground train stop into much more than a transport hub - as lights shaped like shipping...

Berlin rent increases are to be capped, more flats built and a ban put on holiday lets in the centre - all part of a raft of measures passed by the...

In the midst of the eurozone's worst-ever economic crisis, Germany's stock index scaled three successive record highs this week. Business daily...

A centre in Nuremberg is offering a course to sex industry professionals on how to cater to the sexual needs of disabled clients. Those that complete...

A German food industry watchdog singled out drinks-maker Capri-Sun for its annual advertising "award" on Thursday, for what the group described as...

Former Lufthansa CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber was elected chairman of the airline's supervisory board on Tuesday evening - just 24 hours after he said he...

More than three quarters of a million Germans are making moves to go to London to see Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League...

One person has been the focus of attention in Germany this week - when perhaps ten others should have been. The trial of Beate Zschäpe in connection...

German authorities arrested Monday a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on charges of complicity in the mass murder of...

Two Munich police officers out on their regular evening jog ended up having to call a spider man - after finding an escaped tarantula and managing to...

Climate change is shortening Alpine winters, a new German study suggested on Thursday, endangering plant species and leaving peaks snowy for less of...

Heavy rain hitting Germany on Thursday is set to give way to an unsettled and stormy weekend, said the German national weather service DWD. More...

German traffic police who pulled over a speeding car with a dog at the wheel were relieved to find the pooch was actually sitting on his owner's lap....

Jupp Heynckes on Friday admitted that he is unlikely to coach in the Bundesliga again once he departs champions Bayern Munich at the end of the...

German employees of Amazon staged their first-ever walkouts on Tuesday as the US internet retail giant was hit by a dispute over pay. More...

European Union proposals to eliminate one and two cent euro coins is annoying some Germans, including a few at the Bundesbank, while others think an...

One of Germany's highest-earning living artists, Georg Baselitz, saw his lakeside house searched by tax officials at the weekend after his name...

The race for the final Champions League qualifying place from the Bundesliga will go down to the wire after Schalke 04 slipped up on Saturday as...

Germany's Pirate Party vowed an attack on the political mainstream as it wrapped up a congress Sunday, hoping to re-energise a flagging campaign...

Germany will not publicly criticize France over economic policy, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble insisted on Thursday, amid differences...