Forum: The Local (Germany)

The German government wants to push through legislation to put gay partnerships on the same tax footing as straight marriages before the summer...

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...

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

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has said that he believes at least 50 German citizens are taking part in the Syrian civil war, and that...

Security guards at a shopping centre in Offenbach, western Germany, have been accused of forcing a rabbi to delete photos he took as evidence after...

Germany's interior minister called on Friday for a tougher approach towards immigrants who appear to be in Germany just for the social support...

Germany's race to shore up dykes on swollen rivers shifted to the north Friday while other regions began counting the cost of the deadly flooding. ...

The economic outlook for Germany is brightening, its central bank said Friday, as improved trade data suggested Europe's biggest economy is slowly...

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...

Germany's human rights commissioner on Thursday labelled violence against Turkish protesters "shocking" and called on the government to immediately...

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,...

German sportswear giant Puma said Wednesday it would sign a new safety pact for Bangladesh's disaster-hit garment factories amid calls for Western...

Germany has been watching in horror as rivers break their banks, flooding towns and cities, prompting evacuation and turning farmland into bogs. Our...

US President Barack Obama will follow predecessors John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan by making a major speech in Berlin, the White House said...

The trial of a German woman accused of membership of a neo-Nazi terror cell resumed this week with the appearance of an accomplice who admitted...