Several hundred protesters have blocked access to a Rheinmetall facility in Bonn and a military barracks in Cologne in demonstrations against rising German defense spending and ...

A court in Mönchengladbach has sentenced a man to seven years in prison for attempted manslaughter after he attacked his sleeping stepfather with a butcher’s knife.

A large blaze at a commercial pig facility in Thuringia killed hundreds of animals and caused millions of euros in damage, renewing debate over fire-safety standards at industri...

Entertainer Hape Kerkeling used an appearance at an SPD retreat in Berlin to urge lawmakers not to abandon democratic principles in response to pressure from the political right.

A major German music festival has apologized and restored Alphaville to its program after criticism over the band’s earlier removal following political comments.

Germany’s federal animal welfare commissioner has called for stricter regulation after reporting that millions of pets suffer from harmful breeding practices and unsuitable livi...

Investigators say a nationwide network helped wealthy foreign nationals, including people from China, obtain German citizenship by falsely presenting themselves as descendants o...

A Defense Ministry report says almost half of government fleet flights between Cologne-Bonn and Berlin still carry no passengers, drawing cross-party criticism over costs and em...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has appointed former Olympic canoeing champion Ronald Rauhe as minister of state for sport, filling a weeks-long vacancy as Germany considers a potenti...

Polling ahead of Berlin’s regional election shows the Christian Democratic Union holding a small lead over the Greens and Social Democrats, making the vote an important politica...

Germany’s Federal Audit Office has accused the government-backed mobile infrastructure company of consuming hundreds of millions of euros without making sufficient progress in e...

A new European property index shows German residential prices rising more slowly than in many southern and eastern European markets, with high mortgage costs, regulation and wea...