The German Olympic Committee (DSOB) Saturday reacted with caution to a doping ban on the nation's most successful Winter Olympian, speed skater Claudia...

Germany will send its advanced Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to Afghanistan to help the NATO forces in the fight against Taliban, a media report said...

The government has provided billions in backing, yet some critics say banks still aren't lending enough or passing on lower interest...

(AP) — BERLIN - Officials say massive overnight storms have unleashed widespread flooding in southern Germany and caused the deaths of two people. Scores of nonfatal injuries have been...

Stuttgart, Germany - Heavy storms raging across Germany on Friday night killed two people and left dozens injured. Hot, humid summer weather caused storms, hail and torrential rain showers across the...

BALTIMORE, MD, July 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- ZapThink today announces the opening of registration for its four-day Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) Boot Camp, providing in-depth, hands-on...

Pina Bausch, a German choreographer and dancer whose work transcended traditional barriers between dance and theater, died Tuesday in Wuppertal, Germany, five days after being diagnosed with cancer....

Authorities have warned that a more aggressive form of swine flu could start to spread in the coming months, putting more Germans at risk. But Chancellor Merkel said that the country is "well...

The German lower house of parliament approved on Friday a bill that provides for the creation of "bad banks" a plan to help commercial and state-owned banks recover from the financial...

A model presents a creation by Smeilinener at Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 in Berlin, July 3, 2009.(Reuters Photo) Models present a creation by Smeilinener at Berlin Fashion Week...

Police say the German man was offered drugs by the 25-year-old in Kings Cross in the early hours of June 18 and agreed to travel with him to get money. When the tourist got inside the man's car, he...

Published Date: July 04, 2009 FRANKFURT: The German lower house of parliament approved yesterday a bill that provides for the creation of "bad banks" to help commercial and state-owned banks recover...

DEREK SCALLY GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel is facing a last-minute Lisbon Treaty headache after her conservative Bavarian allies vowed to make ratification dependent on agreeing...

Trisha Andrew, left, and Stephanie Benight both worked with University of Washington photonics expert Larry Dalton. They're among 600 researchers from 67 countries spending a week with Nobel...

Even at the tortoise-like pace of German humour, this particular punchline has been a long time in the making: 43 years after it was blocked by communist censors, one of the funniest films shot in...

Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto...

A file photo of retired auto worker John Demjanjuk. Prosecutors said Friday that Demjanjuk, accused of herding 29,000 Jews to their deaths, is fit to be tried in what could be Germany’s last major...

Published Date: July 04, 2009 Goodbye "fashionista" brands, where neither the price nor the planet counts. The recession has made recycled "recessionista chic" a hit at Berlin Fashion Week-some of...

Anyone wondering why Chancellor Angela Merkel is so popular with German voters may find some answers in an unlikely place this week. The first ever cartoon biography of the German leader hit book...

An eastern German town ventured to make a political statement by hosting a soccer match under a slogan of racial tolerance. But when the far-right, neo-Nazi NPD announced it was going to demonstrate,...

Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an...

Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: L-DAX4.715.45(-13.59) L-MDAX...

A German court has sentenced a Berlin barkeeper to three years and five months in prison after he was convicted of bodily harm with fatal consequences for a drinking match that left his teenage...

New Zealanders Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead are guaranteed to finish inside the leading nine teams at the world volleyball championships in Norway. The 26th seeded pair upset German 16th seeds...

(AP) — BERLIN - Prosecutors say a 28-year-old German who fatally stabbed a 31-year-old pregnant Egyptian woman in a courtroom in eastern Germany was driven by a deep hate of foreigners. ...

BAMBERG, Germany -- Jill Biden, the wife of the U.S. vice president, observed U.S. Independence Day by visiting American troops in Germany en route to an education conference in Paris.Biden stressed...

HAMILTON, Bermuda - (Business Wire) Bermuda’s Minister of Finance the Hon. Paula A. Cox announced today that Bermuda had signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement, TIEA, with the Federal...

The 37-year-old skater is a five-time Olympic gold medalist. She is banned until 2011 and can appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for...

Berlin - A German bar-owner was sent to prison for 41 months Friday for a drinking duel with a teenaged boy which plunged the schoolboy into a fatal coma. The Berlin bar owner cheated, mainly pouring...

"I am not in the best shape right now, but I am getting there, slowly but surely. I still have a lot of work to do on technical stuff so I am looking for...

Berlin - Thunderstorms lashed western and southern Germany Friday after a day of summer heat, with torrential rain flooding highways and lightning strikes causing non-fatal injuries. In one case,...

A German court in Berlin has sentenced a bar owner to three years and five months in jail for giving a 16-year-old teenager so much alcohol that he later fell into a coma and...

BERLIN, July 3 (Xinhua) -- German prosecutors said suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is fit enough to face trial and he would be formally charged later this month. Medical experts have...

At the first state party congress of the Berlin branch of the Pirate Party, the newly minted politicians fighting for Internet freedom are greeted by an onslaught of new members. Everything goes...

Hamburg - Brazil's Ze Roberto has joined SV Hamburg on a free transfer from Bayern Munich, the club confirmed Friday. Coach Bruno Labbadio said the Bundesliga club was also planning to sign Arminia...

Jul 3, 2009 - 05:38 - WAM THURINGEN, July 3rd, 2009: His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court on Thursday visited the mechanical engineering training...

At the beginning of the Harry Potter series, the wizard Albus Dumbledore uses a magical "put-outer" to extinguish the streetlights in young Harry's neighborhood. Now the municipal power...

Munich- German police were hunting Friday for three people allegedly beaten up by a group of drunk and rampaging Swiss schoolboys on a visit to Munich. Two other victims have been in medical...

While the German parliament has voted to extend the Bundeswehr mandate in Afghanistan, most Germans want to see their soldiers return home as soon as possible. But with the Americans ramping up their...

Cairo - A woman stabbed to death in a German court was an Egyptian who had sued her attacker after he insulted her for wearing the Islamic headscarf, Egyptian newspapers reported on Friday. Marwa...

(AP) — BERLIN - An official says German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Lebanon on a Middle East trip that starts Sunday. ...

In early June, E.ON said it would sell 13 hydro power plants with a total capacity of 312 megawatts to Verbund. The plants, on the Inn River in...

Reported Hull City target Dietmar Hamann has confirmed his interest in a possible move to 1860 Munich following his release from Manchester City. The experienced midfielder is on the lookout for a...

Berlin - Germany's parliament passed legislation Friday that increases taxation scrutiny of companies and private individuals who have business ties to tax havens. The bill, drafted by Finance...

Berlin - Hertha Berlin have signed Polish striker Artur Wichniarek from relegated Arminia Bielefeld, the Bundesliga club said on Friday. The 32-year-old has signed a two-year contract, returning to a...

German event focused on search engine marketing (SEM), including pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and search engine optimisation (SEO), to be held at Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre. London, UK...

As the rumour mill continues to turn with regard to the possible sale of Deutsche Telekom’s (DT’s) UK unit, T-Mobile UK, the Financial Times is claiming that the German giant is looking...

Berlin - The German parliament called for constitutional reform in Russia, in a bill passed late Thursday night by the lower house, or Bundestag. A number of trials in Russia had given the impression...

(AP) — HANNOVER, Germany - Bundesliga club Hannover says it is loaning American midfielder Salvatore Zizzo to second-division Fortuna Duesseldorf for a year. Hannover announced the move in a...

. Homann said a viable plan has to be found for Opel in order to justify financial support from the state, and that the auto industry still faces the problem of "significant over capacity." "It...