German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung was among approximately 900 mourners on Thursday at the funeral for three soldiers killed in Afghanistan over a week ago.
Auto industry experts fear a sharp downturn in sales after this year's figures have been boosted by the car-scrapping premium the German government introduced in January, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Thursday.
Media giant Axel Springer is planning a tribunal on the upheaval that rocked the late sixties, including talks with revolutionaries who were once the company's bitterest enemies, CEO Mathias Döpfner said Thursday.
The German office of the President has officially approved US President Barack Obama's top choice for the next ambassador Phil Murphy, according to news magazine Der Spiegel on Thursday.
Germany is threatened with the largest debt growth in its history due to a fall in tax revenue because of the recession, newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.
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An artist's design for the gravestone of Germany's most famous prostitute has been rejected by the cemetery authorities for being too "slutty," newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost reported Thursday.
Germany is performing ahead of other G8 nations in the fight against climate change according to the World Wildlife Fund's G8 Climate Scorecard released on Wednesday. But the country barely got a passing grade.
The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is in the midst of a biker gang war between the Bandidos and Hells Angels. Police have conducted raids in recent days, daily Hamburger Abendblatt reported on Wednesday.
German investors have found a cunning way to get large amounts of money across the border from Austria, news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday. It's all down to a silver collector's coin.
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Fashion Week comes to Berlin on Wednesday to showcase fall and winter collections. While many of the shows require an invite, there are still plenty of things for the common "volk" to see.
They're sleek, fast and illegal in Germany: fixed-gear bicycles. Marc Young reports on how trendy fixie riders have sparked a police crackdown in Berlin.
Germany's unemployment rate in June fell slightly to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent last month, but the slight improvement doesn't mean the economy is out of troubled waters yet, analysts said on Tuesday.
Insolvent German mail-order company Quelle got a massive credit injection of EUR 50 million on Monday night after more than four hours of negotiations, government officials said.
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