Authorities in southwest Germany were looking for a motive Monday in an fire at an apartment building and a hospital shooting that, together, killed four people and are believed to be linked. Two bodies — one of a man and another of a 5-year-old...

Few people outside of Germany paid much attention when a little-known Berlin politician named Rene Stadtkewitz convened a news conference last week and announced the formation of a new “Freedom” party. But in the German capital, the...

Police say a man attacked the Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster with a broom handle during an Easter service in the city’s cathedral. Police said in a statement Sunday that 60-year-old bishop Felix Genn defended himself with an incense bowl and...

Around 30 million high-tech German bank cards could leave owners high and dry, bank associations warned on Tuesday as the feared Y2K computer bug cropped up 10 years later than expected.

The legal fight pits German privacy law against the American First Amendment. German courts allow the suppression of a criminal’s name in news accounts once he has paid his debt to society, noted Alexander H. Stopp, the lawyer for the two men, who are...

A slow, but steady, tightening of the poll numbers in Germany is threatening Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new centre-right coalition, and could, if it accelerates, even complicate her ambition to serve a second term as Chancellor. Opinion...

As the Beijing Olympics draw near, archaeologists are reporting the discovery of the long-lost chariot race track at the Greek birthplace of the games.

Global warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies. Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently...