Four young people died in western Germany early on Saturday when a car driven by a 16-year-old veered off the road and hit a ...

One person was killed and another injured in a shooting on Friday in Menden in the Sauerland region of western Germany.

A police officer was shot dead in western Germany on Thursday during a robbery at a petrol station. The incident occurred in ...

Three people were killed, and four others seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, police said. They said that at around 10pm (9pm Irish time) a ...

Four people were injured when shots were fired near a courthouse in western Germany, police said. Two suspects were detained after the incident on Wednesday. Several shots were fired in a street ...

Homepage World Oktoberfest tightens security in wake of deadly knife attack in western Germany Workers stand on a lifting platform during construction work on the Oktoberfest grounds at the main ...

German social services have placed in care two schoolgirls, aged 12 and 13, who confessed to murdering their 12-year-old friend in a wooded area near their home.

Exclude Berlin and that figure drops to 7.4 per cent, suggesting that 1990s decisions to bring in western German “experts” to eastern regions has created a self-hiring, self-referential bubble.

The tarantulas were being shipped to Cologne Bonn airport, western Germany (Haupzollamt Koeln) Mr Ahland said it was an “extraordinary seizure".

The business outlook in western Germany improved in January, the monthly barometer published by the Ifo economics institute this morning showed. The Ifo index of confidence rose to 97.5 points ...