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Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead — to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will play in 21st century society.
Fearing widespread layoffs, thousands of Opel workers walked off the job across Germany on Thursday to protest General Motors Co.'s decision to abandon the unit's sale to new owners.
A medical expert testified Tuesday that a knife attack on a 31-year-old Egyptian woman in a German court room caused serious injuries and left her with just minutes to live.
Fifty years after he rocketed to the international stage with "The Tin Drum," Guenter Grass is still surprised at the overnight success of his tale of World War II as told through the eyes of a stunted boy and his toy instrument.
The daughter of a top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for asylum in Germany, organizers of a film festival that she was attending said Tuesday.
The director of the world's largest book fair said Wednesday that the selection of China as the event's special guest should help the country move closer to the West and away from censorship and restrictions on dissent.
Final results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a second term and a majority for a new center-right government in Germany's parliamentary election.
A decade ago, Angela Merkel was known to Germans mainly for a famously bad haircut that made her the butt of jokes.
Using new DNA evidence, police have arrested a former German leftist terrorist on suspicion of involvement in the 1977 slaying of West Germany's federal prosecutor and two other people, authorities said Friday.
It's 100 days until Germany's general elections and, barring a major reversal of fortune, the only remaining question is not whether Angela Merkel will again be chancellor, but with whom will she build a government.
German retailer Arcandor AG filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in an effort to salvage its department stores and its mail-order arm, a day after the government rejected its bid for state-backed emergency credit.
President Barack Obama's visit this week to the former Buchenwald concentration camp is a pilgrimage of sorts, taking him close to where his great-uncle served in Germany during World War II.
Germany on Friday marked the 60th birthday of its post-World War II federal republic, under which the country has become a stable and respected democracy with global political and economic clout.
A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United States for processing.
Researchers concerned about an increasing amount of debris orbiting the earth are calling for the active removal of space junk, saying it will ensure a safe environment around the planet.
It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice.
Wary of the multitude of satellites in earth's orbit, the European Space Agency has begun a program to monitor space debris and set up uniform standards to prevent future collisions far above the planet, an official said Monday.
Renee Zellweger plays a 1950s housewife who leaves her husband and takes her teenage sons on a cross-country trip that becomes a journey of self-discovery in "My One and Only," which had its world premiere Thursday at the Berlin film festival.
German troops will be stationed in neighboring France for the first time since the Nazi occupation during World War II, both countries' leaders announced Wednesday.
Justice officials in the southern German state of Bavaria have ordered reprints of a Nazi-era newspaper seized pending an investigation into whether they violate copyrights and laws banning Nazi symbols.
Throughout the 1970s, the Red Army Faction was the scourge of capitalist West Germany and Christian Klar one of its most notorious leaders — the force behind a murder spree that included the slayings of a federal prosecutor, an industrialist and the chief of a major bank.
A court ruled Tuesday that too much time has passed to prove whether or not a 105-year-old entertainer sang for Nazi guards at a concentration camp during World War II.
Mark Twain famously dissed it, legions of Hollywood "bad guys" have hissed it and now Tina Fey has definitively pronounced the German language "so uncool."
Two paintings that the Nazis forced a Jewish art dealer to sell off in the 1930s have been returned to his estate, and its heirs said Wednesday they were working hard to recover hundreds more.
After months of debate, Germany's lower house of parliament passed anti-terrorism legislation Wednesday granting federal police the capacity to spy on computers and tap conversations.
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