Ten Somalis were accused by prosecutors of attacking the ship Taipan on the Indian Ocean in Germany’s first piracy trial in four centuries. The men captured the German container vessel, which was 530 nautical miles east of the horn of Africa,...

The German government will consider new rules to address the privacy implications of Internet services such as Google’s “Street View,” and plans a meeting next month with the California-based company and others, officials said...

South Africa rejoiced Sunday as Ghana became only the third African team ever to make the World Cup quarter-finals, as England crashed out of the tournament after a defeat by Germany. Even South Africa’s organisers shed their neutrality to...

It was only nine months ago that Forbes magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel the world’s most powerful woman for the fourth year in a row. She impressed Germans and foreigners alike with her ascent to power – an East German...

The German cabinet has backed legislation to give billions in aid to Greece as part of an EU bailout, officials have said. However, though Chancellor Angela Merkel’s colleagues have supported the deal, Germany’s main opposition party, the...

Accused Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk responded to charges in a German courtroom for the first time Tuesday, attacking the justice system and referring to himself as a “prisoner of war.”

The attack seemed singularly horrific — an Egyptian pharmacist, Marwa el-Sherbini, was testifying during an appeal hearing in a Dresden courtroom on July 1 when a Russian émigré, Alex Wiens, lunged at her with a seven-inch kitchen knife. The...

The Germans already lay claim to the world’s first nudist hotel, have hundreds of nudist beaches and even hold the odd nude tobogganing race. But now ramblers can fully enjoy the Teutonic cult of stripping-off with the opening of the...

A teenage student wielding an ax attacked several children at his school in southern Germany on Thursday, wounding nine before he was arrested, police said. Two children were seriously wounded, as was the attacker, who was shot by police when they...