(Reuters) - U.S. diplomats describe German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle as arrogant, vain and critical of America, documents released on Sunday by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks showed.

Germany faces a nervous winter of heighten police activity amid public warnings that attacks by al Qaeda are a pressing danger to Christmas crowds. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 7:00AM GMT 22 Nov 2010 The German security services have...

Thilo Sarrazin, a director on the board of Germany’s Central Bank, who caused a monumental stir by accusing immigrants and Muslims of diluting his country’s intellectual and economic strength, was on Friday sacked from the Bundesbank’s...

It was a big shot. A big hog. And a big disappointment. When Georg van Bebber hauled back his wild boar from Ebersberg forest near Munich after a day of hunting, he was exhilarated about his impressive prey. But before he could take it home, a Geiger...

The Church Of Scientology has expressed anger at a German TV film that is reported to be critical of the controversial organization. Germany’s state broadcaster, ARD, is planning to broadcast the film, titled Bis Nichts Mehr Bleibt, which...

When liberation came, it came quickly. One night in January 1945, as ten-year-old Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam lay in their bunks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, they were suddenly awoken by a huge explosion. Outside, the winter sky was red with...

German households have been advised to stock up on food, medicines and drinking water as the nation braces for a blizzard that is heading its way.

When Frank Siebler moved from Dresden in the late 1990s to take a job in bustling, prosperous Munich, he thought he was leaving home for good. In 1997, when Mr. Siebler was 25, the outlook for engineers in the former East Germany was so bleak that...

Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.”

Thet are two of the world’s most instantly recognisable sports brands and they hail from the same medieval German town. Indeed Puma and Adidas, which have shod millions of runners and footballers over the years and graced the feet of some of the...