After moving to reinforce budget controls and reduce debt, Europe must take steps to boost economic growth, Chancellor Merkel said.

The head of the World Bank urged Germany to take the lead in resolving the euro zone's debt crisis, warning that simply trying to muddle through was dangerous.

An agency tasked with advising how to combat neo-Nazis was set up in Berlin, two months after authorities exposed a violent anti-immigrant gang.

Well over a third of leftwing German MPs are currently being monitored by the country’s intelligence agency, according to a government report.

Despite his surprising victory over Mitt Romney in South Carolina on Saturday, Newt Gingrich would be an easier target for Barrack Obama in November's elections, say German editorialists.

Austrian born actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday visited the Austrian town of Güssing which meets its energy needs through renewables. Photo: With Güssing Mayor Peter Vadasz.  

Former East Germany's last leader Erich Honecker had a difficult marriage with his wife Margot, new intelligence reports reveal, with both partners having affairs.

German native Thorsten Heins was named to lead BlackBerry maker RIM. The Canadian firm hopes to regain lost ground, particularly in the U.S.

Croatia says said that preliminary results show a majority of voters taking part in a referendum on EU membership voted in favor.

A Dutch teenager has returned to shore after becoming the youngest solo around-the-world sailor, Laura Dekker, 16, completed her voyage after sailing into the St Maarten harbour on Saturday.

Al Qaida leaders are aiming to take hostages in Germany and other Western countries as part of a "war of attrition," according to a newspaper report.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban abandoned plans on Friday to introduce controversial reforms to Hungary's central bank.

Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload, was arrested in New Zealand Thursday, for content piracy and losses to copyright owners that amount to $500 billion.

The German state of Saarland faces new elections after preliminary talks between Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Greens collapsed Thursday.

Far-right anti-Islamic groups from across Europe are planning to rally in Denmark, for what organizers have billed as the birth of a European movement.

North Korea' says a little bird and a flowering plant at the country’s embassy in Berlin were signs of Mother Nature’s grief for the late eader Kim Jong-Il.

Germany on has accused Russia of preventing the UN Security Council from taking decisive action over the crackdown on anti-regime protests in Syria.

Chancellor Merkel rejeced Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti's demand that Germany do more to help the weaker members of the Europen Union reduce their debt.

The EU has launched legal proceedings against Hungary over controversial reforms to the judiciary, banking sector and data protection law which it says contravene EU law.

German social democrat MEP Martin Schulz, one of the most bombastic figures in European politics, was elected Tuesday as president of the European Parliament.

BASF AG, the maker of the Amflora scientific potato, is moving the plant-science unit that genetically modifies crops to the U.S. from Germany.

The European Union in planning new rules which would limit the use of the label “Made in Germany.” This could cause “immense damage”, Germany’s industry lobby group warned.

A top German business leader said if problem countries fail to carry out reforms, Germany must not defend the euro currency at all cost.

Plans by a Czech artist to collect, destroy and recycle copies of a book considered by some as racist have been criticized for perceived Nazi connotations (Photo: Nazis burning books in 1933).

Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed faster eurozone reform after the US rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded France, Austria and seven other eurozone members.

German brewers are replacing standard beer bottles with fancy ones in a drive to catch consumers’ eyes and boost flagging sales, a financial newspaper reported on Friday.

A Swiss court has ruled that German tennis legend Boris Becker must pay the minister who presided over his nuptials 3 400 Swiss francs (€2 800) in a long-running dispute over the wedding fee.

A large number of immigrants pushed up Germany's population in 2011 for the first time in eight years, the national statistics office said on Friday.

Russia is recruiting German farmers in a bid to put vast tracts of fallow land to use. Two centuries earlier, Catherine the Great invited Teutonic farmers into the country and cultivate the land. 

An Austrian man has vowed to take to Europe's highest court his legal battle to be allowed to change his surname to Tomahawk after judges scalped his efforts in his home country (Photo: Indian with tomahawk).