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).

A new CD called ‘Adagio In The Automobile’ features a German politician playing part of Mozart’s Piano Concerto 21 in hopes the soothing music will reduce road rage on the Autobahn freeways.

The President was in free fall the other day — and no, it was not about a loss in popularity. And rest assured: it wasn't the current occupant of the White House, either.  

Comedian Martin Sonneborn is known for tasteless jokes. A satirical billboard of him posing in blackface makeup as President Obama may be testing the limits.

Air Berlin may make some announcements in regional dialects after a YouTube video of one of its attendants speaking Swabian became a web sensation.

Well, it's just a commercial, but certainly a sexy way to sell dish washers to Skandinavians (and Germans) shopping at Fleggaard, Denmark's answer to Cosco. So move over Macy's!

Scantily clad women took to the streets of German cities on Saturday as part of a so-called "Slut Walk" aimed at challenging opinions about sexual assault.

The German Etiquette Society (DKG) said it has received many complaints about colleagues greeting each other with quick smooches, something it said is inappropriate for Germans.

Music fans who took souvenir Trojan T-shirts from a rock festival in eastern Germany bore a design of a skull and right-wing flags and the words "hardcore rebels". But they were duped.

Germans becoming more American, as more people believe it’s not race or national origin that matters, but whether a person can adjust to life in Germany and integrate into society.

When Jewish refugees left Germany for Israel in the 1930s and 40s, many packed the very books the Nazis were burning. Now, the Holocaust survivors are sharing their libraries with German students. Deutsche Welle reports .

Schwäbisch Gmünd officials have been surprised to discover their public search for naming a new tunnel has been hijacked by an online campaign hoping to honor spaghetti western actor Bud Spencer.

Fremdschämen, meaning to be ashamed on the behalf of someone else, is one of the new words to enter the German language over the past decade. 

Germans should take lunchtime naps at work to help reduce stress and allow workers to recharge their batteries, a union official says.

The text of Austria's anthem is set to be changed later this year to acknowledge the achievements of the nation’s women, the Federal Parliament announced Wednesday.

It has been just a week after it was revealed that around half of Britons have German blood gushing through their veins. Now, Germans have branded their English 'cousins' as fat, sex-mad lager louts.

A pre-school in Sweden has decided to stop referring to children as "him" or "her" in an effort to obtain equality between the sexes from childhood.

Tens of thousands marched in the 16th edition of Vienna's colorful Gay Pride parade Saturday braving rain to call for an end discrimination.

A new hiking trail for nudists that opened last week near the town of Dankerode was hailed by Mayor Monika Rauhut as "the latest attraction here in beautiful Wuppertal".

Lady Gaga, the US pop icon known as much for her striking outfits and propensity to shock as for her music, says that while sex isn't a bad thing, her youngest fans shouldn't follow her example.

In an attempt to organize the   legal sex industry, local Zurich officials have proposed to set up 'sex boxes' for prostitutes and their clients. Photo: Sex ad on train station.

The Usedom beach on the German-Polish border has become the unlikely place for a fresh battle between the countries - a nudist war!

On the one side white bottoms burn in the sun. On the other side conservative swimming trunk-wearers turn up their noses at the naked beachgoers.

A German insurance firm allegedly organized a company-wide sex party to reward its highest-earning salesmen. It reportedly cost more than $100,000.

Police called to an apartment in Berlin by neighbors who said it sounded like someone was using an electric drill smashed down the door to find a vibrator had switched itself on and was jiggling around on the floor.

Sila Sahin, a German-Turkish Muslim TV actress, has provoked outrage among her family and fans by posing for a 12-page naked Playboy spread. Her intention, she says, is to tackle the oppression of women.

A couple in Austria wanted to do something very memorable for their wedding, and after racking their brains, they came up with the idea of getting married in the nude.

Best known abroad for lederhosen and the Oktoberfest, Germany's city of Munich has earned new recognition from 'Women's Health' magazine: the best city in Germany to be a woman.

When a company’s stock is cheap, corporate raiders aren’t far away. This goes for countries as well. Take Belgium: It hasn’t had a functioning government for almost a year. Now efforts are underway to sell the place.

Can a cartoon about Hitler be funny or is it just in bad taste? Exberliner magazine spoke with the creators of a strip poking fun at both hipsters and the most-hated man of the 20th century.