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Germany's Daimler AG said Friday it doesn't plan to exercise an option to sell its sizable stake in aerospace and defense contractor EADS N.V. Complete Story...
German officials say Berlin isn't ruling out financial aid from the International Monetary Fund for Greece, but say no decision is needed now.
German insurer Allianz SE expects its 2010 operating profit to be around last year's level of euro7.2 billion ($9.7 billion) as the global economy comes out of a long downturn.
The basics of Adolf Eichmann's story are well documented: Commonly known as the "architect of the Holocaust" for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was captured in Argentina by Israel's Mossad, and hanged after trial in Jerusalem.
German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Thursday it will cut 4,200 jobs worldwide at its information technology unit as it restructures the business.
Israeli drug maker Teva has beaten out rivals Pfizer and Actavis to acquire German generic drug maker Ratiopharm GmbH — in a deal announced Thursday worth some euro3.6 billion, or nearly $5 billion.
The U.S. women's soccer team will play world champion Germany in an exhibition at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday there should in future be a mechanism to expel countries from the eurozone as a last resort if they persistently break its financial rules.
German auto group BMW AG says the economic crisis has probably reached its lowest point and that its car market could see growth in a single-digit percentage range in 2010.
A dip in sales and costs from its failed attempt to take over Volkswagen pushed sports car maker Porsche's six-month net profit down by 83 percent.
A man who admits he took part in a brazen daylight raid on a poker tournament in Berlin surrendered to authorities and identified three suspected accomplices, one of whom was later arrested, officials said Wednesday.
German retailer Metro AG said Wednesday its 2009 net income fell 7 percent to euro519 million ($716 million) as the economic downturn cut into sales at most divisions, including its Kaufhof department stores and Cash & Carry wholesale outlets.
The defense attorney for a former member of the Nazi SS who has confessed to killing three Dutch civilians during World War II says the case against him should be thrown out because he has already been tried in the Netherlands for the same crimes.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."
German airline Air Berlin Plc said Tuesday it will cancel $1.7 billion worth in orders for Boeing 787 aircraft to adjust to lower market demand.
Egypt's president appeared on state television talking with his doctors Tuesday in his first appearance since an operation in Germany 10 days earlier, quelling speculation over the state of his health.
Deutsche Bank AG says it made net income of euro5 billion ($6.9 billion) in 2009 and that it expects the banking market to progress slowly toward "a new form of normality" this year and next.
More than 200 items from the Aga Khan's collection of Islamic treasures are going on show in Berlin in an exhibition spanning a millennium and covering half the globe.
An expert witness says a statement being used as evidence against John Demjanjuk should be treated with the "highest caution" because it came from a KGB interrogation.
A group representing German banks says it would support a privately-funded but state-controlled stabilization fund that could intervene in the future to rescue or wind up troubled lenders.
Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said Friday.
Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG on Monday said it will introduce a quota for female managers, with a target to fill 30 percent of upper and middle management jobs with women by the end of 2015.
Utility Vattenfall AB says it is selling its German electricity transmission grid to Belgian operator Elia and Australia's Industry Funds Management in a deal worth euro810 million ($1.1 billion).
Emergency aid from a proposed European Monetary Fund should come with strict conditions and a "prohibitive" price tag to boost market confidence, Germany's finance minister wrote in an article published Friday.
The German town of Winnenden is marking the first anniversary of a school shooting spree in which a teenager killed 15 people.
Search for escaped cobra costs over €30,000 he search for a venomous cobra on the loose in Mülheim an der Ruhr continues – at a price of €850 an hour. So far, the unsuccessful snake hunt has already cost more than €30,000.
Leipzig, Germany in legal wrangle with banks over CDSThe German city of Leipzig and banks including UBS are embroiled in legal action over demands for the city to pay tens of millions of euros this week stemming from derivatives contracts.
Wild boars run amok through Hamburg A herd of wild boars ran loose through a Hamburg neighbourhood on Friday evening, invading a metro station and an office building as police chased the rampaging pack of pigs.
Germany admits it had Nazi spies after WW2 The German spy service has admitted that it employed about 200 former Nazi criminals for at least 15 years after the end of World War Two.
Up to 25,000 died in Dresden's WWII bombing - reportUp to 25,000 people died in the Allied bombing of Dresden during World War II - fewer than often estimated, an official German report has concluded.
Greece threatens to call in IMF as Germany does U turn and backs IMF, reports The Telegraph Greece has upped the ante in an escalating game of brinkmanship, threatening to turn to the International Monetary Fund for support unless EU leaders come up with an acceptable rescue package at their next summit on March 25.
Germany and Ireland call on Catholic church to hold child sex abuse inquiries The crisis gripping the Catholic church deepened today, with calls for national inquiries to be held in Germany and Ireland to fully disclose the detail and extent of sexual abuse by priests.
Are Merkel and Schäuble preparing to call in the IMF over Greece? German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble appear to be preparing to call in the IMF to assist Greece at the last moment, according to a report in Bild.
Bilderberg Schäuble drives Germany closer to default with budget to fatten banker's pockets If there any doubts whether German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaüble owes his allegiance to the people of Germany who elected him or to the shadow government run by bankers and energy companies, then his latest budget makes it clear he is a tool of the shadow government.
Son crashes father's car through supermarket window on first driving lesson A cheapskate dad is being investigated by police after his 17-year-old son sent the family car through a supermarket window on his first lesson.
Hells Angel kills police officer A police officer has been killed by a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang during a house search in central Germany.
Popular Passion play bad for Bavarian barbersOnce every 10 years, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau crucifies Jesus all over again and local hairdressers nearly go out of business.
Germany approves 91m. euro for Holocaust survivors"We have taken the assets of 1,000 years of Jewish life which was destroyed in 12 years" to cover the "social welfare needs of Nazi victims."
Washington Mulls Modernization of Aging BombsGermany's foreign minister has called for the removal of Cold War legacy nuclear weapons being stored here, but some in Washington may have other plans.
U.S. Carefully Considers Future of Nukes in EuropeThe Obama administration is proceeding with caution as it considers pulling all U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe, the Associated Press reported today
The World's Least Subtle Drug Smuggler T might be named a Renault Espace. But a drug trafficker clearly took the meaning one step too far when he crammed his boot with 700lbs of the drug khat.
Upside down house opened to visitors... just don't use the toiletLooking at this house you could be forgiven for thinking the world had turned upside down. Standing on a pointed roof and supported by steel beams in the attic, the house amazes neighbours and passers-by alike.
Two dead in bus crash caused by coughing fit Two people have been killed and 33 injured, some of them seriously, after their bus crashed and slid down an embankment, landing on its side near the motorway.
BBC: SuperPower: Visualising the internetInteresting Nielsen ratings along with a few stats and visuals. Attaching 3 more articles with this seed, the same way its tabbed on the BBC page. Internet billionaires
German fight to keep Eichmann files secret over claims officials and Vatican colluded in escape Germany is fighting to keep files sealed that detail Adolf Eichman's life on the run before he was captured by Mossad agents and tried for war crimes in Israel. Documents about the Holocaust's chief logistics organiser's escape from Europe and 15-year exile in Argentina are …
Scientologists try to block 'intolerant' German feature filmTelevision network denies claims that Until Nothing Remains depicts group as totalitarian and unethical
Husband killed doppelganger hired - Opera singer held on suspicion of murder An opera singer is being held on suspicion of killing her husband and hiring a doppelganger in an attempt to prove her innocence.
Heavy fog and snow cause 170-vehicle autobahn pile-up in Bavaria Police in Bavaria reported that up to 170 vehicles were involved in a massive accident on the A8 motorway on Friday morning, as a spring snowstorm and thick fog created dangerous road conditions throughout the southern state.
Woman calls police on 'burglar' boyfriend A German woman called police because she thought that a burglar was trying to break into her flat - only to discover that it was actually her boyfriend planning a romantic surprise.
I’ve written at length on Barack Obama’s foreign policy failings, which are legion. For a president who ran an election campaign promising to raise “America’s standing” in the world, he is doing a spectacularly bad job.
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