German chancellor Angela Merkel's party has voted in favour of a deal to form a new coalition government with the centre-left Social Democrats.

German police have arrested a Russian suspected of seriously injuring a British football fan during the Euro 2016 championships in France two years ago.

A German nurse serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged in relation to nearly 100 more killings.

Luxury beauty company Coty can stop retailers from selling its products online, Europe’s top court has ruled.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is "very sceptical" about the idea of running a minority government and a new election would be a better option if it is not possible to form a coalition.

German police have arrested a man suspected of handling stolen objects from the estate of John Lennon, including diaries.

I’ve just been writing a letter to a German painter whom I met on a long trip outdoors last February; some readers may recall my dispatches from Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, writes Damien Enright.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has won a state election in one of their centre-left rivals' traditional heartlands.

Indian police are searching for two men suspected of raping a German tourist in the beach town of Mamallapuram in southern India.

Philippine troops have found the remains of a German hostage who was beheaded by Abu Sayyaf militants in the country's south after a ransom deadline lapsed.

A Dublin based German man is reported to have asked Italian authorities to launch a missing persons inquiry into the disappearance of his wife.

Germany's spy agency had at least 50 numbers and email addresses of journalists among its surveillance targets, it has been reported.

Nigerian kidnappers have demanded a ransom of 60 million naira (£151,000) for a German archaeologist and his associate who were abducted this week from a remote northern village.

Gunmen have kidnapped two Germans from a village in northern Nigeria, police said.

A spokesman for Menden police said a large number of officers had been dispatched to the Hoenne vocational school.

A German court said it has added staff and storage space to handle a flood of 1,400 investor lawsuits against Volkswagen seeking damages worth €8.2bn (£7bn).

Two Hong Kong tourists remain in a critical condition in hospital three days after they were attacked by a teenage Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife on a German commuter train.

A German business group is forecasting that Germany's exports to the UK will slip 1% this year and drop by 5% in 2017 following British voters' decision to leave the European Union.

German authorities are carrying out raids across the country after the government banned a right-wing extremist group called Weisse Woelfe Terrorcrew.

A 23-year-old German man is in custody after falsely claiming to have a bomb inside a suitcase he was trying to take into the US Embassy in Berlin.

German police are hunting for up to seven people they say were plotting suicide attacks in Munich.

An 87-year-old German woman who is a prominent neo-Nazi has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 10 months in prison.

The US government has said German car giant Volkswagen cheated on emissions tests for a second time.

A German man arrested over the disappearance of a four-year-old Bosnian migrant has confessed to killing the boy.

German exports plunged in August by their largest amount since the height of the global financial crisis and leading institutes cut 2015 growth forecasts in the latest sign that an emerging market slowdown is hurting Europe’s largest economy.

The future of Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn hangs in the balance in the wake of an emissions rigging scandal engulfing the German car manufacturer.

A deputy mayor in Poland says lawyers for two men who claim to have found a Nazi gold train have told him that it is somewhere in the southwestern city of Walbrzych.

A mysterious Nazi treasure train that has been missing for 70 years and which two men claim to have found recently does exist, the Polish deputy culture minister has claimed.

Greek financial markets are likely to rebound strongly in the final quarter of the year despite their current malaise. Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras last week resigned which paved the way for snap elections next month.

The remains of a Soviet fighter-bomber plane and two crew members shot down by Germans in 1945 have been found in a river in central Poland amid extremely low water levels associated with a drought, a museum official said.

The arrival of a proposed 1,655sq metre Aldi store in Killaloe, Co Clare, would generate a turnover of €9.12m in 2018, according to the promoters.

Galway Mountain Rescue Team with support from the Sligo based Irish Coastguard Helicopter completed an operation this afternoon to rescue an injured hillwalker from Diamond Hill in the Conemara National Park, Letterfrack, County Galway.

Greece has agreed to sell to a German company the rights to operate 14 regional airports.

New evidence has emerged which shows Kurdish forces fighting in northern Iraq were allegedly attacked a few days ago with chemical weapons.

German carmakers BMW, Audi, and Mercedes will pay around €2.5bn to buy Nokia’s maps business, beating out high-tech rivals for location services seen as key to the future of self-driving cars.

Police in southern Germany say there are “multiple dead” after an attack and a suspect is being sought.

Tens of thousands of Leaving and Junior Certificates completed relatively straightforward German exams yesterday - experts say the papers contained “no massive surprises” and would have suited the majority of students.

75 years on, Ryle Dwyer examines the German spy landings that rocked the Dingle Peninsula and the British secret service.

A German media outlet was left a Lidl bit embarrassed this week after they fell for a satirical report from Waterford Whispers News.