A total of 25 people have been injured – 11 of them seriously – after a bus accident on a motorway in the eastern German state of Saxony.

A GERMAN man has been convicted of negligent manslaughter for failing to properly secure a gun his teenage son used to kill 15 people.

A German man has been convicted of negligent manslaughter for failing to properly secure a gun that his teenage son used to kill 15 people.

A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said today, and police feared the death toll could rise.

TWO people were arrested after a newborn baby, stolen from a hospital on the outskirts of Frankfurt yesterday, was found several hours later, German police said.

Germany has closed down the glass and steel dome and rooftop terrace of the famous Reichstag parliament building to visitors over concerns of a possible terror attack.

GERMANY’S President celebrated the country’s new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification yesterday.

AN ultra-conservative Roman Catholic British bishop is to appeal against his conviction for denying the Holocaust to a court in Germany.

German top government officials and immigrant leaders today condemned remarks by a board member of Germany’s federal bank as racist and anti-Semitic.

GERMANY’S main opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier said yesterday he was taking a break from politics so he can donate a kidney to his wife.

Germany’s main opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today that he was taking a break from politics so he can donate a kidney to his wife.

A heatwave across much of Europe is starting forest fires, causing crops to wither and roads to melt, while fridges and fans are buckling in the searing sun.

A former German parliamentarian was today convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography and given a suspended 15-month prison sentence.

A man armed with a stick attacked the Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster during the solemn Easter service in the German city’s cathedral today.

Europe was struggling to restore roads and railways today after heavy snow caused hundreds of accidents, halted flights, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German road.