Authorities say emergency workers called to a alternative medicines conference in northern Germany found some 30 people staggering and suffering from cramps, apparently as a result of LSD-like poisoning.

Germany has halted its internet surveillance for the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency’s co-operation with Washington.

Police in the German city of Braunschweig have cancelled a popular carnival street parade because of fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack.

A quarter of Germans believe there were at least some positive aspects to Nazi rule, a poll showed today.