Tom Cruise has finally been given permission by the German government to film at a World War II memorial site in Berlin for his new movie, 'Valkyrie'.

A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan today, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said.

THE German Defence Ministry last night said an army instructor’s order to a soldier to imagine being accosted by blacks in New York’s Bronx borough while firing a machine gun was “absolutely unacceptable”.

The German defence ministry today said an incident in which a German soldier was told to envision blacks in the Bronx while firing a machine gun was "absolutely unacceptable".

Germany’s Defence Ministry today said it was investigating photos published by the country’s biggest-selling newspaper that appeared to show German troops in Afghanistan posing with a skull.