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Hamburg thump Dortmund

Hamburg dented Borussia Dortmund’s title hopes with a 3-1 win on Friday in a Bundesliga clash which started 15 minutes late due to heightened security measures following the Paris terror attacks.

21 Nov 2015 11:38 PM

German chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo: AP)

Angela Merkel marks 10 years in power

German Chancellor Angela Merkel marks a decade in power on Sunday facing the fight of her political life over her liberal stance on refugees, which provoked a party revolt, and fresh fears sparked by

19 Nov 2015 11:58 PM

Attackers planned multiple explosions in German stadium: reports

A group of several attackers planned to set off several explosives in Hannover stadium

19 Nov 2015 3:26 PM

Germany: Solid threat led to cancelling match

German politicians urged the public not to be cowed by the threat of Islamist attacks and said a concrete indication of a security threat had led them to cancel Tuesday’s football match between German

19 Nov 2015 12:48 AM

Friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled due to suspected threat of a bomb at the stadium. -AP

Germany cancel Netherlands match after 'serious bomb threat'

The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled 90 minutes before kickoff on Tuesday due to the suspected threat of a bomb at the stadium.

18 Nov 2015 6:01 AM

Francois Hollande says France to step up anti-ISIS strikes

President Francois Hollande said Monday France would step up the battle against the ISIS group in Syria in the wake of Paris attacks he dubbed “acts of war”.

16 Nov 2015 11:40 PM

Paris attacks: Syrian refugees brace for backlash

A paper reading “not in our name” signed “Muslims and Syrians refugees, Berlin” lies next to flowers outside the French embassy to Germany in Berlin on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)

16 Nov 2015 1:20 AM

Bavarian allies pressure Angela Merkel over refugees

Bavarian allies cranked up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday to reverse her “open-door” refugee policy, saying the deadly attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures

15 Nov 2015 11:28 PM

Volkswagen ex-CEO quits as Audi chairman

Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has stepped down as chairman of luxury brand Audi amid an investigation of two emissions scandals that occurred during his reign at Europe’s largest carmaker.

13 Nov 2015 5:09 AM

Microsoft to keep German customers' cloud data in country

US data centers are more vulnerable to snooping by the US government

12 Nov 2015 9:46 AM

German intelligence spied on French minister, FBI, UN bodies: report

BND has allegedly spied on phone numbers, email and IP addresses for surveillance

11 Nov 2015 4:10 PM

Volkswagen tries to woo customers

Volkswagen AG took new steps on Monday to appease US customers and German union leaders unhappy with the company’s response to a sweeping emissions cheating scandal that claimed another high-profile e

11 Nov 2015 12:51 AM

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Lufthansa cancels 929 flights over cabin crew strike

Lufthansa said it would cancel 929 of the day's 3,000 scheduled flights

09 Nov 2015 9:59 AM

German League: Bayern shut out rusty Stuttgart

Bayern Munich’s Thomas Mueller (right) and VfB Stuttgart’s Christian Gentner vie for the ball in their German League match in Munich on Saturday. Bayern won 4-0. — AP

09 Nov 2015 6:02 AM

New book on Hitler may stir controversy

A new biography of Hitler by a prominent German historian is likely to stir controversy with its argument that the Nazi leader’s political acumen has been underestimated and that the belief in his hyp

08 Nov 2015 1:27 AM

VW scandal: Germany orders probe into new CO2 revelations

VW estimates that CO2 emissions cover-up could cost the company up to 2 billion euros

05 Nov 2015 4:38 PM

Britain rejects ever closer EU: George Osborne

Britons do not want to be part of Europe’s “ever-closer” union, British finance minister George Osborne said Tues-day, arguing that the EU must protect the rights of non-euro me-mbers.

03 Nov 2015 10:57 PM

Refugees and migrants run to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border from Sentilj to Spielfeld. (Photo: AFP)

2,18,000 migrants crossed Mediterranean in October

More than 2,18,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October — a monthly record and more than during the whole of 2014, the United Nations said on Monday.

03 Nov 2015 4:48 AM

Bureaucrat who ‘brought down’ Berlin Wall dies

Former East German bureaucrat Guenter Schabowski, who died on Sunday aged 86, went down in history for his improvised answer in 1989 that inadvertently brought down the Berlin Wall.

02 Nov 2015 5:25 AM

13 migrants drown off Greece

Refugees and migrants abort their effort to travel from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios on a dinghy near Cesme, Turkey, Sunday. — AP

02 Nov 2015 5:22 AM

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