A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany on behalf of Isis (Islamic State) was arrested after being captured by fellow Syrians.

One of Germany's most senior political figures conducted a rendition of a folk song at Parliament today during an official welcome.

Professor Norbert Lammert, the Speaker of the German Federal Parliament, will attend events in Auckland and Wellington.

It has long been suspected that Adolf Hitler's frenzied speeches were fuelled by cocaine and other powerful stimulants.

The German bank will cut about 1000 jobs in its home market, insiders say.

Just days after the unexplained deaths of American sisters Robin and Annie Korkki at their luxury Seychelles resort, two more tourists have died.

Deutsche Bank is battling rumours the German government is readying a rescue plan, but is another German bank also in trouble?

Germany's answer to James Bond faced what may prove to be the greatest challenge of his career yesterday as he went on trial on charges of tax evasion.

A sea lion was pulled over by police after rampaging down a German road, bringing traffic to a standstill in the town.

The AfD party, led by young chemist Frauke Petry, has been making huge gains in recent months

At this topsy-turvy cafe, the bathroom is a logistical nightmare ...

Brunhilde Pomsel is one of the few surviving people who regularly interacted with the Nazi inner circle during the Second World War.

Chinese fans were irate after a stuff-up at the Rio Olympics left their gold medal winners celebrating under the wrong flag for two days.

A 90-year-old took an instruction on a piece of modern art at face value and started writing on it with a ballpoint pen.

A German doctor has reportedly been shot at a clinic in Berlin.

Donald Trump says France and Germany have "totally" been compromised by terrorism and their citizens should receive "extreme vetting" before entering the US.

A man carrying a backpack just before a bomb detonated close to a music festival in Germany reportedly tried to enter the festival.

Police say a Syrian asylum-seeker killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others outside a bus station in the German city of Reutlingen before being arrested.

Munich teenager who went on shooting rampage has been identified as 18-year-old Ali David Sonboly.

Police are investigating a fake Facebook advert which offered free food at the McDonald's where a gunman killed the first of his nine victims in Munich.

Distressing content warning: Gunman who shot 10 people dead engaged in a bizarre conversation with a witness before killing himself.

The German city of Munich is in lockdown following a shooting attack at a shopping centre during Friday evening rush hour. Here's what we know.

The German interior ministry have confirmed the suspect, a 17-year-old Afghan man, was shot by police.

Austria's government has moved to seize Hitler's birthplace by compulsory purchase amid warnings of its growing attraction for far Right "tourism".

Brit-bashing has become a universal past time this week, surprisingly however the Germans have focused on what's best about them

Money paid to owners of Volkswagen cars that fooled emissions tests is not a victory for clean air.

It is the largest consumer-auto payout and environmental-auto payout in US history.

Germany's Bild newspaper has played on friendly stereotypes in a last-ditch plea to Britons to stay in the European Union.

Demonstrators have formed a human chain near a U.S. air base in western Germany to protest against lethal drone strikes.

He cheated death with two World War II plane crashes, interrogation by German intelligence officers, a bayonet wound, and near-starvation as a prisoner of war.