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.

Towering 162m above the Rhine, castles don't come much more postcard-ready than the glorious Marksburg.

The ceremony was to be at 10.30am. "None of that dawn service nonsense here," said Isabel.

Winston Aldworth reports from the maiden voyage of the Avalon Imagery II on the Rhine.

I found that rarest of things: A hat big enough to fit my massive skull.

Restoration project brings back art treasures - and the world's grandest wallpaper.

Check in as Winston Aldworth cruises the Rhine on the Avalon Imagery II.

Avalon Waterways New Zealand manager Troy Ackerman talks about what it is that attracts Kiwi travellers to river cruising

Winston Aldworth's third dispatch from his cruise down the Rhine on the Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

This week, Travel Editor and river cruising novice Winston Aldworth is sailing down the Rhine on the maiden voyage of Avalon Imagery II.

Concerns have also surfaced that those unaccounted for could include Islamic extremists or criminals who posed as refugees.

Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind

Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

For German women, 2016 has got off to a shocking start.

Security was tight as revellers took to the streets to welcome the new year due to fear of terror threats.

There is some truth to the popular ditty that says the dictator had "only got one ball".

With the copyright due to expire at the end of this month, the long-banned Nazi bible will soon be revived.

Ernest Rutherford started a chain reaction that has changed the world. It has powered millions, killed a few hundred thousand and provides the background for two of the year's best shows, writes +Plus screen critic Paul Casserly

Cat owners in Germany may soon have to keep their pets on a leash, under new government proposals.

On a freezing evening in Berlin, Ewan McDonald walks among the ghosts of those who paid the ultimate price for a new life.