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.

A German au pair is keeping two Kiwi toddlers connected to their father's culture, teaching them the same language as their family overseas.

Germany has some of the world's strictest gun laws. But that did not stop Munich attacker - Ali David Sonboly - from carrying out his shooting spree.

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".

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.

Glashuette produced more than 32,000 watches last year, with a total value of at least 500 million euros, according to analyst estimates.

The riverside town of Rudesheim, on the eastern banks of the Rhine, is one of Germany's biggest tourist drawcards.

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.

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.

Germany's Chancellor was not only absent from the election rally for the party she leads - she wasn't invited.

A new exhibition tells the haunting stories of the foreign children torn from their families and savagely abused in order to turn them into 'perfect Aryans'.

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.