Marco Rojas is likely to leave his current club SpVgg Greuther Furth in January - and is almost certain to be playing his football outside Germany next year.

After nearly three years of tough talking, British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing a crunch moment in his troubled strategy towards the European Union.

World War II's greatest escape, which involved Kiwi officers scaling barbed wire fences instead of the previously favoured method of tunnelling, has been told for the first time.

Germany and a Swiss art museum have signed a landmark agreement returning a priceless hoard of art stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners.

An intelligent arm brace adding extra muscle by flexing, as we do, will be created in a landmark German-Kiwi collaboration.

A chilling but illuminating legacy of the former East German state is the archives of its Ministry for State Security, the dreaded Stasi.

Imagine growing up not knowing your father because he has been declared an enemy of the people and has to live in another country you are forbidden to visit.

Angela Merkel is delivering a lecture to about 260 people at Auckland University's Maidment Theatre.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will back a New Zealand push for a free trade agreement with the European Union.

She might not be Bo Derek but in political terms, John Key rates visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel as high as 10.

This month we receive onto our shores the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, undoubtedly the most dominant political figure in the EU.

Rupert Murdoch prepares to complete the merger of his British, Italian and German pay-TV companies next week.

They turned out in impressive numbers - hundreds of thousands at least - to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago.

Visiting Hitler's holiday home, Jamie Morton is astounded that evil was able to survive and flourish in the peaceful surrounds of the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

Margot Woelk was one of 15 young women forced to work at Adolf Hitler's Wolf's Lair headquarters as a food taster.

30: The name of Masterton's Samuel Dawson can be found on a memorial at Archangel, a Russian naval port on the edge of the White Sea.

Aboard a river ship built for considerable comfort, Albertina Lloyd enjoys the luxurious side of one of Europe's great waterways.

Grant Bradley travelled to Papenburg courtesy of Royal Caribbean to tour Quantum of the Seas, the cruise company's newest ship nearing completion at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany.

Sausages, sights - and a novel museum - make Hanover ideal for a husband-and-wife visit writes Judith Woods.

German agents intercepted one of Hillary Clinton's phone calls while she was the US Secretary of State and also listened in to a call by John Kerry, her successor.

ECB reluctance to adopt full-scale quantitative-easing policies is prompting German comparisons with Japan's stagnation over the past 15 years.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

Politicians in Germany are considering a return to manual typewriters and are playing classical music during discussions about American intelligence activities in an attempt to deter suspected CIA snoopers.

World Cup tourists have given a big thumbs up to the just-ended event in Brazil, according to a new study.

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has resigned after the team failed to win the World Cup.

Winning the World Cup in Brazil has given Germany the "hunger" to triumph in more tournaments and create an era of dominance similar to Spain.

The German economy is set to benefit as the country's football victory draws shoppers to the "Made in Germany" brand, says a research firm.

Angela Merkel does not want to complete her full term as German Chancellor and plans to resign before elections in 2017, according to reports.

Yes, Brazil were bad. But far more importantly, the Germans were sensational, writes Chris Rattue.