The EU has to rely on antitrust and privacy rules to curb Google's search-engine dominance and can't just break up the company, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

A New Zealand business that champions ethically sourced food and beverages has been crowned the "Fairest Fairtrader" at a set of international awards.

Germany has rejected genetically modified crops, nuclear power and magnetic levitation trains. Now, the country is adding fracking to the list of innovations it's wary of.

A missing German tourist has been found safe and well, police say.

An international hunt is under way for a German tourist who may be missing in New Zealand.

A German auction house has for the first time made public its records from the Nazi era.

Prince Charles has compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler over Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Researchers in Germany have developed a way of enabling sleepers to control their dreams by applying electric current to the brain which prompts lucid dreams, involving a state of heightened awareness.

Germany has overtaken Japan to become NZ's fifth-biggest source of tourists and the royal visit has increased interest in other key markets.

One of the hitchhikers attacked after being picked up on the West Coast tried to fight off the driver with a small pocket knife, APNZ understands.

An injured German backpacker has told of her desperate fight for freedom after she was attacked on the West Coast allegedly by a man police believe had already killed.

The Tate has been ordered to return a valuable Constable painting and criticised for failing to adequately research its background after it emerged the work was looted during the Second World War.

David Cameron played a "nukes on the loose" war game with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack, it has emerged.

Catherine Masters enjoys a kaleidoscope of European sights from her floating hotel.

Billionaire Tom Perkins has apologised after he sparked outrage by saying that rich Americans are being persecuted like 'Jews in Nazi Germany'.

Flatulence from 90 cows in a German barn sparked a methane gas explosion that damaged the building and left one cow slightly injured with burns, police said.

Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, is planning to ban all cars from its centre over the next 20 years and put thousands of commuters on bikes.

Germany's Grand Coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel takes the helm this week under a blizzard of criticism from economists of all stripes.

When German tax authorities entered the home of a recluse collector and found a trove of art that could include works stolen by the Nazis, they stepped into a legal quagmire - one that may end up being resolved by politics as much as the law.

A website featuring artworks from among a massive trove discovered in a Munich apartment crashed because of heavy traffic, officials said, as a handful of potential heirs came forward to claim art possibly looted by the Nazis.

It started with a routine check by German tax inspectors - and resulted in the discovery of an art hoard so vast and spectacular that no one yet knows how the story truly ends.

German authorities have safely defused a huge bomb left over from World War II after evacuating large parts of the western city of Dortmund.

The White House was scrambling to head off a major diplomatic incident after the German Government said it had received information that US spies may have tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal mobile phone for years.

Former SS captain Erich Priebke participated in one of the worst massacres of German-occupied Italy. Now he's died - and no one wants to bury him.