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

An entire family have survived being struck by lightning following a storm in the German city of Chemnitz.

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.

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

Germany drives home its rich automobile history, writes Diana Plater.

Jamie Morton learns the definition of super-sizing in Munich's leafy beer gardens.

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.

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.

Poor but sexy - you can't argue with Berlin's unofficial slogan. Although it doesn't possess the wealth of other German cities, it has sultry charms.

In an intriguing tour, Pamela Wade gains insight into the horror inflicted on Europe during World War II.

He was Adolf Hitler's devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader's final hours in his Berlin bunker. To the very end, SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was proud of it all.

Thirty former guards at the Auschwitz death camp could face charges of being an accessory to murder.

Germany put a 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS on trial Monday on charges that he killed a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.