Rod Emmerson's take on Brazil's demolition.

Angela MerkelChancellor Angela Merkel's Government is planning to scrap a no-spy agreement Germany has held with Britain and the United States since 1945.

A suspected double agent under arrest in Germany appeared to have been working for the CIA for two years.

In football, architecture and cheap food, Dean Parker finds a few ghosts of the old East Berlin - before the wall came down.

When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis. Her photograph was the image of the ideal Aryan baby, and was distributed as party propaganda.

Hundreds of police have surrounded a former school in Berlin occupied by refugees who have been refusing to leave for more than 18 months.

Adidas predicts it will sell a third more Germany jerseys this year than when the country hosted the World Cup eight years ago as fans worldwide get behind the team in Brazil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.