The founder of Germany's anti-Islamist Pegida movement goes to trial in Dresden on hate speech charges.

Thousands of files have surfaced with personal data on members of the Islamic State group — documents that might help authorities track down and prosecute foreign fighters who returned home after joining the extremists, or identify those who recruited them in the first place.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has blamed European nations for "unilaterally" shutting the Balkan route for migrants.

EU and Turkish leaders seek to turn into a lasting accord a plan on easing Europe's migrant crisis hailed as a game-changer by Ankara and Brussels but swiftly criticised by the UN's refugee chief.

The German adventurer whose mummified body was discovered last weekend, left a final note of love to his wife, it has been revealed.

A Dhaka court grants six days remand for each of four people, including a citizen of Germany, arrested over the ATM scam in Dhaka in which at least Tk 20 lakh was swindled out from various booths.

At least nine people are killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collide in the German state of Bavaria.

Germany flips the switch on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed all set to regain control of Germany's polarising debate over refugees. In her New Year's Eve address...

German police should "if necessary" shoot at migrants seeking to enter the country illegally, the leader of a right-wing populist party has said.

Five times more attacks were carried out on migrant hostels in Germany last year than in 2014, German police say.

Mesut Ozil carries out yet another assist, this time assisting a cameraman in filling his lens with sugary gunk in an impressive demonstration of juggling skills.

Refugees have been handing out flowers to try to challenge negative perceptions that have arisen following wave of sexual assaults on women in some German cities on New Year's Eve.

Germany sends an increasing number of migrants back to Austria every day since the beginning of the month, Austrian police say.

Riot police break up far-right protesters in Cologne as they march against Germany's open-door migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year's Eve.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel proposes changes to make it easier to deport asylum-seekers who commit crimes, after the New Year's Eve sex attacks on women in Cologne.

The head of Cologne's police force is leaving his post "to restore public trust in the police" following scores of attacks on women in the city on New Year's Eve, German media report.

Diego Maradona himself continues to transmit joy, the joy of playing, an art that seems to have been lost a long time ago and has fewer and fewer worthy representatives.

Police in Germany will have to rethink their tactics following attacks on women in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, a senior official says.

Police in Munich evacuated two major railway stations after an intelligence agency warned Germany of an imminent attack, officials say.