A fire broke out in an as yet unoccupied
refugee hostel in the far northern German city of Flensburg, dpa cited police
as saying Friday.
Nobody was injured in the night-time attack in the city on the Danish
border, the police spokesman said, adding (...)
Three Japanese naval ships on a training mission arrived Monday in Kiel, marking the first time the Japanese navy had made a port call to the northern German city in 22 years, DPA reported.
The three vessels under the command of Rear Admiral (...)
World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy,
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman and German publishing heiress Liz Mohn
were jointly presented Sunday with a prestigious German economics
award, dpa reported.
The annual prize from the Kiel-based economic (...)
An ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel
deliberately let himself be voted out of office Thursday in the
German state of Schleswig Holstein in order to hold a snap election, according to dpa.
A vote of no-confidence in the state legislature in Kiel (...)
German scientists issued details Friday of a
research project to extract an untapped source of energy on the ocean
floors and at the same time replace it with unwanted carbon dioxide.
According to DPA, The project, sponsored by the German (...)
The Swedish operator of a German nuclear
plant hit by a fire two weeks ago admitted to a "misunderstanding"
between senior staff on duty at the time, according to dpa.
The admission by Vattenfall Europe came after police searched
offices at the (...)
Germany is still seeking a second man
suspected of planting bombs aboard trains three weeks ago, the
country's top federal policeman said Saturday, hours after the arrest
of a 21-year-old Lebanese student in the port city of Kiel, according to (...)
Social Democrats loyal to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and their Christian Democrat archrivals opened talks Monday on forming a coalition government in Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost of Germany's 16 states.
Peter Harry Carstensen, a (...)
