More than 20 people were injured after a Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany caught fire on Saturday evening.
Images show two carriages of the ride on fire as smoke billows into the air at the Highfield Festival near the city of (...)
A man has been killed in an explosion at his
flat in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, according to dpa.
He was found with severe burns in his second-floor flat in the town of Wurzen, near Leipzig.
The explosion, which caused a wall to collapse (...)
A man has been killed in an explosion at his
flat in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, according to dpa.
He was found with severe burns in his second-floor flat in the town of Wurzen, near Leipzig.
The explosion, which caused a wall to collapse (...)
A bus carrying refugees was attacked by acrowd of people as they were being taken to a hostel in the eastern German town of Jahnsdorf, police reported Friday according to dpa.
The group prevented the bus from passing and then threw missiles and (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1435, Oct 14, 2014, SPA -- A UN employee from Liberia who was
transported to the eastern German city of Leipzig after contracting
Ebola died overnight into Tuesday, dpa quoted the hospital as saying.
The 56-year-old man had been (...)
A World War II bomb was blown up Thursday in
a controlled explosion in a rail yard in the German city of Leipzig
after bomb experts ruled it was too dangerous to defuse, dpa reported.
The 75-kilogram US bomb, dropped on the city in an Allied air (...)
Germany on Monday launched two weeks of military exercises involving a total of 4,500 soldiers, around 1,000 of which are from 11 other countries including the United States, Turkey and Hungary.
Some 100 aircraft and helicopters will take part in (...)
More than 2,000 publishing houses from 44 countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, take part in the international book exhibition-fair which opened in Leipzig on Thursday.
Some 100,000 books, including 20,000 novelties, are presented at (...)
In order to combat climate change and
ensure mobility for increasing populations, individuals need to cut
unnecessary journeys, global transport policy-makers were told in
Leipzig Thursday, according to dpa.
The International Transport Forum, (...)
The Leipzig book fair opened to the public
Thursday, after Hungarian-born historian Gyorgy Dalos received an
award for promoting understanding between Europeans through his work, according to dpa.
During the next four days, around 100,000 (...)
After the crowd became violent, German
police dispersed about 1,000 neo-Nazis from all over the country who
rallied Saturday in the eastern city of Leipzig, according to dpa.
Riot police also had to keep watch on a similar sized group of
mainly (...)
A railcar proceeded nearly 40 kilometres through central Germany with nobody on board, railway company Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday in Leipzig, reported the dpa.
The self-propelling passenger unit moved away from a station at 7 am Monday (0600 GMT) (...)
Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly
dropped Friday one of his two contracts in the German city of
Leipzig, giving up his baton at the city's opera orchestra, according to dpa.
Chailly had been appointed director-general of music at the
Leipzig (...)
German cycling authorities said Thursday
they would be seeking more information from 1988 Olympic
bronze medallist Robert Lechner who has admitted doping during
training for the Games in Seoul, according to dpa.
"The incident goes back 20 (...)
Germany striker Miroslav Klose netted the winner on Saturday as Bayern Munich defeated Schalke 1-0 to win the
German League Cup for the sixth time, DPA reported.
Klose, one of Munich's major summer hirings in a move from Werder
Bremen, was on (...)
Europe's biggest trade fair devoted to computer gaming opens its doors Thursday in the eastern German city of Leipzig to fans as well as trade buyers looking for top sellers for the Christmas gift-giving season, dpa reported today.
The GC Games (...)
Michael Ballack's free kick goal in extra time was all that separated hosts Germany from Mexico in their 4-3 victory in the third-place match of the Confederations Cup in Leipzig.
Ballack's 97th minute goal finally settled the energetic contest (...)
Francileudo dos Santos scored twice to give Tunisia a 2-0 win over Australia in the final Confederations Cup match for both teams who will now head home after failing to reach the semi-finals.
Santos put Tunisia ahead in the 26th minute, tapping in (...)
Archaeologists have discovered remains of a Stone Age village with 19 graves near a busy runway of an eastern German airport, and hope to discover more about the people using DNA tests.
The experts said all the bodies had been placed on their sides (...)
Protests against Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's planned social welfare cuts spread Monday into hundreds of
smaller German towns, with participation steady nationally.
Police estimated that 75,000 people took to the streets around the country. In (...)
