Former Germany captain Michael Ballack has called an offer to end his international career with a friendly game against Brazil in August a ‘farce’, saying he was not treated with respect by Germany co

Michael Ballack, a towering figure in German football for the past decade, is no longer part of the national squad after 98 appearances for his country, the national federation (DFB) said on Thursday.

After a month of searching and testing thousands of vegetables, simple detective work trumped science in the hunt for the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak.

The culprit: German-grown

A killer E. coli bacteria outbreak has claimed another fatality in Germany, regional authorities said on Friday, bringing the death toll to 31.

The latest reported victim was a 75-year-old woman in t

As the death toll in Germany's E coli outbreak rose to 18 and the number of infections climbed to more than 1,830, health authorities are investigating the possibility that the killer bacteria may hav

Germany summoned the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday after his country briefly closed its airspace to chancellor Angela Merkel's plane, foreign minister Guido Westerwelle said.

Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be completed by 2022.

Germany on Monday became the first major industrialised power to agree an end to nuclear power in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be completed by 2022.

Chancellor Angela Me

Northern German air traffic was grounded early on Wednesday by ash spewed from Iceland's Grimsvoetn volcano, with airports in Berlin the latest to close.

Operations at Tegel and Shoenefeld airports w

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble backs his French counterpart Christine Lagarde as the EU candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, a German weekly reported on Saturday.