According to Germany's Der Spiegel, police in Germany fired a total of just 85 bullets against people in 2011.

Out of these - 49 were warning shots and 36 were aimed rounds fired at suspects. 15 per

Germany's top airline, Lufthansa, announced plans to shed 3,500 administrative jobs as part of a radical cost-cutting programme amid soaring jet fuel prices and stiff competition.

The unprecedented c

A flood of easy money courtesy of the European Central Bank made for a calm start to 2012 but a poor Spanish bond sale last week signals it may only have been a lull before the debt storm breaks, anal

A German gynaecologist is being investigated for allegedly having a stash of 35,000 photographs and several videos of naked patients, a report said on Saturday.

Medical assistants alerted the authori

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday said the root of Europe's debt woes lay partly in the irresponsible parenting of Germany and France during the bloc's infancy.

Monti told reporters in

Activist pastor Joachim Gauck became German president by an overwhelming majority Sunday, marking the first time a candidate from the former communist east will serve as head of state.

Gauck claimed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived on Monday in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit to troops stationed at Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman said.

Merkel had wanted to visit Kunduz but had t

German parliament is set to vote for the second financial bailout for Greece amid signs of a new dispute within Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition over whether the debt-laden nation sho

Germany is easing its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund, officials said, smoothing the way for the world's leading economies to secure nearly $2 trillion in firepower to prevent further fal

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her coalition and the opposition had agreed on Sunday to nominate former East German rights activist Joachim Gauck as a consensus candidate to become Germany's next presi