The decision by Germany’s central bank to request that one of its governors be sacked after broadcasting racially-charged views sets the stage for a messy legal struggle on contract law, free speech and a subject many in Berlin heartily wish would...

German prosecutors are investigating allegations that the country’s top Roman Catholic cleric was responsible in the 1980s for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors, a spokesman said Tuesday. The investigation of Freiburg...

A German police office is facing termination after he was caught having noisy sex with his girlfriend in a church tower above a packed congregation attending New Year’s Day Mass.

The bit of rural ex-Communist hinterland in which Angela Merkel grew up has undergone an imaginative makeover since the 55-year-old pastor’s daughter embarked on her political career. Ms Merkel, now one of the world’s most powerful leaders,...

Most visitors to Germany’s reunited capital wouldn’t recognise it as such, but there is still a bit of original Berlin Wall left standing in the city’s Bernauerstrasse – a street once famous for daring escapes from the former...