Germany

The beer is flowing and millions of people descending on the Bavarian capital to celebrate the official opening of Oktoberfest. With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg at noon on Saturday, officially opening the 18-day festivities. Revelers decked out in traditional lederhosen and dirndl dresses trooped...

Dennis Schroder scored 28 points as Germany capped off an unbeaten run through the World Cup by holding off Serbia 83-77 in the final.

German prosecutors say a 98-year-old man has been charged with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.

The incident followed an “argument” at the Säubrenner fair in the small town of Wittlich on Saturday night, police said.

An Arizona woman is accused of using bleach to poison the coffee of her estranged husband, a member of the U.S. Air Force, over a period of several months, according to court documents.

Italy, Germany and Brazil earned wins in their respective opening matches at the 2023 Women’s World Cup on Monday.

Authorities have determined that there is “no acute danger” to people in an area on the edge of Berlin where a potentially dangerous animal was spotted.

Here’s a look at the smallest countries to win the Women’s World Cup ahead of the 2023 tournament in Australia and New Zealand.

Authorities say DNA testing has led to the arrest of a Nebraska man who was repeatedly questioned over decades in the 1978 stabbing death of a woman while he was stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany.

A German court has found ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler guilty of fraud in connection with the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal.

Here are five things to know about German footballer Lina Magull.

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking.

Authorities say an American man has been arrested over the death of one U.S. tourist and an assault on another near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany after he allegedly pushed the two women down a steep slope. The incident close to the popular tourist attraction happened on Wednesday afternoon. Police said Thursday that the 30-year-old man met the young women...

The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4

Here is everything you need to know about Lena Oberdorf, midfielder for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team.

A German court says a landlord sunbathing naked in the courtyard of his building isn’t a reason for his tenants to reduce their rental payments. The case involved a building in an upmarket residential district of Frankfurt, which included an office floor. The landlord sued the human resources company that used the office after it withheld rental payments. The company...

Ryyan Alshebl fled Syria’s civil war for Germany without knowing a word of German. Eight years on, he’s not only fluent but also the recently elected mayor of Ostelsheim, a small town in the southwest.

A panel mediating between German public sector employers and labor unions has put forward a compromise proposal to avert further strikes over pay. Mediators on Saturday proposed a raise of 5.5% on top of a fixed 200-euro monthly increase for the millions of people that work in the public sector. The panel says the overall increase should result in employees...

Germany’s government has appealed for efforts to reduce tensions over Taiwan as the German foreign minister arrived in China for official talks.

The shooting happened Thursday night in the German city of Hamburg.