Citizens are voting today in parliamentary elections; the Bundestag 2021 elections will end Angela Merkel's 16-year term in office, with the latest polls showing the centre-left slightly ahead of the outgoing chancellor's conservatives

The Munich Philharmonic will not perform at the Flanders Festival Ghent tomorrow: concert was cancelled citing organizers' concerns over its Israeli conductor's Lahav Shani's attitude to the Israeli government; German said it's a "disgrace for Europe"

Germany's 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a disastrous start as they suffered a deserved 2-0 defeat to Slovakia

A central Berlin street with an unfortunate name referring to 'moros' has been renamed after Anton Wilhelm Amo, a Black German Enlightenment philosopher, who in 1734 became the first Africa-born scholar to receive a European doctorate

Tübingen is building public housing using an innovative modular method developed by local startup TriqBriq: wooden building blocks of sub-standard or recycled wood fit together with wooden dowels, concrete foundations and interior walls give stability