Local News: Germany 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Germany News Editors

News Widget

Display the Germany news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Germany News

News on Germany continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

1 hr ago | Business Times

Chinese PM singles out Germany for EU visit

Mr Li's two-day programme begins with a visit to the town of Potsdam, near Berlin, and the Cecilienhof palace where Soviet, US and British leaders met in 1945 to help shape post-war Europe and Asia [BERLIN] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday as the two export powerhouses seek to further strengthen ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel

3 hrs ago | Asia News Network

LEIPZIG, Germany: Korea's pedestrian death rate highest in OECD

South Korea again posted the highest fatality rate of pedestrians among the 29 OECD member nations last year, a recent report found Wednesday.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News,

5 hrs ago | Suria

Germany 'most popular country' in the...

Germany is the most popular country in the world despite well-publicised protests against its insistence on austerity measures within the European Union, an annual poll for the BBC World Service revealed on Thursday.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel

7 hrs ago | The Globe and Mail

German brewers warn fracking could hurt beer industry

File photo of a waitress using a whistle to free her way while carrying ten of the traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich, September 22, 2012.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel

11 hrs ago | Trend

Azerbaijan transport minister discussed current projects in Germany

Azerbaijan transport minister Ziya Mammadov within his visit to International Transport Forum's Summit in Leipzig, Germany held some bilateral meetings with his counterparts from other countries, Head of Administrative Department of Azerbaijan's Transport Ministry Javid Najafov told Trend.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News,

12 hrs ago | Heraldseries.co.uk

Soldier murdered in Woolwich named

THE soldier killed in Woolwich yesterday has been identified as Drummer Lee Rigby, a father of a two-year-old. He was from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and was borning in born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News

12 hrs ago | USA Today

EU deal on airline emissions tax could take until 2016

As countries and airlines grapple with reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, European Union officials acknowledge that their pioneering aviation program will be delayed, perhaps until 2016.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Travel

15 hrs ago | KVIA-TV El Paso

Spectacular tech 'firsts' up for auction

A treasure trove of rarities, oddities and tech "firsts" has been brought together -- including an experimental 17th century mechanical calculator, a 108-year-old telephone and an incredibly rare, headline-grabbing Apple 1 computer -- to be sold at auction Friday in Cologne, Germany.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News

16 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald

German opposition party marks bittersweet 150th

French President Francois Hollande, right, gestures next to Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, SPD, left, in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Comment?

Related Topix: Social Democratic Party of Germany, Europe, World News, Angela Merkel

20 hrs ago | IcNetwork

Inquest hears of mafia fears of pilot who jumped to death from M4 bridge

CCTV footage from the scene ruled out other people being on the bridge, as the coroner records a verdict of suicide A pilot who suspected his partner was a member of the Bulgarian mafia jumped to his death from a motorway bridge, an inquest heard.

Comment?

Related Topix: Suicide, World News, Metal, Coroner, Cardiff County, Wales, United Kingdom,

Wed May 22, 2013

The Cuero Record, Cuero, Texas

Margie Foster Baack Jones

She was born Sept. 23, 1935 in Wild Horse Creek, Okla. to the late Marvin and Matilda Pearl Heath Foster.

Comment?

Related Topix: Cuero, TX, World News,

Local 15

Winfrey, Beyonce, Jolie among world's 100 most powerful women

Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce and Angeline Jolie have been named among the 100 Most Powerful Women in the world, in a new Forbes magazine poll.

Comment?

Related Topix: Beyonce, Dance, R-N-B, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Europe, World News, Entertainment

Jerusalem Post

Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling

Embassy calls efforts of German Green Party to label products from West Bank "another try to negatively single out Israel." BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Europe, Angela Merkel,

Ledger-Enquirer.com

EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, talks with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, left, as they walk away after a group photo was taken during an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel, Middle East, Lebanon, Terrorism, Francois Hollande

Boston Herald

EU steps up fight against tax evasion by end 2013

The European Union's leaders took a major step in tackling tax-dodgers Wednesday by pushing to end bank secrecy across the bloc's 27 members by the end of the year.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Opinion

International Business Times

German Tabloid Publishes Photo of Angela Merkel in Communist Uniform

A previously unpublished picture depicting German Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing a commnunist uniform has been printed by one of the country's biggest tabloids.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel,

Boston.com

Germans, French eye plan to create jobs for young

Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high European youth unemployment, which officials in Berlin say will center on trying to get business involved and make better use of already-pledged public money.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Angela Merkel

The Guardian

Wagner anniversary revives German debate over controversial composer

To some he will never be more than a narcissist, an antisemite and a misogynist.

Comment?

Related Topix: Europe, World News,

WATE-TV Knoxville

Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th

An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political scandal involving two of the state's most powerful politicians has some... An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Richard Wagner, Opera, Arts, World News