Public transport in Berlin is set to be heavily restricted on Monday as BVG workers strike for better pay.

Mass layoffs and bankruptcies are hitting many of Germany’s key industries lately, adding to a sense of gloom as the country heads into elections.

Trade union announces transport warning strikes in Berlin, Elon Musk’s portrait removed from Munich’s Deutsches Museum, Scholz raises questions about Afghan knife attacker, and more news from around Germany on Thursday.

A house once inhabited by a Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp will be turned into a research centre fighting against anti-Semitism and extremism, a US non-profit said on Wednesday.

Germany’s highest court in Karlsruhe decided on Wednesday that a local consumer tax on throw-away packaging for food is legal. Now other cities in the region may follow suit.

A 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy were killed in a knife attack in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday, police said.

Many foreigners dream of getting German citizenship, but long delays and bureaucracy can stand in the way. What waiting times should people expect when applying for naturalisation in major German cities?

A series of hurricane-force storms developing in the Atlantic are expected to hit Europe over the weekend. Germany can expect high winds and stormy conditions.

Many homeowners in Germany may have received their new property tax notices in the post in the last weeks – but lots of people still don’t have any idea how much they have to pay.

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, we look at how the world gradually discovered the horror of the concentration and extermination camps set up by Nazi Germany across Europe.