German ministers have defended spending €14,600 (£12,000) on a police station coffee machine, arguing that the staff and ...

Brutues on the Rhine Ludwig Erhard's stock has been going down faster than any glamor issue on the Big Board. Climbing living costs have tarnished his image as the creator of West ...

North Rhine-Westphalia is a state of contrasts. With cosmopolitan cities like Cologne, a rich industrial heritage and the spectacular mountain landscapes of the Eifel region, this part of Germany ...

The crash happened in the district of Wesel, north west of Duisburg, early on Tuesday morning. At around 7.30am, a passing regional train struck a parked freight train at the Reitweg level ...

Beyond Essen, Remondis also serves surrounding regions in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as parts of the Ruhr region and the Rhineland. Rubbish bins in Westphalia-Lippe have also been left ...

Early meetings in Cologne and Bad Godesberg, near Bonn, set the party’s path and determined its name. The “Düsseldorf guidelines”, laid out in 1949, shaped the principles of West Germany ...

West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, 52, the Social Democrat who came into the government as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a wartime refugee from the Nazis and a member of the underground.