Yet Hamburg is Germany 's truly global city — the place where the River Elbe opens out into the waters of the North Sea, and where the Bundesrepublik opens its heart to the world.

Just over 20 percent of German households can't afford a week long vacation, according to a recent report, with that number ...

Werder Bremen won a dramatic northern Germany derby 3-1 to condemn Thorsten Fink to only his second defeat as coach of Hamburg. Marko Marin, Tom Trybull and Marko Arnautovic scored the goals as ...

The Intercity Express train (ICE) was carrying 291 passengers at the time of the collision with a truck loaded with rails in Hamburg’s Rönneburg district. It had been heading to Bremen, in the ...

Bremen, in Northwestern Germany, could not be described as car-dependent in the North American sense of the term. In this city of 550,000, most daily journeys happen on mass transit (14 percent of ...