As a young backpacker, I fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls.

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

A 24-year-old man was arrested at the scene, police said, after a car rammed into a crowd and injured adults and children.

A regional official says a man drove a car into a crowd in Munich in a suspected attack that has left almost 30 people wounded.

The car overtook a police vehicle and then sped up and ploughed into the back of a group of workers who were demonstrating, ...

German town of Bardenberg, where the outcome of a singular soldier's sacrifice hung in the balance, depending on his comrades-in-arms - and on his enemies. In fall 1944, Bardenberg was just another of ...