U.S. President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies to sharply raise defense spending as leaders gathered in Ankara, singling out Spain as a "terrible partner" for refusing to commit to a 5% GDP target by…
The European Parliament voted on July 7 to open negotiations on a legal framework for a digital euro, clearing a key legislative hurdle for the proposed central bank currency. Lawmakers in Strasbourg…
Global equities fell sharply and oil prices surged on Wednesday after the United States launched airstrikes on more than 80 targets in Iran and President Donald Trump declared an end to a temporary ce…
President Donald Trump pressed NATO allies on Tuesday to channel rising defence budgets into American weapons systems, casting a shadow over a summit in Ankara where economic commitments dominate the…
Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination has dropped its recommendation for a baseline Covid-19 vaccination for healthy adults, saying broad immunity across the population and declining severe outc…
Volkswagen's supervisory board meets on July 9 to consider eliminating up to 100,000 positions worldwide and closing four German factories, a dramatic expansion of restructuring presented by CEO Olive…
A four-year-old girl died on Wednesday afternoon after being bitten multiple times by a dog in Drosa, a village in the municipality of Osternienburger Land in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presented each leader attending the NATO summit in Ankara with a loaded revolver engraved with the recipient's name, accompanied by a box of ammunition and a let…
Porsche reported a sharp decline in global deliveries during the first half of 2026, with sales falling 16 percent to roughly 122,300 vehicles compared with the same period last year. The steepest los…
The BMW iX3 and Zeekr 7GT have become the first vehicles to secure five-star safety ratings under Euro NCAP's comprehensively revised 2026 testing protocols, the organization announced on Wednesday. T…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons to be outlawed under international law, describing them as "morally repugnant" in a speech on artificial inte…
Rivers and lakes across Austria and Germany are entering peak summer at historically low levels following months of below-average rainfall, prompting transport disruptions and environmental alarm. Aus…
Tadej Pogacar launched a devastating solo attack in the Pyrenees on Wednesday to win the sixth stage of the Tour de France by two minutes and 38 seconds over rival Jonas Vingegaard, seizing control of…
Ukraine's prosecutor general said on July 9 that no evidence has been found of Ukrainian state involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, rejecting German suspicions that the sabotage was car…
Germany has reached an agreement with the United States to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles, a move Chancellor Friedrich Merz said would close a critical gap in the country's military capabilities. Me…
SAP has averted a potential European Union antitrust penalty by offering binding concessions that make it easier for customers to switch providers or terminate contracts, ending a probe that began in…
MFE-MediaForEurope has sharply raised the synergy benefits it expects from its takeover of ProSiebenSat.1, projecting €160 million in savings this year against an earlier estimate of just €30 million,…
AI chatbots exhibit significant editorial bias and surface Russian disinformation when retrieving news, according to a study published Wednesday by Agora Digitale Transformation, a Berlin-based think…
Thousands of German autoworkers walked off the job on Wednesday as union IG Metall staged nationwide protests against mass layoffs and plant closures at Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz. T…
Police in Berlin have arrested a 14-year-old girl suspected of being the mother of a newborn found dead in a housing estate courtyard in the city's southwest. The teenager has been placed in hospital…
A 44-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for murder fled during a supervised outing in Schmelz, Saarland, on Wednesday afternoon, triggering a police manhunt across western Germany. The prisoner e…
Remco Evenepoel has publicly expressed frustration with Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe teammate Florian Lipowitz following the sixth stage of the Tour de France, accusing the German rider of refusing to prov…
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on Thursday that streaming providers cannot blanket-exclude consumers' right of withdrawal from digital subscription contracts, bolstering subscriber p…
A 66-year-old German tourist died on Wednesday after plunging roughly 300 metres from a ridge in South Tyrol, the latest in a series of fatal accidents on high-altitude paths in the region. The man an…
A severe heat wave that gripped Germany from mid-June has cost roughly 5,100 lives, according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, already exceeding the annual heat-related death tolls recorded…
The European Union plans to postpone the launch of its ETIAS travel authorisation scheme until 2027, following a turbulent rollout of the bloc's biometric border system. The Entry/Exit System, which b…
A 28-year-old man was seriously injured after being attacked by several men outside a restaurant in Völklingen, a town in Germany's western Saarland state, early Wednesday evening. The initial assault…
An international parliamentary delegation joined a Taiwanese coast guard patrol off Kinmen on Wednesday, in what organisers described as the first time foreign lawmakers have accompanied Taiwan's mari…
Germany's lower house is expected to approve a revised heating law on Thursday after the Federal Constitutional Court rejected an emergency injunction filed by The Left, clearing the final legal hurdl…
Germany's corporate sector is hesitating to embrace artificial intelligence even as startup formation surges and pockets of adoption emerge, according to data released Thursday. The Monopolkommission…