Germany

Rules loosening Sunday sales rules offer small bakers relief as a court ruling widens the definition of prepared food...

Germany is raising taxes on flights and lowering them on rail travel, in part to discourage flying on short routes.

A quick glance through a tour bus window looked like a near crash of a 747; it took a bit of searching afterwards for the rest of the story.

A giant equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the last survivors of its kind.

Cruising along the lower Rhine, PHeymont finds it a fascinating difference from some of the popular impressions of the river.

Instant celebrity for two tiny pandas born at the Berlin Zoo.

PHeymont returns, on a cruise shore excursion, to a city he knew better many years ago, and which still has a hold on him.

It's not just Greens calling for an eventual end to domestic flights in Germany; Bavaria's conservatives are echoing the call.

PHeymont spotted these daring sheep wandering out onto the edge of the Rhine.

In Koblenz, Germany, the ancient facade of the former Jesuit church conceals a stunning new sanctuary.

Quiet Breisach on the Rhine has an eventful history and a 20th-century claim to fame as first to vote for a united Europe.

A whimsical fountain recreates an old Cologne tale that seems to have a moral—but it's a little hard to say.