Germany

German rail operator DB is adding easy car rentals to its ticket options as part of its competition with long-distance buses, discount airlines and others.

A German town on the Dutch border hopes to convince merchants, customers, and eventually all of Germany to stop using 1- and 2-cent coins.

As Germany celebrates the 500th anniversary of its Beer Purity Law, beer-drinking hits historic lows.

While exploring Berlin, Ottoman visited this unique memorial.

On a guided walking tour of Berlin, I came across this unexpected gem.

On Germany's Baltic Sea island of Rugen, a 3-mile long hotel, built during the Nazi era, has never had hotel guests...but that may be changing.

Every city has a "first baby" of the New Year, but Berlin's buzz this year is about a New Year baby who's an elephant!

A German supermarket is dressing up in 60s decor and inviting Germans to get their old marks out from under the sofa cushions and spend them.

Germany has just opened the first 5km of a planned 100km bike route that will eventually connect 10 cities and four universities in the Ruhr area, and more are planned elsewhere. The wide route is aimed at commuters, with 2 million people living within 2km of the route, as well as reducing pollution and traffic congestion. Other routes under consideration include a 30km route from Frankfurt to Darmstadt. In some cases, the routes are able to take advantage of disused rail lines. For more...

There's an old saying that it's a bad idea to go shopping when you're hungry. Now we find it's that way for burglary, too. An otherwise successful German burglar has been taken down by a bite of sausage. In February, burglars broke into a supermarket in Anspach by breaking down a door. They tried the office safe and couldn't get in, but they did take €300 worth of cigarettes with them. And one of the burglars, unable to resist a delicious temptation, took a hefty bite out of a pork...

This week, Europe's first T-Rex skeleton takes the stage, and Berlin's Natural History Museum is hoping he'll be as popular a performer as his relatives have been elsewhere. In an interview with TheLocal.de, museum director Prof. Johannes Vogel said that Tyrannosaurus Rex specimens  "have this funny effect of transforming the perception of museums, and this will be no exception." The museum is well-known in Berlin, and Vogel thinks the exhibit may be the ticket to world status,...

Bombardier CSeries gets certified Airworthy.