German police have rescued a man after he called for help saying a baby squirrel would not leave him alone. Emergency services received a call on Thursday from the man, who claimed he was being chased down the street by the tiny animal. Police in Karlsruhe said the unnamed man called them in desperation after he was unable to shake off the small rodent.

U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch is slamming Germany’s early release of a 9/11 money man, calling it “unfathomable” to set free someone who helped the hijackers who seized Flight 11 and Flight 175 out of Boston, launching the War on Terror.Mounir el-Motassadeq — who paid tuition and rent for the al-Qaeda killers while they plotted in Hamburg — is being deported back to his native Morocco early. He was sentenced in 2006 to 15 years, but is being given credit for time served, German’s Bild newspaper reported Thursday. He was jailed in November 2001.

Computer and video games can include swastikas and other Nazi symbols, a German industry body said Thursday, after a heated debate over the "Wolfenstein" franchise in which gamers battle Third Reich forces.

A US state's first-ever lethal injection could be delayed or permanently halted by a German company that said Nebraska may have illegally acquired its drugs. The state plans on using an untested four-drug combination.

Two elderly men had to be picked up by police after sneaking out of their nursing home to attend the world's biggest metal music festival, according to German media reports. Wacken Open Air, which takes place in the northern German town of Wacken, took place over the weekend of 2-4 August. According to public radio broadcast NDR, nursing staff contacted police after they noticed that two of the home's residents were missing.

As the German military struggles to fill its ranks, representatives of Angela Merkel's CDU party started a nationwide discussion on the return of mandatory military service. The general conscription was scrapped in 2011 after Berlin decided to professionalize its troops. Prior to this decision, all young males were obligated to either serve in the nation's military, the Bundeswehr, or perform an alternative service in civilian areas such as emergency management or medical care for a limited period of time.

An errant fly ruined a world record domino attempt in Germany on Friday. Participants at a domino event in the town of Nidda, near Frankfurt, were attempting to beat the record for the most mini-dominoes to fall in one go. But a fly landed on one of the tiny dominoes triggering the chain reaction before they had completed the set-up.

The German public debt has dropped below €2 trillion for the first time in years thanks to robust economic growth. Public debt in Germany sank to €1.967 trillion in 2017, marking a drop of 2.1 percent in comparison with 2016, figures released by the statistics office (Destatis) showed on Thursday. The €42.1 billion drop in public debt levels is a result of high tax intakes from a booming economy and historically low interest rates.

Freshwater fish are suffocating in rivers across Europe during the heatwave. In West Germany where temperatures have reached around 39 degree's celcius, there's hardly been any rain in the last few months, leaving the Rhine river in Cologne very low. Germans and tourists as well as pets will have to be careful when thinking about taking a dip in rivers or lakes to cool off because of an increase of harmful bacteria and algae in stagnant waters.

Four German men have been charged with operating the darknet platform Elysium, used by tens of thousands to access child pornography. According to authorities, many of the users were based in Germany and Austria.

Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD

A sociopolitical landmark for Berlin's parents: Starting in August all municipal day care centers in the German capital will be free. Several other states are also looking to phase out the costs for working parents.

Germany's defense minister unloaded sharp criticism of President Trump's relationship with Russia and its government, saying Trump has "no recognizable strategy" for dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ursula von der Leyen condemned Trump in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, saying that the meeting earlier this month between Trump and Putin left European allies in the dark. The content of the two leaders' discussions at the Helsinki summit remain largely unknown.

Sustained high temperatures and a lack of rainfall have hit German farmers hard, including the country's important potato sector. The German Association of the Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Processing Industry (BOGK) warned on Sunday that the ongoing droughtmeans potato harvests will be "dramatically" reduced this year.

Only 37 percent of respondents said they believed Europe depended on U.S. military help, the Forsa poll showed. The survey found no significant difference between eastern German regions and western areas, which have stronger historical ties to the United States. In the east, 60 percent thought Europe did not need Washington, and in the west, 55 percent. Trump gave an ultimatum to European allies on July 12, warning...

Steve Bannon plans to build a right-wing populist think tank in Europe. German lawmakers called the plans by the former adviser to the US president to influence the 2019 European elections "a frontal attack on the EU." Plans by US far-right figure Steve Bannon to influence the European Parliament's 2019 election have been met with alarm across Germany's political spectrum. Bannon has become a controversial figure, known for his ties to the campaigns for the UK to leave the European Union and the election of US President Donald Trump.

Thousands of German scientists — many using public funds — have published their results in quasi-scientific journals without being peer reviewed, according to a report

Fourteen people have been wounded, some seriously, in a knife attack on a bus in the German city of Luebeck, local reports say. Police in the city, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, said a suspect had been taken into custody. A police spokesperson confirmed that no one was killed in the attacks. An area surrounding a bus stop in the Kuecknitz neighbourhood was sealed off.

In her annual summer press Q&A session, the German chancellor stressed that Europe and the US are not enemies. She also held up the EU as a model of a "win-win" situation — words clearly aimed in Washington's direction. In her yearly meet-the-press session before her summer vacation, Angela Merkel put forward the European Union as an example of cooperation and multilateralism. While reaffirming the centrality of Germany's trans-Atlantic relations with the US, she acknowledged that US President Donald Trump had put the two country's traditional friendship "under pressure."

Germany has officially banned all pre-orders for games with “vague” or no release dates at all. This means that if a game hasn’t been given a confirmed, set day for release, it will not be allowed to sell copies until it does. For example, a game with a “coming soon” date will not be allowed to be sold until a confirmed date is given.