German exports recorded a surprise increase in September despite the global economic slowdown, official figures showed Friday. The Federal Statistics Office said exports rose 6.9 per cent to 87.1 billion euros (112 billion dollars) in September compared to the corresponding month of 2007.

Plans for a provincial alliance between Germany's co-ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and the small opposition Left party foundered Monday, with dissenting legislators in the state of Hesse saying they would not vote for it.

The fragile link-up, drafted by the state SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti, had been described by 

Social Democrats (SPD) moved a step closer Saturday to ousting Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) in the German state of Hesse and forming a government with the help of a far-left party.

Pathologists have identified all 14 foreign tourists aboard a Twin Otter plane that crashed, killing 18 people, in Nepal this month, German federal police said Thursday.

Four Nepalese people were killed in the crash on October 8 at Lukla in the Himalayas.

Consumer prices in Germany rose 2.9 per cent in September compared to the same month of last year, according to provisional data from six federal states released Friday.

German federal police appealed to the public Thursday to help track down two missing Islamists, one of them a German convert, who were suspected of membership in a terrorist group.

Wiesbaden, Germany - Doctors recommend diabetics undergo regular cancer screenings because not only are they at greater risk of developing kidney and circulatory disease, they also are at greater risk of develop