A special police operation is taking place next to a pharmacy where hostages were taken in the city of Karlsruhe in the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, local police said on Friday

The German federal prosecutor's office has taken over the investigation into last week's failure of a rail communication system that paralyzed traffic in the country's north

Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Facebook users who registered accounts under an alias before 2018 should be allowed to keep them despite the social network's rules