Новости за 05.08.2015

Stationery manufacturer STAEDTLER officially produced the world's longest colouring pencil in Nuremberg this week – beating the previous record by 136 metres.

Two German-speaking jihadists claiming to belong to the Isis militant group threatened Germany with attacks in an execution video broadcast online Wednesday.

As competition heats up in the selection process for the “Youth Word of the Year”, a massive lead has opened up for 'merkeln' – a new coinage meaning 'to do nothing' or 'to decide nothing' that plays on Chancellor Angela Merkel's political style.

German police have detained a suspected Islamic State jihadist who fled Spain last month, the Spanish interior ministry said on Wednesday.

A Cologne judge sentenced a 24-year-old man to three years in prison after convicting him of violent acts during a “Hooligans against Salafists” (HoGeSa) demonstration in October 2014.

Germany's domestic intelligence chief has claimed that a recently formed neo-Nazi party is inciting violence against refugee homes and says he fears that human casualties will soon follow.

The identity of a man who last weekend jumped off a railway bridge with his children's bodies after stabbing them to death emerged in media reports on Wednesday.

A couple have been jailed for three years by Germany's highest court after they broke off medical treatment of the woman's 12-year-old child's cystic fibrosis in favour of 'new age' treatments.

Germany's justice minister on Tuesday fired the chief prosecutor in an escalating row sparked by a controversial treason case against a blog accused of revealing state secrets.