Severe storms brought havoc to parts of Germany, SPD parliamentary group leader wants to campaign on the wealth tax, Scholz said Biden’s decision ‘deserves respect’ and more news from Germany on Monday.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has defended the planned stationing of long-range US missiles in Germany.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected in Cologne again this year for Christopher Street Day (CSD) on Sunday.

Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus programme.

Belarus and Germany are holding “consultations” over the fate of a German man reportedly sentenced to death by a court in Minsk last month, Belarus’s foreign ministry said on Saturday.

From the Swiftmania sweeping Gelsenkirchen to an adorable German word and some foreign destinations you can travel to with the Deutschlandticket, here are a few things we’re talking about this week.

Travellers faced sleeping overnight at the airport or giving up and taking to the road for an arduous journey instead, as Friday’s worldwide IT breakdown caused chaos and left air passengers around the world “in limbo”.

Adidas said Friday it had dropped vocal pro-Palestinian model Bella Hadid from an advertising campaign for retro sneakers referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics, which were overshadowed by a massacre of Israeli athletes.

Germany’s problems with punctuality and overcrowding on trains are well-known. We asked readers for their thoughts on how things could be improved.

This practical German phrase may come in handy today, and also next Friday – and likely the one after that.