Germany news: CDU leads in Hesse vote — partial results

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU is set to remain the strongest party at the local level in the central state of Hesse.

Germany consecrates first bishop of Indian heritage

Joshy George Pottackal, born in India, will become the first auxiliary bishop of non-European heritage.

Instagram accounts trivialize the Holocaust

In Instagram posts, Nazi perpetrators are glorified. Victims' organizations are outraged.

The BKA, 'Germany's FBI', turns 75

The BKA, once dominated by ex-Nazis, is a pillar of Germany's security architecture — even on the international stage.

Germany's Greens: More than leftist, woke ecologists?

Cem Özdemir won partly by abandoning many of his Green Party's core issues. Was this a good move?