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Authorities have begun evacuating buildings around a Bavarian train station as specialists examine a suspicious object on the tracks. Rail traffic is currently suspended in the area.

In 1908, a railway worker clearing sand beside a track in what is now Namibia noticed something unusual: stones that caught the sunlight. His German supervisor, August Stauch, recognised the discovery as diamonds, setting off a rush that would transform one of southern Africa's harshest landscapes.

More than half of Europe, including much of Germany is set for a third wave of extreme heat this summer, worsening wildfires and drought conditions across the continent.

Germany's domestic and foreign intelligence services to get greater powers to deal with hybrid threats. Meanwhile, transport ministers are meeting to find solutions to increasingly low river levels.

In 1942, British light cruiser HMS Edinburgh sank in the Barents Sea after being badly damaged by German torpedoes, taking 58 crew members and 465 Soviet gold bars with it. The bullion, weighing about 4.6 tonnes, was being carried as part of wartime payment for supplies and equipment.

The UAE Show Jumping Team is participating in the FEI World Championships, hosted in Aachen, Germany, from August 11 to 23.

German coast guard officials say they have called off the search for four crew members missing after British cargo ship the Verity crashed into another boat in the North Sea on Tuesday morning

Director Steven Spielberg, picking up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new details of his planned HBO series.

A senior German government official is proposing U.S.-style tax credits to boost companies involved in shifting the country's economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels

The next World Bank president should be a woman, Germany's international development minister told Reuters in remarks that could strengthen the potential candidacy of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the American-Nigerian head of the World Trade Organization.