The Latest Breaking News from Cologne

The views are better from a slow train, says our rail expert, who recommends six leisurely routes across some of Europe’s most captivating landscapes

German news agency dpa is reporting that dozens of climate activists have glued themselves to a main street in the western Germany city of Cologne and to a state government building in Duesseldorf to protest the destruction of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion

Unsurprisingly, it’s yet another crossover, which looks like it’s going to be about the same size as a VW ID.4, but with more traditional SUV styling.

An unprecedented crisis of confidence is shaking a historic center of Catholicism in Germany

A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online has gone on trial in the western city of Cologne accused of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuse

Doctor Rosemary Coogan will be trained at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany

German prosecutors are due to investigate whether Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, one of the German Catholic Church's most senior clerics, perjured himself earlier this year in sworn testimony about abuse committed by a now dead priest.

Beating out festive markets in cities such as Paris, Cologne, and Amsterdam, the Edinburgh Christmas Market has been crowned the best in Europe by National Geographic

The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter.

Deep inside a decommissioned nuclear bunker built into a Cologne subway station at the height of the Cold War, tour guide Robert Schwienbacher says he is getting a number of inquiries from Germans asking for space available in an emergency.

The Islamic call to prayer has been sounded in public for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques in Cologne, but at limited volume