The Latest Breaking News from Cologne

Video game makers from around the globe have converged on Cologne for the annual Gamescom trade fair – the world's largest gaming event, where new products are unveiled and investors connect with developers. Among the 1,500 exhibitors are a group of African gaming professionals showcasing games rooted in the continent's…

A new instalment in Chinese action saga "Black Myth", a long-awaited indie favourite and stereotypically French cosplay have all marked the vast Gamescom trade fair this week in Cologne.

Reflecting demographic trends, Germany's prison population is ageing. The largest unit for senior prisoners in the country is in Bielefeld-Senne, east of Cologne – where inmates live in specially adapted cells and aren't required to work once they pass retirement age.

At the edge of Cologne, Germany, a large industrial building contains something extraordinary: the most advanced simulated lunar environment on Earth. Developed jointly by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the European Space Agency (ESA), this facility — known as LUNA — is designed to prepare astronauts, robots, and technologies…

The city in western Germany is undergoing its largest evacuation since World War II after three unexploded US bombs were discovered.

A large part of the German city has been closed off after three bombs were found

Bomb defusal operations are common in Cologne, Germany, which was heavily targeted by Allied countries during the Second World War

More than 20,000 residents are being evacuated from part of Cologne’s city center to defuse World War II bombs

About 20,000 people relocated while allied munitions dropped on German city in 1940s are made safe