The Latest Breaking News from Cologne

Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne says new players in the squad are injecting energy into the team after the failure of their "golden generation" to live up to their number one ranking over the last four years. Belgium began a new era over the last week with two impressive wins…

German prosecutors said on Monday they searched the home of two pro-Kremlin activists, looking for evidence to corroborate a Reuters report that the couple donated cash to buy radios for Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of revelers are dancing in the streets of Cologne and other cities and towns across the Rhineland as they celebrate the traditional start of Carnival in Germany

Watch live as celebrations kick off in the German carnival stronghold of Cologne for the start of the so-called Women’s Carnival (Weiberfastnacht).

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