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

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

Honda Motor Europe officially unveiled its 2023 CB750 Hornet at the 2022 Intermot motorcycle show in Cologne, Germany, and it looks like a solid contender.

A family-run bakery in the German city of Cologne is turning off its ovens for good after 90 years because it can no longer afford rising energy prices resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine