A demonstrator outside the Berlin Chancellery. Photo: DPA

100,000 march against Pegida's record turnout

Around 100,000 people took to German streets in counter-demonstrations against Pegida on Monday evening, after the anti-Islam movement were accused of trying to exploit last week's terror attacks in Paris to boost support. READ

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Town to house refugees in concentration camp

The small town of Schwerte is considering making a home for their refugees out of the barracks of a former concentration camp. READ

JobTalk Germany: Entrepreneur series

The Jobspotting founders' team. Robin Eric Haak is second from left.

Not your usual job website

In our weekly feature series, The Local looks into a successful entrepreneur's life - the story behind their successes, major challenges and how being an entrepreneur changed them forever. This week, Sparsh Sharma talks to Robin Eric Haak, founder and COO of Berlin-based Jobspotting. READ

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German axe killer kept body for three months

On Tuesday evening police arrested a 52-year-old German man in Vienna for the apparent axe murder of his room mate. READ

Pegida demonstrators carrying a sign attacking the "lying press". Photo: DPA

Pegida favorite 'lying press' is 'Un-word 2014'

'Lügenpresse' - roughly translated to mean 'lying press' and often shouted during Pegida rallies - was 'honoured' on Tuesday as the worst coinage of the year. READ

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World's biggest ship docks in Hamburg

Chinese container ship 'The Globe' docked at the port of Hamburg on Tuesday as part of its maiden voyage. READ

A police response unit (SEK) training in Thuringia. Photo: DPA

Police fear copycat attacks in Germany

A document seen by Die Welt shows that federal investigators (BKA) fear that Muslim fundamentalists in Germany might copy last week's attacks in Paris. READ

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Photo: DPA

Schäuble gets his balanced budget early

The government managed to balance its books for the first time since 1969 in 2014, a year ahead of target, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. READ

The front line of the Pegida march in Dresden on Monday. Photo: DPA

Inside Dresden's 25,000-strong Pegida march

Despite efforts by counter demonstrators on Monday night, Pegida completed its 12th march around Dresden, attracting its largest crowd to date in the wake of last week's Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. READ

Finger on lips photo

Survey shows when Germans lie most

A new survey shows that 34 percent of Germans have lied during phone conversations, but slightly more than half said they could not remember telling a lie. READ

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Features

This week in history

The original "Man Machine" from Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis Photo: DPA

Metropolis: Grandfather of Sci-Fi Films

Fascinating everyone from Adolf Hitler to Whitney Houston, with themes of social injustice and a voluptuous robot-temptress, the German science-fiction movie Metropolis carved an extraordinary niche in film history after its release on January 10th, 1927. READ 2 comments

German footballers' girlfriends were a sure-fire hit in 2014. Photo: DPA

Your top stories of 2014

Germany has had a busy year of news and we've loved bringing it to our Local readers. We checked our stats and picked out stories that most people enjoyed reading in 2014. READ

Fall of the Wall - 25 years

A mural of Schumann's and Meixner's escapes from East Berlin at the East Side Gallery. Photo: Nick Allen

Escaping of the 5,000 from East Berlin

They swam, crawled through sewers, flew in balloons, dug tunnels and rammed through the Berlin Wall. The courage and ingenuity of the 5,000 East German escapees later inspired novels, movies and one of the world’s longest tunnels. READ 5 comments

Opinion

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'What next? A tourist tax on pavements?'

A road toll targeted at foreign drivers is a rare backward step for Germany. Anti-European, anti-open borders, anti-tourism; it is a terrible way to fill the black hole in the infrastructure budget, argues Tom Bristow. READ 21 comments

Fall of the Wall - 25 years

Ringing the bell to cross the Wall. Photo: Hendrik Pastor

Berlin Wall? Ring the bell and come through

More than 150 kilometres of concrete, wire and guard towers ringed West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. But it’s not easy to carve up a city - and construction of the Wall threw up many freak instances. READ 5 comments

More News

Sergei Lavrov, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Pavlo Klimkin and Laurent Fabius

Talks fail to set Ukraine peace summit date

The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France ended a meeting Monday without being able to set a date for a hoped-for peace summit on ending the Ukrainian conflict. READ

Merkel and Davutoglu shake hands in Berlin. Photo: DPA

'Islam belongs to Germany': Merkel

Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized her support for the Muslim community in Germany and opposition to Turkey's EU application after meeting with the Turkish prime minister. READ

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Germans rediscover love affair with beer

After years of a downward trend in beer-drinking, Germany saw a bump in beer consumption in 2014, thanks to the World Cup and a warmer winter. READ

U-Bahn passengers in Hamburg on Sunday. Photo: DPA

Germans strip off for 'No Pants Subway Ride'

U-Bahn travelers from Munich to Berlin dropped trou on Sunday and joined in on a global pantless subway ride. READ

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: DPA

Israelis and Palestinians both love Germany

A study released on Monday shows that most Israelis and half of Palestinians have a positive view of Germany, while Palestinians wanted a closer relationship with Germans. READ

Justice Minister Heiko Maas. Photo: DPA

Minister wants to get tough on terrorists

Justice Minister Heiko Maas said he will introduce a plan this month to take "tougher action" against terrorists, while civil rights activists warned against a knee-jerk response to the Paris attacks. READ

Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen meeting female Peshmerge soldiers in Erbil. Photo: DPA

Iraqi Kurds may get more German weapons

Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that Germany may send more weapons to Kurds fighting Isis in Iraq during a visit to the country. READ

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Organ donor found not quite brain dead

The German Medical Association is investigating an incident where surgeons began to operate on a north German man who was not completely brain dead. READ

A cartoon by French caricaturist Frederic Deligne. Via: DPA

French caricaturists target Pegida marchers

French cartoonists distributed a flyer in Dresden on Sunday criticizing anti-Islam demonstrators' use of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris to try and boost their support. READ

'Je suis Charlie' is projected onto the French Embassy at Pariser Platz in Berlin on Sunday. Photo: Jörg Carstensen/DPA

Huge crowd mourns Hebdo victims in Berlin

About 18,000 people joined a vigil in central Berlin mourning victims of the Islamist attacks in Paris, local police told AFP. READ

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Sabina (L) and Samra (R), different teen girls who went missing in April. Photo: APA/Interpol

Teen girls arrested for Isis 'wife offer'

Two more teenage girls, this time from Salzburg and Upper Austria, were arrested in their homes on Saturday after attempting to join the terrorist group Isis. READ

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Madonna leaves her mark on Swiss holiday

Pop star Madonna made her mark in more ways than one during her recent holiday stay in the Swiss Alps. READ

Broadcaster DR spent six months inside the controversial Aarhus mosque. Photo: DR1

Danish mosque doubles down on Isis support

In a newly-aired documentary, leaders of the Grimhøj Mosque said that they want to see Isis win, that a Danish suicide bomber is a hero and that they do not believe in democracy. READ

The Kouachi brothers, Cherif (left) and Said, who are wanted for the killings at Charlie Hebdo's offices on Wednesday. Photo: French Police

Spain tightens security after Paris attack

UPDATED: Spain upgraded its anti-terrorist security level a notch on Wednesday, hours after an attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead. READ

Paris Terror Attacks

Hostages are rushed away from the scene of the Kosher store in the east of Paris. Four died in the siege. Photo: AFP

RECAP: Gunmen 'coordinated' attacks

Counter-terrorist police in France stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Friday, killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo massacre and an accomplice who took hostages at a Jewish supermarket in Paris, in two separate sieges. READ

The construction of new mosques has been banned in Padua. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

New mosque ban in Padua after Paris attacks

The mayor of Padua has said that no more permits will be granted for the construction of mosques in the northern Italian city in the wake of the shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine, in Paris on Wednesday. READ