The 30-year-old forward has handed the German champions a much-needed boost a week ahead of their top of the table clash with Union Berlin

“The process of translation is a rigorous delight. But the product? As a translator, you also always carry with you an anxious awareness of the ways in which you have fallen short. You have seen it, that, at least, you hope; but you have failed to carry it over.” - Tom Kuhn.

Going live from May 15 is The Myth Bridge, a live-action simulation game that “[brings] to life” and connects nine women characters from Bengali and German folklore. 

German police are scrambling to understand the motives of a man who drove a van into a crowd at an open-air restaurant, killing two people before shooting himself.

German international goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen ties his future to Barcelona by extending his contract with the Catalan giants to 2022.

Hoffenheim maintained their unbeaten record in the German Bundesliga this season after a 0-0 draw away to Eintracht Frankfurt in a spiky encounter at the Commerzbank Arena on Friday.

Two-goal Antoine Griezmann fire France into the Euro 2016 final.

A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found languishing in a shed in Essex.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top EU officials are due to visit the Turkish-Syrian border to promote a controversial month-old migrant deal.

German citizen Piotr Szczepan Mazurek, who was arrested in connection with the recent ATM scam, has revealed names of 50 individuals and institutions who have link with the crime. Police are working to verify the information.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed all set to regain control of Germany's polarising debate over refugees. In her New Year's Eve address...

A year ago today, the world celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A small part of that history is my personal history...

A Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, broke up in mid-air, a Russian official says.

German football idol Lothar Matthaus has thrown his weight behind Lionel Messi to win the 2015 Ballon d'Or, insisting that no-one else merits the award.

France suspends the country's honorary consul in the Turkish port of Bodrum after a television report showed dinghies being sold to migrants from a shop that she owned.

Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel says.

Two men in Poland claim they have found a legendary Nazi train that according to local lore was loaded with gold, gems and valuable art.

European warships and coast guard vessels rescue more than 2,000 migrants off the coast of Libya.

Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashes in a remote area of the French Alps. All 148 passengers and crew members are feared dead.

A German tourist has been killed in a rare shark attack off an Egyptian Red Sea resort