An Airbus A320 passenger aircraft has reportedly crashed in the southern French Alps with all 148 people on board feared dead. According to official reports, the plane, with 142 passengers and six crew on board, was traveling between the Spanish coastal city of Barcelona and the German city of Dusseldorf when it came down between Barcelonnette and Digne in southern France on Tuesday. Germanwings,... 

Up to 15,000 people have marched against “asylum cheats” in anti-Islamization rally in Dresden, Germany. The group’s protests are attracting bigger crowds every week since its first rally in October, which gathered just a few hundred people. Nationalist activists carried banners reading “Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers”, “Protect our homeland” and “Stop the Islamisation”. They... 

Panasonic has debuted a hybrid smartphone-camera sporting the largest imaging sensor yet to feature on a smartphone. The Photokina trade show in Cologne saw the company lifting the curtain off Lumix DMC-CM1, whose camera has been fitted with a 1 inch 20-megapixel sensor. Probably monopolizing the attention of mobile photographers so far has been Samsung’s Galaxy K Zoom, which the Panasonic device... 

At least six people have been killed and 30 others seriously wounded during storms that ravaged Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine Westphalia. According to German media reports, three people died when a tree landed on a garden shed in which they were seeking shelter in the state capital of Dusseldorf on Monday. Firefighters were able to rescue three more injured people, two severely... 

There was a time when the Turkish-led Ottoman Empire ruled over a large chunk of Europe. Now some believe the Turks want to bring back those old glory days. The Turkish government has embarked on a mosque-building campaign throughout Germany. One new Turkish mega-mosque, the Cologne Central Mosque, has Germans on edge. When construction on the facility is completed, it will be Germany’s largest... 

A German Rabbi has become the first person to face criminal charges after performing a circumcision. The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the religious act causes bodily harm to newborn babies. Rabbi David Goldberg was sued by a German doctor on Tuesday, for inflicting “physical harm” by circumcising an infant. Chief prosecutor Gerhard Schmitt confirmed that the... 

The Cologne Archbishop Joachim Meisner has withdrawn the license to teach from the gay author David Berger . The 77-year-old cardinal said on Thursday that Berger’s criticism of the church had destroyed his confidence in Berger. Berger made sharp criticisms of the Church in his book Der heilige Schein (Cathcon- double meaning- The Halo or The Holy Sham). The 43-year-old told of a “Catholic... 

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in German city of Cologne protesting against an anti-Islam rally and urging support to Muslims’ rights in the country. Two right-wing groups held the anti-Islam rally on Saturday to oppose the building of a large new mosque in the city. There were about 300 people at the right-wing rally, according to police. Following the anti-Islam rally, about 1600 left-wingers... 

Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode. The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne’s Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest....