A Syrian national was arrested on Tuesday evening in the German city of Nuremberg for attacking several police officers with a broken glass bottle outside the city’s main train station while repeatedly shouting “Allahu akbar.” Police were dispatched to Nuremberg Central Station shortly before 6:30 p.m. after receiving reports of a man harassing members of the public while in possession of a... 

A knife attack occurred on Saturday morning on a train line connecting Regensburg and Nuremberg. It left three people injured, one of them seriously, according to local media. The perpetrator was apprehended and identified as a 27-year-old man of Arab origin with a record of mental illness, the tabloid Bild reported. The attack happened around 9:30am local time, the newspaper said. The Intercity Express... 

In German-speaking parts of Europe, the so-called ‘Christ Child’ takes Santa’s place as the children’s gift-giver, and for the next two years, the world-famous Christmas Market in Nuremberg will be opened by a mixed race Indian girl: Nuremberg authorities have thrown their weight behind the 17-year-old girl who was criticised by local right-wing politicians for her newly-assumed role as the... 

Germany was the scene of at least six stabbings and a gang rape in the span of a single weekend, according to local media and police. Stabbings in the cities of Frankfurt, Cologne, Lingen, Nuremberg, and Mühlheim sent at least five victims to the hospital, with one more discovered dead at the scene, and a gang rape is being investigated in Viersen. In Frankfurt, the body of a woman was discovered... 

The largest NATO airborne drills in Europe since the end of the Cold War aim to reassure allies against external aggression threat, American generals said, adding that paratroopers landing in Germany are acting in a “purely defensive” manner. Parachutists of the US-based 82nd Airborne Division began a NATO exercise in Hohenfels near Nuremberg on Wednesday, where joint multinational training command... 

The Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has spoken out against Iceland’s entry to the European Union, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Saturday. “The EU cannot play saviour to Iceland’s economic crisis,” said Markus Ferber, head of the CSU’s members of the European parliament, after the Icelandic parliament voted on Thursday to apply...