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Famous drag queen with a bright orange bouffant poses with Angela Merkel at ceremony to choose Germany's new president

13/02/17 03:53

A 6ft 5in drag queen with a shock of bright orange hair stole the show at the ceremony to choose Germany's new president in Berlin. Olivia Jones, real name Oliver Knobel, posed for photos with Chancellor Angela Merkel and brought a touch of glamour to the occasion. The 47-year-old was invited to be among the 1,260 voting delegates by the Green Party. They chose the Social Democrats' Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 61, who described President Donald Trump as a 'hate preacher' during last year's US election, as the new president in Germany. ...read

12/02/17 15:51

Hamburg airport was on lockdown after the entire building was evacuated amid fears of a chemical leak that caused 68 people to suffer breathing problems and burning eyes in Germany.

12/02/17 10:21

More than four decades on from its beginning, Geoffrey Rush, 65, has been honoured for his contribution to cinema and his incredibly successful career at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.

11/02/17 17:34

The German central bank said it brought 111 tons of gold back from the Federal Reserve in New York last year, concluding in September - the last of 300 tons slated for return.

10/02/17 16:13

The Dutch Queen was the picture of refinement in a knee-length leather skirt with co-ordinating gloves, clutch bag and heels as she visited the Bauhaus Dessau with husband King Willem-Alexander.

10/02/17 15:49

Suki Waterhouse looked undeniably chic as she stepped out alongside Lottie Moss at the Bulgari event at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on Thursday.

10/02/17 15:35

The 20 and 22-year-olds from Afghanistan are said to have trapped the two girls, 13 and 15, in a slide at a pool in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in order to molest them.

10/02/17 14:20

Authorities in Germany have warned that biohackers running DNA experiments from homemade labs could face fines of up to €50,000 (£42,600 or ) or three years in prison.

10/02/17 13:37

The Pakistan International Airlines light from Islamabad was diverted after the woman fell ill on the Boeing 777-340 and a medical crash team was waiting for flight PK791 at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport.

10/02/17 12:43

The poem about Tayyip Erdogan, recited on television by German comic Jan Boehmermann, caused a diplomatic spat between Germany and Turkey and tested the limits of artistic freedom.

10/02/17 12:40

Residents in the storybook town of Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse are serenaded daily by the town hall glockenspiel, which rings out a repertoire of traditional songs.

10/02/17 00:09

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who hopes to be re-elected in September, is set to discuss a series of measures with leaders of Germany's 16 state governments.

09/02/17 16:39

Police have foiled a plot to launch a terror attack on European soil after they arrested six suspected Islamists and seized two dozen suicide belts in raids in both Turkey and Germany.

09/02/17 14:54

Dutch Queen Maxima and her husband King Willem-Alexander visited the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig as the near the end of their four day state visit to Germany.

08/02/17 20:11

The Dutch royals, who are on day two of a four-day tour of Germany, visited the Buchenwald memorial on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp.

08/02/17 20:06

The 23-year-old Eritrean-born migrant is suspected of groping the women on a suburban S-Bahn German train line between Munich and Herrsching on January 29.

08/02/17 12:35

Carsten Kengeter is being investigated by Frankfurt prosecutors over £3.8million of shares he bought days before his company launched formal tie-up talks with the LSE.

08/02/17 10:04

The two men, aged 23 and 34, are said to have molested the group of girls by touching them sexually under the water at a pool in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

08/02/17 09:15

The vast majority of left-wing protesters arrested on suspicion of politically-fuelled offences in Berlin are young men who live with their parents, a new report found.

08/02/17 09:03

German police have provoked outrage by advising local authorities not to organise refugee trips to carnival celebrations because of the risk of 'undesirable interactions' with locals.

07/02/17 23:37

They are currently promoting the much anticipated sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey.

07/02/17 14:49

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Tatjana Festerling, 51, the second-in-command of the anti-Islam group Pegida, said ‘political correctness’ was putting women and gay men at risk of assault.

06/02/17 20:53

Support for Angela Merkel shrank to just 4 percentage points, an opinion poll showed on Sunday - her lowest lead in almost three and a half years.

06/02/17 16:14

The 468ft-long vessel, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, was an impressive sight to behold as it sailed into the German Naval Yard in Kiel, north of Hamburg.

03/02/17 23:29

Kris Smith's 'elephant donger', Ash Pollard's flirting and Kate Fischer's bra made I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! essential TV viewing - but it's still nothing compared to the German verison

03/02/17 19:45

German politician, June Tomiak, 19, has backed the unnamed officer by saying it was a positive move as porn 'makes people more tolerant' and that the 11-minute encourages safe sex.

03/02/17 19:16

A German website called Migrant Fright was discreetly selling 'first-class quality goods' so that its customers can avoid 'annoying bureaucratic hurdles or annoying paperwork'.

03/02/17 19:11

The Romanian man, 21, was held at Frankfurt airport in western Germany, before officers seized written notes and electronic storage devices from his home.

03/02/17 17:56

Operators at Miniatur Wunderland, one of Hamburg's most popular tourist attractions, said the move was in protest over 'ideological walls' between countries.

03/02/17 04:38

Deutsche Boerse’s boss Carsten Kengeter – the driving force behind the takeover bid – is being probed over his purchase of the shares in his company days before the deal was announced.

03/02/17 02:09

Georgia May Jagger, 25, joined her furry friend Grumpy Cat this week at a party in Germany to celebrate the launch of a calendar in which they both star.

03/02/17 01:55

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for using the expression 'Islamist terrorism', saying the phrase saddened Muslims.

03/02/17 00:17

The publication, called MC1R , is the first of its type in the world. It is named after Melanocortin 1 Receptor - one of the key proteins in regulating pigment production which lead to red hair.

02/02/17 22:33

The supermodel, 43, opted for a daring look as she continued filming for the upcoming series of Germany's Next Top Model in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday.

02/02/17 21:17

A man has allegedly driven his car into crowds in Munich after kidnapping two young children. At least two people are believed to have been be injured during the incident.

01/02/17 14:59

Before the conflict he was a student at Oxford - and was in such a hurry to get back to his homeland he left an unpaid bill for 9s 10d for a pair of shoes.

01/02/17 12:43

The woman is seen trying to walk past the dog and his handler at Nuremberg Central Station, Germany, when the dog jumps up at her and causes her to fall. She was quickly helped back up by another officer.

01/02/17 10:20

The 36-year-old Tunisian was detained in Frankfurt in Germany's Hesse state after anti-terror units targeted 54 properties.

01/02/17 09:53

Peter Navarro, who heads Trump's new National Trade Council, described the single currency as an 'implicit Deutsche Mark' that gave Germany a competitive advantage over its trade partners.

31/01/17 23:43

The German woman, who has not been named, heard a mysterious drilling noise on the upper floor of her home and called police in Bremen thinking someone was trying to break in.

31/01/17 20:18

The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia on behalf of the husband and son of Yvonne Selke, who was killed along with her daughter, Emily.

31/01/17 20:05

Under the ruse, clients illegally moved the money out of Russia via shares bought and sold through the bank's Moscow, London and New York offices.

31/01/17 18:12

The abuse has been described as 'common practice' at the elite base in the southwestern town of Pfullendorf, and seven soldiers have been dismissed, with more under investigation.

31/01/17 16:45

The incident happened in the town of Arnstein in the southern state of Bavaria and officials in Wuerzburg, Bavaria, are still working to determine the source of the gas and what caused it to leak.

31/01/17 15:00

Bright student Maksym M, 18, claims he was booted out of Blindow School in the Eastern German city of Leipzig because his social studies teacher mistook his raised hand for a Hitler salute.

31/01/17 09:39

She became a household name on Baywatch and has remained in the spotlight ever since.

30/01/17 12:24

Six teenagers - one woman and five men all aged 18 or 19 - were found dead Sunday after holding a party in a garden shed. It is believed they died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

30/01/17 00:17

Headquarters to the Nazis and then the Soviets, the East German military camp of Wünsdorf was once home to 75,000 Soviet men, women and children. Now 'Little Moscow' lies abandoned.

28/01/17 10:48

Germany yesterday paved the way for a trade war in the aftermath of Brexit by demanding the EU quickly wraps up a dozen deals around the world amid fears the US and Britain would leave them behind.

27/01/17 16:58

The 43-year-old star was a walking how-to dress cool in the cool as she stepped out in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday.

27/01/17 16:33

The German Federal Statistics office confirmed that as a preliminary estimate for 2016, the population grew by 600,000 alone last year due to the number of migrants arriving.

27/01/17 14:17

Hollande had met with German chancellor Angela Merkel for talks in Berlin where they discussed the EU facing growing internal problems as well as fears over the US abandoning free trade with the bloc.

27/01/17 10:27

The self-proclaimed Jew - and immigrant-hating 62-year-old identified only as Burghard B - was one of two people arrested in raids on properties in six different federal states in Germany.

26/01/17 16:59

The 43-year-old gave a male and female model pointers as they rolled around in a moving bed down Hollywood's famed street on Wednesday.

26/01/17 12:35

The teenage extremist, identified only as Safia S. under German privacy regulations, launched the attack on the policewoman in Hanover's main train station last February.

25/01/17 20:34

Queen Maxima, 45, opted for a sharply-tailored, blue and brown striped dress as she gave a speech to ministers at the G20 finance conference at the Biebrich Palace in Wiesbaden, Germany.

25/01/17 18:03

About 200 officers searched a dozen homes in dawn raids in six states today, the chief prosecutor's office said, as part of an investigation into a far-right extremist group.

23/01/17 01:08

Lindsey Vonn discovered how far she has to go to regain her dominance in super-G as she returns from two major injuries. Defending overall World Cup champion Lara Gut remains the skier to beat.

21/01/17 16:31

Le Pen told several hundred supporters in the German city of Koblenz that Britons' vote last year to leave the European Union would set in train a 'domino effect' and that Europe would 'wake up'.

21/01/17 14:15

Hiring a sex worker in Germany is now cheaper after ministers cut VAT on hotel rooms. This follows new legislation that was passed to protect prostitutes from being forced to have sex.

20/01/17 13:47

Prosecutors have demanded six years in jail for an ISIS-obsessed Muslim schoolgirl who slit the throat of a German policewoman when she was stopped in a routine check.

19/01/17 22:44

During the Cold War the West attempted an audacious project: a vast underground tunnel beneath the divided German city of Berlin that could be used to spy on the occupying Soviets.

19/01/17 21:43

Artist Shahak Shapira has called his page Yolocaust, combining the words Holocaust and the hashtag shorthand for 'you only live once' to highlight the inappropriateness of some people's posed pictures.

19/01/17 16:01

Only a quarter of Americans want the full body and face veil outlawed, according to international research carried out by Britain-based YouGov.

19/01/17 15:22

The annual ranking, which is based on the number of visa-free and visa on arrival destinations a passport allows its holder into, also listed Swedish and Singaporean passports highly.

19/01/17 14:37

This enormous bucket wheel excavator (pictured) - nicknamed the 'Blue Miracle' and built in Germany - is believed to be the biggest abandoned machine in the world.

18/01/17 22:47

A German inventor has created rape-proof knickers (pictured) in the wake of a spate of sex attacks.

18/01/17 17:00

The man died in his lover's arms after the shooting, and his girlfriend (pictured) needed emergency surgery after being hit with the same bullet in the German state of Brandenburg.

18/01/17 10:19

If the migrant's words are mistranslated during their asylum hearing in Germany it can make their conversion look fabricated and therefore their claim seem falsified, meaning they are deported.

17/01/17 20:57

Taken in eastern Germany by photographer Patrick Pleul, the shapes of trees are clearly shown on the ground, but not in the colour you would expect.

17/01/17 17:06

Georgiy Borzov sent the picture of his wife Anna to their daughter Valeriya, 22, as the couple were drinking mulled wine at the yuletide gathering in the German capital.

17/01/17 13:58

The abused animal was saved along with 49 others at a home in Vlotho, a town halfway between Osnabrueck and Hanover in north-western Germany.

16/01/17 04:46

The Tunisian-born terrorist was arrested several times for drug offences in his hometown as a child and had been dealing narcotics to fund himself as he plotted the massacre on behalf of ISIS.

15/01/17 20:10

Former CIA's Bob Baer and US special forces' Tim Kennedy (right) investigate claims the German Fuhrer escaped from his bunker (bottom right) to Argentina in The History Channel's Hunting Hitler.

15/01/17 11:16

The Eurowings jet was two hours into its journey from Salalah, Oman to Cologne, Germany flying over Iran when the pilot received the bomb threat and diverted safely to Kuwait. (file photograph)

14/01/17 15:41

Volkswagen’s agreement to plead guilty and pay fines of $4.3billion over the dieselgate scandal in America will strengthen the case of thousands of UK motorists seeking redress in Britain.

13/01/17 19:04

An extraordinary image has captured a drowned fox encased in blocks of ice in Baden-Württemberg, Germany after it fell into a river during freezing temperatures.

13/01/17 13:11

This is the moment a female shepherd was trampled by her herd of sheep somewhere in Germany before a particularly large one rammed her over as she was standing up.

13/01/17 11:31

A yet to be named polar bear cub, born in Berlin's Tierpark Zoo, underwent its first medical check and looked content even appearing to give a wave to the cameras.

12/01/17 11:07

Berlin's interior minister Andrea Geisel ([pictured) said Berlin is looking into the legal possibilities of the exemption after nearby Brandenburg opted for the scheme which offers protection to witnesses.

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