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At least six people have been murdered and many more injured in a gun rampage at a Jehovah's Witness church in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday night. Police said that they started to receive emergency calls shortly after 9.15pm (10.15pm GMT), alerting them to shots in the Alsterdorf …

German police stormed into a pharmacy and arrested a suspect after the person took two people hostage and demanded over a million euros to free them. Multiple officers wearing tactical gear stormed into a building in the southern city centre of Karlsruhe near the French border late on Friday, according …

A former Jehovah’s Witness and self-styled business coach has been confirmed as the gunman behind a shooting at a Hamburg church on Thursday that left six people dead and many more injured. German authorities have identified the man who stormed a Kingdom’s Hall belonging to the religious group as Phillip …

Few bands have captured the political despair of the last decade as singularly as Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods. Their 2007 breakthrough Austerity Dogs was a bleak tableau of life below the poverty line, while 2011’s Eton Alive questioned the lack of empathy of those in power. Lockdown smash Spare Ribs …

My article for The Telegraph on my experience with the NHS.

A German study has shown for the first time that children’s intelligence levels dropped when schools were shut down during the pandemic. The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Trier, compared IQ scores carried out during the autumn of 2020 with testing done in 2002 and 2012. The …

Russian hackers from the notorious Double Spider group were behind a massive cyber attack that crippled the NHS in 2017, Germany revealed on Monday. After a three-year investigation, authorities in Germany and Ukraine swooped on properties linked to the group, which is believed to be responsible for hundreds of 'ransomware' …

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder has survived a last-ditch bid by his party to have him kicked out over his close ties to the Kremlin. A court of arbitration for Mr Schröder's Social Democrats ruled that there was not "sufficient certainty" that he had violated party rules or brought the …

A Norwegian pensioner has decided to protest the invasion of Ukraine by blasting the sound of an air raid siren through the bedroom windows of Russian diplomats. Kjetil Krane, a 73-year-old resident of Oslo, carried out his unusual protest on the night of February 24 to mark the anniversary of …

Norwegian police have briefly detained climate activist Greta Thunberg after she joined in a protest against the country's largest onshore wind farm. The founder of the Fridays for Future climate movement was carried away from the entrance to the finance ministry in Oslo on Tuesday, where she was protesting in …

Mr Onay, who is also a member of the German Green Party, conceded that he had met the group for talks after their repeated blockades of the city’s streets had led to “extreme polarisation” among locals. He denied that he had caved in to blackmail, saying that he shared Letzte …

When Germany’s military wanted to show off the Leopard 2 in 1986, it turned to the traditional jug of beer. With a full stein perched on the end of its gun barrel, the 60-tonne vehicle set off along a forest track, hurtling over the rough terrain without spilling a drop. …

Over nine days in late November, dozens of women were raped by rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many of the victims were gang-raped, others were raped in front of their children. In the three months since, they have not received adequate medical treatment, nor psychological support. The authorities …

Ukrainian soldiers on training in Germany say that they have “swapped Ladas for Mercedes” as they express their delight at finally getting the chance to use German-built tanks. On an army base on a rain-swept moor in northern Germany, Ukrainian soldiers have been given five weeks to master the complexities …

Hospitals have been pillaged, doctors imprisoned, and patients denied vital medical care by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, according to a landmark investigation which uncovers hundreds of potential war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin’s forces. Doctors have spent up to 24 hours a day manually resuscitating premature babies after the destruction …

Anna Pisliariuk is reading law at the University of Westminster and is the model of a hard-working student. She has reason to be so well motivated: she dreams of bringing the Russian war criminals who have terrorised her homeland to justice. It’s been almost a year since the then 18-year-old …

The West should follow the UK’s lead and “double down” on support to Ukraine, Rishi Sunak will say on Saturday. The Prime Minister will use his address at the Munich Security Conference to call on other nations to follow Britain’s example of solidarity through providing security reassurances and "advanced, Nato-standard …

The suspected double agent at the top of Germany’s spy service was tasked by Moscow with finding out the position of Western Himars rocket launchers in Ukraine, according to a report. Russia’s FSB spy service asked Carsten Linke last autumn via a courier to pass on precise information on the …

A Wagner mercenary was allegedly beaten to death with a sledgehammer after “defecting to Ukraine” in a video shared on social media. In the clip, Dmitry Yakushchenko identifies himself as one of the convicts freed as part of Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s recruitment drive in Russian prisons. “I was …

Mr Goecke, 49, is one of Germany's best-known choreographers and was last year awarded the German Dance Prize, the most prestigious award in the country's ballet scene. He appears to have taken umbrage at a withering review of his most recent work, which had been published earlier that day. In …

Germany's conservative CDU is set to take control of Berlin for the first time in twenty years, exit polls show, after campaigning on a pledge to make Europe's party capital "work" again. According to early results, the CDU won 28 per cent of the vote compared to 18 per cent …

Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief has admitted. Karl Lauterbach, who became the face of the pro-lockdown movement, said some regulations went too far. “Much of what we did was right, but what was idiocy was the things like jogging …

Olaf Scholz warned Germany would not be drawn into “public bidding war” over military support for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. The pair dined with France’s Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday evening before travelling to Brussels on Thursday, where Mr Zelensky will …

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, and his foreign minister are barely on speaking terms after she “went behind his back” to urge allies to bounce him into supplying tanks to Ukraine, according to reports. Annalena Baerbock twice made discreet efforts to get allies including the UK to push Mr Scholz …

The alleged Russian spy at the centre of the biggest European intelligence scandal in decades can today be identified as volunteer football coach Carsten Linke. The Telegraph can reveal that Mr Linke, a 52-year-old father of two, is the alleged double agent in Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND) arrested for …

Germany’s climate movement has been ridiculed for defending two members who flew to Bali instead of turning up in court. On Monday Yannick and Luisa S, activists from the Letzte Generation group, skipped trial at a Stuttgart court, where they were accused of duress over participating in a road blockade …