Germany won't stand in the way if Poland wants to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Berlin's foreign minister says, in a possible breakthrough for Kyiv, which wants the tanks for its fight against Russia's invasion.
A 29-year-old man has driven into a crowd of people in Berlin, killing a teacher and injuring 14 of her students, as his car twice veered onto a pavement in a popular shopping district, officials say.
Germany's centre-left Social Democrats are locked in a very close race with outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc in the country's parliamentary election, exit polls show.
German police have arrested a British man who worked at the British embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to the Russian intelligence service in exchange for cash, prosecutors say.
One person is dead and four are missing after an explosion rocked an industrial park in the western German city of Leverkusen, sending dark plumes of smoke into the sky.
Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person and adding to the flooding devastation that has claimed the lives of more than 180 people in Europe in recent days.
Rescue workers have searched flood-ravaged parts of western Germany for survivors as water levels remained high in many towns and houses continued to collapse in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century.
