Thousands of beer lovers have descended on Munich for the start of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dieter Reiter ...

The entrances have opened to Munich's Oktoberfest, allowing visitors to take their places in the city's famous beer tents. This year's event saw extra security after a string of security incidents ...

Oktoberfest is open. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started Oktoberfest at noon when he inserted the tap into the first keg, ...

The tighter police security this year comes after a spate of extremist attacks, including a deadly knife rampage in the city ...

Security has tightened at Oktoberfest after a deadly knife attack last month in western Germany, and officials are warning ...

Following last month's knife attack in the city of Solingen, the Munich mayor assures the public that all measures will be ...

His birth was unknown, his death hidden.” So reads the headstone (translated from Latin) marking the grave of the enigmatic man known as Kaspar Hauser, who died in 1833. Nearly 200 years later, ...

Security has tightened at Oktoberfest in the wake of last month’s deadly knife attack in Solingen in western Germany, and ...

In Frankfurt an der Oder, an ironic sign reads, “Frankfurt Oder/Slubice – no borders.” Slubice is the Polish town across the ...

A study published last week by DeZIM, an institute that researches migration, found that almost a quarter of people with a ...

Germany has begun conducting random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as part of a broader effort to ...