In the run up to Germany's legislative elections Chancellor Angela Merkel's party seem to have given up on political persuasion and instead resorted to sex. This latest poster, revealing ample cleavage, reads: "We have more to offer". Read more...

A shocking incident in which an Egyptian woman was stabbed to death in a German courtroom has provoked outrage in her home country. The young mother, pregnant with her second child, was killed by the very man she was bearing witness against, himself in court for making Islamophobic insults. Read more...

While the streets of Strasbourg are deserted, cordoned off by police forces, a village just outside the city is packed and buzzing with energy. The anti-NATO camp has set up shop in a nearby village and strictly prohibited journalists from getting a look-in. Our Observer, however, is in the camp, and here are her photos...

One of the activists who's preparing to cause havoc at NATO's 60^th birthday celebrations on April 3 and 4 tells us how her group, "Dissent", is going about it. For the sixty heads of state taking part in the summit, the opposition doesn't look pretty. Read more...

The shooting broke out at 9:30 this morning in a school in Winnenden, a small town north of Stuttgart. The incident reached newsrooms at 10:30am. Just under an hour later, a resident from the town was giving her account live on FRANCE 24. So how did we find her? Thanks to Twitter. Read more...

 

When an ethnic Turk was elected leader of the Green Party in Germany on Saturday, the international press immediately christened him "The German Obama". But a German with Turkish parents tells us, "I hadn't even thought about comparing them". Read more...

Is the German team a bunch of nags, or a group of subtle tacticians? Read more...

Germany qualified for the semi-finals, beating Portugal 3-2. Rainer Bonhof, former national player, shares his point of view about the role of Mannschaft's captain Michael Ballack, the failure of striker Gomez and the poor referee decisions made in this tournament. Read more...