Berlin  - Rolling strikes hit the German automotive industry Wednesday as the powerful IG Metall trade union called members off the job in support of demands for early retirement packages.

Berlin  - Support for Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) fell to a record low, in an opinion poll published Wednesday, as the number of voters saying they would vote for the nation's hardline

Frankfurt  - Anselm Kiefer, 63, the contemporary German artist, was named Wednesday as 2008 winner of a top award that honours writing for peace, the German Book Trade Peace Prize.

Berlin  - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev arrives in Berlin Thursday on his first foreign visit in Europe since taking office last month with a key German official saying he should be taken at hi

Berlin  - Germany was cleaning up Wednesday after yet another nig

Munich  - Car accidents can happen all over the place but according to a new survey in Germany, a large number of them occur on the way to work.