Brandenburg is a longstanding stronghold for the party. But it is located in Germany’s relatively impoverished east, where ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of human history, scientists have successfully decoded the oldest DNA ever ...

It’s the sort of discovery that every historian dreams of. An unknown piece of music by Mozart has been found in the east ...

RB Leipzig lost 2-1 late on away to Atletico Madrid despite Benjamin ... The defender could do little after a dreadful pass ...

The Flugplatz Brandis Waldpolenz, near Leipzig, Germany - served as one of the most important Luftwaffe testing sites during the Nazi era.

To stop far-right populism, the federal government is pushing regional democracy-promotion programs.

When RB Leipzig sold Dani Olmo to Barcelona this summer, it was seen as confirmation the club's philosophy is working.

Trying to bring to life a regional partnership in Central Asia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit was motivated by geopolitics ...

White clouds still billow from the cooling towers of a coal plant near Spremberg in Germany's ex-communist east but the end ...

Coming 85 years to the day after Germany’s invasion of Poland, marking the start of World War II and the unspeakable horrors ...

From the Factory Eleven to the Unpromotables, German clubs have an interesting mix of nicknames - but where do they come from ...

Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have already won the most votes in regional elections this month in the eastern state of Thuringia. Now Germany’s bracing for a further political shockwave, as ...