From inflation dropping to under two percent to supermarket Edeka’s advert against the AfD ahead of elections and the ‘sugar bag’ loved by German schoolchildren, here’s what we’re talking about this week.

A woman stabbed and wounded five people in a bus in western Germany on Friday, police said, one week after a deadly knife attack that shook the country.

Prices for long-haul flights have fallen by an average of two percent compared to 2023. But which German airport has the cheapest deals?

US citizens in Germany can hit the road and drive freely with their US licence for up to six months after their arrive. After that they need a German licence. But what it takes to do so varies widely from state to state.

Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel is known as a crime hotspot in Germany, but deputy head of Frankfurt City Council Gregor Amann believes it is slowly starting to improve – and that there are positives to be found in the area.

Germany said it carried out Friday the first deportation of Afghans back to their home country since Taliban authorities took power in August 2021, as Berlin faces pressure to crack down on migration.

A radical far-left politician who wants to make peace with Russia’s Vladimir Putin looks set to play a key role in regional elections in the former East Germany on Sunday.

Deportations of serious criminals from Afghanistan restart, wages rise for fifth time in a row, last day of Discover Airlines strike and more news from around Germany.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday the government would toughen knife controls and limit the support given to some illegal migrants following a suspected Islamist stabbing.

Germany is trying to deal with a severe worker shortage. Now a new plan is being drawn up to lure people approaching retirement to work longer.