It's probably the world's most famous folk festival: Munich's Oktoberfest. In 2024, 6.7 million people came as guests, nearly 20 percent of them from around the world. Beer, traditions, pretzels – ...

The Oktoberfest in Munich will remain closed today until at least 5 p.m. due to a bomb threat, mayor Dieter Reiter announced. The threat is connected to incidents that occurred in the north of Munich ...

Thousands of people in Germany are falling for fake messages about package deliveries. Reporting by BR and its international partners has found that a criminal network in Asia is behind the global ...

Munich is once again becoming the center of international diplomacy. The MSC, founded in 1963, is one of the world's most important forums for international security policy. Each year, decision-makers ...

The several-hour outage of Facebook and the like in early October was grist to the mill of conspiracy theorists: many saw it as a sign of the alleged imminent end of the world. But what is behind this ...