With one million dollar buy-in, the BIG ONE for ONE DROP is the highest buy-in poker tournament that has ever been set up in the history of poker. Tobias Reinkemeier and Philipp Gruissem dared to venture into this extraordinary event.
Police have discovered a child's body on the North Sea island of Amrum - in the same playground where a missing ten-year-old, identified only as Sebastian, was last seen on Sunday evening.
Former Bayern Munich player Breno Borges was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for setting light to his rented villa last autumn. His psychiatric problems did not mitigate the crime, the court found.
The newly-elected government in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is reportedly considering a quality control test for illegal substances, a local paper said on Monday.
A Swedish group that claims to have dropped hundreds of 'pro free-speech' teddy bears over a Belarusian town early this morning has released a video that they say shows their stunt taking place. But no teddy bears have been found on the ground.
Police and justice officials are deliberately pushing for tougher sentences for foreign criminals in an attempt to convince mainly Eastern European crime gangs of the folly of breaking the law in Norway.
A car carrying former first lady, Bernadette Chirac, ran over a deer near her home in Corrèze, central France, last night.
Swedish online music company Spotify will now see further competition on the home front after Rdio, a similar music streaming service, was launched in Sweden and Finland on Wednesday.
A judge has thrown out a case of a 9-year-old boy insulting two of his teachers and kicking one of them, just the day before he was to have his hearing.
Five people were left dead after a hostage-taking during a home eviction in southwestern Germany Wednesday, including the presumed gunman, police said.
Egyptian national Ahmed Agiza, who was flown out of Sweden to Egypt by the CIA in 2001 where he was imprisoned until 2011, has been granted permanent residency in Sweden.
Thousands of people from around the world are buying up plots of Scottish land - becoming Lairds, Lords and Ladies in the process – all thanks to a gift offering that promotes conservation and allows people to strengthen their ties with Scotland in a unique and novel way.
Pimp, gangster, docu-soap star and now jailbird. Bert Wollersheim, the Dusseldorf “Red Light King” is in police custody accused of drugging, blackmailing and stealing over €100,000 from punters at his brothels.
A man from southern Sweden is suspected of handcuffing and kidnapping a teenage girl he met on an internet chat room and taking her to Malmö late Tuesday night.
Thousands of people from around the world are buying up plots of Scottish land - becoming Lairds, Lords and Ladies in the process – all thanks to a gift offering that promotes conservation and allows people to strengthen their ties with Scotland in a unique and novel way.
Thousands of people from around the world are buying up plots of Scottish land - becoming Lairds, Lords and Ladies in the process – all thanks to a gift offering that promotes conservation and allows people to strengthen their ties with Scotland in a unique and novel way.
Norwegian aid worker Astrid Sehl has spoken about how she feared for her life after she and three colleagues were abducted from a refugee camp in Kenya.
The German cabinet is due to put forward a new bill on Wednesday allowing unmarried fathers the right to gain joint custody of their children - even against the mother's wishes.
In his latest dispatch from Almedalen, correspondent and commentator David Linden looks at why Sweden's Green Party resorted to having a well-known Swedish weatherman to take the stage.
A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for posing as a girl in internet chat-rooms, luring two girls to meet him and then sexually abusing them.
Thousands of people from around the world are buying up plots of Scottish land - becoming Lairds, Lords and Ladies in the process – all thanks to a gift offering that promotes conservation and allows people to strengthen their ties with Scotland in a unique and novel way.
A 56-year-old Scot was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison for stealing a diamond from the Baselworld watch and jewellery show.
The five members of a German climbing party who fell to their deaths probably slipped on ice hidden by fresh snow, said the mountain guide who spoke to them before their ascent of Switzerland's Lagginhorn summit.
An alleged tax dodging scheme by Mircosoft’s French subsidiary has been revealed following an inspection at the end of June, at which the head of the tax office and 37 judiciary police were present.
Introducing... is The Local's guide to Swedish celebrity. In this instalment Rebecca Martin finds out more about Ernst Kirchsteiger - the softly spoken interior decorator-cum-philosopher who annually invades TV screens all over Sweden.
A Tunisian administrator of a French website was in custody Wednesday after being charged in connection with financing and recruiting for Al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups, prosecutors said.
An extraordinary invasion of voles has caused extensive damage to farmlands in the Jura, damaging crops and testing the patience of local farmers.
French hopes of seeing another heroic Tour de France performance from Thomas Voeckler appear slim this year after he complained of further knee injury misery.
Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, has left the country's benchmark interest rate, the repo rate, unchanged at 1.50 percent, but warned that the Swedish economic growth remains sluggish.
Five German tourists, including a 14-year-old girl, have fallen to their deaths while walking in the Swiss Alps, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. A member of the group survived, watching the accident from below.
The French military officially handed over control of the key Afghan province of Kapisa to local forces on Wednesday.
France's new left-wing government under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday won a vote of confidence in the National Assembly.
A 42-year-old woman and her one-year-old daughter were found dead on Tuesday evening after the fishing boat they were travelling in capsized in a fjord in northern Norway.
After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a new sub-atomic particle consistent with the Higgs boson which is believed to confer mass.
A man who attempted to rape a woman has been cleared of the charges by a Swedish court after it turned out that the woman he tried to rape was biologically a man.
Swiss bank clients who live outside the country lodged more complaints in 2011 than before, according to a report released on Tuesday, with higher bank charges the main bugbear.
After an 8-year-old girl dropped a message in a bottle into the Baltic Sea, she was stunned to receive a reply from foreign shores within two months.
The conditions are in place for the German economy, Europe's biggest, to recover this year - and lead the eurozone back to growth - unless the crisis intensifies further, the IMF said on Tuesday.
The number of Swedish children under six taking prescription medications to treat symptoms of ADHD has tripled in the past five years, according to new statistics.
Germany's 15-year wait to see two men in a Grand Slam quarter-final was ended by Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber at Wimbledon on Tuesday, an embarrassing turn of events for their country's Olympic chiefs.
Germany pledged root-and-branch reform of its security services on Tuesday after the domestic intelligence chief resigned over a botched probe of serial killings now blamed on neo-Nazis.
Hundreds of pro-free speech teddy bears carried in a plane piloted by Swedes parachuted down on the Belarusian capital of Minsk early Wednesday morning in a show of support for the country's pro-democracy movement, according to a Swedish PR agency behind the stunt.
