CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics weighs 506 grams, or just over 1.1 pounds. It's a fairly heavy necklace. Sorry, Max Langenhan. The additional neck pain might be worth it.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives are considering barring children under the age of 16 from social media, although there were signs of reluctance from his centre-left coalition partners to an outright ban.

Footy Headlines has recently leaked Germany’s World Cup pre-match shirt and the first design has been getting a controversial reaction so far. Adidas is opting for a bold and busy shirt, with layers upon layers of black, red, and yellow.

German authorities have detained five men accused of being part of a network that illegally exported goods to Russian defense companies after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Germany's Max Langenhan, who feared he would have to withdraw from singles competition because of serious neck pain, won Olympic gold in men's luge.

By Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh BERLIN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Germany's government wants to give its spy agencies broader powers to confront rising hybrid threats, a sensitive step in a country where intelligence operations remain tightly constrained by post-war limits designed to prevent a repeat of Nazi abuses.

The German government has trimmed its 2026 forecast for the country’s economy, Europe’s biggest, as growth picks up more slowly than previously hoped.

Germany's women have utterly dominated the luge competition since it joined the Olympics in 1964 but one name – Julia Taubitz – is a glaring omission from the honours board and it is a situation she looks ready to rectify in Cortina.