Police have arrested a total of four people in connection with an alleged New Year’s Eve terrorist plot targeting Germany’s 800-year-old Cologne Cathedral using an explosives-packed vehicle. As ...

The Hotel Detective maintains a short list of top three-night cities, smaller cities, mostly in Europe, and so named because they can be taken in in that time. They share three qualities: easily ...

A man was arrested by German authorities on Sunday, bringing the total number of people detained in connection with an alleged attack on Cologne Cathedral to five. The detained suspects are believed ...

Fadel Alkhudr from Syria poses beside his wooden model of the word heritage Cologne Cathedral on display at the Domforum in Cologne, Germany, Monday, June 20, 2022. Fadel Alkhudr, 42, a woodcarver and ...

The first police report was calming: The New Year’s celebrations in Cologne went peacefully. Shortly afterwards completely different news was spreading: That night women were surrounded by groups of ...

In Germany, big construction projects often derail. Hamburg's concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie? Or take Cologne's opera ...

It took about a week for visitors to the massive Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, to notice a small addition to its ornate Gothic entrance — a carved stone figure of Pope Francis leaning ...

Mainz, Germany — Thieves stole a cloth bearing a drop of Pope John Paul II’s blood from a famous German cathedral over the weekend, police said. The cloth was enclosed in a glass case under a statue ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city’s majestic cathedral. Alkhudr, 42, ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Alkhudr, who is Muslim, said he developed such a close connection to the Catholic cathedral that at some point it felt like the building became a part of him. COLOGNE, Germany ...