[Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch is airborne on her way to win an alpine ski World Cup women's downhill, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, on Friday. Image via Marco Trovati/AP.]

[Angela Merkel's not letting a fractured pelvis slow her down. Despite being put on bed rest, the German Chancellor made her first public appearance today. There are reports that her fall was due to a pair of 20-year-old skis that had "noticeably lost their tension." Image by Sean Gallup via Getty.]

German authorities are searching for a naked motorcyclist who went for a ride through Münster wearing nothing but a helmet and gloves.

A German police officer was arrested Wednesday and accused of killing and chopping up a man he met online. According to authorities, the man he murdered had "long fantasized" about being killed and eaten.

More than 1,500 Nazi-confiscated modernist paintings, including pieces by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, were discovered in a Munich apartment during a tax evasion-related raid in 2011, according to a report in German magazine Focus.

The relationship between the United States and the strongest country in Europe continues its downward plunge: Asked about the ongoing investigation by Germany into U.S. spying, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said he would be willing to assist and provide clarification about leaked documents that have already proved disastrous to the diplomatic standing of the U.S. in Germany.

On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. intelligence officials did their best to disprove reports that the NSA monitored more than 170 million phone calls in France, Spain, and other European countries last year. NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander called the reports "completely false" and said the information was provided to the NSA by the intelligence agencies in each country.

A new report in Der Spiegel says the the United States has been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2002, and a different report (albeit from a less reputable source) says President Obama knew about it.

The tough week for U.S. intelligence agencies continues: France and Germany, two recent NSA targets, want to meet with the United States to establish new, mutually agreeable guidelines for spying operations. Meanwhile, American officials are reportedly warning other countries that documents describing their cooperation with the NSA or CIA may be among those taken by Edward Snowden.

The German Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador over reports that the NSA monitored Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone. Yesterday, Merkel called President Obama to confront him about the allegations.

President Obama received what sounds like an awkward phone call today from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was reportedly upset by rumors that the NSA has monitored her personal cell phone.

More than 81 people fell ill with the Guinea Pig's Revenge after eating salmonella-tainted 'pig meat at a Minneapolis Ecuadorian street fair.

A German study has found that people who have the most sex also make the most money, further depressing the world's low-paid plebes who don't get any.

Meet Jasleen, a giant baby born in Leipzig last week. At 13.47 pounds and 22.6 inches, Jasleen is the largest-ever baby born in Germany.

The European Union reached out to the United States to respond to claims over the weekend that the U.S. bugged E.U. offices in the Unites States and accessed the internal computer networks of their biggest ally and trading partner.

Justin Bieber's monkey, OG Mally, whose rejection by the pop singer and virtual exile to the depraved nation of Germany has captivated fans of both popular music and lesser primates, has begun to settle into his new adopted nation, perhaps finally ending a saga that has brought the watching world to a virtual stand-still.

A court in Germany this week was asked to rule on the case of a banker from Hesse who reportedly fell asleep on his keyboard, accidentally transferring millions of the bank's euros to a temporarily lucky customer.

OG Mally Bieber, the baby monkey who has been in jail so long he thinks "freedom" is a story made up by grown-ups to scare baby monkeys, will soon have a family of his own, the AP reports.

If there are two things Germans have traditionally loved, it's purity and beer. Now, according to a German brewers association, both are at risk because of a potential law that would legalize fracking in the country.

We live in strange, strange times: Germany is now the most positively viewed nation in the world.