Cologne News

The result put Cologne 10th on 34 points from 27 games while Fortuna stayed 16th on 24 points.

Cologne remained 10th in the standings on 33 points while Mainz moved four points above the relegation playoff spot.

Bayern Munich scored three goals in a devastating opening 12 minutes as they thumped Cologne 4-1 away on Sunday to go back to the top of the Bundesliga.

The visitors were a shadow of the team that put five goals past Augsburg in the season opener last week and only came to life midway into the second half, scoring three times in the last 20 minutes.

AC Milan, Villarreal and Nice reached the knockout stage of the Europa League after posting wins on Thursday in the penultimate round of the group stage.

Modeste`s stellar season continued with some clinical finishing as he needed just under 30 minutes to wrap up his hat-trick in Saturday`s 4-2 home win over Hertha Berlin, which left Cologne sixth in the table.

The result allowed Bayern to extend their lead over second-placed RB Leipzig, they now head for Arsenal on Tuesday for their Champions League last 16 return tie.

 German Air Force scrambled two jets to escort a Jet Airways flight after air traffic control could not establish contact with it.

The Motorworld centre is expected to open at the end of 2017.

Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied in the German city of Cologne on Sunday as tensions over Turkey`s failed coup put authorities on edge.

Dubbed the "No means No" law by the media, it explicitly covers cases in which a victim withheld consent but did not physically fight back.  

A French court on Thursday jailed three Russian football supporters over Euro 2016 fan unrest.

A right-wing Polish magazine cover emblazoned with the headline "The Islamic rape of Europe" triggered a storm of criticism on social media on Thursday, with some comments comparing it to World War II fascist propaganda.

Esmeralda Labye was reporting live from the Cologne carnival when the men whispered 'would you sleep with me tonight' into her ear.

A teenage Russian-German girl has accepted that she made up a story about being kidnapped and raped by migrants in a case which triggered a furore in Germany and briefly embroiled Berlin police in a spat with the Kremlin, said state prosecutors.

Over 200 masked right-wing supporters, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern city of Leipzig on Monday night, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalising buildings, police said.

A top German police official says he doesn't believe New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne and elsewhere blamed largely on foreigners were linked to organised crime.

Chanting "Merkel out" and waving German flags, supporters of the xenophobic PEGIDA movement vented their anger today against migrants after a rash of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne. Carrying banners and signs bearing slogans like "Rapefugees not welcome", the far-right protesters took aim at Merkel, accusing her of allowing migrants to running amok in Germany through her liberal stance towards those fleeing war.

Earlier in the week, German federal police said they had identified 32 people who were suspected of playing a role in the attacks on women on Cologne, 22 of whom were in the process of seeking asylum in Germany.

Asylum-seekers are among those suspected of involvement in violence on New Year`s Eve in Cologne , officials said on Friday, intensifying debate about Germany`s welcoming of hundreds of thousands of migrants.