The western city of Frankfurt will allow women to take a taxi within the city between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at a subsidized price of €6 (roughly $7), the German public broadcaster WDR has reported.
The offer is effective immediately, and is available to all girls and women over the age of 14 to help them get home safe.
Women need to collect a voucher from city hall for the rides, with every woman having up to six such vouchers a year.
A homeless person in the German city of Stuttgart donated €200 ($235) to a local organization that helps single mothers, the public outlet SWR reported.
In a letter added to the donation, the homeless person, known as Schwalbe, said he'd like to give single mothers a "more beautiful holiday" through the donations.
Schwalbe, who lives off collecting bottles and returning them for the deposit, said his donation was a gift to God in celebration of Jesus' upcoming birthday.
"Some people have too little while some have too much," Schwalbe said.
"Everyone would have enough if [income] were fairly distributed."
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The Bundestag, Germany's lower house, will debate the country's partnership with the US, at the request of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The party has filed several motions that call for Germany to "seize the opportunities" offered by the US administration's new security approach, as led by President Donald Trump, with one of the motions also saying Germany and the US should "push back" against "woke culture."
Members of the Trump administration have voiced support for the nationalist party on several occasions, including Vice President JD Vance.
During the last federal election campaign, the AfD received backing from the United States. In a widely discussed speech at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President Vance called for closer cooperation between German parties and the radical right-wing AfD.
Germany's employment prospects have reached their lowest figure since May 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ifo Institute's employment index fell from 92.5 points in November to 91.9 points this month, with one of the main reasons being the prolonged weakness of the manufacturing sector, the institute said.
"The weak economy is continuing to slow down the labor market,” Klaus Wohlrabe, head of surveys at ifo, said in a press release.
This comes despite the Friedrich Merz-led government's economic stimulus package.
While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) foresees an average growth of some 1.5% in Western industrialized countries and Japan, Germany's economy could only experience a gross domestic product rise of 0.1%, as per an October update.
A new poll in Germany suggests that consumers' tendency to save rather than spend is at its highest since the 2008 financial crisis.
According to the pollsters, market research company GfK and the Nürnberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM), concerns about potential inflation and the ongoing debate in Germany over the future of the country's retirement funding have contributed to the result.
NIM expert Rolf Bürki called the results "not positive news" ahead of the Christmas shopping season, while also expecting the negative trend to go on in the start of 2026.
Other sectors taken into account apart from retail are services, travel and real estate rentals.
Guten Tag from our newsroom in Bonn!
We will be following the news in Germany today as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party asks the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, to hold a discussion about Berlin's relations with the United States.
Also in the news: Germans seem to be holding onto their savings ahead of the Christmas holiday.
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