Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Markus Soeder (L-R), Prime Minister of Bavaria, with his wife Karin Baumueller-Soeder, and Dieter Reiter (R), Lord Mayor of Munich ...

A sign reading "Welcome to Oktoberfest" hangs above the still closed main entrance to the festival grounds in the early hours of the morning. From September 20, it's "Ozapft is" again for the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger took up the baton at Munich’s Oktoberfest. The former Republican governor of California spontaneously conducted a live music band and the singing crowd in a beer ...

Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started Oktoberfest at noon Saturday when he inserted the tap into the first beer keg, signaling the 189th start of the festival. Thousands of beer lovers celebrated in ...