Sources: CBC
German authorities recover 31 royal jewellery items that were stolen from the Green Vault museum at Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, in 2019. 2022-12-17
One person is killed and 30 others, including 14 students, are injured, after a car drives into a crowd in Berlin, Germany. A 29-year-old German-Armenian man is arrested at the scene. 2022-06-8
Germany begins to implement its "emergency brake" law designed to reduce the number of COVID-19 infections in regions with incidence rates of more than 100 new infections per 100,000 people over the last seven days. Measures that will be taken include curfews as well as school closures in areas where the incidence rate has exceeded 165. 2021-04-24
Twelve men are arrested in Germany for attempting to start a far-right organization aimed at carrying out attacks against politicians, asylum seekers, and Muslims. 2020-02-14
Six people are killed and two others wounded when a man opens fire on his family members in Rot am See, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The mass shooter's parents are among the dead. 2020-01-24
German airline Condor, a subsidiary of the now insolvent Thomas Cook Group, files for bankruptcy. 2019-09-25
The Abu Sayyaf militant group beheads their German hostage Jurgen Kantner in Indanan, Philippines. 2017-02-27
Archbishop of Freiburg (Germany) Robert Zollitsch is charged with "aiding and abetting child sex abuse", though the archdiocese rejects the charges and coverage of them as "absolutely weak" and "sensationalist". 2010-06-2
Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. 2010-03-9
China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing Germany from first place. 2010-01-6