Sources: BBC Deutsche Welle
The casualty total from yesterday's collision between an Intercity Express train and a semi-trailer truck in Hamburg, Germany, increases to one person killed and 25 injured. 2025-02-12
Four convicts escape in a prison break at a psychiatric hospital in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany. 2024-08-17
Six people and an unborn baby are killed, and eight others are injured, in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the shooting. 2023-03-9
The Robert Koch Institute reports 4,058 new cases in Germany in the past 24 hours. It is the biggest number of reported cases in a single day since April, which health minister Jens Spahn described as "alarming" and blames young people for failure to observe social distancing. 2020-10-8
A small plane crashes into a crowd near Fulda, Germany, killing three people and injuring eight others. 2018-10-14
On the eve of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's convention in Karlsruhe, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel says, "We want to noticeably reduce the number of people who come to us, but not through unilateral national measures alone." She acknowledges the crisis could overwhelm Germany if it went on much longer. Merkel warded off pressure from immigration skeptics within the CDU to include a quota in the refugee policy motion the convention will vote on. 2015-12-13
Germany expels the Berlin station chief of the United States Central Intelligence Agency following a series of spy scandals. 2014-07-10
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rules that Germany's participation in the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is, conditionally, within the German Constitution's limits, allowing President Gauck to approve the Bundestag's previous agreement with the mechanism. 2012-09-12
A gunman, who was facing eviction from his apartment, is believed to have seized and killed four hostages in the German city of Karlsruhe before turning the gun on himself. 2012-07-4
German Chancellor Angela Merkel names Thomas de Maizière as new defence minister and Hans-Peter Friedrich as the new interior minister, following resignations earlier this week. 2011-03-2