Sources: BBC Deutsche Welle
Forty-four children are injured, including one critically, when a person sprays an unknown gas inside a school in Berlin, Germany. 2024-12-2
The Islamic State group claims responsibility for yesterday's mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and injured eight others. 2024-08-24
Twenty people are injured by severe turbulence on a Condor flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Mauritius. 2023-03-2
Russian gas supplies via the Yamal–Europe pipeline fall almost 77% in a single day, raising European gas prices to an all-time high. European Parliament lawmakers request investigations of market manipulation, although Gazprom's exports outside the former Soviet Union rose 15.3% year on year in the first nine months of 2021 and German utility Uniper confirms that Russia was fulfilling its contractual obligations. 2021-10-1
Scientists belonging to a German–Malagasy expedition announce the discovery of "Brookesia nana", a lizard found in Madagascar. The male's body spanning only 13.5 mm, is potentially the smallest reptile on Earth. 2021-02-5
German police defuse a parcel bomb in Berlin. It is thought to be the fourth device sent by a blackmailer targetting DHL. 2018-04-3
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
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
Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images. 2010-06-25