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German police announce that they found 95 kg of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
2024-09-23

Four people are killed and 21 others are injured in a fire at a nursing home in Bedburg-Hau, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
2024-03-4

Three people are charged in Germany for killing and causing an explosion by recklessness at a chemical park in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in July. Seven people were killed and 31 others were injured.
2021-10-19

Two people are killed, 31 are injured and five more are missing after an explosion at an industrial park housing several chemical companies in Leverkusen, NRW, Germany.
2021-07-27

The death toll from the severe floods in western Germany increases to 133. Ninety people died in Rhineland-Palatinate and 43 died in North Rhine-Westphalia. The death toll in Belgium also increases to 27.
2021-07-16

Three people are killed when a microlight aircraft crashes into a home in Wesel, NRW, Germany.
2020-07-25

Voters in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia head to the polls, with the media suggesting a victory for Angela Merkel's CDU over the SPD, who have lead the state for all but five years since 1966.
2017-05-14

An assailant injures seven people, one severely, in an axe attack at the central railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany. Police have arrested one suspect.
2017-03-9

A Germanwings flight crashes en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, in a mountainous region of the Alps near Digne-les-Bains in Southern France leaving 150 dead. Rescue workers recover the damaged, but still usable, cockpit voice recorder.
2015-03-24

Krystian Zimerman, one of the world's leading concert pianists, angrily exits a concert in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, over a dispute with YouTube which he says is "destroying music".
2013-06-4