Sources: BBC
Twelve people are injured in an explosion at an apartment complex in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A 57-year-old man is arrested. 2023-05-11
German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns from the Scholz cabinet amid criticism of her response to the war in Ukraine. 2023-01-16
Six federal states of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein) see their all-time high records beaten, with the highest temperature, 40.3 C, set at Bad Mergentheim. 2022-07-20
Germany reports 5,132 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest number of reported cases in a single day since April 5, according to official figures from the Robert Koch Institute. 2020-10-14
Highest-ever temperatures are recorded in Germany (at 40.5°C or 104.9°F), the Netherlands (at 39.2°C or 102.5°F), and Belgium (at 38.9°C or 102.0°F). 2019-07-24
A law recognising a third gender that can be administered for intersex people takes effect in Germany. 2019-01-1
Germany hands over to Namibia the human remains—19 skulls, a scalp and bones—of Herero and Nama tribespeople among the tens of thousands killed by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. 2018-08-29
The death toll from an "E. coli" outbreak in Germany rises to 14 as it spreads to other parts of northern Europe. 2011-05-30
More than 270 people are hospitalised after an E. coli outbreak in Germany, thought to have originated from Spanish cucumbers. 2011-05-27
At least four people are killed and a police officer seriously wounded in a shooting incident at a hospital in Lörrach, Germany. 2010-09-19