Sources: BBC
German automotive supplier Bosch announces it will lay off 5,000 employees by 2030, including 3,800 in Germany. 2025-09-26
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser closes the Islamic Centre Hamburg for allegedly propagating extremism and being a direct representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summons the German ambassador following the closure. 2024-07-24
Latvian Defence Minister Ināra Mūrniece announces that Latvia will send all of its FIM-92 Stinger missile systems to Ukraine, following a meeting with NATO allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. 2023-04-21
Denmark's public service broadcaster DR reveals that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service helped the American National Security Agency spy on European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014. Intelligence was also collected on other officials from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway. 2021-05-31
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
Germany reports a record 410 new deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, bringing the nationwide death toll to 14,771. 2020-11-25
Six crew from a German ship are kidnapped in Nigerian waters. 2017-10-24
Eighteen people are dead after a bus collides with a truck in the German state of Bavaria. 2017-07-3
A final funding deal for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft has been agreed to by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey. 2010-11-5
One German and one Italian man are killed and at least 6 are injured near Marseille in a collision between a 26-foot wave and the Greek-Cypriot cruise ship "Louise Majesty" which was travelling with 2,000 passengers from Barcelona to Genoa. 2010-03-3