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Three people are killed and one person is injured when a train collides with a car near Neustadt am Rübenberge, Lower Saxony, Germany.
2023-04-23

Germany and French rail transport manufacturer Alstom inaugurate the world's first fleet of hydrogen fuel-powered trains in Lower Saxony. The 14 hydrogen trains will replace a fleet of diesel locomotives on 100 km of track in the German state.
2022-08-24

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

A mass shooting occurs in a lecture hall at the New Campus of the University of Heidelberg in Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A woman is killed and three other people are injured before the gunman commits suicide.
2022-01-24

Three motorcyclists are rammed and left seriously wounded on a motorway in Berlin, Germany during a vehicle-ramming attack. The perpetrator is arrested and identified as an Islamic extremist.
2020-08-18

U.S. President Donald Trump demands that European allies, in particular Germany and France, take back captured ISIL fighters, or else, he says, "we're going to let them go at your border". Trump also made the same threat in August.
2019-09-20

In Lower Saxony, Germany, a Bundeswehr helicopter crashes, killing one of the pilots.
2019-07-1

The world's first commercial hydrogen-powered passenger train enters service in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Alstom developed train uses a hydrogen fuel cell which emits no carbon dioxide.
2018-09-17

A German train controller, who was operating the tracks where two trains collided on February 9 near the town of Bad Aibling, Bavaria, is arrested on possible manslaughter charges. Prosecutors say the controller had been playing a game on his mobile phone, which led to his making signalling errors. The crash resulted in 11 deaths and 85 injuries, 24 serious.
2016-04-12

Test results will confirm whether the German "E. Coli" outbreak came from vegetable sprouts grown in the Uelzen area.
2011-06-6