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Two killed as car tears through pedestrian zone in Germany's Trier
Police were not immediately able to say whether the silver SUV had deliberately targeted the pedestrian-only zone but Trier mayor Wolfram Leibe said the driver appeared to have gone 'on a rampage'.
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Germany revises up Q3 economic growth
The record increase in gross domestic product (GDP) beat the preliminary estimate of 8.2% quarter-on-quarter announced in October, federal statistics agency Destatis said.
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Germany warns months more COVID-19 curbs as daily cases record set
The government is to meet Monday to decide whether to extend new measures provisionally in place until month's end and as neighbouring Austria revealed it is planning mass testing as a second lockdown comes into force.
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Germany sees signs of virus curve flattening
"The curve is flattening," said Lothar Wieler, showing "we are not helpless against this virus" and that restrictions such as social distancing and mask-wearing can help halt the march of Covid-19.
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Techno is music, German court declares
The decision is a rare piece of good news for German nightclubs, which have been forced to keep their doors closed for more than six months now because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Europe's coronavirus infections top 11 million
Still reeling from a deadly shooting spree in the streets of Vienna on Monday evening, Austria went into partial lockdown while Greece shut down major cities.
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Germany's Merkel orders tough curbs to tame virus
The tough restrictions to come into force from Monday, 2 November to the end of the month would limit contact outdoors to people from two households. Bars, cafes and restaurants must shut, although takeaways and delivery services can continue.
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Germany reports record new virus cases in 24 hours
The figure far exceeds the next highest total of 7,830 recorded last Friday, and is a steep jump from the 7,595 cases reported on Wednesday by the Robert Koch Institute.
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Mysterious vandal attacks at Berlin museums
Valuable paintings, stone sculptures and sarcophagi at three institutions on the German capital's Unesco-listed Museum Island were sprayed with an 'oily liquid', leaving visible stains, Berlin police told AFP.
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COVID-19 cases top 4,000 a day in Germany, a first since April
Europe's biggest economy recorded 4,058 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, including 16 deaths, according to the latest data compiled by the disease control agency RKI.
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Germany fines H&M €35 mn for worker 'surveillance'
Company bosses at the group's service centre in Nuremberg were found to have delved too deeply into the private lives of their employees.
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Merkel: Germany to limit parties, family gatherings to curb COVID-19 infections
Any region where infection rates reach 35 per 100,000 people would be required to impose a cap of 50 people maximum at gatherings in public spaces or rented venues.
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Merkel 'deeply concerned' by rapid jump in Germany's COVID-19 infections
Germany began to ease stringent measures from late April after weeks of lockdown brought new infections down from a peak of around 6,000 daily.
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'New Cold War with China' demands US-Europe united front: Germany
With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government's coordinator for relations with the United States and Canada, Peter Beyer, insisted there were more shared interests than differences.
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German Church to pay abuse victims up to €50,000
A study commissioned by the German Bishops' Conference and released in 2018 showed that 1,670 clergymen had committed some form of sexual attack against 3,677 minors, mostly boys, between 1946 and 2014.
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France, Sweden confirm Novichok poisoning in Navalny case: Germany
The 44-year-old Kremlin critic and anti-corruption campaigner fell ill after boarding a plane in Siberia last month and was hospitalised there before being flown to Berlin.
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Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany
The 44-year-old Kremlin critic and anti-corruption campaigner fell ill after boarding a plane in Siberia and was hospitalised there before being flown to Berlin.
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UN urges 'independent' Russian probe of Navalny poisoning
Michelle Bachelet stressed the need to get to the bottom of the poisoning, after German specialists said they had 'unequivocal proof' that the weapons-grade nerve agent Novichok was used in the attack.
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Mother kills five of her children in German town: 'Bild'
'Bild' reported that the children’s grandmother had called police to tell them her daughter, aged 27, had killed five of her children and was out of her home with a further child.
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Outrage after Germany says Putin critic Navalny poisoned with Novichok
The 44-year-old last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors and critics of President Vladimir Putin to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances, and is now in hospital in Berlin.
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Germany says Putin critic Navalny poisoned with Novichok
"It is a shocking event that Alexei Navalny has become the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia," said government spokesman Steffen Seibert in a statement.
