Following this winter’s gloomy weather there’s hope on the horizon, according to long-term forecasts which are predicting a fabulous spring in Germany with a lot of sun and some summery days.
The chill gripping much of Germany will continue into the weekend, with snow covering much of the country, forecasts from German Weather Service, the DWD, suggested.
Five teenagers are being held in custody in Munich after two girls aged 15 and 16 were sexually abused and possibly raped at a party in the centre of the Bavarian city at the end of last week.
German police have carried out a string of busts against a network of companies alleged to have stolen more than €100 million from would-be real estate investors, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.
It might seem as if Germany has been stuck under a cold, dark, damp blanket for the last few months and now weathermen are confirming this, as the winter is set to be the darkest since records of sunshine hours began.
Leftist Colombian rebels holding two Germans hostage have asked their families for information about the pair, a statement said Monday, suggesting they may be preparing to release them.
A 14-year-old boy who gave his classmate a love bite has been ordered by a court to submit a DNA sample to be stored on a biometric register of sex offenders. Germany's highest court will now investigate the case.
As snow hit Germany hard again in Friday, Frankfurt airport cancelled more than 20 flights and police reported car accidents across the south. The white weather is set to last over the weekend, said the German Weather Service (DWD).
A woman who was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for four days while she was a pregnant teenager has won €100,000 in damages - the most compensation ever awarded in Germany for such a case.
European police on Monday revealed they had smashed a global criminal network fixing hundreds of top-level football matches, including dozens of games in Germany.
Germany’s family policies, with its billions of euros in support programmes, are largely ineffective and in some cases counterproductive, a study commissioned by the German government and reported by <i>Spiegel</i> on Sunday showed.
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A 29-year-old Munich man has admitted to blackmailing an older gay chatroom user for €865,000, driving him to emotional and financial ruin by posing as both a teenage boy and a top prosecutor.
German police have arrested 15 members of the same family after it emerged they had been intentionally causing car accidents to cash in on insurance, making around €150,000 over several years.
Germany is melting fast this week and as the snow disappears, national weather service the DWD has predicted 120kph winds to blow the country into February, along with unseasonably warm temperatures.
Lufthansa was forced to cancel 33 flights at Frankfurt airport on Sunday as snow and ice were expected to make runways unsafe. But last week's total shutdown is not likely to be repeated.
Temperatures in Germany will be riding a rollercoaster over the coming days, as chills of -19C in some areas are set to leap well above zero at the start of the week.
A 100-year-old golden biscuit has been stolen from outside the headquarters of top German biscuit maker Bahlsen in the western city of Hannover. Police have no leads.
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A Bosnian court gave on Tuesday two years in jail, the minimum sentence, to a man who held a young German woman captive for more than six years, a prosecution spokesman said.
Wintry weather shut roads and grounded flights in Germany on Monday morning after black ice triggered accidents across the country. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled in and out of Frankfurt and Munich.
Snow and freezing precipitation prompted the cancellation of more than 130 flights at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday morning with numerous other flights delayed, an airport spokeswoman said.
