Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed deep shock and sadness on Saturday at news of Friday's primary school shooting in Newtown in Connecticut in the USA, in which 20 children and six adults were shot to death by a gunman.
As temperatures abate, turning snow into rain, Germans could find themselves falling foul of black ice over the weekend, national weather service the DWD warned on Thursday.
The tax agreement between Germany and Switzerland, meant to resolve a dispute over German fortunes kept in Swiss banks, has been blocked by the centre-left opposition, who say the proposal is unfair.
A lobbyist for a powerful pharmacy group is thought to have spied on Germany's Health Ministry for nearly two years in order to collect confidential information, a newspaper revealed on Wednesday.
A Bavarian man who got his grandmother to clear the snow outside his house faced charges of causing actual bodily harm through negligence after a woman fell on ice.
Computer makers and banks should be doing more to protect themselves and their customers online, German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner said at a Munich conference on cyber crime on Monday.
Police surrounded an office block in central Frankfurt on Friday after an armed man tried to rob two businessmen of tens of thousands of euros before fleeing. Workers in the building were told to lock themselves in to avoid becoming hostages.
Winter hit large parts of north western Germany hard on Friday morning, with heavy snowfall which started at sunrise expected to continue throughout the day, causing traffic chaos and creating conditions for an icy weekend.
A Bavarian man who tried to kill his wife by putting rat poison in her wine - because she was too old to have more children and did not want him to do so with another woman - has been jailed for 12 years.
A deaf German politician who was mocked on Twitter after speaking on television said on Monday that she was thinking about giving up her position because of the insults. Her deaf voice remained, she said, a taboo.
Snow, icy roads, gusty winds and fallen trees wreaked havoc with early commuter traffic in a wide swathe of Germany on Friday morning, as a winter storm continued to roll across the country.
A man who killed a public prosecutor in a Dachau court was handed a life sentence on Thursday, despite his slow-motion suicide attempt by refusing treatment for diabetes that resulted in both his legs being amputated.
German prosecutors and tax police have raided the offices of HypoVereinsbank, the German arm of Italian bank UniCredit, on suspicion of tax fraud, the bank and prosecutors said on Thursday.
Brace yourself for a winter onslaught this week, as waves of wind, cold and even snow roll across the country, the German weather service DWD said on Monday.
German police have arrested a man after he allegedly set his pregnant wife on fire in a cafe in Dortmund. Both the woman and her unborn baby survived, but the attacker faces attempted murder charges.
Temperatures remain unusually mild just a week before the official start of winter, with the German Weather Service DWD even predicting snatches of late autumnal sun among the rain and fog - but don't blink or you'll miss them.
A German hospital worker has been suspended after allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl in his care - and it has emerged that despite earlier similar allegations, he had been working in the children's department since 2008.
Police in Hamburg investigating the death of a man who was found shot in the head in a tied-up sack floating in a river, suspect that rather than having been the victim of a Mafia hit, he killed himself.
German police have put up a €100,000 reward in their fight to find a mystery shooter who has been firing at car transporters and trucks on motorways for four years - hitting one woman driver in the throat.
Police in Iran have arrested a man thought to have horribly mutilated his girlfriend in her Berlin flat, it was reported on Tuesday. He had escaped a German manhunt and been on the run for the past three weeks.
German authorities are expected to extradite to France a man accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from her home in southern France. The investigation will also now include allegations of rape.
A Munich bus driver appeared in court on Monday to face charges of forging monthly public transport passes and selling them, raking in around a quarter of a million euros.
The owner of a Viennese ice cream parlour admitted on Monday to killing her German husband and then a lover - shooting them, cutting up their bodies with a chainsaw and concreting them into the basement of her shop.
A man who has been locked up in mental institutions for six years after saying his wife and her colleagues were involved in a fraud, was correct. Now the Bavarian justice minister is under pressure to review the case.
