📰 Breaking News: News Archive for April 2008 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 April
- Champions League: Erratic Schalke wants win over Barca
- Deutsche Post workers to strike
- Berlin transport workers cancel strike
- Deutsche Bank reveals more subprime-related writedowns
- German parents can't be forced to see kids
- Gay couples entitled to partners' pension
- German labour market adds more jobs
- WWII bombs pose danger to German coast
- Retiree wants radio confiscated in 1945 back
- Saxony-Anhalt bans neo-Nazi football hooligans
02 April
- Barca teen Krkic breaks Schalke hearts
- German alcoholics not recieving proper treatment
- Berlin squabbles over East German POW compensation
- Steinmeier warns NATO against antagonzing Russia
- Lawyer of suspected child killer criticizes Swedish police
- Berlin paper backs Stasi investigation of staff
- German news magazine Spiegel banned in Egypt
- Berlin's Canadian conundrum on the Hindu Kush
- WestLB posts loss of €1.6 billion on subprime mess
- Crime rises after end of eastern German border controls
- New Porsche museum slow and over budget
03 April
- Porsche challenges London pollution charge
- Postal service in Baden-Württemberg hit by strikes
- Germany tops global popularity poll
- Steinbrück sees financial crisis dragging into 2009
- Unknown Karl Marx letter sells for €52,000
- HSV's Jarolim handed ban for 'genital squeeze' foul
- German Formula One teams slam Mosley over Nazi sex scandal
- What's on in Germany: April 3 - 9
- Merkel urges greater civilian role for NATO
- Germany's BayernLB bank takes massive subprime hit
- Poll: Berliners love Berlin
- German auto industry plays down biofuel fears
04 April
- Merkel considered Europe's most influential leader
- Debit card warning for shoppers at spy-happy Lidl
- German elite forces involved in Libyan police training scandal
- Police mull DNA tests for teens after autobahn murder
- Germans suspected in Afghan suicide plot
- Half of all cars in Germany have technical problems
- Gabriel buries German biofuels plan
- Subprime crisis could leave German taxpayers with the bill
- Bulgaria confirms Cold War border shootings of Germans
- T-Mobile slashes iPhone price to €99
- Stralsund building world's largest life-size whale model
- German police bust biker drug ring
05 April
- Germany's ADAC calls on Mosley to step down
- Postal workers strike in seven German states
- Bundesbank warns inflation could jump
- Churches warn of fitness craze becoming religion
- Bavarian orchestra cancels deafening musical work
- German intelligence denies role in Libya affair
06 April
- Telekom to face irate shareholders in court
- A Red Baron with pacifist streak to hit movie screens
- Polar bear cub Snowflake prepares for media debut
- Bundeswehr missions cost over €900 million in 2007
- Report: Libya training was payback to Qaddafi
- German nudist flight could be grounded
07 April
- NRW checking police holiday logs in Libya scandal
- Town hopes Nietzsche’s grave can halt coal mine
- Verdi charges Aldi with illegal activity
- Russian billionaire Blavatnik said interested in Air Berlin
- Dead patient with 'imaginary' illness to be compensated
- Mass grave from Thirty Years' War found in Bavaria
- Court: Tossed döner kebab no danger to human dignity
- Holocaust survivors: German rail restrictions 'undignified'
- German KfW bank boss resigns amid subprime mess
- German airlines nix onboard mobiles despite EU approval
- German mother jailed for killing 8 babies
08 April
- Dessau's gigantic burial pyramid
- Half of German conscripts unfit for Bundeswehr
- More Germans need second job to survive
- Woman arrested in Vechta dead baby case
- Protestors picket Snowflake debut in Nuremberg
- German arachnophobia therapy may become standard
- Smoking ban drives German barkeeper to suicide
- Spring cold snap nips northern Germany
- Nokia sets date for Bochum plant closure
- Deutche Bahn compromises with Holocaust exhibition
- Police raid 'cosmic' German commune
09 April
- Berlin paper struggles after Stasi staff outed
- German joblessness seen dropping below 3 million
- Hitzfeld warns Getafe to expect fired up Bayern
- Merkel enjoys highest approval rating ever
- High court: Viagra not on public insurance bill
- German government under scrutiny for Libya scandal
- Germany gets first autobahn speed limit
- Zappa's widow sues German fan club
- Volkwagen to take over former Fiat plant in China
- German police stop man in runaway wheelchair
- German church seeks return of €1 million in stolen art
- German regulator orders small bank closed
- Bochum employees pleased with Nokia severance
- Bundesliga set for bum-deal advertising
10 April
- Steinmeier asks Iran to be 'cooperative'
- Neo-Nazi group seen stronger from ban
- Berlin transit workers strike again
- RWE reportedly ready to bid £11 billion for British Energy
- German tourist shot dead in Peru
- Bavarian smoking ban called a healthy success
- Germany targets 48 Olympic medals in Beijing
- What's on in Germany: April 10-16
- Dresdner bank to open Indian office in 2009
- German neo-Nazis to rally around Stolberg stabbing
- Fan violence costs Nuremberg €50,000 fine
- Verdi opera with 35 naked seniors sells out
- Germany's Roma protest eBay over football 'Nazi slur'
11 April
- Two aid workers for German NGO missing in Afghanistan
- Toni’s late brace put Bayern in UEFA Cup semis
- Germans warned of pensioner power
- Bomb threat closes Koblenz train station
- Candy Bomber Halvorsen: "People had their doubts about the Airlift"
- Germany liberalizes stem cell research
- Major US ecstasy smuggler nabbed
- Man arrested over acid package attacks
- Storm brews over German budget plans
- Developing a sensible biofuels strategy for Germany
- German researchers want to replace the kilogramme
- Frankfurt Airport opens 'Animal Lounge'
12 April
- Köhler eyes second term as president
- Germans honour activist Dutschke 40 years after attack
- Steinbrück lauds German economy at G7 meeting
- Siemens wins €1.3 billion Belgian train deal
- Merkel ready to meet Dalai Lama again
- Snowflake-mania hits Nuremberg
13 April
- Libya training scandal expands to China and Uzbekistan
- German hockey team clinches Olympic spot
- Bribery and spying claims dog Siemens
- Wagner women battle for Bayreuth
- Germany presses for EU to shelter Iraqi Christians
- Russian spacecraft docks in Speyer
14 April
- Holocaust train exhibition opens in Berlin
- Drunk German on horseback rampaged through town
- Rescuers search for German boy after boat accident
- Merkel welcomes greater self-regulation by banks
- Merkel surprises with daring décolleté at Oslo opera
- Saxony’s premier Milbradt resigns
- Germany stages world's largest crisp packet collection show
- 'Mr. Telekom' appears in landmark German trial
- SS man to stand trial in Germany for Dutch murders
- Brain study raises doubts about free will
- Fallen cycling star Ullrich pays to end fraud case
- Evicted black single mother sues German landlord
15 April
- German supermarkets selling impure wine
- Merkel urges Ireland to back new EU treaty
- Köhler urges west to recognize East German achievements
- Former German Chancellor Kohl to marry
- Siemens to cut 1,200 jobs
- Germany to hike food aid by €10 million
- Inflation hits German investor confidence
- German weather getting hotter
- Wannabe German cannibal committed
- Steinmeier to discuss Iran's nuke plans with ElBaradei
- German parents on trial for starving their daughter
- Long-lost Bach composition found
- Berlin exhibition explores perceptions of Asia
16 April
- Merkel congratulates Berlusconi on election
- German schoolboy corrects NASA figures
- Frankfurt airport postal workers strike
- Ranks of German neo-Nazis growing
- Sailors remembered in Australian WWII naval battle
- Tobacco sales down in Germany
- Employee spying reportedly widespread in Germany
- Audi cancels Olympic torch event at Mount Everest
- German farmer fed neighbour to pigs
- Hamburg on verge of 'black-green' coalition
17 April
- NASA rejects German kid's asteroid calculations
- Stasi love drama causes stir for ARD
- German youth widely xenophobic
- German state wants to keep minority blocking stake in VW
- German MPs urge TV blackout of Olympic ceremonies
- What's On In Germany: April 17 - 23
- Germany slams Bush's 'Neanderthal' climate speech
- Cowhide waste products sold as food was 'oversight'
- Road signs to mark Iron Curtain path in Germany
- Top institutes upbeat on German economy
- German MPs leave Hebron after Jewish settler threats
18 April
- Merkel to disband council headed by ex-Siemens boss
- Pubs complain German smoking ban hits trade
- Kahn warns Bayern to take German Cup final seriously
- German low-wage job sector expanding
- Study on xenophobic German youth was 'distorted'
- EU presidency rejects German call to favour Iraqi Christians
- VW opens gigantic car factory in China
- Secret cameras proposed for German terror suspects
- Thieves pilfer 33-tonne earth mover
- Giant flower's stench stinks up Bonn
- Hamburg's dose of 'black-green' Realpolitik
- Microsoft nods to German dialect with 'moin'
19 April
- German producer prices boost inflation
- German Pope to throw party in New York
- Berlin museums fail local artists, says Eliasson
- German publisher pays out for false book
- German pigs cause a stink in England
20 April
- BASF wants EU to eat genetically modified potatoes
- Bayern wins German Cup
- Riverboat crashes into German hotel
- One in four German families live below poverty line
- Polar bear cub Wilbär makes public debut
21 April
- US holds German at base in Afghanistan
- Deutsche Post hit by strikes in wage dispute
- Fewer German workers take sick leave
- Lidl chairman predicts food prices will rise
- Siemens to build Polish wind farms for €100 million
- Only 60 percent of Germans have faith in democracy
- German soda tips off police to suspected child molester
- Doc charged in clinic deaths scandal
- Australian Rules Fußball? Germany goes Down Under
- Gadget to bring back Berlin Wall for tourists
- Social Democrats back German railway privatization
22 April
- VW shareholders to tangle over VW Law
- Verdi continues strike at Deutsche Post
- German companies foresee China visa problems
- German Navy scares off Somali pirates
- Reporter behind faked Hitler diaries now on the dole
- German bank wants Mugabe’s guns
- Another German bank is hit by US subprime-sparked woes
- German military official says fight in south Afghanistan unwinnable
- Police investigate two baby deaths in Saxony
- Euro hits record high against US dollar
- Stasi informant loses court privacy battle
23 April
- Lufthansa flight diverts to Ireland as child dies
- Doctors call for ban on tattoos for German minors
- Deutsche Post strike hits advertising mail
- Infineon takes Q2 hit from chip unit Qimonda
- Germany and France edge toward emissions deal
- Dairy farmers threaten boycott over sinking milk prices
- Bertelsmann to publish book version of German Wikipedia
- Regulator reportedly seeking insider trading probe of IKB
- German police raid Islamists
- Driver leads cops on madcap autobahn chase
24 April
- Germany's Merkel calls for action on food crisis
- Suspect in €3.6 million theft caught on German train
- BlackBerry maker to open research facility in Germany
- Report: BND spied on more German journalists
- Germany may hike tax on dirty cars
- What's On In Germany: April 24 - 30
- Business confidence tumbles as German slowdown looms
- German MPs ratify EU Lisbon treaty
- German man jailed for abusing Cambodian girl
- Celebrating spring with flowers and wine in Werder
- Brandenburg teens get 8 years for killing homeless man
- BND chief reprimanded over journalist spying scandal
25 April
- Giant puzzle reveals Germany's communist secrets
- Fresh raids planned on German tax dodgers: report
- Verdi workers vote on Deutsche Post strike
- Bayern own goal gives Zenit advantage in UEFA semis
- Germany to hand over child murder suspect to Sweden
- Luftwaffe pilot apologizes for bombing England in WWII
- Berlin to keep labour market shut to eastern Europeans
- Berlin divided over closure of historic Tempelhof
- Lufthansa will exercise option for BMI: finance director
- Deutsche Bank could buy Citibank in Germany
- Two German teens treed by wild boars
26 April
- Merkel welcomes China's offer to talk with Tibet
- 'Tollpatsch' crowned best loanword in German
- Filmmaker Fatih Akin takes four German film prizes
- Porsche chief bugged with baby monitor
- German security camera thief filmed in the act
- Afghan spying scandal grows
27 April
- German government to extend paternity leave
- Plane and train crashes kill one, injure 42 in Germany
- Klasnic sues docs for missing his kidney failure
- Organic food 'to become luxury again' in Germany
- Nokia offers €30 million to appease Bochum
- German smokers protest ban in Berlin
28 April
- Vote to save Berlin's Tempelhof fails
- Verdi offers Deutsche Post new round of wage talks
- Insurers may be on hook for Siemens scandal: report
- German consumer confidence jumps
- Recovery work begins after German ICE train crash
- Historians push for new German edition of 'Mein Kampf'
- Paris and Berlin close ranks for French EU presidency
- German resort will be first 'allergy-friendly community'
- Teenage baby killing trial begins
- Charges likely for shepherd in German ICE trainwreck
- Leftist-turned-Nazi jailed for Hitler salute
29 April
- Germany backs railway privatization
- Deutsche Bank drops 2008 targets after posting Q1 loss
- Germans underestimate heart attack death risk: study
- Mozart opera takes to the Berlin metro
- Two children and one woman found dead in burned car
- Bayern Munich chasing Bundesliga records
- German atomic waste transport cancelled for 2009
- Daimler Q1 profit slumps despite Mercedes gains
- Germans have better sex: survey
- Islamist from Germany declares 'holy war'
- Battling hunger requires a global agricultural revolution
- Ikea accused of mistreating German workers
- Probe finds widespread misconduct at Siemens
30 April
- Wagner's grandson steps down as Bayreuth director
- Berlin names street after student activist Dutschke
- Cops and bus drivers strike in Berlin
- People still leaving Germany in droves
- Bavarian police confiscate Latin American treasures
- SAP posts weak earnings and delays product launch
- German POW drawings donated to US Army
- Scandal-hit Siemens sees Q2 profit cut by two-thirds
- Sharapova pulls out of German Open
- Nazi chimney sweep gets the brush-off
- Scented text messages patented in Germany
- German postal strike averted