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

01 May
- Rürup says full employment possible in a decade
- Von der Leyen: German men shouldn't drink on Dad's Day
- What's On In Germany: May 1 - 7
- Hot air balloons take off for German championship
- German Olympic uniform derided
- Police gird for May 1 marches and protests
- Biggest Nazi archive opened to historians
- May Day in Kreuzberg: music trumps riots
- Schmidt stalker arrested
02 May
- Hamburg hit by May Day riots
- Merkel receives Charlemagne award for EU efforts
- A third of Germans want the mark back
- Would-be Hitler assassin dies at 90
- Moseying down the Mosel
- Neo-Nazis take over train
- Bayern posed to become Bundesliga champions
- German retail sales post surprise fall in March
- Deutsche Bahn shares reportedly to cost €20-€24
- Porsche joy ride ends in German court
- Garrett: Australia ready to join Europe in climate change fight
- Deadly depilation could mean jail time for beautician
03 May
- German universities struggle to keep foreign students
- Berlin's Tegel to close without debate
- Germany to cut neo-Nazi party tax breaks
- Barnyard air benefits unborn babies
- Schily will not fight next election
- Amnesty takes human rights torch on German run
- Deutsche Telekom eyes Sprint Nextel
04 May
- Bavarian election to delay troops en route to Afghanistan
- Cowboys and Indians camp out across Germany
- Schiller's venerated skull found to be false
- Germans losing faith in state pension system
- New truth revealed about famous WWII Reichstag photo
- German middle class threatened by poor economy
- Bayern crowned league champions
05 May
- First children’s opera house in Germany opens
- Football: Bayern splash the cash to buy Bundesliga title
- Twenty hurt in Neu-Ulm blaze
- Pensioner injures tourist with Hofbräuhaus beer mug
- Hundreds of Germans to be evacuated from Baltic cruise ship
- Youth binge drinking rises sharply in Germany: study
- Germans back limits for CEO salaries
- Three dead babies found in freezer
- National security council plans rile Merkel’s coalition
- German new car registrations rebound in April
06 May
- Berlin promenade to be named after 'Einstein of sex'
- German MPs may get new pay raise
- Germany upsets Slovakia at ice hockey championships
- Luftwaffe lacking plans for move to new Berlin airport
- Bayer hails EU approval for Yaz contraceptive
- Vandals target Munich's first gay maypole
- Adidas Q1 profit jumps despite lagging Reebok
- Leftists disrupt Christian youth festival in Bremen
- Germany offers €500,000 to aid storm victims in Burma
- Serena Williams breezes into third round of German Open
- Giving the grey Ruhr Valley a green future
- German police bust teen hacker ring
07 May
- Group calls for warning labels on liquor
- Schalke seal Champions League berth
- Critics slam German MP pay raise
- Spooks break ground on new HQ in Berlin
- Germany bans two neo-Nazi groups
- Berlin family finds 'holy potato'
- Makatsch loses court case over baby photos
- Police investigate Gazprom executive's Stasi past
- German Muslim girl can't skip swim lessons: court
- Shipping and tourism giant TUI hits stormy seas
- Signs of violence found on frozen German babies
- German deployment during Iraq war illegal: top court
08 May
- SPD to name chancellor candidate this summer: report
- Germany rebuilds palaces long destroyed by war
- 'Good luck,' Merkel wishes new Russian president
- What's On In Germany: May 8 - 14
- Burma’s regime must postpone its referendum
- Germany: species extinction is a global economic threat
- Germany's Köhler calls for stronger ties with Israel
- Steinmeier slammed for nixing visit with Dalai Lama
- Bonn museum opens homage to 'schlager'
- German Open: Williams through as Henin turfed out
- German economy is buffeted by global headwinds
- Telekom mum on Sprint as earnings beat forecasts
09 May
- Germany calls for more pressure on junta in Burma
- Media watchdog crashes Adidas meeting in Olympics protest
- ‘Marco’ to treat Germany to sunny holiday weekend
- Italy arrests eight connected to Duisburg mob massacre
- Oktoberfest 'maß' cost climbs over €8
- Former Siemens chief will not face corruption charges
- Inferior concrete reportedly used in German nuclear plant
- Energy drinks and alcohol seen as risky
- Steinmeier to head to Russia next week
- Boney M and BB guns in Bremerhaven
- Posted pythons wreak havoc with German mail
10 May
- German football squad to get measles vaccination
- Germany urges Lebanon to halt violence
- Veteran school founder terrifies kids with fireworks
- Bavaria says criminal biker gang getting stronger
- German motorists hit by surging fuel prices
11 May
- Merkel slams Myanmar’s aid stance
- Canada crushes Germany at ice hockey championship
- Rostock, Duisburg relegated from Bundesliga
- Duo grill car instead of steaks
- Volkswagen goes green with Japanese technology
- UNESCO boss calls for new poll on Dresden bridge
12 May
- Chavez calls Merkel a political descendent of Hitler
- Oskar Schindler: from Holocaust hero to obscurity
- Ryanair boss: high oil prices will break German rival
- German flower rebels defy Mother's Day ban
- Germans back leftists amid growing working-class worries
13 May
- German government backs off unpopular teen sex law: report
- Business puts high hopes on Merkel trip to Latin America
- Dalai Lama to rally support for Tibet in Germany
- Bayern's domination worries Bundesliga rivals
- Former German chancellor Kohl marries partner
- A third of German children born out of wedlock
- Berlin not world-class but still comfy
- Government moves to lower Deutsche Telekom stake
- Researchers find key to deadly bee disease
14 May
- Hunt for WWII survivors continues over 60 years later
- Merkel to talk energy and trade in Brazil
- Polar bear Snowflake flops in Nuremberg
- Köhler calls financial markets a 'monster'
- German authorities to warn against Left party extremists
- Berlin denies snubbing Dalai Lama
- Merkel double seeks own office
- Probing Potsdam’s peculiar possibilities
- Schiffer disrobes for Vogue 'sex' issue
- Subprime crisis hits earnings at Deutsche Post
- Jol named new Hamburg SV coach
- Germany to continue subsidizing poorer east
15 May
- Massive blaze breaks out in central Berlin
- China angered by German visit with Dalai Lama
- German economy surprises with robust Q1 growth
- Chavez launches new attack on Merkel
- Schäuble: Islamists top threat to Germany
- When scared, Germans reach for salty snacks
- What's on in Germany: May 15 - 21
- Decision day looms for Löw on German Euro 2008 squad
- Berlin's 'Döner King' to pay €40K in rotten meat case
- Strikes hit Greece after OTE-Deutsche Telekom deal
- Baltic Sea sharks under threat
16 May
- First German aid arrives in Burma
- Field hockey elite meet in Germany for Beijing warm-up
- 'Sex and the City' fans celebrate German premiere
- Smoking ban dents German cigarette sales
- Chinese and Russian industrial spying widespread in Germany
- Brother suspected in death of Hamburg girl
- Minority Sorbs to demand more funding in Berlin
- Teen Marin shocked by Euro 2008 call for Germany
- Ten detained in Europe for suspected Islamist links
- Germany to send troops to western Afghanistan
17 May
- German survives four days under China quake rubble
- Merkel awarded Peruvian gold medal at Lima Summit
- German neo-Nazis celebrate Israeli national identity
- Schumacher qualifies at the Superbike championships
- Porsche creates 2100 new jobs in Germany
18 May
- German conservationists call for butterfly census
- Germany sends aid to Burmese cyclone victims
- Bundesliga waves goodbye to Bayern's Hitzfeld and Kahn
- Prize honours survivor of Ludwigshafen blaze
19 May
- Merkel pays official visit to Mexico
- SPD calls for higher taxes on the rich
- Aussies slump to German field hockey squad
- Moving beyond Bush
- Federer pins hopes on Nadal fatigue after Hamburg loss
- Suspect in Hamburg 'honour killing' had assault record
- Dalai Lama meeting stirs storm in Berlin and Beijing
- Bundesbank expects only modest German growth
- US Embassy returns to historic Berlin site
- Driver naps while drunk passenger steers on Autobahn
- Raising a glass to Teutonic hospitality
- Vodafone to pay €474 million for rest of Arcor
- Dalai Lama addresses 25,000 in Berlin
20 May
- Osnabrück to host dialogue with Muslims: report
- German army may open commando unit to women
- Merkel wraps up Latin America tour with Mexico visit
- German producer prices jump by 5.2 percent in April
- German-Afghan jailed for knifing rabbi in Frankfurt
- News Corp. raises stake in German pay-TV Premiere
- German investor confidence slips in May: ZEW
- Police call off hunt for gunman at Berlin school
- China warns Germany over Dalai Lama visit
- Firefighters feel the heat for Hitler Youth t-shirt slogan
- German MPs kybosh unpopular pay raise
- Berlin Philharmonic catches fire
21 May
- German workers dream of career switch: study
- Berlin Philharmonic fire extinguished
- Germany wins, Aussies read riot act after Argentina defeat
- Ex-Guantanamo inmate gets halfhearted hearing from Congress
- Ifo business confidence jumps
- Man dies after injuring police in Hamburg shootout
- Pilot strike delays flights in Germany
- Bomb attack on German army thwarted in Afghanistan
- Moneyed upstarts storm German football
- German Catholics bring back exorcism
22 May
- Russian interest in Deutsche Bahn raises concerns
- Drug addict confesses to deadly Autobahn attack
- Drunken German cyclists could face driving ban
- Industry says oil price a danger to German economy
- What's on in Germany: May 22-28
- German post admits neo-Nazis put Hess on stamp
- Köhler to stand for second term as German president
- Wrong number: Munich image printed on Berlin phone books
- Dismembered woman found in suitcase died of head injury
- German nudist flights scrapped over 'moral' qualms
- Allianz and Commerzbank reportedly bid for Postbank
- German Eurovision hopeful in illness scare
23 May
- German rents to reach record increases
- Ryanair flight makes emergency landing in Bremen
- EU official slams 'irresponsible' executive pay
- EU treaty approval shows Berlin schism
- Engineers convicted in maglev accident
- German and Russian railways mulling cross holdings
- Frankfurt gets flexible over working hours
- Berlin public transit wage dispute ends
- German zoo investigated for killing tiger cubs
- Italian rubbish arrives in Germany
- Deutsche Bank reportedly eyeing Citigroup German unit
- German couple offer baby on Ebay
24 May
- Autobahn inferno kills 5 and injures 6
- Thousands protest neo-Nazi party rally in Bamberg
- Cultural group slams plans to bin Berlin multicultural radio show
- German director Wim Wenders premiers at Cannes
- Medical award for German accused of Nazi-era euthanasia
25 May
- Monument to gay victims of the Nazis unveiled in Berlin
- Germany's No Angels tank at Eurovision
- Neo-Nazis attack African man in Viersen
- Most Germans believe in true love
- German man killed in shoot-out with police
- Deutsche Telekom admits to spying on employees
- FARC had contacts with German leftists: report
26 May
- Far-left political force tells Germany it is here to stay
- Warehouse blaze in Ulm injures fireman
- German hospital unit treats China earthquake victims
- Year's first heat wave set to hit Germany
- German coalition squabbles over SPD presidential pick
- German teachers subject to internet harassment
- Deutsche Telekom spying scandal shocks Germany
- Thousands of German cops heading to Euro 2008
- Football NGO heads to Bosnia to help one kick at a time
- Child poverty gap growing in Germany
- Siemens director admits to setting up slush fund
27 May
- German crucified frog sculpture upsets Italy
- Dairy farmers strike over milk prices
- German gas costs set to soar this summer
- Ballack looks to Euro glory after Champions defeat
- German man dies during S&M sex act
- Berlin’s ILA air show takes off
- EU warns Germany of court action over new 'VW law'
- Entertainment 'experts' attack Germany's Eurovision flop
- German firms grapple with foreign investment
- Germany's oldest man dies at 107
- Standing up for the rights of gays and lesbians
- Belarus double strike leaves Germany red-faced
28 May
- Workers spot crocodile in Hildesheim river
- German import prices climb in April: report
- Amnesty criticizes deaths in German police custody
- Former Deutsche Telekom boss implicated in spy scandal
- German classical musicians turning to drugs and alcohol
- Tillich takes over as premier of Saxony
- Four bidders shortlisted for stake in German bank IKB
- Germany pledges €500 mln at UN biodiversity talks
- Messerschmitt mishap briefly shuts Berlin airport
- Löw cuts trio from German Euro 2008 squad
- Woman arrested for dead baby in freezer
- German milk strike spills across Europe
- The Left's Gysi grilled for alleged Stasi links
29 May
- Orderly Germans rebel against public smoking ban
- Rights envoy calls for debate on East German legacy
- What's on in Germany: May 29 - June 4
- Family’s dinner interrupted by lighting strike
- Bundesliga crowned Europe’s most profitable league
- Hamburg 'honour killing' suspect now faces rape inquiry
- German electricity prices set to rise this summer
- Investigators raid Deutsche Telekom in spy probe
- Berlin backs cluster bomb ban
- Germany faces hot and stormy weekend
- US artist implicates Lacoste in Berlin KaDeWe vandalism caper
30 May
- Top athletics guns gather for Berlin's Golden League
- 'Child killer' nabbed in Germany after 27 years
- Dairy farmers expect Germany to feel milk strike pinch
- Storms slam western Germany
- Wax Hitler at Berlin Madame Tussauds causes outrage
- Germans vote Obama best US presidential candidate
- Barrie Kosky prepares musical feast for Berliners
- German parliament approves Deutsche Bahn privatization
- Germany and Turkey launch joint university in Istanbul
- Police find WWII flak cannon in garage
- Deutsche Telekom hires ex-judge for internal spying probe
31 May
- Germans seen hoarding milk amid dairy strike
- German diplomats in Kabul moved to embassy grounds
- Germany's defence will improve, Löw insists
- Southwest Germany reeling from storm
- Deutsche Telekom executive admits to spying on staff
- Briton wins damages for hotel with too many Germans