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

01 July
- Nazi hunters say German judge blocking search for 'Dr Death'
- Köhler won't sign EU treaty pending court ruling
- Striking Lufthansa workers cause delays
- Three dead in train collision in Bavaria
- Deutsche Post wins €1-bln EU ruling on state aid
- US wants Bundeswehr forces to help in eastern Afghanistan
- Reagan’s son lobbies for memorial in Berlin
- Man-sized German catfish chokes on football
- German unemployment sinks to 16-year low
- Deutsche Bank shares fall on profit warning rumours
- One-quarter of Berliners have foreign roots
- German pensioner death sparks call for laws against assisted suicide
02 July
- Merkel sticks to Lisbon Treaty strategy
- Steinbrück bets 6 bottles of wine on balanced budget by 2011
- Prestigious Bayreuth Wagner festival to go online
- Knife-wielding German prisoner takes woman hostage for beer
- Discount grocer Aldi to sell €399 'netbook' mini laptop
- German firm stops supplying blank banknotes to Zimbabwe
- German cops bust grass growing granny
- Lost scenes of 'Metropolis' discovered in Argentina
- Former Airbus boss reportedly faces insider trading probe
- German court jails two men for holding sex slaves
- What's on in Germany: July 3-July 9
- Germany teddy maker Steiff to end production in China
03 July
- All smiles as Bayern's Klinsmann opens charm offensive
- Germany's 639-year concert to celebrate 6th chord change
- Hottest day of the year makes Germany sweat
- Former Airbus boss charged with insider trading
- German parents who tried to sell baby on Ebay go free
- IKB posts lower loss despite subprime mess
- ZDF demands UEFA compensation for match blackout
- German 'Black Widow' murderer jailed for life
- ECB hikes interest rates
- Heidelberg woman bites rapist's penis and escapes
- Bloated jellyfish swarm German coastline
04 July
- Football stars to gather in Munich to help Africa
- Dresden keeps UNESCO heritage status – for now
- Germany to allow Church weddings without civil ceremony
- Germany sinks in soggy weather
- Fisherman finds dead baby in Weser River
- Thief in Aachen escapes arrest by baring her breasts
- Opinion: Fortress America in the heart of Berlin
- New US Embassy in Berlin inaugurated at pre-war location
- Smart sales boost Daimler's six-month results
- German industrial orders continue six-month slide
05 July
- Man rips head off new Hitler waxwork
- Rotten cheese scandal spreads to Germany
- Truck drivers to protest high fuel prices
- Merkel: G8 to tackle food crisis
06 July
- Man attacked Hitler waxwork on a bet
- Germans kidnapped by pirates contact their families
- Tchibo to try bigger stores
- Obama team mulling speech at Brandenburg Gate
- New offshore wind farms on the way
- Cologne celebrates Christopher Street Day
07 July
- Lufthansa pilot strike cripples German airports
- Daimler to build factory in India
- Beheaded Hitler figure spirited to London for repairs
- Woman assailed by five exhibitionists in Herne
- On the pitch with Zidane
- Berlin mulls measures to attract skilled foreign workers
- Germany decries suicide bombings in Afghanistan
- Circus llama to blame for massive bear hunt in Hesse
- Merkel defends Germany’s nuclear phase-out at G8 summit
- German singer suspected of 300 counts of child sex abuse
08 July
- UNESCO honours Berlin modernist housing projects
- French police detain German TV team and immigration protestors
- Obama to visit Berlin on July 24
- German man arrested for wearing swastika shirt out shopping
- Guest talks too much, German woman calls police
- German man confesses to robbing 53 drug stores
- Merkel calls G8 climate deal a major step forward
- Siemens unveils huge layoff plan
- Immigrants receive stiff sentences for brutal subway attack
- Turkish-Germans press Berlin to allow dual citizenship
09 July
- German MPs demand voting rights for children
- Merkel asks China to push for success in Tibet talks
- Pirates free German freighter after 41 days
- German police raid 600 buildings in drug investigation
- Top German EADS exec held in insider trading probe
- Kurdish rebels kidnap German climbers in Turkey
- China asks German firms to halt production before Olympics
- Munich customs rocked by huge corruption scandal
- Merkel doesn't want Obama speech at Brandenburg Gate
- German campaigners castigate G8 climate deal
10 July
- Agents at German sumbarine firm charged with spying
- Tokio Hotel fans camp for days before concert
- A turd in Tempelhof
- German Olympic officials face Stasi probe
- Blackstone fund to put €1 bln in German wind farms
- Lufthansa wage talks break down
- Foul weather to stay indefinitely
- Kurdish rebels set conditions for German hostages’ release
- German privacy experts wary of Google photo project
- What's on in Germany: July 10-16
- One in nine in Berlin wants the Wall back
- Cat shipped across Germany in box survives
11 July
- Schäuble rejects PKK demands in hostage situation
- German bars flouting smoking ban by converting to private clubs
- Deutsche Bahn ICE train recall to cause delays
- Thomas Cook, Air Berlin ditch Condor sale
- Work on Berlin's new airport terminal begins
- Six-year-old hit by flying sofa
- Dead baby found in Weser river was murdered
- French bank buys German Citibank business
- How Team Telekom totalled the Tour de France
- Secrecy surrounds Ballack’s upcoming nuptials
- German fashion industry says 'no' to anorexic models
12 July
- Fine unlikely for man who beheaded Hitler waxwork
- Rising oil prices cost Germans €25 bn
- Swede with neo-Nazi ties buys Berlin villa
- Nigeria hunts kidnappers of two German workers
- Roth: Merkel is “chancellor of heteros”
- Murderer of German girl commits suicide in jail
13 July
- Merkel calls on PKK to free German hostages
- Germans play world’s longest tennis match
- World-record 70,000 watch German comedian Barth
- Merkel calls for slower nuclear phase-out
14 July
- Five injured at North Sea mudflats horse race
- Kurdish rebels say they can hit German targets
- Five dead in Autobahn 2 collision
- Two runners dead after storm overtakes extreme Zugspitze race
- Break-in and threats at Jewish offices in Frankfurt an der Oder
- Football star Michael Ballack marries long-time partner
- Berliners vote against massive Spree development
- EADS finance director questioned in insider trading probe
- German kicked off flight for lame Kalashnikov joke
- German scientists condemn Nazi-era medical abuses
15 July
- Germany threatened by traffic overload
- Psychological problems increasing for German jobless
- Sweet deal for German sugar refiner Nordzucker
- German man arrested for gas explosion murder attempt
- Three Iraqis jailed in Germany for assassination plot
- German man charged with killing wife with hunting bow
- Man brings WWII grenade to police in shopping bag
- Group of German youth attack elderly man
- German investor confidence at 17-year low
- Dirt really stresses out Germans on holiday
16 July
- German prosecutor probes WWII massacre in French village
- German inflation at 14-year high in June
- Munich begins Oktoberfest set up
- Scores of Berliners evacuated after WWII bomb find
- Barge collision causes huge oil spill near Hamburg
- Saving the German way
- Five Germans rescued from Austrian Alps
- German intruder turns out to be albino rabbit
- Germany blocks eastern European workers until 2011
- Berlin twins born with different skin tones
- Steinmeier heads to Georgia to mediate Abkhazia crisis
- German parents jailed for starving daughter to death
17 July
- Germans all tanked up on adrenalin in Soviet-era toys
- Obama’s Berlin speech at Brandenburg Gate unlikely
- Margot Honecker invited to Sandinista party in Nicaragua
- Historic Renaissance buildings burn in Erfurt
- New iPhone sold out in Germany
- Dresdner Bank reportedly to be sold
- Raikkonen hoping German F1 race won't be a washout
- Study shows German cancer survival rates only average
- German firm to build massive mosque in Algeria
- What's on in Germany: July 17-23
- Artist exchange links Berlin to Dubai
- Parents lose custody of daughter after attempted honour killing in Trier
18 July
- Italian court begins hearing WWII compensation claims
- Georgia pokes holes in German peace plan
- German train travellers to receive refunds for delays
- At least 80 injured at Bosch plant in Bamberg
- Berlin Fashion Week ignores charter against skinny models
- Bavarian farmer promises cops a keg after 100th sobriety test
- Tycoon gets suspended sentence in Liechtenstein tax trial
- Clammy German weather set to improve after weekend
- German granny bites cop to defend drunk son
- German tourist finds WWII mine on Danish beach
- German producer prices see biggest jump in 26 years
19 July
- Love Parade dominates Dortmund
- Spain to try four alleged Nazi war criminals
- The Left party might enter Bavarian parliament
- British soldiers march out of Osnabrück after 63 years
- Germany warned Obama 'not coming just to be friendly'
- Siemens backs away from huge German job cuts
20 July
- New soldiers to be sworn into army at Reichstag
- Hamilton cool starting German Grand Prix from pole
- Honecker appears to accept medal from Ortega
- NPD marches amid financial collapse
- PKK releases German hostages in Turkey
- Obama to speak at Berlin's Siegessäule on Thursday
21 July
- Record 1.6 mln partyers heat up Love Parade
- Jogger reports possible bear in Hesse
- After 57 years, Wolfgang Wagner bows out in Bayreuth
- Olympic ice-kings Germany look for summer glory in Beijing
- Russian billionaire Mordashov boosts stake in travel group TUI
- MEND rebels in Niger Delta to help free kidnapped Germans
- Protestors released after German army induction ceremony scuffle
- Thieves steal excavator and mow down German bank for ATM
- Leipzig University puts 4th century bible online
- Oktoberfest tent spots already booked up
- Germany sees growth slowing dramatically
- Representing Germany's US Democrats in Denver
- Merkel backs EU 'associate' status for Ukraine
22 July
- Facebook asks US court to unplug German website StudiVZ
- German climbers freed by Kurdish rebels arrive home
- Voigt calls for end to debate over Obama's Germany visit
- Pilots go on strike at Lufthansa units
- Merkel cheers 'historic' Karadzic capture
- Asylum records confirm Klaus Kinski's madness
- Summer to return to damp Germany
- Ex-RAF terrorist ruled out as Buback murder suspect
- German firms take a fresh look at Iraq
- Germany denies it might host Euro 2012 football tournament
- Can Germany’s Obamania last?
23 July
- Leader of German PKK arm arrested
- German couple kidnapped by pirates beg for medical help
- Strike at Lufthansa units cause widespread cancellations
- Poland's Elblag Canal offers gravity-defying cruise
- Berlin man arrested for attempted murder by gas explosion
- German cabinet approves new citizenship test and ID cards
- Over a million Germans disappear
- German woman charged for murder of Swedish toddlers
- VW profits surge amid drive into emerging markets
- Merkel will resist Obama call for more Afghanistan troops
- Measuring Kreuzberg's mosque tolerance
- Man breaches Obama barricades in Berlin
24 July
- Berlin gears up for Obama visit
- Giant python escapes near Mainz
- Feds mulling total move from Bonn to Berlin
- German man denies sex with murdered corpse
- Air traffic normalizing after Lufthansa unit strikes
- German Ifo business sentiment plunges to 34-month low
- Boy suffocates in sand after trespassing at German gravel plant
- German astronaut calls for larger European space programme
- What's on in Germany: July 24 - 30
- Berlin's public transport most-vandalized in Germany
- Daimler lowers profit forecast even as second quarter sales rise
- Obama plays down expectations before Berlin speech
- Obama dazzles over 200,000 in Berlin
25 July
- Bundesliga clubs fume over TV money row
- Steinmeier lands in Afghanistan for surprise visit
- Lufthansa braces for massive strike on Monday
- Germany cheers Obama's Berlin visit
- Berlin senior nabbed cruising autobahn in wheelchair
- Reinsurer Munich Re's shares plummet after profit warning
- Infineon to cut 3,000 jobs amid heavy quarterly loss
- Disabled man kept in Essen cellar for years
- Germany set for muggy hot weekend
- Air Berlin alleges Dresdner Bank stock manipulation
- Drunken British women ground flight in Frankfurt
26 July
- Curtain up on Wolfgang Wagner's last Bayreuth
- Steinmeier examines Afghan security commitment
- Big German parties bleeding members, expert says
- Genealogist finds Obama's German roots
- Lufthansa strike could see Olympians stranded
27 July
- Nokia to reimburse German state to end plant closure row
- Dozens of cities hit by erratic weather
- Poles and Germans in nude bathing war
- German pilot imposter held in Sri Lanka
- McCain attacks Obama over Berlin visit
28 July
- Steinmeier prods China on human rights
- Lufthansa on schedule despite massive strike
- First public Bayreuth viewing a success
- Ex-Siemens director convicted in corruption scandal
- China’s field of dreams in Germany
- German consumer confidence hits five-year low
- Emirates Airlines buys 60 Airbus planes
- Friesland wedding ends in brawl
- Obama says he got 'hustled' by German tabloid
- Nazi chimney sweep allowed back to work
- Bus crash injures 9 German students in Sweden
29 July
- Merkel’s CDU overtakes SPD as Germany’s biggest party
- Finance senator says the poor should bundle up this winter
- Oracle touts proof SAP stole software
- Lufthansa cancels 70 flights amid strike
- Former leftist German terrorist denied early release from prison
- Lambsdorff demands McCain retract 'fawning Germans' comment
- Anaemic 'Rhinegold' opens Dorst's 'Ring' in Bayreuth
- Girl gang attacks Munich man for talking on mobile too loudly
- Son beheads father in Thuringia
- Siemens to sue former executives for corruption scandal
- Archaeologists unlocking 'German Stonehenge' secrets
- German scientists discover hard-drinking tree shrew
- German inflation at 15-year high
30 July
- Lufthansa cancels 78 flights due to strike
- Humpback whale sighted off of Germany's northern coast
- Aachen 7-year-old steals €500 from his granny
- MAN posts strong Q2 results
- Germany regrets 'lost opportunity' at WTO talks
- Bayer sees growth despite drop in Q2 profit
- Siemens Q2 results beat expectations
- German high court overturns smoking ban
- Woman killed in sadomasochistic game near Potsdam
- German troops attacked in Afghanistan
- Strike forces Lufthansa to cancel long-distance flights
- Germany needs a comprehensive smoking ban
- Hidden Van Gogh painting revealed by Hamburg science centre
31 July
- Hamas frees cameraman working for German TV
- Bremen and Schalke to fight FIFA's Olympic ruling
- Five injured in Saarbrücken explosion
- Restructuring pushes retailer Metro into Q2 loss
- High oil prices bolster record BASF profits
- Deutsche Bank Q2 profit falls amid market turmoil
- Neo-Nazi exhumed to find forbidden swastika flag
- Hitler's art collection made public online
- What's on in Germany: Jul. 31 - Aug. 6
- Former Economy Minister Clement booted out of the SPD
- Lufthansa cancels flights amid efforts to end strike
- Retailer Hertie files for insolvency
- Hamburg orangutan drowns after visitor throws food
- Germany warned of tornado danger
- Israel alarmed over German-Iranian gas project