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

01 August
- Rain floods Bayreuth Festival playhouse
- Germany to see partial solar eclipse
- Luxury car makers in crisis as BMW issues profit warning
- Body Worlds anatomist wants drowned German orangutan
- China to ban German newspapers from Olympic Village
- Lufthansa forges wage deal to end strike
- Car-loving Germans turn to scooters as fuel costs rise
- Flaming toilets injure 8 at Wacken heavy metal festival
- Elite East German bunker opens to public
- Berlin goes Babylon
- German doctors perform first-ever double arm transplant
02 August
- German trust in banks unshaken by credit crisis
- Baby sea lion makes a splash at Berlin zoo
- Union boss told to quit over Lufthansa flights
- Top German students are Albanian, Slovak and Chinese
- EU chiefs urge Turkish govt to press ahead with reforms
- Greek telecom reportedly suing for Siemens slush fund secrets
- Rostock trial probing alleged blackmail of Liechtenstein bank
03 August
- Furnished Nazi bunkers surface in Denmark
- Germans favour national smoking ban
- New golden cross to decorate Berlin Cathedral
- Lufthansa strike aftermath grounds passengers
- Berlin ‘Stasi bar’ draws protests
04 August
- German women's football team out for elusive gold in Beijing
- German military suffering from shortage of doctors
- Head of Verdi labour union apologizes for taking free flights
- Heavy storms flood North Rhine-Westphalia
- Horse demolishes public toilet in Bavaria
- Lufthansa still cancelling flights despite strike's end
- VW aiming for 10 percent of Indian car market
- HSV sells van der Vaart to Real Madrid
- Autopsy shows dead Neustadt baby was alive at birth
- Merkel mourns Solzhenitsyn's death
- Igniting Europe's smoking revolution
- Potsdam evacuated for huge WWII bomb
- Coalition wants an executive salary cap in Germany
05 August
- Mating German badgers cause police chopper emergency call
- German to reunite with North Korean husband after 47 years
- High seas injure 23 German ferry passengers
- Adidas Q2 strong despite limping Reebok
- German tourist feared dead in Swedish sailing accident
- Former East German parliament steel headed to Dubai
- Germany wants limits for uranium levels in drinking water
- Victoria Beckham related to German friend of Karl Marx
- Sony buys BMG stake from Bertelsmann
- German policewomen get special safety bras
- Germany denies interest in Pentagon's armed drones
06 August
- Basketball star Nowitzki to carry German flag at Olympics
- SPD mulling measures against Liechtenstein and Swiss banks
- Wuppertal suspension railway resumes service after accident
- Leonardo DiCaprio’s German grandmother dies
- Commerzbank profits rise despite financial crisis
- Frankfurt customs agents seize piano with 16 kilos of cocaine
- Germany tells firms to show 'sensitivity' on Iran deals
- German believed abducted in Afghanistan
- Germany to compensate Budapest Holocaust survivors
- Taking the Neukölln out of Eliza Doolittle
- State premier Ringstorff to step down
- German football clubs set to call Brazilians home from Olympics
- Three German troops hurt in suicide attack
- Germany sharpens penalties for methamphetamines
- German women's football team draws against Brazil
07 August
- Lufthansa cancels flights amid new strike
- Kidnapped German-Afghan freed in Kabul
- German trade surplus surges in June
- German football clubs put price on Olympic dream
- Chinese embassy in Berlin hit by protests
- Ex-minister Clement regrets sparking SPD row
- What's on in Germany: August 7 - 13
- German teenagers take a poke at neo-Nazi bad apples
- Allianz shares plunge after profit warning
- Study shows at least 136 died at Berlin Wall
- German developer causes ruckus with $1,000 iPhone app
- German politicians eye Kinder surprise egg ban
08 August
- Lufthansa cancels 140 flights on Friday
- Ceremonies mark darker side of German Olympic history
- Heavy storms slam northern Germany
- Bild: Russians ruining German holidays with 'whores and vodka'
- Klinsmann demands patience as Bayern faces roughs season start
- ECB sees euro-zone credit squeeze easing
- Priceless expressionist artworks stolen in Gelsenkirchen
- German aid workers shot at in Afghanistan
- Merkel calls for end to South Ossetia violence
- Veteran keeper Lehmann exits German national squad
09 August
- Germans freed after Somali kidnap ordeal
- 'Rockefooler' identified as Bavarian man
- Entire football team struck by lightning
- Germans to lose leadership of Afghan police mission
- Olympics: Stegemann saves Germany with sole goal
10 August
- German minister says Georgia breaking international law
- Philosopher Habermas honoured in Switzerland
- Deutsche Post partners with Aldi
- German judge's giggle fit stops court case
- Merkel calls for immediate ceasefire in Georgia
11 August
- Nigerian armed group renews threat to German building firm
- Germany takes equestrian lead amid spills and surprises
- Christiane F. back in Berlin's drug scene
- Gigantic cruise ship leaves Papenburg dry dock
- Ypsilanti reportedly planning new attempt to lead Hesse
- Hundreds of Germans leave Georgia
- German state health official quits over lax smoking ban
- German wholesale price inflation at 27-year high
- Tennis star Boris Becker to marry
- Down on the Devil’s Moor
- German politicians seek ban for extreme-right youth group
12 August
- Germany’s Jung says Georgia must pursue NATO bid
- CD with 17,000 German bank accounts found
- Deutsche Bahn reportedly eyeing Italian railway project
- Police confirm German identity of fake Rockefeller
- Man sleeping in Düsseldorf station locker for 9 years faces jail
- Grimm delivers Germany's first Olympic gold for slalom canoe
- Freenet bosses to be tried for insider dealing
- Germany planning major celebrations for Berlin Wall anniversary
- Munich man jailed for life for killing rich aunt
- Berlin protestors demand Russian forces leave Georgia
13 August
- New study raises estimate of German border deaths
- Tornado rips through centre of Gießen
- Two arrested after Rüsselsheim shooting
- More Germans getting dual citizenship abroad
- German phone sex addict busted for €7,000 hotel bill
- Axel Springer eyes new buys on increased profits
- NATO and the EU must learn from Caucasus crisis
- Merkel to rap Medvedev over Georgia
- Energy giant EON earns €3 billion in first half of 2008
- Leipzig University to reinstall Marx monument
- Two arrested after Rüsselsheim shooting
14 August
- Bundesliga teams strengthen squads as Bayern avoids transfers
- Steinmeier: German observers in South Ossetia possible
- German GDP shrinks
- 'Humpy' the whale continues Baltic Sea odyssey
- SPD in Hesse pushes ahead with leftist alliance
- Vattenfall loses reduced charges case
- What's on in Germany: August 14 - 20
- Bear attacks German tourist camping in Romania
- Rüsselsheim shooting suspects hand themselves in to police
- Official wants 50,000 empty west German flats demolished
- Celebrating 850 years of Munich
- German riders take another Olympic equestrian gold
15 August
- Nigerian rebel group claims to have rescued kidnapped Germans
- Steffen upsets Trickett for 100-metre freestyle gold
- Experiment tries to slow Swiss glacier melt with giant screen
- Russians to show Merkel alleged proof of Georgian atrocities
- Berlin Arabic mag sparks outrage by labelling gays as diseased
- Experts see no danger of recession for German economy
- Weed plantation found at Neuss drug clinic
- Tarantino and Pitt join forces to scalp Nazis in Berlin
- Business warns against Left in Hesse state government
- All eyes on Munich as Bundesliga season begins
- Merkel criticizes Russia over Georgia crisis
16 August
- Brits eye German police safer bra initiative
- Colourful lunar eclipse due Saturday night
- Germans 'kidnapped' in chaotic Georgia
- Schröder blames Georgia for crisis with Russia
- Confusion over German jobless numbers
- Müntefering returns to save Social Democrat election hopes
17 August
- Water buffalo move into soggy Brandenburg
- Telekom set to close half its call centres
- Gay holocaust victim memorial vandalized in Berlin
- Thousands of jobless to care for German dementia patients
- Drug dealer can keep German job centre start-up business grant
- Locals return home after Mönchengladbach accident
- Merkel backs Georgia's NATO bid
18 August
- Stuttgart open new Bundesliga season with away win
- Wet Germany has world's priciest water
- Couple rescued from plane stuck in Bavarian power lines
- Iran offers German firms business guarantees
- Bavarian undertaker duo accused of killing mortician
- Schavan’s exorbitant chopper flight causes outrage
- Schröder lambasted for blaming Russian conflict on Georgia
- Germany misses out on Olympics football final
- China renews hopes for German maglev project
- Germany expects next Pakistan leader to help pacify Afghanistan
- San Francisco consulate assails visiting German MPs
- Germany plans reconstruction conference for Georgia
- Deutsche Bahn to raise prices despite strong profits
19 August
- Frodeno wins surprise triathlon gold
- Berlin Cathedral gets new golden cross
- Leftists promise long-term support for Ypsilanti in Hesse
- Producer prices see biggest surge in 27 yrs
- German pensioner caught in cocaine caper
- Indicator suggests Germany may escape recession
- Home energy costs hit Germans in pocketbook
- Dogs to sniff out endangered species trade in Frankfurt
- Archaeologists find more than 2,000 skeletons under Berlin
- Germany doubles aid to Georgia
20 August
- SV Lieth wins dirty locker room contest
- Leipzig switches on Europe's biggest gaming convention
- Information on entire German population in circulation
- Gold medal strongman Steiner backs anti-doping fight
- What's on in Germany: August 21 - 27
- Germany to block sovereign wealth fund takeovers
- German conservatives slammed for 'racial ideology' on citizenship
- German fertility rate inches upward
- Berlin calls Russian pullout 'unsatisfactory'
- Catholic priest stripped of leadership for blessing gay union
- German CEO pay rose with profits last year
- German by choice
- Lufthansa ticketed seven passengers on Spanair flight
21 August
- Westerwelle: Berlin must oppose US missile defence
- German police to help with Spanair crash investigation
- US investment group Lone Star buys IKB
- Citizens taxed thousands for ministry's Knut adoption
- Tyre maker Continental agrees to Schaeffler takeover
- Four dead in A31 autobahn accident
- German Olympic horse disqualified for doping
- German Olympians strip for Playboy
- Bavarian family feared dead in Spanair crash
- German troops kill first Afghan
- German cargo ship reportedly hijacked off Somali coast
22 August
- Condor flight to Frankfurt makes emergency landing in Kenya
- Police search for Leipzig girl's murderer
- Germans fear new Cold War
- 'Dr. Death' wants dead baby gorilla from Münster zoo
- Stuttgart reportedly used Arsenal photo for Lehmann
- Germany demands Russia total withdrawal from Georgia
- Munich teens poisoned by stolen nature walk plants
- Exploring Berlin’s endangered bunkers
- German men's and women's kayak teams take gold
- Eastern Germany called economic 'crisis region'
- Swedish broadcaster investigated for Nazi joke during Olympics
- Discount supermarket Lidl to open first Swiss stores
- German cinema chain Cinemaxx closing more multiplexes
23 August
- German jailed in China for Tibet protest
- Terrapins reintroduced to Brandenburg ponds
- Berlin and Hamburg in tug-of-war over police officers
- Sports specialist warns against Chinese training methods
- New German budget airline set for take off
- Bavarians smash global child porn ring
24 August
- Swastikas painted on Holocaust memorial
- Warm and sunny weather set to return on Tuesday
- NPD outnumbered on Berlin streets over Hindu temples
- Son of Nazi Dr. Death tries to kill him off
- Thieves steal crocodile Charlie from circus trailer
- German politicians hail Obama's choice of Biden as mate
25 August
- Merkel rejects talk of new Cold War with Russia
- China releases Tibetan-German protestor after Olympics
- Energy giant RWE rejects Seehofer's cost-reduction plan
- Millions of unmarried Germans living in sin
- Nike Wagner bids in battle to head Bayreuth opera festival
- Germany's Lufthansa wants Austria's AuA
- Northern Germany for a penny – a Brit’s credit crunch Weeze
- Housework straining German housewives
- Extras cruising for compensation from Valkyrie star Tom Cruise
- Gas leak injures 25 at Wülfrath lacquer factory
- Merkel: Moscow shouldn't allow Georgia's breakaway regions
- Shares up as Allianz nears Dresdner deal
26 August
- Armed gang rob German financiers on yacht off Corsica
- Drunk riverboat captain arrested while manning Weser tour
- German corporations, consumers sceptical about economy
- German woman found guilty of murdering Swedish children
- Amateur films flaming plane at Munich airport
- Cat survives seven weeks behind neighbour's bathtub
- Merkel calls Russian decree on Georgian regions 'unacceptable'
- German police investigate discovery of limbless torso
- Climbers killed in Mont Blanc avalanche from southern Germany
- German women still earn less than men
27 August
- Germany extradites Islamic extremist to France
- Energy giant EON pulling plug on 1,800 jobs in Germany
- Arsonists attack Deutsche Telekom building
- Outbid, GfK calls off approach for British rival
- The Left closing in on the SPD
- German soldier killed in Afghanistan
- Germany to lose 12 million in population by 2060
- Frankfurt prosecutors arrest neo-Nazi music producers
- New IKB owner lashes out at German politicians
- Federal police call for law to block child porn sites
28 August
- Munich river heads for Hollywood
- Germany's Merkel named world's most powerful woman
- Berlin consumer electronics show gets practical
- Bionade planning factory in Iowa
- Afghanistan hurting military recruitment efforts
- German woman requests new trial in Swedish child murder case
- What's on in Germany: Aug.28-Sept.3
- Unemployment shrinks despite slowdown
- Politicians, victims remember air show disaster
- Pope condemns German frog sculpture as blasphemous
- Lufthansa in talks for two more rivals
29 August
- VW beats Ford to become world's third largest automaker
- Decision looms for new Bayreuth Opera Festival leader
- Soldier killed in Afghanistan because of flimsy vehicle
- Smaller minarets win approval for huge Cologne mosque
- Essen U-bahn metro erupts in flames during morning rush
- Emergency call turns out to be horror film
- Three civilians killed at German checkpoint in Afghanistan
- Allianz likely to sell Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank
- Steinmeier sceptical on sanctions against Russia
- German man confesses to dismembering girlfriend
- Deutsche Bahn passengers slam ticket price hike
- Plácido Domingo to sing in Berlin
30 August
- Senior sex can keep old age blues at bay
- Dentist makes fake radar machine to slow traffic on his street
- Germany plans for Cold Peace with Russia over Georgia
- €150 bonus planned for buying green white goods
- Anti-fascist hackers crack Blood and Honour site
- Sauerland terror suspects fit to stand trial, charges ready
31 August
- Files show amateur UK diplomat tried for deal with Hitler
- Berlin gradually bans patio heaters
- Porsche drivers expected to be cute and sporty - and male
- Probe launched into possible Bundesliga match fixing
- Thief steals car complete with sausage dog on back seat
- 2,000 anti-nuclear protestors target Büchel airforce base
- Allianz sells Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank