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

01 September
- Suicide in Germany down by half since 1980
- Soldiers broke rules in Afghanistan killings
- German retail sales surprisingly low
- Women instigate brutal knifing in front of Berlin club
- Bundeswehr attacked again in Afghanistan
- German actor Brühl to star in Tarantino WWII film
- Poland remembers Nazi attack sparking World War II
- Steiff makes Karl Lagerfeld teddy bear
- Commerzbank's takeover of Dresdner hits shares
- German citizenship test goes into effect
- Why beer and tight leather trousers don't mix
02 September
- Wagner's great-granddaughters win Bayreuth succession battle
- Bridge collapse kills worker, fire engine kills bystander on the way
- Man sells his tattoo to German collector for €150,000
- Man killed, woman injured in Düsseldorf street shoot out
- Social Democrats demand leftward lurch
- Dead baby boy found in Andernach bio-waste bin
- Til Schweiger joins cast of new Tarantino film
- Fran Healy from Travis: 'Berlin is where it’s happening'
- Japan's Onward snaps up fashion label Jil Sander
- Drugged up Danes kill one in naked Frankfurt driving rampage
- Islamists charged in anti-US terror plot
- Online banking fraud at all-time high in Germany
- Karstadt department store chain to cut 450 posts
- Bavarian hotel offers a field of dreams
03 September
- Oliver Kahn plays final game
- Ministry for ban on lap seating for babies and parents on planes
- Asse nuclear facility operators under fire
- Steinbrück sees no danger of recession
- Finding fossils at Germany's tiniest national park
- Police hunt for speedster autobahn skateboarder
- Far-left overtakes SPD in west German state
- German military paid off Afghan victims' families
- Cost explosion reportedly hits Hamburg's new philharmonic
- Germany and Denmark to link with massive bridge across strait
- Germany must rethink its permanent nuclear storage
04 September
- Switzerland implicates 600 Germans in paedophile network
- Gabriel: nuclear facility Asse like “Swiss cheese”
- Gorch Fock sailor missing at sea
- Artist to turn death row inmate into fish food
- What's on in Germany: September 4 - 10
- Berlin to tighten data protection law amid privacy scandals
- Dassault claims Siemens violated trade secrets
- Pacifist poster with dead German soldier sparks outrage
- Germans terrified of inflation
- German-Pakistani man charged with aiding al Qaida
- World takes to German wine
05 September
- Hamburg offers fans team graveyard plots
- Hope of finding missing German sailor fades
- Isotope shortage could impact cancer therapy in Germany
- Özdemir poised to be first Turkish German to lead a major party
- Study finds poor need just €132 per month to survive
- Steinmeier calls for probe into Georgia conflict
- Indian summer to arrive after wet weekend
- German industrial output plunges
- Daimler and RWE planning electric car network for Berlin
- Munich ranked Germany's most-successful city
- German Media Roundup: McCain overshadowed by power Palin
06 September
- Soaring funeral costs mean more Germans leave bodies to science
- Löw confident Liechtenstein will fall to Germany
- Eastern cities becoming better places to be
- Domestic energy prices will continue to rise
- Lidl faces fines for spying on staff
- Berlin too scared to take on Greenpeace over Sylt rocks
- Steinmeier takes position to lead SPD
07 September
- Cot death numbers reach historic low as parents wise up
- Thousands clash over neo-Nazi march in Dortmund
- 1,000 police sent into Hamburg riots
- Germany victorious on pitch and TV
- Canadians win in Berlin firework competition
- Steinmeier takes crown, ousts Beck to lead SPD
08 September
- Teen band Tokio Hotel wins at MTV awards
- President Köhler's plane breaks down in Beijing
- CDU plans campaign to fight communist nostalgia
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier: the man who would be chancellor
- More than half of pregnant German women drink alcohol
- Steinmeier faces difficult road toward chancellorship
- Gila Monsters stolen from Cologne zoo
- Stuttgart scientists prove animals can survive in outer space
- Merkel attacks English word invasion
- IG Metall calls for wage hike for employees
- Brandenburg fires up experimental CO2 power plant
09 September
- Afghan minister calls for anti-rebel attacks in Pakistan
- German Afghanistan base hit by rocket fire
- Germany says Indian nuclear deal not a message to Iran
- German insurer warns against growing vampire teeth trend
- Beck says lack of trust within SPD forced his resignation
- 20,000 visitors expected at WindEnergy trade fair
- Siegburg police identify wily mystery kangaroo
- Tarantino looking for 'Aryan' extras for new WWII film
- Exberliner Magazine picks Berlin’s best smoking rooms
- Frankfurt postman arrested for hoarding truckloads of letters
- EU plans new case against Germany for VW law
- Inside Berlin’s graffiti war
10 September
- Teens draw swastikas on disabled man
- Podolksi plans to shoot Germany to victory over Finland
- Funding for German asylum seekers hits new low
- German states bicker over parking stripe colours
- EU sees Germany headed for recession
- Wheelchair basketball player sent home for doping at Paralympics
- Mouse stops traffic in Bochum
- Book warns German children watch porn at 8 and have sex at 12
- Iranian 'spy' to be tried in Germany
- Insurgents attack Bundeswehr troops in Afghanistan
- World Bank ranks Germany as 25th best place to do business
- Why Angie ain't no Maggie
11 September
- Klose hat-trick snatches draw from Finland
- Raptor dinosaur tracks found near Bückeburg
- Deutsche Bank targets Postbank stake
- Liechtenstein prince calls Germany 'Fourth Reich'
- What's on in Germany: September 11 - 17
- Immigrant youth not more violent than German kids
- Summer ends as temperatures set to plunge this weekend
- Germany willing to send 40 observers to Georgia
- Media watchdog slams ads with naked women and Hitler
- Almost one-fourth of Germans believe the US was behind 9/11
- Deutsche Bank bags Postbank
12 September
- Somali pirates release German ship
- Vacationers land in Frankfurt after ‘Ike’ hits Cuba
- Deutsche Bahn scraps service charge plan
- Steinbrück rejects EU stimulus plan idea
- Munich bans hoodlums from Oktoberfest
- VW union stages massive protest against Porsche and EU
- Berlin lodges protest over US comments on Baltic pipeline
- Deutsche Bank seals Postbank deal
- Madonna causes Bundesliga match cancellation
- Ex-NPD treasurer jailed for stealing neo-Nazi party funds
13 September
- Metallica rocks new O2 arena in Berlin
- Labour union head warns against low-wage explosion
- Officials reportedly admit nuclear security lacking
- Germany leads opposition to EU sales tax cuts
- Police arrest suspected terrorist backer
14 September
- China a brave new market for German pig ears, feet
- Hitler waxwork back on display in Berlin
- Germany urges US to find solution for Lehman Brothers
- EU to push Germany to relax gambling laws
- I'd quit Bayern if I was Podolski, says Sammer
- Clashes between neo-Nazis and protestors leave scores injured
15 September
- Alleged Nazi war criminal to stand trial at age 90
- Robbe says German military morale endangered
- Medical association calls smoking an illness
- Leftists outraged by Schmidt’s comparison of Lafontaine to Hitler
- Chemicals giant BASF wants to takeover Swiss rival Ciba
- Berlin calls Lehman fallout 'manageable' as Frankfurt tanks
- Boy stands trial for flooding arena with beer
- Air Berlin passengers refuse to board plane after two false starts
- Lufthansa takes control of Brussels Airlines
- Spiders take over Hamburg's HafenCity
- German 90-year-old pleads innocent to Nazi war crime
16 September
- Health insurers reject treating smokers as sick people
- Earthquake hits Bavaria
- Merkel wishes she could be a gymnast
- Berlin sees 'lack of cooperation' on Iran's nuclear programme
- Body of missing Gorch Fock sailor found
- Beckstein hammered for drink driving comments
- German man protests legal fine by paying 62 kilos in coins
- Porsche gains control of Volkswagen
- Scientists discover stunning red fluorescence in reef fish
- Steinbrück sees Germany weathering global financial crisis
- Analysts expect German banks to cope with Lehman's demise
17 September
- Adolescent alcohol abuse growing in Berlin
- Luca Toni wants to win Bayern the Champions League
- More German students choosing foreign universities
- Dozens rescued from Mannheim fire
- Merkel demands better global financial regulation
- Oktoberfest organizers fear deep freeze
- Huge WWII torpedo found on Timmendorf beach
- KfW slammed for mistakenly wiring Lehman €300 million
- EU names German diplomat head of Georgia monitoring team
- US soldiers in Germany charged with Baghdad murders
- Sifting through Sylt's conflicting charms
18 September
- Researchers compile list of German Jews persecuted in WWII
- Tiefensee calls for expansion of urban bike traffic
- Pimp charged €210,000 for beating his whores
- Berlin to give Alexanderplatz an extra scrubbing
- ECB joins US Fed to quell world markets
- Tattoo removal on the rise in Germany
- US soldier in Germany jailed for seven months for Iraq slayings
- What's on in Germany: September 18 - 24
- Survey sees more porn changing German sex
- Cologne braces for extreme right anti-Islam congress
- Steinbrück looking for blood over KfW's Lehman scandal
- Opposition claims German intelligence aided US war in Iraq
19 September
- Steinmeier calls on SPD to end debate on ‘Agenda 2010’
- Smokers to enjoy final Oktoberfest before ban
- ‘Germany's dumbest bankers’ suspended for Lehman scandal
- Von der Leyen criticizes German firms for being anti-family
- Massive Jesus statue rejected in Bad Reichenhall
- Two terror suspects arrested in Frankfurt
- Germany hesitates on new sanctions against Iran
- Chimney sweeps free to fire up competition
- WWII bomb injures 17 at Hattingen construction site
- Right-wing extremist rally in Cologne sparks clashes
20 September
- Kauder floats idea of EU-wide finance authority
- Lehmann's chopper rides to VfB Stuttgart upset mayor
- Left-wing protesters scuffle with police in Cologne
- Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich
- Police ban anti-Islam rally after clashes in German city
- Merkel slams Britain, US for blocking financial transparency
- Klinsmann rues 'black' Saturday as Bremen rout Bayern
21 September
- Bavaria's first lady sparks 'dirndl-gate'
- German kidnapped in northern Somalia
- Baader-Meinhof epic takes on RAF's 'terrorist chic'
- Reporter meets one of 'Germany's dumbest bankers'
- Germany condemns deadly Pakistan attack
22 September
- 'Baader Meinhof Gang' jail to be demolished
- Postbank workers stage all-day strike on Monday
- German and Somali hostages released
- Berlin boat nearly hits mystery cable strung across canal
- KfW transfer to Lehman reportedly no mistake
- Heidi Klum misses out at Emmy Awards
- Alcoholic dies trying to rappel from fifth-floor forced detox
- Germany caps financial aid to China
- Berlin rejects joining US bank bailout package
- Five German tourists kidnapped in Egypt
- How I learned to stop worrying and love my Sparbuch
- Two Australians face jail for running up €148,000 hotel tab
23 September
- Knut's surrogate father Dörflein found dead
- Suicide bomber attacks German troops in Afghanistan
- Whorehouse robber beaten out of his booty in Berlin
- RAF planned to blow up Strauß with a model airplane
- IG Metall demands eight percent pay increase
- Bätzing wants undercover teens to bust alcohol violators
- Germany ranks 14th among least corrupt countries
- Police union demands football summit on hooligan violence
- Berlin gets bookish
- Saarbrücken has Germany's priciest petrol
- Study says Germany unprepared for a major catastrophe
24 September
- Steinmeier says Russia hindering talks on Iran
- Knut's surrogate father Dörflein had cancer
- Tiefensee says aid to former communist east 'urgent'
- German business confidence drops again
- Brangelina arrives for three-month stay in Berlin
- China asks German dairies for powdered milk
- First Siemens bribery scandal trial starts in Nuremberg
- Unfulfilled Aachen john demands hooker refund
- Germany doubles police instructors in Afghanistan
- Bavarian dentist retrieves unpaid work from patient’s mouth
- Steinmeier fears impact of chilly US-Russia ties
25 September
- Steinmeier says Europe warned US on financial crisis
- Berlin zoo monitoring Knut following keeper's death
- Bundeswehr AWACs in Afghanistan could direct combat sorties
- What's on in Germany: September 25-October 1
- Daimler wants to sell remaining Chrysler stake to Cerberus
- Every fourth German butter brand 'impure'
- German suspected of Swedish child murders deemed fit for jail
- Desert kidnappers demand Germany pay €6-million ransom
- British Army deploys ferret forces to Münster
- Steinbrück slams US for sparking global financial crisis
- German police arrest suspect in murder of Nottingham gamer
- Hospital workers stage huge protest in Berlin
26 September
- Weekend set for lovely autumn weather
- Germany and China call for unity on Iranian nuclear programme
- Germans unhappy with how democracy works
- Parliament approves universal daycare by 2013
- Returning Ribery hopes to reignite Bayern
- Tyre-slashing granny sentenced to knit sweaters
- Police arrest two terror suspects at Cologne airport
- Red Cross preps for swarms of Italians at Oktoberfest
- No delays for Deutsche Bahn stock market listing
- Facebook begins promotion to boost German membership
27 September
- Bavarian vote could end CSU's one-party rule
- Berlin museum retraces looted Nazi art
- Study shows Muslims in Germany are both religious and tolerant
- World leaders meet in Bonn to fight extremism
- Global financial crisis means lower growth forecast in Germany
28 September
- American financial crisis sparks German schadenfreude
- Cologne terror suspects planned 'an imminent attack'
- Deutsche Bahn privatization seen netting €4.5 billion
- Bavarians head to the polls in key vote
- Gebrselassie breaks world record at Berlin marathon
- CSU suffers huge losses in Bavarian vote
29 September
- Global financial crisis putting German infrastructure at risk
- German conservatives under pressure after CSU poll debacle
- Thomas Cook drops out of talks with German Wings and TUIFly
- Halle drug company heralds new Alzheimer's treatment
- Cologne canine killer poisons two dogs
- An end to Bavarian exceptionalism
- Egyptian TV reports release of German hostages
- KfW execs sacked for ill-fated transfer to Lehman
- Iran praises ‘constructive’ Germany in nuclear dispute
- Hypo Real Estate gets last-minute rescue
- German police bust human trafficking ring
- Freiburg priest on trial for 101 crimes
30 September
- German tourists back home after desert ordeal
- Bomb scare closes Berlin Tegel airport
- Bayern worry about form ahead of Lyon Champions League clash
- CSU party head Erwin Huber steps down
- German unemployment falls to 16-year low
- Witness in hate crime documentary beaten in Mügeln
- Merkel says US bailout needed to restore market confidence
- Paintings for the proletariat
- Germany celebrates Elvis' time as a soldier in Hesse
- ‘Quinta’ bringing stormy weather
- Lovesick Düsseldorf peacock does €2,900 in damage to car