📰 Breaking News: News Archive for June 2009 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 June
- UN buckles down on climate change pact in Bonn
- Germans summarise Bible via Twitter
- Obama cancels Weimar visit
- Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapse
- Mother caught smuggling drugs into prison in baby's diaper
- Shoe-throwing German student goes on trial in Cambridge
- Swine flu infections spike over weekend
- Berlin's best beer gardens
- Hamburg's best beer gardens
- Bavaria's best beer gardens
- Frankfurt's best beer gardens
02 June
- EU poll tests German domestic policy
- Kindergarten strikes drag on
- Missing German student found dead near Spanish resort
- Helpful 12-year-old girl demolishes five cars
- Germany wants EU to fight Google Books project
- Scientists find giant crabs have evolved sense of smell
- Goths darken Leipzig's days
- Merkel 'stunned' by Air France crash
- Merkel warns Opel state aid no precedent
- Two Orthodox rabbis first to be ordained since WWII
- BND sees economic crisis boosting China
- WWII ghetto survivors win court pension battle
- Student acquitted for shoe toss at China's PM
03 June
- Obama's German visit focused on extremism
- 'Sheep's Chill' cold snap hits Germany
- Zugspitze gets protective sun shield blanket for summer
- Germany moves to nationalise Hypo Real Estate
- Heidelberg pushes nighttime booze ban to curb youth drinking
- Steinmeier tells the secret of his silver hair
- SPD’s Roth-Behrendt: ‘Corporate greed has become so obvious’
- Petrol prices soar for summer holidays
- Court rejects attempt to stop 'Big Brother with babies' show
- Zoo hails gay penguin couple as foster parents
- EU commissioner calls German banking system 'outdated'
- Redesigning the Fatherland
- Berlin 'still open' to other Opel bidders
04 June
- Arcandor future looks grim
- Hundreds of DNA leads to Rosa Luxemburg's identity reported
- Day care strikes continue with no new offer from employers
- Berlin slams French deficit rules proposal
- Cocaine-soaked tablecloths found by Munich airport customs
- Labour Agency reportedly orders 'spying' on welfare fraudsters
- FDP’s Alexandra Thein: ‘The EU should get its priorities straight’
- Germany ranks among top countries for foreign investment
- What's on in Germany: June 5 - 10
- German death toll on Air France flight hits 28
- Merkel honours Polish freedom struggle and Tiananmen victims
- Free falling from Berlin's highest building
- Dresden awaits Obama as Berlin feels slighted
05 June
- Bundeswehr ambushed in Afghanistan
- Day care strikes continue despite new date for wage talks
- Obama meets with Merkel in Dresden
- The Greens’ Cramer: 'We're the only really European party'
- Getting baroque with Barack in Dresden
- Police shoot Great Dane that attacked 4-year-old
- Bundesbank sees economy shrinking 6.2 percent in 2009
- Germany gets tough on online plagiarism
- More artificial reefs planned in the North and Baltic seas
- Second video from German terrorist turns up online
- Violets, Pirates and Newropeans look for attention in EU vote
- Obama remembers Holocaust victims
06 June
- Politicians split over using undercover teens to buy alcohol
- Merkel rules out state aid for retailer Arcandor
- Magazine says Kurras reported Stasi defectors to East Germany
- Central bank bombshell sparks debt debate
- Security officials warn of terror before poll
- Gay games open in Berlin amid Turkish poster boy controversy
07 June
- Two US soldiers in Germany infected with swine flu
- Merkel urges Germans to vote in EU poll
- Bavarian sets world record in speed smooching
- More than 25 wounded after train derails
- Theatre chiefs warn of rising job cuts
- Retailer Arcandor in talks with rival Metro about possible tie-up
- Conservatives lead EU vote as SPD is slammed
08 June
- Merkel's CDU trounces SPD in European vote
- Two German soldiers shot in Taliban attack
- Berlin votes to keep Tempelhof an architectural monument
- Tornado tears through northern Cologne
- Berlin rejects loan guarantees for Arcandor
- Dog fetches live WWII grenade
- The best of Berlin in June
- Can the SPD bounce back from its EU disaster?
- Pelikan probed for using endangered woods
- Merkel says EU vote boosts reelection hopes
- Industrial orders remain stable for April
- Hunter faces charges for shooting wolf
- Carmakers see weak sales as industrial orders stabilise
- Germany torpedoes Arcandor's aid request
09 June
- Police break up protest against mass Vietnamese deportation
- Chimp bites off Berlin zoo director's finger
- Day care strikes called ahead of wage talks
- German exports post historic plunge
- The Local's guide to Germany's best beer gardens
- Schäuble wants direct EU elections to fight voter apathy
- What's on in Germany: June 11 - 17
- Arcandor goes bust
- Seventeen-hour Obama visit costs Saxony €13 million
- Sauerland Cell terrorists ready to confess
- Qatar eyeing stake in Porsche
- Astronomers use supercomputer to resize massive black hole
- Neo-Nazis make headway into town councils
10 June
- Archaeologists unearth 800-year-old shoe
- Uighur Gitmo inmates appeal to Germany
- Best-selling Polish crime writer brings pre-war Breslau to life
- Metro aims to take over bankrupt Arcandor
- Court upholds health care reform
- Twisters rip through Schleswig-Holstein
- Berlin approves public 'bad bank' bill
- Swine flu continues to spread
- Pensioner fined for tear gas assault over dog poo
- Hamburg and Frankfurt dubbed Germany's most liveable cities
- East Germany weathers crisis better than west
- Berlin urges Russia to improve ties to US
11 June
- German stars ruling the home court at Halle
- Disease centre: swine flu could claim lives
- Merkel backing Schäuble for EU post
- Meteor hits boy on way to school
- Brad Pitt splashes out €710,000 for Neo Rauch painting
- Anne Frank's 80th birthday honoured in Berlin
- Opel plans cheap model as Magna mulls cuts
- US asks Germany to take Gitmo prisoners
- German economy's slump seen bottoming out
- Visiting Berlin's past
- Berlin mosque invites homophobic imam
- Merkel and Sarkozy back Barroso for another term at EU's helm
12 June
- Becker's 'boom-boom' heart goes from love to match
- Exploding paraffin sparks huge fire in Kiel
- Designer puts the Berlin Wall on the catwalk
- Swine flu infections spreading rapidly
- Steinmeier plummets in polls
- Celebrating Japan Day in Düsseldorf
- Amount of naturalised citizens plunges dramatically
- Ex-Arcandor chief Middelhoff probed
- Pranksters allegedly hack Berlin stadium's billboard
- Germans squeezed by rising levels of debt
- Troops in Afghanistan want more firepower
13 June
- Over 13,000 expected at Sylt beach party
- Track and field event draws Olympic stars to Berlin
- UNESCO strife costs Dresden funds
- Germans more pessimistic about economy than economists
- Memorial service held for German Air France crash victims
- Qatar close to buying Porsche stake
- Dresden to lose world heritage status
- German companies doing 'astoundingly' well
14 June
- Seven Germans kidnapped in Yemen
- Father forgets son on bike ride
- Survey backs common holidays across Germany
- Car flies 50 metres into pylon
- Berlin denounces Iran crackdown
- Steinmeier launches bid to unseat Merkel
- Haas downs Djokovic to claim victory in Halle
- Richards impresses at Berlin's Golden League athletics tournament
- Taxi drivers to blockade Berlin airport Monday
15 June
- EU wants total review of Opel rescue plan
- Students start nationwide education strikes
- Egypt aims to 'prove' Germany stole Nefertiti bust
- Berlin summons Iran's ambassador
- Merkel and Obama to meet for a third time in three months
- Deutsche Bank economist sees unemployment hitting 5 million
- Truck scrambles 18 tonnes of eggs onto the autobahn
- Introducing…Boris Becker
- Sixty-year-old half-track stolen
- Odin’s wrath brings storms to Germany
- Neo-Nazi fined €1,200 for putting swastika flag on a coffin
- Study finds half of German immigrants feel like outsiders
- German women found dead in Yemen
- Prince Ernst August of Hannover denies assault charges
- Merkel defends Germany's dependence on exports
16 June
- Trabis and Wartburgs become rare on German roads
- Firms hoping to tap African sun to power German households
- Hamburg politican wants to ban ‘spontaneous’ parties
- More parents lose custody rights
- Intelligence officials: all Yemen hostages dead
- German business confidence zooms ahead
- Alpine hikers get finder's fee for Stone Age mummy Ötzi
- Facebook loses legal fight against StudiVZ
- Holiday plans not affected by recession
- UK Conservative leader makes Nazi gaffe
- EU sues Germany over Bavarian farm subsidies
17 June
- Scientist discovers whales may be singing their own names
- Qatar’s interest in Porsche questioned
- Artists repaint East Side Gallery along Berlin Wall
- Naked burglar checks out wedding dresses
- Yemen still searching for German hostages
- SPD's Müntefering sharpens attacks on Merkel
- Germans snacking through recession
- Schavan slams protesting students
- Berlin questions Iran vote 'irregularities'
- German stores lose billions each year to shoplifting
- Students strike for better education
- Solidarity for German students is a two-way street
- Baden-Württemberg's best beer gardens
- Google agrees to tinker with Street View amid privacy concerns
18 June
- Bayern Munich try to hold Ribery as Real Madrid salivate
- SPD warns Merkel against backing EU’s Barroso
- Thousands of bird nests along North Sea destroyed by fire
- What's on in Germany: June 18 - 24
- Chinese could spoil Magna-Opel deal
- Troops in Afghanistan get heavy weaponry
- Teen dies in jet ski accident
- Wet and stormy weekend ahead
- Premium for old cars revs up women drivers
- Sauerland cell members confess to planning attacks
- German debt set to balloon
- Child porn law sparks web censorship debate
- Censorsula can’t stop child porn
19 June
- Klitschko unfazed by 'bloodsport' bout in Gelsenkirchen
- Father denies Yemen murder victims were converting Muslims
- Porsche power struggle intensifies as earnings hit a wall
- East German economy decades from catching up with west
- Müntefering’s love life irritates fellow Social Democrats
- Schlager star Heino has to remove shades for ID photo
- Germany tightens gun laws after massacre
- Bavaria offers to prop up Arcandor unit Quelle
- Parade in SS uniforms sparks outrage
- Nanny sentenced to five years for shaking toddler to death
- Music industry pulls the plug on Popkomm trade fair
20 June
- Police break up student university occupation
- Hamburg opens city centre to bikes and music on Sunday
- Committee split over Steinmeier's role in US invasion of Iraq
- Deutsche Bahn ready to build Iraq railways
- Rubbish 'summer' weather set to continue through weekend
- Popstar Nena set to become an Oma at 49
21 June
- Shambolic Left party aims to unite for poll
- Would-be airport squatters held back by huge police presence
- Man who shot dog hospitalised after revenge nose bite
- Dresdeners do not care about UNESCO title
- Tauss becomes first 'Pirate' in parliament after leaving SPD
- Limping prisoner legs it during hospital trip for sports injury
- Merkel calls for Iranian election re-count
22 June
- Frankfurt airport offers 'gold to go' vending machine
- Berlin clears way for EU approval of cloned meat
- Schumacher backs rebel F1 teams
- Greenpeace occupies Unterweser nuke plant
- Police hunt killer after jogger stabbed to death in Berlin
- Judge backs police breaking up concerts pre-emptively
- Germany business confidence rises despite dire conditions
- Taking a bite out of voter apathy
- Bruno takes Berlin in knit 'naked' suit
- BASF leaks 10 tonnes of stinging chemical into the Rhine
- Lufthansa takes over BMI for Heathrow slots
- Last Karmann leaves factory as firm folds
- Hostages in Yemen being held by rebels
- Germany 'invites' Iran's envoy to clear air
23 June
- Gang of geriatric kidnappers arrested
- Pre-school teachers go back on strike as day-care wage talks fail
- Survey shows consumer confidence edging higher
- Louis Vuitton sues Red Cross charity shop for selling fake purse
- Islam on the way to legal equality with Christianity in Germany
- Children's make-believe nuclear power plant prompts full alert
- Flooding from heavy rain closes roads in Bavaria
- Hamburg bank must repay customer's Lehman loss
- WHO warns swine flu to infect 1/3 of Germany
- German soldiers die in Afghanistan attack
- Berlin motorcycle inventor puts the human in hybrids
- Teacher loses case against online rankings website for students
24 June
- Marlene Dietrich's private letters to be auctioned off in Berlin
- Merkel heads to US amid transatlantic tensions
- Steinbrück warns of ‘mammoth’ debt
- Jung says fighting in Afghanistan 'not a war'
- Study finds an extra million Muslims living in Germany
- Second wave of insolvencies seen
- Another positive doping test for German equestrian team
- General Motors open to new offers for Opel
- Dope kings charged with growing 14 tonnes of cannabis
- Pressure increases to scrap forced choice on citizenship
25 June
- Stone Age flute oldest instrument ever found
- Laser scanner aims to help park rangers tell forest from trees
- Conservatives mulling higher VAT after vote
- Zypries demands constitutional amendment for gay rights
- Climate House opens its doors to visitors in Bremerhaven
- Opel reportedly losing €6 million a day
- Steffen breaks world 100 metres freestyle record but credits suit
- Germany’s war of words in Afghanistan
- German neo-Nazis praise reelection of Iran's Ahmadinejad
- Dresden loses UNESCO world heritage status
- Merkel heads to US for talks with Obama
26 June
- Two dead and 11 injured in bus crash
- T-Mobile seen losing iPhone stranglehold in Germany
- Obama hosts Merkel for White House talks
- Police kill man in Berlin after attack on officer
- What's on in Germany: June 25 - July 1
- Former East Germans miss failed communist dictatorship
- Dresden UNESCO debacle embarrasses Germany
- Asse nuclear dump contains explosives
- Hamelin rat catcher recreates children kidnapping
- Deflation threat fades as prices rise by tiny degree
- Wattenmeer mudflats named world heritage site
- Porsche close to cinching deal with Qatar
- Merkel and Obama close ranks in DC
27 June
- Insulin taken by 500,000 could up cancer risk
- German mini tracker chip tracks butterfly migration
- Munich film festival opens with Heath Ledger's last act
- Eastern women surviving the crisis best
- Old SS soldiers sentenced to life for Italian massacre
- Fundamentalist Catholics defy Vatican to ordain three priests
- Poland to rebury German civilians found in WWII mass grave
- Porsche rejects Volkswagen 'ultimatum'
28 June
- CSD parade fills Berlin amid calls for gay rights
- Police called to help howling dog find bored parrot
- Lightning injures 13 at Roman festival
- Police under fire for taking first class train seats
- Quelle ran out of cash three weeks ago
- Merkel's conservatives gird for election fight
29 June
- Jordan jails man for stabbing elderly German tourist
- Hot and sticky weather expected
- Dresden dwellers want UNESCO title back
- Setting a common agenda in Berlin and Washington
- Germany faces England in 'classic' U21 football final
- 'Dr. Death' plans to plastinate King of Pop
- Buttering the bread of Berlin's fashion scene
- American follows outdated GPS into oncoming traffic
- Porsche slams brakes on VW merger offer
- Sandra Bullock applying for German passport
- Bavarian official backs new Mein Kampf edition
- Germany misses out on Kindle e-book device
- Berlin's CBGB faces curtain call
30 June
- Quelle gets €50 million in emergency loans
- Germany humiliates England in Under-21 championship final
- Accused Nazi killer Demjanjuk's medical results set for release
- Apprentice postman torches election materials
- Porsche loan request denied as Qatar offers to invest
- Unemployment drops slightly
- Fixed-gear bikes spark police crackdown in Berlin
- Tire factory gets bomb threats for two days in a row
- Court delays Lisbon Treaty ratification
- Nuclear power plants warming Rhine river
- The Local's guide to Berlin Fashion Week