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

01 July
- 'Politically precarious' banned East German film premieres
- Unstable WWII bomb detonated in Hannover
- DHL planning major expansion in Chinese operations
- Outgoing NATO head pans Germany's policy in Afghanistan
- Expert finds identity of Beethoven's mysterious Elise
- Austrian coin trick confounds German border control
- German Woolworth chain on verge of bankruptcy
- 'Explosive' biker gang war grips Germany
- Defendant kills witness in Dresden court
- Germany tops G8 climate action ranking
- Parliament to fast-track reform for Lisbon Treaty
02 July
- UN says Germany needs to tackle racism
- Civil unions made legal in Bavaria
- Terrorism risk escalates ahead of elections
- Famous prostitute's gravestone deemed too 'slutty'
- What's on in Germany: July 2 - 8
- Merkel says G8 'not sufficient' to solve global problems
- Germany faces massive national debt
- Berlin approves new US ambassador pick
- Axel Springer planning tribunal with 68er radicals
- Car companies fear downturn after scrap-bonus boom
- Funeral held for three soldiers killed in Afghanistan
03 July
- Siemens fined $100 mln in fraud scandal
- Swiss students attack man in Munich for 'fun'
- Founder of ex-Nazi Chilean commune hospitalised
- Merkel’s guards revealed as ex-Stasi
- Woman killed in courtroom bloodbath was pregnant
- Printer refuses to deliver new Quelle catalogues
- Doctors say ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk fit for trial
- Officials move to ban flat-rate bordellos
- Parliament sets new record for laws passed
- Berlin S-Bahn chaos set to continue
04 July
- VW to produce electric cars by 2013
- German speed skater Pechstein banned for doping
- Violent storms cause chaos, two deaths
- Germans sceptical of tax cuts
- Germany prepares for possible terror attacks
- Opel sale to Magna coming soon, says GM
- Drunk cyclist gets on autobahn at night without light
- Nuke incident shuts off Hamburg traffic lights
05 July
- Police shoot out excavator tires after drunken joy ride
- 18-year-old tortured by fellow inmates at Saxon juvenile home
- Cheese and sausage price war coming soon
- US travel warning for Garmisch-Partenkirchen to be lifted
- Unlucky Hamburgers suffer water outage
- Hamburg street festival ends with riot
- Deutsche Bank hired detectives to spy on staff
06 July
- Chinese carmaker BAIC bids on Opel
- SPD to form ‘shadow cabinet’ to win over voters
- German teen victim of 'South African Fritzl'
- Building a perfect Union
- Formula One chief tries to clarify praise for Hitler
- Record lightning strikes Germany
- Germany awards first medals for bravery
- The best of Berlin in July
- Grönefeld follows Graf to Wimbledon victory
- Swine flu outbreak closes two schools
- Hitler oak divides Polish town
- Steinmeier says Israel must stop settlements
- BASF cuts 3,700 jobs
07 July
- Child leukemia cases at global high near Elbmarsch nuke plant
- Cyclist Ullrich to be disciplined for doping
- Telecoms and energy firms working together on broadband
- Funds for car scrapping scheme running out
- German companies hit hard in global rankings
- Rare identical triplets born in Bonn
- Court rules former SS officer not 'too old' for murder trial
- Steinmeier urges Syria to back mideast peace
- Ecclestone cancels German appearance after Nazi gaffe
- Teen dies after fall from Berlin U-Bahn train
- Chinese consulate attacked in Munich
08 July
- Krümmel nuclear plant won't resume until 2010
- Cyclist Schumacher's doping confirmed with B sample
- Drunk badger blocks traffic
- Knut to stay at Berlin Zoo
- Looking for the Kreuzberg Romani
- Police target FC St. Pauli fans in 'unacceptable' pub raid
- More than 10,000 firms already went bust in 2009
- EU fines German energy giant Eon €553 million
- Thieves steal thousands of blank passports in Berlin
- Alcohol abuse spikes for Germans over 50
- Berlin denies delayed response to Egyptian woman's death
- Divorce rate on the rise
- German industrial output jumps 3.7 percent
09 July
- Deadly traffic accidents at 55-year low
- Germany to violate EU deficit laws until 2013
- Municipal posts rife with 17,000 former Stasi workers
- Merkel hails G8 climate change as 'step forward'
- What's on in Germany: July 9-15
- Study touts reed as new sustainable fuel source
- Insurers deny dead soldier payouts with 'war clause'
- German shippers’ pirate problems persist
- Military ‘Bombodrom’ plans go bust
- Sunday set to bring back summer heat
- Lufthansa traffic down 2.8 percent in June
- Cologne's best beer gardens
10 July
- Nuke plant needs more checks after emergency
- Labour minister warns of future skilled worker shortage
- High-speed train catches fire in Hannover station
- Ground collapse forces home evacuation
- Infineon to get €725 mln capital injection from US investor
- Tot hijacks forklift and causes oil spill
- Germany's new hatred
- Zoo forced to rename primate called 'Obama'
- Jehovah's Witnesses gather across Germany
- German food producers sneaking fake ingredients into products
- Muslims pray for murdered Egyptian woman
11 July
- Steinmeier says coalition cramping election campaign
- Körting says Stasi checks not needed in Berlin
- Pensions promise provokes SPD disagreement
- Police officer investigated for punching suspect in the head
- Key CDU scandal figure Schreiber likely to return to Germany
- Obama betting on Merkel election win
- Webber grabs pole for German Grand Prix
- Qatar reportedly offering €7 billion for Porsche stake
12 July
- 1,500 mourn stabbed Egyptian woman
- Swiss students 'nearly killed' disabled man in attack
- Recession over says Finance Ministry
- East-west divide between Germans remains strong
- Police arrest robber shoe fetishist of Troisdorf
- Wedding party ends in two-house fire and huge bill
- Webber takes German F1 Grand Prix
13 July
- Ahmadinejad slams Germany for woman's courtroom slaying
- Looping plane collides with family in car
- Minister says children don't get equal chances in schools
- Germany fears Chinese offer for Opel
- Germans taking fewer sick days to keep jobs
- German-Pakistani jailed for eight years for al Qaida ties
- Chef blows off hands dabbling in 'molecular gastronomy'
- Belgian and Chinese interest muddies race for Opel
- Dutch using German scrapping bonus to scam insurers
- Initiative launches €400-billion African solar power project
- 'I don't know of a cow named Merkel'
- Schlager fans party away Hamburg's grey skies
- Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk to stand trial
14 July
- Autobahn plagued by chronic traffic jams
- Hamburg opens high-security bio lab
- Tokio Hotel drummer beaten with beer bottles in bar fight
- Hot-air balloon makes shocking landing
- Students bring home swine flu from Mallorca
- The super nanny state
- Tamils protest Sri Lankan choice for Berlin diplomatic post
- Audi aims to become king of the autobahn at 100
- Luftwaffe hunts for new bombing range
- Germans stop working for the taxman
- Dresden hopes to honour murdered ‘veiled martyr’
15 July
- Young math minds converge on Bremen
- ‘City of losers’ makes a comeback from communist past
- Robert Redford marries German painter in Hamburg
- Study urges more rights for trafficking victims
- Radioactive brine found in Asse nuclear dump
- VW and Porsche to hold simultaneous board meetings
- MAN to put €650 million into Chinese market
- Consumer group slams Air Berlin for add-on fees
- Drunk driver cruises into metro tunnel
- Bavaria to filter smoking ban
- Merkel meets Medvedev to discuss energy
16 July
- Bavarian nuns make up perfect scientific sample group
- Family minister urges end to preschool worker strikes
- Russia talks centred on gas and economy
- Schleswig-Holstein coalition crumbles
- The eye of the tiger
- Stone martens are coming for your car
- Porsche reportedly close to deal with VW
- Lufthansa losses spur huge savings plan
- Swine flu shots to arrive in September
- Fewer than half of Germans know their national anthem
- What's on in Germany: July 16 - 22
- Drug commissioner urges binge drinking prevention course
- Merkel and Medvedev talk trade and rights
17 July
- BMW heiress blackmailed for third time over sex videos
- Artist's lawn gnome Hitler salute sparks investigation
- Lousy weekend weather on the way
- Child care workers strike again in Stuttgart
- Teens set fire to sleeping drunk
- Berlin faces months of public transport chaos
- Scientists find short-leg gene for dachshunds
- Belgian investor would cut 10,000 jobs at Opel
- Bundesliga clubs rake in record cash for jersey sponsorship
- Twenty-nine parties set for upcoming national ballot
- Porsche reportedly set to dump Wiedeking
18 July
- Somali hijackers release German ship for ransom
- CSU speaks out against Iceland’s EU entry
- VW plan total takeover of Porsche
- Quarter of German companies planning redundancies
- Landslide tips house into lake
- Most Germans want grand coalition to end
19 July
- U2 rocks Berlin two decades after 'Achtung Baby'
- Investigators probe 480 doctors for corruption
- Greens make nuclear shutdown a coalition condition
- HRE may need more state cash
- Strikes threatened as Porsche defies VW takeover
- German hostages taken to Somali mainland
20 July
- Two dead after retiree drives into parade
- Majority of Germans think Merkel will win re-election
- Dozens injured in 259-car autobahn pileup
- Leaving your children in the woods – on purpose
- Berlin commuters face S-Bahn chaos
- German schools running short of 40,000 teachers for autumn
- Horses gallop 'on the bottom of the ocean'
- Soldiers kill youth at Afghan checkpoint
- Schleswig-Holstein premier Carstensen calls confidence vote
- Officials warn of more landslides around lake
- Officials see recession in Germany slowing
- Italian flatware maker takes over Rosenthal porcelain tradition
- Failed bomb plot to kill Hitler remembered
21 July
- Recession spurs camping revival
- Prosecutors planning child porn charges against Tauss
- Deutsche Bank probed for spying on board
- Bauhaus boss warns east German architecture endangered
- Hamburg ranked as city with best economic outlook
- Larcenous lothario loots lovelorn ladies
- Weather system 'Wolfgang' bringing stormy end to week
- Easterners unhappy with reunification
- China using the internet to spy on Germany
- New Duden dictionary adds 5,000 words
- Poor, sexy and incompetent in Berlin
22 July
- Sea lion mates himself to death at Nuremberg zoo
- State of Schleswig-Holstein is 'broke'
- Former mines to be inspected after landslide kills three
- Parade crash claims third victim
- States clean up amidst more severe weather warnings
- Supermarket collapses 20 minutes after closing
- HIV-positive man gets further eight years for unprotected sex
- Bundeswehr joins major Afghanistan offensive
- Blind women training to detect breast cancer
- Magna remains Berlin's favourite to take over Opel
- Deutsche Bank admits to four spying cases
- Web-savvy ad campaign backfires with bloggers
23 July
- Merkel comic book sells out
- Porsche boss and finance chief step down
- Clues to unstable ground near landslide were ignored
- The rise and fall of Porsche's Wendelin Wiedeking
- Berlin accepts highest concentration of immigrants
- Zypries backs adoption for gay couples
- Most Germans believe in love at first sight
- Man dies after headfirst jump into disco pool with glass shards
- GM says China's BAIC out of contention to buy Opel
- What's on in Germany: July 23 - 29
- Schleswig-Holstein triggers early election
- Volkswagen takes the wheel at Porsche
- The man in the driver's seat: VW's Ferdinand Piech
24 July
- Underground East German fashion show comes to Berlin
- Storms wallop Germany and injure three
- Obama restores confidence in America
- German firms growing more optimistic
- Dresden court stabber charged with murder
- German stimulus plan ranked world's best
- Berlin Wall art restoration in full swing ahead of anniversary
- Conservatives rally opposition to adoption for gay couples
- Porn star suffers from electoral dysfunction
- Nuclear reactor shuts down after malfunction
25 July
- Bayreuth Wagner festival opens
- VW and Porsche: Germany’s unending automotive saga
- Jewish group sues Amazon for Nazi books
- Hunger strikers in Berlin want Iranian prisoners freed
- Doctors looking for swine flu test-subjects
- Deutsche Bahn's new ticket-cheat policy to inflate crime stats
- Computer seen behind Lufthansa near-crash
26 July
- Day care workers' wage dispute close to breakthrough
- Experts propose school shooting alarm
- German politicians get into hot water on holiday
- S-Bahn managers face criminal probe
- Scholz to raise permitted personal savings for Hartz IV
- German firms eye brighter future
27 July
- Economy drives East Germans to join army
- Pampered pooches pull on German purse strings
- Shoppers spending cash despite recession
- Two flat-rate bordellos closed after police raids
- Exploring the politics of Berlin's secret gardens
- Schmidt slammed for stolen limo
- Lost mini-horses taken in by kindly Bavarian monks
- Heavy holiday traffic expected all week
- Politicians criticise EU-US bank data talks
- Bundeswehr shooting restrictions eased
- Long wage dispute with day care workers ends
28 July
- Rumours point to Schumi return
- Deutsche Bank posts surprise gains
- Insurers argue over cost of swine flu shots
- Boy arrested at playground sandbox with heroin
- Replacement busses on S-Bahn routes pulled off road for repairs
- Freiburg public drinking ban overturned
- Flash mobs banned in Braunschweig
- Lufthansa deal with Austrian Airlines nears takeoff
- SPD meets as Schmidt storm rumbles
- Survey finds nerds get laid later in life
29 July
- Bonn police foxtrot back to fitness
- Merkel and CDU reach popularity high
- BMW hits the brakes on Formula One racing
- Ladybugs have northern Germany seeing red
- German treasure hunters find €7 million in pirate booty
- Daimler sales plunge 25 percent
- Making it in Germany: a home-cooking American
- Schmidt's stolen car found in Spain
- Authorities were aware of hidden girl
- German vacationers claim victory in 'beach towel war'
- German prices fall for first time in 22 years
- Schumacher returns to race for Ferrari
30 July
- Missing girl found dead in Eilenburg
- Flat-rate brothel allowed to reopen after raid
- Stasi had file on Michael Jackson
- Youth suffer from allergies after special embassy meal
- Beer sales fizzle to lowest level on record
- What's on in Germany: July 30 - August 5
- Southern German industry hardest hit by global recession
- Unemployment creeps higher in July
- Steinmeier unveils his campaign war team
- 'Stolen' car found in neighbour’s garage two years later
- No suspect in 9-year-old Corinna's murder
- German press hails return of 'Ferrari's angel'
- Swine flu spurs kissing ban at Wacken heavy metal festival
31 July
- German work week getting longer
- Bayern beats Manchester in Audi Cup shootout
- Pensioner enters Jehovah's Witness church with machine gun
- Swedish princess gets hefty libel payment from German press
- Germany's jobless queue set to hit 4.7 million in 2010
- Key union turns its back on flailing SPD
- Squabbling neo-Nazis set for election drubbing
- Dead couple's cat emerges two weeks after landslide tragedy
- Eurofighter planes get set for takeoff in Munich
- Berlin's S-bahn chaos opens new canvas to grafffiti artists
- It's official: German beer is 'very good'
- Coca-Cola looking to buy Germany's Bionade