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

01 October
- Frustrated Bayern held to a draw by Juventus
- Terror threats fail to derail the party at Oktoberfest
- Drunk woman run over by train survives tucked between tracks
- Aldi price hike gives hope to dairy farmers
- What's on in Germany: October 1 - 7
- SPD chooses coalition with CDU in Thuringia
- High court upholds Bavaria's porous smoking ban
- Dieter Bohlen officially ruled an artist by Kassel court
- Train retraces East German route to freedom
- Schoolchildren give away almost €15,000 found on the street
- eBay eliminates nearly half of its German staff
- Berlin mulls increasing troops in Afghanistan
02 October
- Bundesliga preview: Battered Hertha look to rebuild
- Remains of four dead babies found in Berlin
- Lower Saxony thought to have huge untapped natural gas reserves
- Giants walk Berlin's streets for Unity Day celebrations
- Suspicious suitcase causes bomb scare at Berlin’s central station
- Conservatives lay out road map for tax cuts
- Lufthansa to shed staff in savings push
- German solar energy firms face economic ruin
- Michelle's killer gets nine-and-a-half years
- Wayward elk ‘Knutschi’ found dead
- Al-Qaida recruiter nabbed with bomb materials
- Bionade looks to world domination with help from Dr. Oetker
03 October
- Central bank sees little room for tax cuts
- Berlin’s TV tower turns 40
- Hertha sign Funkel as new coach
- Bundesbank boss hints Sarrazin should quit
- Germans celebrate reunification 19 years on
- Porsche plans budget model
- 74-year-old German man swims Strait of Gibraltar
04 October
- Major budget cuts coming
- Experts recommend ‘turbo’ naturalisation for immigrants
- Giants rekindle the magic of German reunification
- Jockeying for Finance Ministry heats up
- 14-year-old boy arrested for assaulting 9-year-old
- Terror warnings dampen Oktoberfest merriment
- Bertelsmann mogul Mohn dies at 88
05 October
- Case of dead infants likely to go unsolved
- Warmer temperatures on their way after autumn storms
- Stasi victims still searching for peace after 20 years
- Publisher shelves honour killing book in fear of Islamist retaliation
- Merkel starts contentious coalition talks with FDP
- President honours man killed by bullies at Munich S-Bahn station
- Soldier dies from injuries suffered in Afghanistan suicide attack
- Wolf pup killed by car in Saxony
- Hypo Real Estate needs five years to pay off state aid
- Fashion magazine 'Brigitte' goes model-free
06 October
- Eight injured in Bavarian bus crash
- Nefertiti bust moved to new home
- Consumers paying too much for electricity
- Making it in Germany: A Canuck soprano
- Police find 10 people stuffed into small car on autobahn
- Dire German economic outlook improves
- Deutsche Bahn to raise train fares
- Claudia Schiffer exits the catwalk
- Why Guido Westerwelle shouldn’t become Germany’s foreign minister
- Berlin balks at boosting IMF's finances
- Ballack dismisses worries over Russian artificial pitch
- SPD’s Gabriel open to coalition with leftists
07 October
- Two apartment fires leave one dead, 17 injured
- American GI returns stolen books to Germany
- Man's dog finds dead infant along Munich's Isar River
- Recession cuts ranks of German billionaires
- Secretary fired over meatball snack after 34 years on the job
- Group therapy deaths caused by Ecstasy overdoses
- Giving German hoop dreams a helping hand
- Daimler starts Islamic financing for the United Arab Emirates
- Police raid suspected Islamist terrorists
- Cap Anamur boss acquitted of illegal immigration charges
08 October
- Heavy rainstorms flood streets overnight
- Heidi Klum to take Seal’s surname
- Police say 9-year-old Kassandra can't remember attack
- German universities slip in world rankings
- What's on in Germany: October 8 - 14
- Trial of suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk to begin in November
- CDU and FDP agree to boost child benefits
- Germany confirms first swine flu death
- Herta Müller: A German conscience for Ceauşescu's Romania
- Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize for literature
- The beginning of the end of East Germany
- Car dealers offer discounts to counter ‘cash for clunkers’ lull
09 October
- National football team 'ready to beat Russia' on Saturday
- Man shot in Duisburg biker bar bathroom
- Delays expected as Frankfurt Airport custodial workers strike
- Broadcaster ZDF confuses ‘phishing’ with ‘fisting’ on air
- Pilots report surge in laser pointer attacks during landings
- Merkel: Obama's Nobel prize ‘incentive’ for peace
- Strawberry yoghurt recalled over metal shard fears
- Munich remains Germany’s economic powerhouse
- Trade surplus plummets amid weak exports
- First autumn frost expected over the weekend
10 October
- Child benefit hikes in doubt as budget tightens
- Naked rock musical proves too big a hit with nudists
- Historians dispute key facts in Köhler's Leipzig speech
- Germany to send 1,200 police to Afghanistan
- Two more Germans turn up in terror videos
- Steinmeier welcomes Polish embrace of Lisbon treaty
- MAN replaces managers after bribery scandal
- Twitter calls for help with the German tongue
- Germany beat Russia to book World Cup berth
11 October
- European anger ensures further twists in Opel saga
- Frankfurt Book Fair to open amid censorship row
- Sarrazin wins support for integration comments
- Frederick the Great portrait auctioned for €670,000
- German army guns sold on Afghan black market
- Skinny models just look better, says Karl Lagerfeld
- Greens hand power to the right in Saarland
- Burglars jailed after asking police for getaway directions
- Porsche to investigate Nazi forced labour claims
- Kaiser falls on sword over Stasi past to smooth red-red coalition
12 October
- Former East German jewel faces ghost town future
- Meatball-snacking secretary can have her job back, boss says
- Unemployment jumps among well-educated
- Police brutality claims follow anti-Nazi protest
- The Best of Berlin in October
- Merkel vows to prod China over human rights
- Butt-flashing boozer dragged 200 metres while stuck to train
- Army first in line to get cutting-edge swine flu shot
- Lufthansa revives offer of mile-high web surfing and text messaging
- Left coalition set to take power in Brandenburg
- Rapper fined for threatening to beat disabled woman with her crutches
13 October
- Missing German hiker found dead in Australian bush
- Turkish leader says kids need Islamic holiday off
- Proud mum Klum ecstatic about new baby girl Lou Sulola
- Snow causes massive A20 pileup near Lübeck
- Frankfurt Book Fair walks tightrope between Chinese officials and dissidents
- New German coalition aiming to cut solar energy subsidies
- Most criminals avoiding jail in Germany
- Germany facing bumpy economic recovery
- Bundesbank's Sarrazin stripped of duties for xenophobic comments
- Young Germans launch Europe's first ‘personalised’ newspaper
- Repairing run-down buildings one Lego at a time
14 October
- Eight-year-old tries to buy candy with €1,680
- Löw insists on victory over Finland in final World Cup qualifier
- Germany to send Kosovar refugees home
- Multiple witnesses spot UFO in northern Germany
- Southern cities revoke driving privileges from brawling youths
- Surviving Berlin's art jungle
- Women working part-time jobs up 16 percent in last decade
- Germany sets up online portal and hotline for swine flu
- Website offers unprecedented glimpse at Berlin Wall
- ‘They said it would be better if I stayed here’
15 October
- Berlin brothel offers green discounts to beat the crisis
- Ballack disappointed in booing fans after Finland draw
- Intelligence agency warns of Iranian spies
- What's on in Germany: October 15 - 21
- Siemens snaps up solar energy firm
- Winter storm warning issued for east Germany
- German economy seen rebounding next year
- Berlin's ‘Festival of Lights’ begins
- Tidy wilderness rule blocks vultures’ return to German Alps
- Berlin school offers German-language guarantee in immigrant heavy district
- Prosecutors pursue charges against Holocaust denying Catholic bishop
- Going with Germany's bureaucratic flow
16 October
- Nefertiti's museum home reopens after 70 years
- Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp museum creates Facebook profile
- Three-quarters of German train stations wheelchair accessible
- German officials back 'morning-after' pill without prescription
- Fascist garden gnomes invade Bavarian town
- Irish filmmaker stabbed by masked teens in Berlin
- Another employee sacked for taking home leftover food
- Train surfing youths cause railway chaos
- Wet and dreary weather to continue through weekend
- Google Editions to launch in Germany next year
- Exploring the business of books at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- Munich plumps for ‘modern’ 2018 Olympics
17 October
- EU says German aid could stymie Opel deal
- Thousands expected to see Napoleon defeat
- Jan Ullrich visited doping doctor 24 times
- Sarrazin comments were checked by Bundesbank before publication
- CDU and FDP form coalition in Schleswig-Holstein
- Dresden to premiere lost Gershwin musical set in 1930s Germany
- Protest tries to bounce reconstruction of Berlin city palace
18 October
- Academic slams Google's library plans
- Thai waxworks cuts saluting Hitler poster after protests
- Government to get special swine flu vaccine
- More than 100 arrests in Leipzig neo-Nazi and anarchist clashes
- Drunk bicyclist fined after asking police for alcohol test
- Coalition infuriates Greens with nuclear power compromise
19 October
- East Germans nostalgic for sex as it was before the Wall fell
- Deutsche Bahn considers alcohol ban on trains
- Experts warn of data misuse after student site hacking
- GM reportedly mulling options if Opel deal fails
- German vintners report ‘small but fine’ grape harvest
- State officials warn of poisonous Turkish pears
- Making it in Germany: An American fashion aficionado
- Al-Qaida gaining ground for new recruits in Germany
- Audi car sales set to overtake Mercedes
- CDU and SPD form Thuringia state coalition
- Chipping away at Berlin Wall souvenir myths
20 October
- EU unlikely to challenge Opel deal
- Custodial worker strike washes over Berlin
- Government should give special vaccine to at risk groups, medical authority says
- Mail-order giant Quelle to be liquidated
- Erotic farm girls calendar aims to make agriculture alluring
- German doctor kidnapped and dumped before French courthouse
- High court begins case on controversial child welfare benefits
- All-time October low recorded in Bavaria
- Train work uncovers Bronze Age bounty
- Stuttgart confident ahead of Sevilla Champions League clash
- VW to acquire 49.9 percent of Porsche by year's end
21 October
- Sevilla humble Stuttgart at home
- New German technology could allow liquids on planes again
- Criminal charges filed in Deutsche Bahn employee spying case
- Merkel praises Karzai for agreeing to runoff
- Deutsche Bank earnings soar in third quarter
- Merkel to get swine flu vaccine for 'the public'
- Retiree loses €20,000 in cash on autobahn
- Taxiing for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof
- Nazi guard Demjanjuk fails to stop trial
- Nuremberg's star polar bear Flocke headed to the French Riviera
- Bush senior to meet Kohl and Gorby in Berlin
- Military costs in Afghanistan outstrip reconstruction spending
22 October
- Depleted Wolfsburg held to draw against Besiktas
- Bayern crash and burn in Bordeaux
- Police evacuate 10,000 for bomb detonation
- Kidnapped German doctor held in France for 1982 murder
- Court rules insurance must pay for ex-soldier's breast surgery
- FDP to demand Germany end daylight saving time changes
- Robbie Williams to give free concert in Berlin on Friday
- Anti-racism groups slam 'Black Like Me' film
- What's on in Germany: October 22 - 28
- Daimler to invest billions in German plants
- Wealthy Germans launch petition for higher taxes
- High court backs equal rights for gay marriages
- Design festival promotes Leipzig's creative industries
23 October
- Berlin wants to rid Germany of US nukes
- Authority opens access to new .de country domain names
- Gloomy, but warmer weekend weather ahead
- Out-of-wedlock births show huge east-west German divide
- EU designates Maultaschen a protected regional food
- Bundesliga Preview: Leverkusen look to stay top without Rolfes
- Merkel's new coalition hammers out final issues
- Israel wants Berlin to finance two new warships
- EU probes German aid to HSH Nordbank
- Exhibition explores Vandal legacy
- Clouds gather over delayed Opel deal
24 October
- Former prisoner to re-enact Stasi jail time
- Stubborn doctors told to get swine flu vaccine
- Coalition unveils agenda with tax relief
- Audi to invest massively in German plants
- Clocks go back amid rising winter-time discontent
- The main players in Merkel's new cabinet
- The political agenda of Germany's new government
- Ski season starts early on the Zugspitze
25 October
- Labour crunch likely to follow recession
- Animal blood thrown at Bavarian mosque
- Bankruptcy auctions increase again
- Press mauls new government plans
- Greens opt for gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Drug-dealing biker gang busted
26 October
- Egyptian stab victim's husband describes attack
- Filthy flat filled with 300 abandoned guinea pigs
- Black-belt German tourist gives Aussie attacker the chop
- Germany starts swine flu vaccinations
- Car on wrong side of road collides with school bus
- Merck upbeat despite drop in profit
- Nature reclaims German Cold War death strip
- Doubts dog Oettinger appointment to Europe
- Merkel admits tax cut plan may fail
- Berlin City Palace delayed until 2016
- Holocaust denier Williamson to battle fine of up to €12,000
27 October
- East German sports doping victim speaks out after sex change
- German couple killed in Mallorca building collapse
- State resistance to new tax cuts grows
- Workers restoring watchtower to stretch of Berlin Wall
- Bayer quarterly profit drops sharply
- Dutch journalist unsettles Merkel with questioning
- Daimler Q3 profit plunges 74 percent
- Cemetery gardeners launch new image campaign
- States may pull the plug on TV licence fee authority GEZ
- Parents will 'drink away' new child care subsidy
28 October
- Stuttgart coach on thin ice after defeat
- U2 to mark Wall anniversary with free concert in Berlin
- One ninth of German workforce made redundant during crisis
- Ministries outsourced laws 60 times since 2000
- Protestants pick first woman to lead church
- Merkel embarks on second term
- Former Nazi SS hit man goes on trial in Aachen
- 'Veil martyr' trial delayed by defendant tantrum
- Angela Merkel: 'Madame Non' or world's most powerful woman?
- Merkel’s stealth reform agenda
- Broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 planning paid TV options
- Lufthansa nosedives into the red
- Deutsche Bank buys Sal. Oppenheim for €1 billion
29 October
- Sweden sending mystery man home to Berlin after memory-loss hoax
- Formerly 'red' East German farm becomes a 'green' success
- Police call for strict hooligan stadium ban
- Greenpeace finds pesticides in a quarter of tested cooking spices
- BASF's profits fall amid rocky recovery
- MAN warns of tough times ahead
- What's on in Germany: October 29 - November 4
- Deutsche Bank pockets hefty Q3 profits
- Dresden institute ranked best place for scientists to work
- Hamburg hospital develops treatment to 'fish out' cancer cells
- Lost cut of Metropolis premiering at Berlinale
- Volkswagen betting on China for 2009 profit
- US holiday Halloween casts a spell over German youth
- Bundeswehr: NATO clears German officer
30 October
- 'Book reverend' saves a million scrapped East German books
- Deutsche Bahn braces for 'bloody battle'
- Government agency puts job seekers' data at risk
- Former Stasi prisoner goes back to jail for art
- China blocks Berlin Wall anniversary Twitter site
- Germany plans to stop foreign aid to China
- 'New Madoff' fraud feared in Germany
- Death of leading neo-Nazi set to cripple far-right
- Insolvent Quelle offers Germany's 'biggest ever' clearance sale
- Thuringia state premier vote turns into three-round fiasco
31 October
- Merkel and Sarkozy bury Blair EU president idea
- Three more swine flu deaths include one previously healthy patient
- Fully functioning grenade left in cinema sparks investigation
- Audi buys stake in FC Bayern Munich
- Platzeck calls for reconciliation with former Eastern communists
- Rain and winds to replace autumnal sunshine by Monday