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

01 November
- Kohl, Bush and Gorby meet ahead of Wall anniversary
- Demjanjuk witness also suspected of mass murder involvement
- Quelle last-ditch clearance sale founders as website crashes
- Biker gang brawl followed by a grenade attack
- Westerwelle kicks off Foreign Minister job in Poland
- Merkel kebab photo in Ukrainian restaurant promotion sparks row
02 November
- Berlin Wall rebuilt in Los Angeles
- Crime experts suggest ban on biker gangs
- Man freed from cave after nine-hour ordeal
- Thirteen injured in military base accident
- Emotional strain ends former Stasi prisoner's live re-enactment
- Schäuble rules out tax reform before 2013
- New German swine flu cases double in two days
- Hugo Boss back in the black
- Deutsche Bahn offers eco-tickets for corporate customers
- Victims' parents planning school shooting hotline
- Can Berlin meet American expectations?
03 November
- Merkel to deliver historic speech to US Congress
- Truckers ram blood donor van injuring six
- German fighter jet intercepts Russians in Baltic airspace
- Guttenberg says Taliban waging ‘war’ against German troops
- BMW slams into Q3 earnings wall
- Obese man dies after refusing zoo X-ray
- Small general stores making comeback in rural Germany
- Eastern German economy grows faster than expected
- Missing medieval church tower cross goes unnoticed for days
- The lonely American: speaking with a US defector to East Germany
- Merkel offers thanks but presses US on climate
04 November
- Bordeaux derail Bayern's Champions League campaign
- GM abandons plans for Opel sale to Magna
- Man suffers life-threatening reaction to swine flu vaccine
- Top military rep rules out troop increase in Afghanistan
- Copycat jailed over BMW heiress sex-video blackmail plot
- How much bare skin can a bear bear in winter?
- Police ask football leagues to foot the bill for hooliganism
- GE boss looks to Germany as role model
- German media roundup: Kudos for Merkel's 'freedom' speech
- Deutsche Bahn offers €20-ticket for Wall fall anniversary
- A day in the life of East Germany
- GM U-turn on Opel stirs German fear and loathing
05 November
- New German drug saves Aussie baby from brain-melting disease
- Teen caught in Weener returning from Dutch drug joyride
- Former East German nudists still letting it all hang out
- Westerwelle arrives in US for talks with Clinton
- New transport minister ignites debate over car toll for autobahn
- Berlin bans neo-Nazi group 'Frontbann 1924'
- The best of Berlin in November
- What's on in Germany: November 5 - 11
- Deutsche Telekom Q3 profits defy crisis
- Opel workers protest against General Motors
- Germans still divided despite backing reunification
- Archaeologists recover mediaeval shipwreck from Lake Constance
- East German victims lament lack of justice
06 November
- Clinton to attend Wall anniversary ceremonies
- Taking her first gasp during East Germany's last
- Geothermal drilling taps violent geyser in Wiesbaden city centre
- Merkel opted for sauna and beer as Wall fell
- Mother of eight jailed for smothering baby boy in cellar
- Federal prosecutors to probe deadly NATO air strike in Afghanistan
- Mittal snaps up troubled fashion house Escada
- GM Europe boss quits in disgust
- As the Wall fell: ‘We were looking for cracks in the façade’
- Study finds babies cry in German
- Ex-GDR officials gripe of persecution 20 years on
07 November
- Leverkusen pummels Frankfurt
- The man who opened the Berlin Wall
- German women to get TV channel of their own
- One in six German voters regrets voting decision
- Bad economy spurs jobs agency deficit
- Cornerstone laid for controversial Cologne mosque
08 November
- Bayern player slams own team over transfer policy
- Germans against offering aid to GM-owned Opel
- More construction in former West Germany called for
- Putin feels 'nostalgia' for East Germany
- Wall anniversary celebrations kick off
- Every eighth German wants the Wall back
- Next week's weather: All grey, all the time
09 November
- Trading magic for the beauty of being ordinary
- Clinton uses Wall fête to speak against extremism
- Masked mob attacks train full of football fans
- Seven-year-old boy found on sidewalk with alcohol poisoning
- Man dead after falling from cliff in fog
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Bornholmer Strasse Checkpoint
- Friedrichstrasse Station
- Scientists pinpoint genetic changes due to childhood trauma
- Glienicke Bridge
- The Brandenburg Gate
- BMW and Audi report October sales spike in China
- Products from former East Germany dazzle in quality test
- ‘The way it went for us in 1989 is not the way it always goes’
- ‘A panicked border guard using his gun was our biggest worry’
- Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Walking the Berlin Wall then and now
- Government approves €8.5-bln fiscal package
- Jewish leaders urge Germans to remember Nazi pogrom
10 November
- Clinton hopes Berlin open to new US strategy in Afghanistan
- Santa's post office opens in Himmelpfort ahead of Christmas
- Oldest blogger in Germany chronicles 80 years of history
- 'Gas explosion' caused by man's buttocks
- Man killed in Frankfurt shoot-out with police
- Merkel maps out German political priorities
- E.ON sells power grid to Dutch group for €1.1 bln
- Driver gets German thought-powered prosthetics
- Court summons Holocaust-denying British Bishop Williamson
- Software glitches earn health insurers billions in extra cash
- Sexed-up Rammstein record banned for sadomasochism
- Mexican foodies take Berlin's taste buds south of the border
- Germany goalkeeper Enke commits suicide
11 November
- Karneval kicks off in Cologne
- GM’s Henderson apologises for Opel U-turn
- Britspotting film festival hits Berlin
- Swine flu vaccine delays irk health officials
- Thief accidentally steals circus lion
- Merkel honours WWI dead in Paris
- Geldof slams German foreign aid as 'not enough'
- Enke hid depression for years before suicide
- Economy minister tells banks to increase lending
- Michelin Guide gives 24 new stars to German restaurants
- Murderer of Egyptian 'veil martyr' gets life
12 November
- Guttenberg makes surprise Afghanistan visit
- Wet and windy weather will warm up weekend
- German 'fog catcher' brings water to Peru slums
- What's on in Germany: November 12 - 18
- Education minister calls for speedy reform as students protest
- 35,000 pay respects to footballer Enke
- Coalition bickers over tax reform promises
- Tim Kretschmer's father faces criminal charges
- Munich doctors rebuild breasts with pig tissue after cancer
- Opel is not the world
- New programme teaches Turkish imams to lead prayer in German
- BMW to invest in Chinese expansion
13 November
- Economy continues rebound from recession
- Berlin tries to torpedo EU deal with US for bank data exchange
- German man charged in Cindy Crawford blackmail plot
- Westerwelle embroiled in row over displaced Germans in WWII
- Comet-hunting probe to explore origins of the solar system
- Imagining a new future for Berlin
- Russian Orthodox breaks ties with Protestants over female leader
- 1970s film on private Hitler rediscovered
- SPD looks to regroup as Müntefering bows out
- Unitymedia buy expands Liberty Global in Europe
- Germany sends 120 fresh troops to Afghanistan
14 November
- Germany saved dying Opel: Merkel
- Enke's father reveals brooding fears behind the footballer
- Justice Minister calls for five year parliamentary terms
- Gabriel urges SPD to avoid lurch to the left
- GM moves European HQ to Germany
- German men to get cheap version of Viagra
- Death Valley skeletons solve riddle of missing German tourists
- 'Veil martyr' family pursues court officials
- World records smashed in speedy Berlin swimming championship
15 November
- Guttenberg's chopper attacked in Afghanistan
- New SPD leaders flag fresh tax approach
- More economic pain, job losses to come: minister
- Vivienne Dick: ‘Experimentation becomes an important way to resist’
- Germany bids farewell to footballer Robert Enke
- Police launch campaign to find terror suspect in Afghanistan
- Bakers cook up campaign to fight domestic violence
- Top banker urges pay cuts for 'inflated egos'
16 November
- Eyes sewn shut – playing an emotional zombie
- Swine flu kills two in Bavaria
- German government gets secure smartphones
- Brüderle's refusal to help Opel angers state premiers
- Fire brigade bills fairground ride victims for rescue
- Informant goes on trial for neo-Nazi radio station
- Köhler honours activists who stood ground against East Germany
- Mercedes buys Brawn F1 team
- Germany's citizens in uniform
- Munich unveils latest cultural offering: portable opera
- Lufthansa credit cards hit by fraud fears
- Dennis Rodman arrested after failing to pay for boozy party
17 November
- Drug dealers injure three police officers
- Berlin stokes foreign investor land rush
- Lufthansa aims to mimic budget carriers
- Man suspected of blackmailing Cindy Crawford held
- High court upholds incitement clause used against neo-Nazis
- Online database of Soviet WWII prisoners opens to public
- 90-year-old charged for Nazi massacre
- Students stage education protests nationwide
- Hutu rebels arrested for Congo war crimes
- Socialist leader Lafontaine has cancer
- SAP boss predicts ‘wave of growth’
18 November
- Chelsea teammates Ballack and Drogba to miss friendly
- Hesse to send juvenile repeat offender to Eastern Europe
- Germany extends military mission in Afghanistan
- Storm warning issued for North Sea coast
- Museum Island
- Fraud scam sparks growing recall of German credit cards
- Student protests prod officials toward education reforms
- German spy on trial for passing secrets to gay lover
- Germany's ageing population heading for massive decline
- Utilities hiking power prices
- Merkel calls for climate deal in early 2010
19 November
- Podolski brace saves draw for Germany on emotional Enke night
- Children's TV character the Sandman turns 50
- Hunter takes bullet meant for boar
- Officials say deaths not caused by swine flu shot
- Ryanair sued for allegedly buzzing German granny
- What's on in Germany: November 19 - 25
- Berlin guns for top ECB job amid EU wrangling
- Werner Herzog to head Berlin film festival jury
- Police bust dope-dealing bodybuilders
- Turks: Germany must do more for integration
- Germans likely to play Grinch this Christmas
- Football match-fixing ring uncovered
- Axel Springer buys stake in Turkish media group
20 November
- Chestnut tree kills pedestrian
- Springlike highs expected for weekend
- Defence minister expects Karzai to take action
- Von der Leyen moots expanded child subsidy for poor families
- VW board approves Porsche takeover
- France finds lost spy file on young Hitler
- Disabled woman fired for eating pâté meant for patients
- Editorial feud erects artistic sixteen-metre penis
- New climate change goals to cost Germany €310 billion
- Germany's best Christmas markets
- Match-fixing ring rocks European football
- Deutsche Bahn to seal huge rail deal with Qatar
21 November
- British troops to leave Germany under Tories
- Sacked sandwich thief will keep job
- German-born criminal to be deported to Turkey
- Cash-strapped NPD uses 0900 phone lines to raise funds
- Gitmo prisoner Slahi tells brother he wants to return to Germany
- German referee bribe suspicion emerges in match-fixing scandal
- Economists slam Merkel's tax relief plans
22 November
- Lafontaine recovering after cancer operation
- No live eyewitnesses left for Nazi guard trial
- Minister calls for passive accident onlookers to be shocked into action
- Financial crash as significant as fall of Berlin Wall, says Schäuble
- Police foil illegal nighttime race on Hockenheim race track
- Train drivers plead against suicide on the tracks
- Bahn seals massive deal with Qatar and Bahrain
23 November
- Kiessling puts Bayer Leverkusen back on top
- Law professors defend TV news editor in press freedom row
- Junkie holds up cash machine locations with needle
- Berlin plans 'integration contract' for immigrants
- McDonald's to turn logo green in Germany for environment
- Hospital pays damages for removing woman's healthy breast
- Tokio Hotel singer Bill laments lame love life
- Berlin to send observers to 9/11 trials
- Police locate synagogue vandal suspect in Dresden
- Antique car dealer finds Hitler's Mercedes
- Making it in Germany: a purveyor of delightful Yankee desserts
- MAN chief executive resigns amid woes
- Mercedes signs Rosberg for F1 team
24 November
- Heavy wind storms rage through Germany
- Bayern Munich needs luck and a win against Haifa
- Students plan protest of university conference
- Bonn bank manager plays Robin Hood for overdrawn customers
- EasyJet recalls magazine with Holocaust memorial fashion shoot
- Catholic official calls for end to celibacy for priests
- Merkel expects 'thank you' as GM repays loans
- Chief inspector found stabbed to death in garage
- Business confidence jumps as growth picks up
- Police raid homes of alleged Chinese spies
- Teen girl gets five years for failed firebomb attack on school
25 November
- Stuttgart down Rangers to keep Champions League hopes alive
- Röttgen says Germany can't halt nuclear exit
- Torture victim claims Mercedes Benz aided Argentinian regime
- Retiree crushed beneath store Christmas tree while shopping
- Apple pulls sexy Stern magazine iPhone app
- Toni suspended after publicly airing discontent
- Court upholds Pechstein blood-related doping ban
- Benefits for reduced working hours extended
- Social Democrats sink to all-time low in poll
- GM to keep all German Opel plants open
- Court rules ‘reunification tax’ unconstitutional
26 November
- Victory puts Bayern Munich back on track
- Privacy advocate attacks EU bank data exchange with US
- Bundeswehr chief of staff resigns over air strike
- What's on in Germany: November 26-December 2
- Religious couple fined for home schooling their children
- Man gets life after court rejects appeal for sister's 'honour killing'
- Dresden residents complain about city's stinkiest street
- 'Parking lot sheriff' arrested for draconian towing charges
- Google's web analysis tools face German scrutiny
- Audi inks €90-million deal with Bayern Munich
- German media roundup: Jung under fire for Afghan air strike
- Munich Re warns climate change could cost billions
27 November
- Bayern Munich hopes to return to winning ways after boost
- No winter weather in sight as Christmas markets open
- Two dangerous criminals escape Aachen prison
- Steel giant Thyssenkrupp to slash 20,000 jobs
- Ethics watchdogs call for end to baby hatches
- Cops play cowboy after cattle block A6 motorway
- A contract for both sides of Germany’s integration equation
- Jung resigns over Afghan air strike
- US man missing for seven days in Frankfurt
- Father of Winnenden school shooter charged with manslaughter
- States mutiny against Merkel's tax cut bill
28 November
- ZDF editor shown the door amid political row
- German families to sue French aviation over crash off Brazil
- Germany home to 90 combat Islamists: report
- Dubai crisis set to hit German industry
- Football scandal spills over to tennis, basketball
- Merkel warns banks over tight lending habits
- Köhler refuses to sign controversial internet child porn law
- Guard accused of helping with prison breakout
29 November
- SPD to target Guttenberg in Afghan inquiry
- CDU state premiers step up attack on Merkel's tax cuts
- Boozy cyclist slapped with 15-year bike ban
- Police snare Aachen prison fugitive
- Israeli ministers due to arrive for historic meeting in Germany
- First wave of swine flu has probably passed
- RWE to make deep carbon cuts
- Drunk British soldier puts policewoman in hospital
- Demjanjuk faces court in last big Nazi trial
30 November
- Police narrowly miss Aachen fugitive
- Illness delays joint Israeli-German cabinet talks
- Leverkusen on top after Kiessling treble
- Swiss minaret ban sparks heated German debate
- Berlin re-evaluates deadly Kunduz air strike
- Westerwelle threatens Iran with new sanctions
- Peter Doherty angers Germans by mixing up national anthem
- Last gasp petition for Bavarian smoking ban edges to referendum
- Wintry weather on the way
- Stretcher-bound Nazi guard Demjanjuk tried
- One in ten Germans on the dole
- MAN loses another executive as fines loom
- Opening the door to holiday torture
- Remains of billionaire Flick found in Hungary