📰 Breaking News: News Archive for March 2010 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 March
- Bayern Munich back on top of Bundesliga
- Violent storm 'Xynthia' cuts deadly path
- Cities ask for help paying for new public workers' wage hike
- Merkel rules out German aid for Greece
- Minister warns of growing might of Google, Facebook and Apple
- Merck snaps up Millipore for $7.2 billion
- Seduced by sans serif
- One quarter of Germans fine with microchip skin implant
- Faulty hip implants force hospital to redo 200 surgeries
- Böhmer calls for Germany to recognise foreign credentials
- Obama might remove US nukes from Germany
- Adler set to keep goal at World Cup
02 March
- Tech fair CeBIT hopes new gadgets will woo back consumers
- MPs earning thousands from moonlighting
- Man regrets naming storm 'Xynthia'
- GM to triple financial boost to Opel
- Porsche unveils 'green' supercar for petrol-heads
- Teachers reject claim German schools are IT failures
- Daimler teams up with Chinese carmaker BYD for electric auto
- Construction worker finds €100,000 hidden under old bathtub
- Portnoy's Podcast: Ralph Martin, Hartz IV and naked sledding
- Court rules anti-terror data storage illegal
- American opinion of Germany improves
03 March
- Business groups blast sluggish pace of reform
- Web pirates won't have internet cut off
- Castrate Knut, say animal rights activists
- Every second young German 'unfit' for job training
- Germany hoping to tame Maradona's Argentina
- Adidas posts 62 percent profit plunge for 2009
- Crane accident traps six near Halle
- Let’s keep our paws off Knut’s balls
- Winter returns for an encore
- Potholes for sale in German village
- Cabinet backs cuts to solar power subsidy
- Anger burns a year after Cologne archive collapse
04 March
- Argentina beats frustrated Germany 1-0
- German tourist killed as giant waves batter cruise ship
- Rash withdrawal of US nukes poses dangers
- Family minister's nursing care proposal assailed
- What's on in Germany: March 4 - 10
- Ikea launches line of prefabricated homes in Hesse
- Sauerland cell Islamists jailed for anti-US plot
- Munich hosts homosexual job fair
- German MPs suggest cash-strapped Greece should sell islands
- Storm ‘Xynthia’ could cost Allianz €300 million
- Daimler's Zetsche asks Berlin and Brussels to subsidise electric cars
- Mind-reading computers turn heads at CeBIT
05 March
- German high court gets youngest leader ever
- Bayern Munich looking to cement top league ranking
- Deutsche Bahn faces infrastructure funds gap
- Techno's not dead: Berlin's club scene in the easyJet era
- German budget heading for record deficit
- Brüderle: Germany won't give 'one cent' to Greece
- Catholic abuse scandal hits famous boys' choir
- Hesse to let buyers hunker down in old bunkers
- Dresden opens chamber of Turkish delights
- Ice breakers struggle to clear harbours
- Merkel: Greece doesn't need German money
06 March
- New snowfall causes series of road accidents
- Egypt's Mubarak undergoes surgery after visiting Merkel
- Germany brokers deal on A400M transport
- German tabloid tells Greeks to get up earlier
- Health Ministry plans drug market reform
- Abuse scandal hits elite progressive school
- Armed robbers stick up Berlin poker tournament
07 March
- Bayern goalkeeper takes blame for Cologne draw
- SPD criticises Merkel's new welfare plan
- More German workers suffer burnout
- Schavan says German women get a raw deal
- Police hunt machete-wielding poker robbers
- Schäuble to ban naked short selling
08 March
- Westerwelle brings aid to devastated Chile
- Pope's brother oblivious to choir sexual abuse
- No leads in Berlin poker heist investigation
- Germany and EU plan 'European IMF'
- ARD TV drama sparks Scientology's ire
- The Best of Berlin in March
- UK suspected Hitler Youth acted as 'spyclists'
- Study finds German women better drivers than men
- Bio weather: Cloudy with a chance of kidney stones?
- Audi posts strong Feb sales and sees solid Q1
09 March
- Schumi revved up and ready to go
- Minister calls for abuse compensation
- Deutsche Post returns to profit in 2009
- Airbus boss slams US over 'biased' military tanker tender
- Germany and France look to rein in speculative trading
- Police looking for fifth suspect in poker tournament heist
- Turkish culture club firebombed in Münster
- Germans jailed for crashing Oscars
- Cindy Crawford's blackmailer receives two years in prison
- Litigious woman fails to prove atom-smasher will end world
- Prince Ernst August fined €200,000 for slap attack
- Dr. Dot: Building an empire one massage at a time
- Greek crisis unlikely to deter German tourists
10 March
- Westerwelle blasted over partner's travel
- Economists dismiss European IMF idea
- MP faces investigation over use of dodgy 'Dr' title
- Bayern's Schweini wary of Champions League big guns
- Rösler threatens pharma industry with drug discounts
- Fun and games in the Fatherland
- The worst of times for literary translators in Germany?
- Child abuse scandal spreads to Catholic dorm
- Riesch leaves Vonn behind in blistering Garmisch downhill run
- Hamburg authorities criticised after teen deportee's death
- Fake 'glaciers' grown to combat big melt
- Teens to go unpunished for torturing pensioner
11 March
- Germany clashes with Brazil on Iran sanctions
- Up to 30 centimetres of snow expected as winter wears on
- Politicians bicker over gun law reforms on Winnenden anniversary
- What's on in Germany: March 11 - 17
- 'Free' city tours exposed for dodgy employment practices
- BMW optimistic despite dip in 2009 profits
- Westerwelle under fire for family business ties
- Poles no longer fear Germany
- Boy finds East German message in a bottle
- Public debt swells
- Crumbling A1 motorway casts shadow on construction firm
- Aldi founder Albrecht remains richest German
- Flashy Audi roars past other VW brands
12 March
- Nazi wreck puts Berlin at odds with salvager
- Heavy fog and snow cause huge autobahn pile-up in Bavaria
- Top exec salaries remain high despite crisis
- Crisis-hit Iceland and Greece target German tourists
- VW to jump-start Chinese electric car market
- Church to appoint child sex abuse watchdog
- Good and bad news for allergy sufferers this year
- Germany's Sorbs celebrate Zapust festival
- Vattenfall sells German power grid to Australian fund
- FDP says Westerwelle criticism threatens democracy
13 March
- Lena to sing for Germany at Eurovision contest
- Police arrest one in poker heist investigation
- Pope helped priest accused of child abuse
- Westerwelle's ministry colleague also under fire over foreign trips
- Platzeck's Brandenburg chancellery infiltrated by Russian spies
- Neureuther takes World Cup slalom victory to banish bad run of luck
14 March
- Hertha fans riot at loss, Bayern regains Liga lead
- Toyota recall action seen torpedoing sales
- Poker heist suspect released without charge
- Police say opera singer hid death of missing fisherman husband
- Two dead in bus crash caused by coughing fit
- Addiction expert warns over ignorance of shisha smoke dangers
15 March
- Westerwelle calls criticism of trips 'slander'
- Neo-Nazis resort to subtler tactics
- Rösler mulling extra per capita health insurance premium
- German arms exports double in five years
- Deutsche Telekom introduces quota for women executives
- Week off to a slippery start as icy roads cause multiple accidents
- Audi blasts past French speed trap at 300 kph
- Westerwelle’s taboo travels
- Catholic groups chastise pope's silence on sex abuse scandal
- France attacks hefty German trade surplus
- Ministry calls lawyers' demands for Kunduz bombing victims unrealistic
16 March
- Church suspends priest whom Benedict helped
- Germany slaps down France over trade claims
- SPD attacked over Hartz IV proposals
- Doctor shortage alarms military commissioner
- Röttgen could strip authority of nuclear waste storage duties
- Popular Passion play bad for Bavarian barbers
- Spring is (hopefully) on the way
- Dutch populist Wilders 'unwelcome' in Eifel town
- Deutsche's Ackermann pockets €10 mln for 2009
- Electricity prices to rise for every fifth household
17 March
- Poker bandit turns himself in to police
- Soaring ATM fees targeted by parliament
- Westerwelle attacks homophobic: colleague
- Siemens to cut 1,000 jobs in spin-off
- Half of Germany's new hires face job insecurity
- Merkel: paedophilia not just a Church problem
- Guttenberg kick-starts shorter conscription periods
- British woman dead after German doctor botches operation
- Porsche sheds debt but expects yearly loss
- Erdogan urges German Turks not to integrate
- BMW looks forward to strong profits
- Elisa Moolecherry: Bringing English theatre to Munich
- Official report: Dresden bombing killed 25,000
18 March
- Second poker heist bandit arrested
- Politicians call on government to save German shipbuilding
- Guttenberg under fire for handling of Kunduz air strike affair
- What's on in Germany: March 18 - 24
- Hipp baby food turns to hip-replacement generation
- Leipzig Book Fair opens
- Siemens plans 4,200 job cuts worldwide
- Israeli drugmaker Teva buys Ratiopharm
- Educational web game by Nestlé sparks privacy concerns
- Zoo opens Body Worlds anatomical exhibition for animals
- Development minister stokes foreign aid debate
19 March
- Bayern Munich preps for intense schedule ahead
- Ex-military officials raise pressure on Guttenberg
- Mob of marauding minks snacking on woodland creatures
- Greece's Papandreou says WWII reparations issue still open
- Schäuble: Berlin flattered by French criticism
- Meet Germany's spring zoo babies
- Hannover 96 offers football fans birthing room for born supporters
- Leftist accuses official of blocking citizenship
- Germany adopts budget with record debt
- Credit Suisse clients and staff face tax probe
20 March
- Klitschko vows to defend heavyweight crown
- Wild boars run amok through Hamburg
- Scientists develop 3-D cloaking device
- Conservatives plan to rein in pharmaceutical prices
- Zollitsch says pope 'warning' German clergy
- Third suspect in poker game robbery arrested
- Greece says Berlin putting EU at risk
21 March
- KO for Klitschko at title bout in Düsseldorf
- Last poker heist suspects arrested
- Search for escaped cobra costs over €30,000
- The Left presents blueprint for party platform
- Germany plans €1-billion loan for Airbus A350
- Munich flight grounded as Japanese tourists fall violently ill
- Köhler urges higher gas prices for environment
22 March
- Merkel pledges eurozone stability to Greece
- Former Bayreuth Festival director Wolfgang Wagner dies
- Minister lauds Bavarian church for taking sex abuse to the law
- Balmy weather forecast for first week of spring
- Police arrest Berlin poker heist mastermind
- Municipal clinic doctors walk off the job
- Germans to build Asian solar park as Spanish announce Baltic wind farm
- Weatherman Kachelmann arrested for alleged rape
- BMW snags €1-billion contract to equip US police cars
- Knut grows up to become Berlin Zoo's 'stud' bear
- Lufthansa pilots threaten strike as wage talks fail
- EU heavyweights push Merkel to aid Greece
23 March
- 'Wise man' warns bank levy could spark crisis
- Boeing blasts Germany over Airbus loan
- Politically motivated crime hits record high
- Former SS hit man given life sentence
- Bakers fear EU could label salty German bread unhealthy
- Qatar looking to invest more in Germany
- VW to raise €4.4 billion in fresh capital
- Court rejects extra welfare to clothe growing children
- Dresden shop offers Elbe sandstone dildos
- Workers' blues on the rise
- Germany reluctant to rescue Greece
24 March
- Merkel pushes IMF plan for Greece
- Daimler to settle bribery claims with €134 million in fines
- Poker heist haul still a mystery despite arrests
- Minister says Hartz IV unfairly penalises teen summer jobs
- Trust in Catholic Church plummets amid abuse scandal
- Playing Europe’s bad cop
- Axel Springer merges eastern holdings with Swiss group
- Court rules linking gas to oil prices illegal
- Erdogan urges Germany to allow dual citizenship
- Record highs expected
- The Hedonist List: enjoy Berlin in style this month
- Löw defends picking Leverkusen's Adler as number one for World Cup
25 March
- Robben takes Bayern Munich to German Cup final
- FDP: 'Foolish' traffic sign changes must end
- Scientists discover new human species in Siberia
- Consumer sentiment steadies after five-month plunge
- What's on in Germany: March 25 - 31
- Cologne 'sex tax' eyed by other cities
- Merkel to push for 'last resort' aid for Greece
- Berlin's 'historic gem' shines with new light
- Westerwelle to kick off Gay Games in Cologne this summer
- Care workers reach long-awaited minimum wage deal
- Email drags Merkel into Kunduz affair
- Lesbian Holocaust memorial plan upsets historians
- Digging into the great dachshund decline
- Hypo Real Estate boss quits abruptly
26 March
- Germany, France unite on IMF rescue for Greece
- Warm weather won't last
- Banks signal readiness to reduce ATM fees
- Coalition mulls extending nuclear phaseout to 2050
- Merkel hails EU deal on Greek financial aid
- Three states present draft law for dual citizenship
- One dead after head-on collision with public bus
- Suspected far-right extremists set fire to politician's car
- OECD says Germany needs greater innovation
- Vatican denies pope failed to stop paedophile
27 March
- Clocks go forward an hour for summer time
- Döner industry comes of age with first national conference
- CIA leak shows plans to market Afghan war to Europeans
- Rhine River 90km shorter than everyone thinks
- Germans lose fear of climate change after long, hard winter
- Rösler infuriates pharma industry with plan to cut drugs costs
28 March
- Germany prepares to receive Gitmo prisoners
- Odenwaldschule board resigns in wake of abuse claims
- Culture fans demonstrate in support of local theatres
- Millions smuggled out of East Berlin in 1990s to be returned
- Merkel visits Turkey amid broad disagreements
- Deutsche Bahn wins UAE rail contract
29 March
- Rebellious Kuranyi could return to national team
- Thousands protest neo-Nazi demonstration in Duisburg
- Swarms switch health insurers to avoid fees
- University students to live like ancient Roman gladiators
- Germans opt for smaller chocolate eggs and bunnies this Easter
- Merkel arrives in Turkey for tense talks
- 'Holocaust cabaret' about Demjanjuk case plays Heidelberg
- Siemens plans UK plant for wind turbines
- Couple evicted for having loud sex
- Duisburg braces for trial amid biker war
- Merkel: 'rules changed' for Turkish EU bid
- 20 Trier diocese priests accused of sex abuse
30 March
- 'Merkel bonus' fails to save German women from pay gap
- Fuel companies deny holiday price-gouging
- EU plan to block web child porn sparks German opposition
- German 'WePad' to compete with Apple's iPad
- Schäuble demands EU economic government
- Google 'Street View' car sabotaged in suspected privacy protest
- Chicken shortage forces Easter bunny to import eggs
- Ferguson and United gunning for Bayern
- IMF slashes growth forecast for Germany
- Youth services admits failure in toddler's death by neglect
31 March
- Bayern stun United in final minute
- Insurance agent tops list of unpopular jobs
- Shorter Bundeswehr conscription to cost Defence Ministry millions
- Germany's Turks don’t need Papa Erdoğan or Mutti Merkel
- Bishop Mixa accused of abusing children
- State premier Rüttgers promises folk song revival for re-election
- Germany backs bank tax for financial crisis fund
- A piece of chocolate a day keeps the doctor away
- Brett Macdonald: An international education
- Historic steam locomotives gather for Easter train festival
- German CIA rendition victim sentenced to jail for assault
- Jobless rate drops unexpectedly in March