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

01 July
- Amazon begins selling groceries in Germany
- Tour bus crash injures 24
- The damage control president
- Coastal authorities practice for potential oil spills
- Christian Wulff: From Merkel rival to youngest president
- President 'debacle' casts shadow over Merkel
- What's on in Germany: July 1 - 7
- Croc shock for Hessian cops
- Firm puts sex.com domain up for grabs
- Dresden honours Egyptian 'veil martyr'
- The daily World Cup roundup
- Half-Scot McAllister elected Lower Saxony's state premier
02 July
- Abandoned pets responsible for massive wildlife killing spree
- German killed in Kunduz aid compound attack
- Majority of Germans expect coalition failure
- Deutsche Bahn planning high-speed trains to southern France and UK
- Germany and Argentina trade barbs ahead of big game
- Love before the law: child custody set for overhaul
- Police search for missing judge
- BMW announces carbon fibre electric car
- The daily World Cup roundup
03 July
- Argentina's 'German' defender Heinze ready for Fatherland battle
- Airgun sniper caught
- German car sales slump while exports surge
- Thunder to end hottest day of the year
- German spy recalled after causing death
- Government split over nuclear power extension
- Germans put four past Argentina to make semis
04 July
- Deutsche Bahn plans massive investments
- German press hails World Cup heroes
- Opt-out scheme for left-wing extremists planned
- Deutsche Bank tipped off over tax raid
- Bavaria votes on total smoking ban
- SPD refuses Left invitation to opposition summit
- Police find woman's body in boot of crashed car
05 July
- Bavarians approve stricter smoking ban
- Cold front bringing brief break from summer heat
- Tough summer ahead in Afghanistan, minister warns
- Insect experts see impending mosquito plague
- Teen offender beats girlfriend at school after trial flap
- Corpse in crashed car boot was married to policeman driver
- Iran Air says Germany not refusing refuelling
- Stealth costs lurking behind ‘free’ bank services
- Germany touts lower deficit as an example to Europe
- The daily World Cup roundup
- German guns down two Italians after football row
06 July
- Social Democrats push for national smoking ban
- Lahm to Ballack: I want to stay on as captain
- Fewer migrant children finish high school
- Court to examine science of 'designer babies'
- Paul the 'psychic' octopus tips Spain to beat Germany
- Women believe men deserve higher pay, study finds
- Higher health insurance costs approved
- Star Munich opera director Nagano resigns amid controversy
- K1 ponzi scheme suspect commits suicide
- Green light given to gene testing IVF embryos
- Ruhr crocodile sightings put Bochum police on alert
- The daily World Cup roundup
07 July
- Critics savage Rösler's health reform plan
- Lahm's captaincy remarks raise hackles
- Bundeswehr outlines cuts to military hardware
- Scantily clad German men happy to bare their beer bellies
- Banks' €5 ATM fee cap rejected
- Space probe captures echoes of Big Bang
- Berlin Fashion Week begins
- World Cup row shooting suspect surrenders
- Germany to accept two Gitmo prisoners
- Cologne shopping street ranked Germany's most popular
- Spain end Germany's World Cup dream
08 July
- 'Psychic' octopus Paul maintains perfect match prediction record
- Sultry weather to keep everyone sweating
- Married father of four ordained as Catholic priest
- What's on in Germany: July 8 - 14
- Deutsche Bahn sacks employees in foreign bribery scandal
- German Media Roundup: We'll be back
- Interior minister's car stolen in Dresden
- One-quarter of Germans avoiding the internet
- Traditions like smoking are not worth defending
- German luxury car market shows strong sales
- Amnesty says Germany not probing police abuse
09 July
- Farmers fear for crops as summer heat continues
- Sick leave for psychological problems at record high
- Rail accidents leave one youth dead, four others injured
- Berlin: Belt-tightening won't hit Afghan mission
- Football coach Löw reportedly set to continue with new contract
- Jasmine scent could replace Valium, scientists discover
- Paul the 'psychic' octopus predicts wins for Germany and Spain
- BMW and Daimler planning electric city scooters
- Parents give schools bad marks for fairness
- Germans hit by flu and fitness worries ahead of match for third
10 July
- Germany eye third ahead of Uruguay match
- Key figure in Hesse school abuse scandal dies
- Interior ministry criticises planned EU-wide asylum rules
- Union boss warns of summer railway strikes
- Swastika art triggers outcry in Poland
- Homeopathy targeted in debate on health care spending
- Germany round off World Cup with win
11 July
- Germany sizzles through hottest day of the year
- Students suffer collapse onboard overheated ICE train
- ECB encouraged by economic data, German industrial gains
- SPD and Greens approve coalition pact in NRW
- German president to honour Löw and team as ‘ambassadors’
- Arson suspected in 30-car harbour fire
12 July
- Police probe Deutsche Bahn over horror heat
- Paul the prophetic octopus retires with perfect record
- TV news anchor Seibert to become Merkel's spokesman
- Müller snares golden boot as top scorer
- The final World Cup roundup
- SEB sells German retail banking to Santander
- As German as Özil and Boateng
- Minister calls for internet code of conduct
- Europe's oldest elephant dies at Stuttgart zoo
- Ballack's agent brands national players 'queers'
- Airbus reportedly slashes price to win US military tanker project
- Storm leaves two dead and several injured
- Fashion goes green in Berlin
13 July
- Toll mounts in 'black wall' storms
- Catholic abbot returns to office despite abuse scandal
- Nuclear power licences could be auctioned off
- New postal era beckons as official documents go electronic
- Munich S-Bahn murder trial starts
- BMW sales and profits roaring ahead
- Paul the octopus gets suspicious citizenship offer from Spain
- Scissor Sisters rejuvenated by Berlin's nightlife
- Siemens said to secure major Russian rail deal
- Harbouring architecture in Hamburg
14 July
- Intelligence agency to probe own Nazi past
- Merkel blasts new Rhineland coalition
- Westerwelle urges quick end to conscription
- Policeman wins a week's holiday for time spent donning uniform
- Bavaria offers access to rare books with mobile application
- XXX-ray calendar titillates German radiologists
- Credit Suisse raided in tax fraud probe
- Tornado warnings issued as heat wave continues
- IKB bank boss convicted for accounting cover-up
- Kraft takes power in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Language group slams Deutsche Telekom for English terms
15 July
- Deadly storms batter western Germany
- 'I'm the captain,' insists angry Ballack
- Trains not equipped for heat wave: watchdog
- Police demand tougher powers to fight child porn on web
- Russia identifies activist's killer after prodding from Merkel
- Germany to hit EU deficit target a year early
- What's on in Germany: July 15 - 21
- Doctor who killed UK patient could lose licence
- Berlin, Paris and London call for deeper CO2 cuts
- Oktoberfest goes back to the roots for 200th anniversary
- Siemens lands Russian train and turbine deals
- Airlines outraged over planned passenger departure tax
- Witness says S-Bahn murder victim hit first
16 July
- Free Democrats pick new fight over airport tax
- Merkel pushes China to open its markets
- Poor families hit by parenting payment cuts
- Berliners flocking to death strip karaoke
- Singer Pink tumbles off stage in Nuremberg
- Heat wave causes AC meltdown on 50 trains
- Hochtief wins Madison Square Garden deal
- Sweltering temperatures prove too taxing for bureaucrats
- Keeping sight of the big picture
- 'Sharp' rocket set to revolutionise space travel
- Hamburg bishop quits amid abuse allegations
17 July
- Hamburg Mayor Beust reportedly set to resign
- Brunner died of heart failure, not injuries admits prosecutor
- Hacker arrested for spying on schoolgirls via their own webcams
- Charity appeals for seasonal help for homeless in the heat
- A third of doctors would help terminally ill die
- Storms give way to heat
18 July
- Total drink-drive ban on political agenda
- 'Blind' job applications on trial to reduce discrimination
- Mother of soldier killed in Afghanistan tries to sue government
- Ruhr autobahn turned into culture strip
- Easyjet leaves hundreds of Berlin passengers grounded
- Hamburg Mayor Ole von Beust resigns
19 July
- Iran uses German bank to skirt sanctions
- Workers call in sick more often as economy improves
- Referendum voters reject Hamburg school reforms
- German media roundup: Hamburg's democratic revolt
- Islamists offered way out of extremist groups
- Merkel lonely at top as another ally departs
- Father abandons boy at rest stop after family row
- Oktoberfest to enforce strict smoking ban
- Ice cream maker working overtime through heat wave
- Cops don bathing suits to nab fugitive at pool
- Officials approve fog grenades to protect nuclear power plant
20 July
- Aigner speaks out against biological patents
- Six dead in farmhouse blaze
- More hot weather on the way
- Barn dust prevents allergies in farm kids, scientists discover
- Ministers sabotage Merkel’s austerity drive
- Westerwelle backs talks with Taliban
- Löw extends national football team contract
- Court rejects teacher's suit against student for 'rabbit terrorism'
- The Best of Berlin in July
- Consumer watchdog pans banks for investment advice
- Germany commemorates failed anti-Hitler plot
21 July
- 'I rooted for Germany,' David Cameron confesses
- Major review of family benefits planned
- Experts find security problems in new De-Mail service
- Merkel's coalition hits all-time low in poll
- Police investigate sexual abuse at summer camp
- Nowitzki pulls out of world basketball championships
- Court allows surveillance of leftist politicians
- Victims of train AC meltdown paid €500
- Combing through Quedlinburg's charms
- Berlin and Paris aim to block voting rights for EU deficit offenders
- Porsche guarantees 9,000 jobs in Germany
22 July
- Left party boss probed over travel expenses
- Neo-Nazi clothing label case doomed from the start
- New CD on German tax dodgers surfaces
- Minister blasts Deutsche Bahn over AC debacle
- Bayreuth Festival to open with new 'Lohengrin' production
- German banks in focus as stress test release looms
- Heatwave fuels massive algae bloom in Baltic Sea
- Tom Cruise 'rescues' reporter from being sacked in Munich
- France using Ribery as 'scapegoat,' Bayern Munich boss says
- Rain and storms set to bring hot spell to an end
- Conservative MP calls for a 'fat tax'
- Summer camp sex abuse investigation widens
23 July
- Ban kids from eating junk food, MP demands
- Unemployed could be forced into tiny apartments
- Bureaucratic 'drama' is failing troops: watchdog
- What's on in Germany: July 22 - 28
- Economy in 'party mood,' survey finds
- China likely to be Audi's main market soon
- Farmer blockade stalls Munich's Olympic bid
- Depression might really suck the colour out of life, study finds
- Vandals attack 'veil martyr' memorial
- Body found at Spanish lake likely missing German boy
- Young summer camp sex abusers inspired by internet
24 July
- All but one German banks pass stress test
- 'Flat rate sex' brothel owners jailed for fraud
- Exiled Iranian dissidents find refuge in Germany after revolt
- Unmarried fathers to get automatic joint custody over children
- Conservatives resume infighting over military service
- Dead boy found in Spain confirmed missing German five-year-old
- Fifteen dead in Love Parade stampede
25 July
- Love parade founder Dr Motte blames new organisers for disaster
- Politicians call for secure homes for child criminals
- No more Love Parades, organiser says
- Schavan says school Islam lessons improve integration
- Ferrari one-two pushes Vettel to third in German Grand Prix
- Love Parade death toll climbs to 19
26 July
- Love Parade was cleared for only 250,000 guests
- Summer retail clearance sales officially begin
- Minister to ban NPD members from running child care facilities
- Leaving fitness to fate
- Remembering the Love Parade victims
- Mayor refuses to resign over festival planning
- German media roundup: Event organisers damned
- US fed up with Germany's war effort, files show
- Illegal pesticides found on German produce
- Rwandan man arrested on genocide charge
- Love Parade organiser owns fitness chain McFit
- Duisburg police relieved of Love Parade investigation
27 July
- Political pressure steamrolled safety fears
- MPs push for end to pension guarantee
- Deutsche Bank posts higher quarterly profit
- Merkel to interrupt holiday for Saturday Love Parade service
- 'My girlfriend is dying. Please make some room!'
- Guttenberg denies Afghanistan cover-ups
- Depression and schizophrenia filling German hospital beds
- Lufthansa cargo plane crashes in Saudi Arabia
- Kidnapped aid workers freed in Darfur
- Consumers join businesses in party mood
28 July
- First Love Parade report to be released today
- Gay German theologian lashes Catholic Church
- Merkel's conservatives still haven't hit rock bottom
- Police seize 'ancient' bus after 1.8 million kilometres
- Tap or bottle: How clean is our drinking water?
- DNA tests to reveal secrets of the 'iceman'
- The right to tap water
- Woman's death takes Love Parade toll to 21
- Green BMW ad slammed as 'misleading'
- Reclusive billionaire co-founder of discount chain Aldi dies at 88
- Nazi death camp guard charged with murder
- Officials blame parade organiser for stampede
29 July
- Neo-Nazis hack into Buchenwald concentration camp website
- Pressure grows for Duisburg mayor to resign
- Germany still paying for Chernobyl fallout
- What's on in Germany: July 29 - August 4
- Home offices should be tax-deductible, court rules
- 'Job miracle' stalls as unemployment rises in Germany
- VW quadruples profits, beating forecasts
- Weatherman Kachelmann released from jail
- Single-parent families on the rise in Germany
- Elderly woman robbed by fake relative after weekend reunion
- Behemoth wine barrel to be tapped after 400 years
30 July
- Mayor's own party turns against him
- Skilled migrants urgently needed, says minister
- Germany wins double-gold at European championships
- Conservatives blast Westerwelle over Turkey EU bid
- Ahoy! A shipload of weekend fun in Hamburg ahead
- Audi looks to China for sales records as price war brews
- Poo smears, swastikas breach inmate rights
- Summer heat to return for weekend
- Retail sales drop for June as consumers remain cautious
- Wikileaks interview: 'We are changing the game'
31 July
- Siemens ditches partial work scheme
- Government planning extensive Hartz IV reforms
- Germans undecided about military service
- Convicted sex offender asks not to be released
- CSU demands rightward shift to lift government
- Love Parade memorial held in Duisburg