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

01 August
- Report says pilot error caused Saudi freight crash
- BP to sell German assets
- Man kills himself during fire-fight with police
- FDP calls for more referendums
- Harz canal system honoured by UNESCO
- Wulff suggests Duisburg mayor should resign
02 August
- German women take home U-20 World Cup
- Merkel blasts economy minister's plan to recruit skilled migrants
- End of vacation traffic fills train to 200 percent capacity
- Grey skies and sultry weather ahead
- Justice minister moots tougher telemarketing law
- Politicians at odds over unemployment reforms
- Sauerland won't jump, but will be pushed
- The Local launches new mobile site
- Brüderle says Germany to sell Commerzbank stake in three years
- Scientists find 'oldest' dog remains
03 August
- Ancient treasures rise again from WWII rubble in Berlin
- Politicians want car scrapping money back
- Legal punishment unlikely for Ameland teen sex abuse suspects
- Custody rights for unwed fathers strengthened
- Greens: Consumers paying €1 billion too much for power
- The name game
- Top carmakers put the pedal to the metal
- Is Lena in danger of becoming one-hit wonder?
- Bayern's Robben ruled out for two months after thigh injury
- Love Parade victims offered more aid
04 August
- German envoy among diplomats told to 'go to hell' by Mugabe
- Merkel's coalition plagued by dismal polls
- Piano likely played by Mozart turns up in Baden-Baden
- Berlin underground inspires beauty pageant
- Parking tattletale faces fine after making 15,000 citations
- In the name of the father
- Investments rescue Munich Re's quarterly earnings
- World Cup powers Adidas to strong Q2
- Late Aldi billionaire's armoured car up for sale
- Minister denies police error in Duisburg deaths
- Summer takes a break as cool weather returns
- Siemens to cut 2,000 German IT jobs
- Westerwelle: Germany needs foreign workers
05 August
- Paradise for sale in Hamburg
- Merkel offers aid in fighting Russian fires
- Rhineland students need Facebook lessons, minister says
- What's on in Germany: August 5 – 11
- Commerzbank back in black in second quarter
- Legendary Wacken heavy metal festival strikes opening chord
- Deutsche Telekom Q2 hit by loss of T-Mobile UK
- Pensioners' choir on a highway to hell-raising
- Cologne woman hits plush pay dirt with tours for teddy bears
- German teenager raped on Turkish beach
- Opel offers ‘lifetime’ guarantee on cars
- Kunduz air strike victims to get $5,000 payout
06 August
- Coalition fight brews over preventive detention
- Germany's super-rich urged to follow US billionaires' lead
- SPD and Greens have majority, poll finds
- Allianz Q2 profit takes a dive
- Afghan politician calls German air strike payouts 'laughable'
- Bavaria's 'Porno Island' set for a clean-up
- German broadcasters to set up free internet TV
- Bayern Munich extends top-scoring Thomas Müller's contract
- Stasi checks for public servants extended
- World War II bomb found near major Hamburg bridge
07 August
- Germany closes embassy in smoke-filled Moscow
- CDU minister calls for easier immigration
- Summer to return next week
- Sauerland knew of Love Parade planning chaos
- German doctor killed in Afghanistan
- Government still divided on education vouchers
08 August
- Bayern cruise to Super Cup victory
- Trade unions switch to aggressive strategy
- Saxony hit by floods
- Conflict over nuclear power rages on
- Pharmacies reportedly selling fake medication
- Majority of Germans want to end conscription
09 August
- Exports soar as economy surges ahead
- German helicopter pilot killed in stunt performance
- Brandenburg braces for flooding as Saxony soaks
- Family Ministry projects suspended due to budget cuts
- Hamburg shuts mosque visited by 9/11 terrorists
- Clouds could ruin chances of seeing major meteor shower
- Germany ready to take on ageing Nazi hitman
- Cemetery offers luxury graves at bargain prices to encourage restoration
- Consumer watchdog slams Amazon's new grocery service
- Government ministers warned not to use BlackBerrys and iPhones
10 August
- Brandenburg floods still at high warning level
- German tourist killed in San Francisco shooting
- Inuit block German-Canadian Arctic tests for fear of wildlife
- Economy forecasters tip 2.5 percent growth
- Drunk, homeless man convicted for 'Hitler salute'
- Google to launch 'Street View' for 20 cities
- Rhineland police complain of 'intolerable' food from caterers
- Duisburg announces Love Parade memorial plans
- Police investigate radioactive waste found under Berlin street
- Siemens lands huge North American wind power orders
- TV channel RTL2 offers Muslims fasting notices during Ramadan
- Floodwaters recede but Brandenburg still on alert
11 August
- Debate heats up over Google Street View
- Migrant birthrates falling in Germany, study finds
- Leading economist calls for pensions at 70
- Beckenbauer assistant Osieck to coach Australia's 'Socceroos'
- Finding family fun under the Feldberg
- Suspect released in San Francisco tourist shooting
- Brandenburg flooding fears ease
- EON presses Merkel on extending nuclear power
- Dead dachshunds pay no bills
- Thor Steinar loses case against clothing brand mocking neo-Nazis
- Deutsche Bank forced to keep communists' accounts open
- Westerwelle won't take partner to anti-gay lands
- August, nein Danke!
- East German death toll revised upwards
12 August
- Danes force a draw in friendly match with Germany
- Germany can be sued over Hitler-era bonds, US court says
- Politicians plan Google Street View privacy law
- Surge in mental illness highlights psychotherapist dearth
- What's on in Germany: August 12 - 18
- Scientists find evidence of earlier Stone Age use of tools
- Archaeologists expect Roman weapons, find live WWII grenades
- Analysts expecting booming German growth
- Mating mayflies pose Bavarian traffic hazard
- Soggy east braces for heavy rain after floods
- Police reportedly ordered to secure Love Parade
- Austrians shocked to discover Oscar-winner Waltz is German
13 August
- Court approves neo-Nazi march, but bans counter demonstration
- Economy thunders ahead with record growth
- Defence Ministry plans troop reduction to 165,000 volunteers
- Three dead in head-on collision with train
- Controversial demolition of Stuttgart train station begins
- Lone pensioner keeps dog sled crabbing tradition alive
- Israeli agent suspected of links to Dubai killing released on bail
- German privacy gets tangled in Google's web
- VW sales increase by almost three percent for July
- Flooded Görlitz takes legal action against Polish dam operators
14 August
- Stuttgart station human chain draws 20,000
- Jobs unfilled as Germans fail to qualify yet foreigners unwelcome
- Leftist politician accused of illegally selling machine guns
- Ullrich could be charged after court says he paid doping doctor
- Werder Bremen dismisses Real Madrid's bid for Özil
- Demonstrators allowed to protest neo-Nazi march
15 August
- Mayor admits lying about Love Parade crowd size
- UAE 'concerned' by German release of Israeli assassination suspect
- Luther statues create colourful controversy in Wittenberg
- Beate Uhse erotica hit where it hurts by free online porn
- Baden-Württemberg ordered ghost trains to aid Stuttgart project
- Rösler will not help out states with swine flu vaccine costs
16 August
- German Martin Kaymer wins PGA golf championship
- CDU plans minor tax reform as growth surges
- Economy revs up but Merkel still sputters
- No Angels singer admits to sex while HIV positive
- Thunderstorms spark blazes across North Sea island of Sylt
- Cities consider ban on 'beer bike' tours
- Air Berlin pilots threaten to strike as summer holidays wrap up
- How Hamburg changed the Beatles
- Heavy rain threatens Saxony with new flooding
17 August
- Bayern Munich labours for win over fifth-division Windeck
- Germans flout extra health insurance fees
- Donations for Pakistan flood victims slow to pick up
- Aigner wants longer opt- out limit for Street View
- Gay couples gain equal inheritance tax standing
- ICE train crashes into garbage truck, injuring 10
- Investors fear growth won't last, ZEW finds
- Lawmakers ready to approve use of medical marijuana
- Summer to show its face after a week in hiding
- Özil leaves Werder Bremen for Real Madrid
- Watchdog says 'lifetime' Opel guarantee is a lie
18 August
- Cabinet to consider tougher Street View rules
- German woman stabbed to death at Caribbean resort
- Merkel's conservatives slip behind Social Democrats for the first time
- Sylt authorities suspect arson as fires continue
- SPD buries hatchet over pension age hike policy
- Regensburg waiters unite in refusing service to neo-Nazis
- Top-up health fee dodgers face hefty fines
- Bavaria mourns adored Green party figure after double tragedy
- Banks at odds over max ATM fees
- Another kind of Bavarian brew
- Brazil irked by illegal trash from Hamburg
- Czechs probe massacre of Sudeten Germans
19 August
- Duisburg fails to block Love Parade files
- Banks threatened with withdrawal fee caps
- Bayern Munich still the team to beat as Bundesliga kicks off
- What's on in Germany: August 19 - 25
- 'Ethical' bank frozen for ballooning debt
- Police remove hundreds of Stuttgart 21 protestors
- Welfare kids to get voucher cards for educational and extracurricular needs
- German-born Roma teens face tough new life
- Toddler attacked by bear after climbing zoo fence
- German angst alone cannot stop Google
- Germany increases aid to Pakistan by €10 million
- Bundesbank sees 3 percent growth in 2010
- Bundeswehr closes probe against Klein for Kunduz air strike
- Ex-lover says No Angels singer admitted to HIV
- Google extends opt-out deadline for Street View
20 August
- Magath threatens to quit Schalke over criticism from fans
- Business groups want holidays cut for growth
- Most Germans reluctant to donate to Pakistan
- Navy training ship Gorch Fock sets sail for South America
- Court rules no automatic dismissal for civil servants with child porn
- Opposition to planned nuclear tax grows
- Bundesbank's Weber says ECB to hold course into 2011
- Stuttgart braces for huge rail project protest
- Lambs likely killed by wolves in Brandenburg
- Paul the octopus picks England to host 2018 World Cup
- Balmy summer highs expected throughout the weekend
21 August
- Bayern trumps Wolfsburg in Bundesliga opener
- Stuttgart protest attracts 20,000 silent demonstrators
- Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Hannover bid to host Eurovision
- Chancellery allegedly ousted top pharma critic
- Officials seize Love Parade documents from organiser's offices
- Economy Minister wants points system for immigration
22 August
- Germany's bravest, baddest director Schlingensief dies
- Police make arrest in search for Sylt island arsonist
- Spectacular car crash near Reichstag only noticed hours later
- Hoffenheim opens Bundesliga campaign with 4-1 win over Bremen
- Hamburg artists celebrate success in saving squatted quarter
- Guttenberg wants military reform by 2011
23 August
- Merkel rejects industry attack on nuclear tax
- Contaminated tubes suspected in baby deaths
- Drunk driving cases plummet after fines hiked
- Steinmeier takes leave to donate kidney to wife
- Sky Deutschland looking for new cable TV partners
- Police investigate ICE train malfunction in tunnel
- Dancing with fate - performance explores the plight of asylum seekers
- Cooler and rainier weather heralds coming autumn
- Guttenberg to slash military, end draft
- German scientist refutes Putin on climate change
24 August
- Robust economy seen chugging forward
- Tornado wallops Hesse
- Third baby dies from bacterial exposure
- Landslide clogs traffic in Göttingen
- 'It would be naïve not to have reservations about helping Pakistan'
- New government ID cards easily hacked
- Bavarian cornfield swastika stokes fears of neo-Nazi resurgence
- Bullet found in man's head years after drunken New Year's Eve
- Catholic priest charged with raping teen girl
- Puma splashes out on sponsorship deal for Bolt
25 August
- Steinmeier's kidney donation successful
- Military reforms could alienate soldiers, Bundeswehr commissioner warns
- Hospitals review hygienic standards after infant deaths
- Gabriel signals Sarrazin should leave SPD over xenophobic views
- 'The Neverending Story' tops list of world's favourite German books
- Business confidence hits pre-crisis high
- Sauerland cell terrorist's wife one of three arrested for al-Qaida ties
- Berlin drafts financial crisis bank tax
- Neo-Nazis targeting children online
- Prosecutors seek suspended sentence for No Angels singer
- Westerwelle to take tough line on Serbia during Balkan tour
26 August
- French teen sentenced for desecrating German WWI graves
- Driver's licences get expiration date
- Bavarian doctors shut offices over government health policy
- Conservatives suggest mandatory public service for young adults
- Booming growth boosts consumer confidence
- No Angels singer not jailed for spreading HIV
- Westerwelle warns Serbia: no EU entry without Kosovo deal
- Love Parade files seized from Duisburg mayor
- What's on in Germany: August 26 - September 1
- Court forced to probe ‘world's most expensive BBQ’ for Bush
- No place for Ballack in Germany squad
- Merkel seeks renewable energy contribution from nuclear industry
- Police end rooftop Stuttgart station protest
- Sarrazin under fire for anti-Muslim views
27 August
- Klose warns Bayern about Lautern's cauldron
- Summer says 'Auf Wiedersehen' amid cool and clammy weather
- Skittish horses injure scores of children
- Storm slams northwest
- Drugstore Schlecker customer information exposed on web
- Russia's Rosneft poised to snap up stake in German oil refineries
- Nuclear firms prodded to fund green energy
- Long lost Viking gateway found near Schleswig
- Dirty bottle likely source of bacteria in Mainz infant deaths
- Nuclear power is only cheap for the industry
- Ballack left out of Euro qualifiers
- IG Metall demands six percent wage hike
28 August
- 10-man Kaiserslautern squad stuns Bayern
- Turkish community demands more government pressure on Sarrazin
- Ifo's Sinn: Tolls on all German roadways would reduce traffic
- Love Parade organiser to release event footage
- Expert assessment backs longer life spans for nuclear plants
- Bahn CEO suggests talks with Stuttgart 21 critics
29 August
- Hoffenheim tops league after besting St. Pauli
- Guttenberg proposes trial period for new soldiers
- Sarrazin's Jewish 'gene' comments spark outrage
- Deutsche Bahn pays €2.7 million to victims of ICE horror heat
- Organ donor rules causes coalition row
- RWE gas deal with Kurdish government rejected by Baghdad
- 'Gladbach run riot in nine-goal thriller
30 August
- Merkel flags 15 years for nuclear extension
- Doctors reject call for relaxed organ donor rules
- Sarrazin: Muslims not compatible with Germany
- Infineon sells wireless unit to Intel for $1.4 bln
- Stuttgart 21 protestors arrested for occupying digger
- August was rainiest on record
- Isabella Rossellini to lead Berlinale jury
- Hungry elephant slings woman across field
- Court forces early Schleswig-Holstein vote
- Love Parade firm posts surveillance video online
31 August
- Sarrazin will be hard to sack, judge warns
- EU warns against German financial transaction tax
- Citizenship test proves a breeze for naturalised foreigners
- France weighs into German wage debate
- German Media Roundup: Sarrazin's radioactive immigration debate
- 3-year-old found hanged in double murder case
- Playing the Saxon blues
- Autumn to begin with no last gasp of summer
- Unemployment dips lower in August
- Catholics toughen rules on sex abuse prevention
- Man found guilty of bashing Israeli teen
- Germany marks 20 years since reunification treaty