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

01 October
- Photos show the Inner German border, then and now
- Bin Laden personally ordered latest terror plot
- At least 116 injured in Stuttgart clash
- Left-wing violence feared for Unity Day
- 'If I got paid for every smile I'd be a rich man'
- Media roundup: Can cold water quell hot tempers in Stuttgart?
- BMW recalls more than 350,000 vehicles in US and UK
- 'Don't get cocky,' IMF head warns Germany
- Hesse to improve nuclear reactor safety after doubts emerge
- Germany to advise South Korea on future reunification
- Greens call for national Stuttgart 21 protests
02 October
- 'Unity Chancellor' Kohl makes rare speech
- Berlin aims to rein in salaries at bailed-out banks
- Oswalt Kolle, German sex education pioneer, dead at 81
- Cyber worm found at German industrial plants
- Baden-Württemberg tests first ankle monitors for prisoners
- Mainz match Bundesliga record with 7th win
03 October
- Dutch politician Wilders draws protests in Berlin
- Germany marks 20 years of reunification
- Bahn CEO hits back at Stuttgart 21 opposition
- Social network site to photograph thousands of German schools
- German President Wulff honours 20th Unity Day
- German business eyes friendlier future with the Green Party
- Travel advisories issued for Germany, Europe
04 October
- Berlin warns against 'alarmist' terror threats
- State justice minister calls Stuttgart rail protestors ‘spoiled’
- Eastern floodwaters ease but alert remains high
- Allianz fills war chest to buy insurance firms
- German warship thwarts Somali pirates
- Muslim group lauds Wulff's remarks on Islam
- Suicide attempt traps 600 in Bavarian train tunnel
- Opel decides to close plant in Antwerp
- Böhse Onkelz singer jailed for hit-and-run accident on drugs
- End to Oktoberfest marred by crowd chaos
- US drone kills German Islamists in Pakistan
05 October
- Germany's Max Planck funds new Canadian physics centre
- German terrorists pose serious threat, police union leader warns
- State government offers olive branch to Stuttgart protestors
- Concert-goers rate clean toilets above sound quality
- Löw calls Schweinsteiger a World Cup victim
- Conservatives slam Wulff for Islam remarks
- German farm girls calendar offers rustic erotica
- MTV Germany to become subscriber-only station
- WeTab CEO resigns after fake Amazon reviews emerge
- The midwife: Your best friend in natal care
06 October
- Binge drinking worse among girls
- Germany to end 'nuclear sharing' with US
- Drone strike kills key militant planning European attacks
- Bayer develops 'vaginal atrophy' drug
- World's biggest book fair begins in Frankfurt
- Injured Stuttgart 21 protestor could stay blind
- Drivers face crackdown on winter tyres
- Boy arrested for series of sexual assaults against joggers
- Greens overtake SPD as strongest opposition
- Major football match-fixing trial begins
- Bayreuth festival cancels invitation to Israeli orchestra
- Bundesbank warns of forex manipulation
- Daimler to launch Smart brand in US
- Germany criticises terrorism travel warnings
- Ballack unlikely to play again in 2010
07 October
- Secret Bundesbank bunker opens to public
- SPD, Greens demand equality for Islam
- Merkel no longer world's most powerful woman
- What's on in Germany: October 7 - 13
- Brüderle backs big pay rises as economy booms
- Siemens to supply new Eurostar trains
- Munich woman vanishes after Oktoberfest
- Helmut Kohl a favourite for Nobel Peace Prize
- Fear of an Islamic Fatherland
- Two Germans die in Hanoi fireworks blast
- Bundeswehr soldier killed in Afghanistan
- Blinded Stuttgart protestor threw objects at police, video reveals
08 October
- Löw wary of fit and rested Turkish team
- Sunny but crisp autumn weekend ahead
- Stuttgart 21 mediation questioned after flap
- Schools must curb immigrant pupils' anti-German attitudes, Böhmer says
- O2 cuts 1,100 jobs
- ‘My two-year-old speaks more German than I do’
- MPs allowed iPads in Bundestag
- Germany asks China to release Nobel laureate
- BMW and Daimler sales surge
- Neo-Nazi caught coaching youth football despite club ban
- Germany's young Turk Özil sinks Turkey
09 October
- Stuttgart 21 fight benefits Greens, mediator says work will stop
- Most children have integrated friendship groups say researchers
- Removal of nukes from Germany not on NATO agenda
- Sharia law being used in Germany in Muslims' domestic disputes
- 240 rescued as Baltic ferry catches fire
- Merkel promises German help in Cyprus impasse
10 October
- 'Pink Viagra' dropped as tests fail to excite
- Hospitalised Schäuble counters job rumours
- Berlin better than Munich in managers' eyes, Frankfurt still top
- Baltic ferry fire largely out, salvage operation starts
- Löw tries to keep momentum for Kazakhstan as Özil nurses ankle
- Germans hang onto cash as rest of world goes electronic
- Disgruntled football fans protest price hikes
11 October
- Kazakhstan preps for tough match against Germany
- Turkish group demands apology from Seehofer
- Train prices shouldn't increase due to failing quality, experts say
- Row over Sachsenhausen concentration camp work resolved
- Daimler recalls Mercedes to fix steering glitch
- Motorcycle used in RAF killing turns up in private garage
- Rapist admits 1,000 sex offences, gets 10 years
- Fugitive fare dodger captured on foot at Polish border
- Snow expected in central mountain regions
- Iran arrests 'fake' German journalists
- Stranger at the feast: Navigating the Frankfurt Book Fair
12 October
- Brüderle warns of trade war on China visit
- 'Learn the language,' Turkish minister tells countrymen in Germany
- Police carry sleeping drunk driver to alcohol test
- Germany lobbies hard for Security Council seat
- Merkel demands Iran releases journalists
- The Best of Berlin in October
- Exhibition breaks with German Hitler taboos
- Discount supermarket tycoons dominate billionaires list
- Düsseldorf to host Eurovision Song Contest
- City decrees mandatory cat sterilisation to curb strays
- Germany wins UN Security Council seat
13 October
- Die Mannschaft streaks ahead in Euro 2012 qualifiers
- WWII weapons found under playground
- Speak German on school grounds, FDP urges
- Poll shows Merkel's coalition at all-time low
- Xenophobia takes root in German mainstream
- Lone Star aiming to sell subprime victim IKB
- German media roundup: Stepping onto the world stage
- DAX index soars to pre-crisis heights
- Scientists predict golden future for 'self-driving' cars
- Long-haul Deutsche Bahn fares won't rise in 2011
- 'Festival of Lights' begins in Berlin
- BMW increases investment in US plant
- Porsche posts loss, but sees profit in 2011
- ICE train makes first Chunnel test trip
14 October
- CSU hardens stance against immigration
- Guttenberg 'the future' say young conservatives
- Millions of bank card customers caught in data scandal
- What's on in Germany: October 14 - 20
- Earthworm salad served at Kremlin dinner for President Wulff
- Economy steams towards record growth
- Fashioning a bright future
- First university Islamic studies courses unveiled
- Berlin’s unwanted Roma
- Breaking and entering with Germany's 'urban explorers'
- Famous Hitler rally picture probably faked
- Irish Setter delivers 18- pup 'litter of the century'
15 October
- Germany moves from cars to lifestyle in China
- Colonial German church celebrates 100 years in Namibia
- Mediator announces first Stuttgart 21 talks
- Green energy surcharges to spike next year
- ‘The first time we were arrested I was eight years old’
- ZDF game show scandal gives new meaning to 'captive audience'
- Iran claims Germans admit wrongdoing
- The new anti-Semitism
- Google Street View opt-out deadline is nigh
- Deficit will meet EU limits in 2011, Germany says
- Guttenberg calls for 'honesty' about Afghanistan mission at memorial
16 October
- Stuttgarters to march despite mediated talks
- Merkel and Sarkozy to meet Medvedev ahead of Nato summit
- Drone attack target was 20-year-old from Wuppertal
- Seehofer tells youth wing multiculturalism is dead
- Police expecting riots to greet next radioactive waste transport
- Poultry farmers launch attempt to clean up image
- Turkish president encourages Turks to integrate in Germany
17 October
- Banned Audrey Hepburn stamps sold for €430,000
- Citizens alienated by politics taking to streets for single issues
- Ikea takes German planning rules to EU
- Munich firm patents 'night milk' to help the sleepless
- First northern snow hails cooler weather nationwide
- Merkel joins Seehofer to bury multiculturalism
18 October
- Facebook under fire for privacy glitch
- Schavan pledges foreign credentials review
- TV licence fee reform will hurt businesses, experts warn
- Cities plan big tax increases to fill empty coffers
- Man jumps to his death after failed attempt to crash small plane
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- Axel Springer shutters Russian edition of Newsweek
- Lufthansa increases offerings for winter
- Wulff visits Turkey as integration row simmers
- Baltic island Usedom terrorised by arson spree
- German media roundup: Merkel's convoluted immigration policy
19 October
- Germany, France agree on EU deficit penalties
- Wulff condemns ‘blanket judgement’ of Turks
- Jobless rate already seen below key three-million mark
- End to military conscription could overwhelm universities
- US lawsuit could delay VW takeover of Porsche
- Immigration about skills, not faith, minister says
- School bus crash leaves 40 children injured in Bavaria
- Iran grants consular access to detained Germans
- Justice Minister slams Guttenberg's paedophile-hunt TV show
- Turkish hackers attack CDU websites
- Cops find huge weapons cache in Berlin flat
- Deutsche Bahn hails 'new age' of rail travel after Chunnel crossing
- Britain to remove troops from Germany by 2020
- Wulff urges Turkey to respect Christians
20 October
- Energy firms rake in massive profits
- Wulff wins praise for bridge-building speech
- Bayern set to enter Champions League round of 16
- US Senate candidate lauds deadly East German border control
- Rising star Guttenberg outshines Merkel
- Alstom sues to block Eurostar purchase of Siemens trains
- UK troop withdrawal shocks communities
- Barefoot through Germany's tidal flats with a mailbag
- Germany gets two new Catholic cardinals
- Hunters given permission to shoot marauding panther
- From cleaning woman to doctor: Brandenburg recruits foreign physicians
21 October
- Schalke down Hapoel as Raul makes history
- Merkel tries to calm locker room visit hubbub
- Quarter-million opt out of Google Street View
- 'Dr. Death' takes body parts online
- What's on in Germany: October 21 - 27
- Germany hikes growth forecasts sharply
- Iconic lighthouse turned 'lonely hotel' celebrates 125 years
- Bavarian farmers try to make agriculture sexy with pinups
- Snow covers mountains
- McAllister: UK troops leaving a 'sad moment'
- Most children's toys unsafe, consumer watchdog reveals
- Vattenfall to build €1-billion wind farm in Germany
- Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's wife Loki dies at 91
22 October
- Bayern aims for points, not performance
- Stuttgart 21 talks begin
- German firms donate $1.7 million to US election campaign
- Germany changes rare minerals strategy over China spat
- German freighter rams Dutch ferry
- Businesses see ever brighter future
- US students scramble for business German courses
- Quirky public auction finds new home for items lost on the metro
- ‘I was sure Berlin was a cold place’
- Shah Rukh Khan brings Bollywood to Berlin
- Hamburg hosts worst dancer contest
- Brüderle slams US trade balance proposal
23 October
- VW records strong profits
- Major new museum opens in Cologne
- North-South derby ends in damp squib for Bayern
- Nuclear power protestors mobilize around Germany
- Westerwelle mends differences with Merkel
- Man killed after climbing on top of Berlin metro
24 October
- Werder thrash Gladbach to stay in touch at top
- Austrian far-right to help German populists
- Third Reich's Foreign Ministry deeply involved in Holocaust
- Top German firms ban Facebook in the office
- Nocturnal cow attacks car
- Pirates hijack tanker with German captain
25 October
- Smokers to pay for industry tax breaks
- Mainz tops Bundesliga table as Cologne sacks coach Soldo
- Rail strikes expected to cause commuter delays
- Blinding laser attacks on airline pilots surge
- Berlin S-Bahn train crashes into truck
- Lone wolf stokes fears in Bavaria
- Böhmer wants new integration ministry
- Former Bild reporter fined for sex tape coercion
- Auto industry worried about rare earth minerals dispute with China
- ‘The street isn’t the nicest place but it’s better than home’
- Franco-German eurozone reform raises hackles
26 October
- Rail delays continue despite strike's end
- Chilean leader apologises for 'Deutschland über alles' remark
- Public servants push for 7 percent wage hike
- Electric car sets new distance record
- Stuttgart 21 protests come to Berlin
- 'Ineffectual' military set for radical overhaul
- Disturbed stalker breaks through Merkel's security
- Paul the octopus oracle found dead
- Bosch thanks workers with an early pay rise
- Resistance grows to EU treaty rewrite for Berlin
27 October
- Schweinsteiger puts Bayern Munich into third round of German Cup
- Government takes aim at forced marriages
- Chancellor's stalker sees himself as a peace activist
- Deutsche Bank books loss from Postbank buy
- Germany becomes tax haven for the Swiss
- SAP disappoints despite profit increase
- EON takes big charge for devalued EU assets
- Architect seeks to rebuild historic core of Königsberg
- VW profits race ahead
- Merkel defends Franco-German deficit plan
- Zugspitze kicks off German ski season
- Base-jumper critically injured in luxury hotel fall
- Anti-Islam praise from Wilders provokes Merkel
- Unemployment falls below key 3-million mark
28 October
- Mainz and Dortmund edged out of German Cup in surprise defeats
- School offers music classes for babies
- Activists scale CDU roof over nuclear extension
- What's on in Germany: October 28 - November 3
- Lufthansa's profits soar
- Global rebound boosts BASF and Bayer
- Artificial heart recipients break five-year survival record
- Baden–Württemberg rejects referendum on Stuttgart 21
- Small wine harvest to boost vintage's price
- Pot cops sport marijuana-leaf uniforms
- Giving German schools an 'F' for integration
- Vote to extend nuclear power sparks protests
- Daimler roars ahead
29 October
- Siemens lands major contract to build trains for Amtrak in US
- Archives reveal Allies feared Nazi guerrilla war in Alps
- Guttenberg risks 'Obama effect,' expert says
- Merkel rams through EU financial crisis reforms
- European delivery: Buying German luxury cars at the source
- Last East German patent expires
- ‘I’m Russian, my husband Turkish, my daughter Irish - we married in Denmark’
- October to end with mild weekend
- Emergency bunkers wanted for rail network
- Roland Koch named CEO of Bilfinger Berger
30 October
- Siemens wins court battle over Chunnel bid
- Biggest German-built cruise ship completed
- State to borrow less than feared in 2011
- German man feared dead in Australian outback
- Daylight saving time ends Saturday night
- Police close in on Mirco disappearance suspect
31 October
- Germany stops freight planes from Yemen
- Champions League contenders knocked by home defeats
- Most Germans don't credit politicians for recovery
- New ID card introduced in Germany
- CDU hints at future income tax cuts
- Seehofer consolidates grip on Bavaria's CSU