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

01 December
- Taxpayers face rising cost for Stuttgart 21
- Berlin faces record cold start to December
- Scientist hits on recycling plan for vital 'rare earth' metals
- Most Germans unruffled by terrorism alerts
- Family covers house with impressive holiday light display
- Investors eschew bonds amid eurozone crisis
- Bavarian pupils told to chew their way to good grades
- Penis boxing video game to promote safe sex
- EON unloads Gazprom stake for €3.4 billion
- Germany plans increased web privacy protection
- Hackers blackmailed major pop stars
02 December
- Germans less tolerant of Islam than neighbours, study finds
- E-mobility efforts stuck in low gear
- Snow wallops Germany
- Germany's image suffers in EU amid debt crisis
- Labour Ministry to remove hurdles for some foreign workers
- President Wulff becomes honorary godfather to neo-Nazi baby
- What's on in Germany: December 2 - 8
- Goalie Angerer reveals she is bisexual
- Judge removed from bench for sparing speeders
- Biden: Berlin 'dropped the ball' in Afghanistan
- Teenagers jailed for '20 cent' beating death
03 December
- Consumer groups call for end to EU light bulb ban
- FDP fires 'mole' revealed by Wikileaks
- Germany's disabled live in a separate world, official says
- Berliners strip naked to protest rising rents
- Family of 'veil martyr' files case against Dresden judges
- Winter tyre rule causes supply shortage
- Bundesbank sees record growth in 2010
- Biofuels give German brewers a hangover
- Wealthy lean toward 'social Darwinism' after economic crisis
04 December
- Spider smuggler caught in US sting operation
- Munich Church hid abuse allegations for decades
- Westerwelle makes surprise visit to Iraq
- Beckenbauer suggests playing Qatar World Cup in January
- Anti-nuclear demonstrations planned for Monday in 50 cities
- Warmer temperatures and rain expected to produce black ice
- Thousands stranded as Spanish air traffic controllers strike
- Socialist class warriors divided over leaders' posh hotel rooms
05 December
- Wetten, dass? stopped after on-air accident
- Revved up German jobs motor only idling in some areas
- Bayern's defeat by Schalke leave them trailing in Liga stakes
- Neo-Nazis march with burning torches through central Berlin
- Wahl-O-Mat blackout in Saxony-Anhalt ahead of March election
- Accused leftist extremists fight extradition from France
- Shark kills German woman at Red Sea resort
06 December
- Dangerous conditions follow thaw
- Breakthrough unlikely at Cancún climate summit, Röttgen says
- Hochtief hopes Qatar stake will fend off ACS
- ZDF promises better safety after show mishap
- Wikileaks reveals potential terrorist targets
- Flight bomb threat possibly linked to Vietnamese deportation
- Continental fined for deadly Concorde crash
- Baden-Württemberg buys €4.7-billion EnBW stake
- Tattoo convention draws ink aficionados
- Surging Afghan dislike of Bundeswehr troops
- Germany kills Russian nuclear waste shipments
07 December
- Berlinale invites 'anti-regime' Iranian director to serve on jury
- Three seniors killed in nursing home fire
- Schools make slight PISA improvement
- The Best of Berlin in December
- A long journey: Germany celebrates 175 years of rail travel
- Children and teens unlikely to stumble upon web porn
- MRI scans live birth
- WikiLeaks sponsor in trouble with the taxman
- Germany to double Holocaust victims' aged care fund
- Mercedes to build C-Class in South Africa
- Industrial orders gain on domestic demand
- Wulff marks Brandt's Warsaw ghetto tribute
08 December
- Werder hammer lacklustre Inter but exit Champions League
- Opposition calls for all-day schools
- Pilots strike at airlines Germania, Tuifly
- No new signs of looming terror attack, Berlin interior minister says
- O, Cannabis Tree! Police find decorated plant during bust
- Geothermal plant likely cause of earthquakes
- The day the music died
- Juncker blasts Berlin for 'un-European' behaviour
- Strong output heralds record growth
- Coen brothers film 'True Grit' to open Berlinale
- Deutsche Bahn to sell German Arriva assets to Italian consortium
- US ambassador seeks to soothe WikiLeaks damage
09 December
- Ribery double fires Bayern to victory over Basel
- US pressed Berlin not to arrest CIA agents
- Snow cripples transport, causes blackouts
- Röttgen calls climate change an economic opportunity
- Coalition set to cut taxes by €4.5 billion
- Bayer to spend €1 billion on China expansion
- Brewing up a cup of beneficence
- Federal police forces set to merge
- Newborn baby stolen from Frankfurt hospital
- Islamic centre hit by arson attack
- Cronyism seeping into politics, voters fear
10 December
- Dortmund dismisses title talk as Bayern tries to regain form
- Baby snatcher wanted to raise newborn
- Winter travel havoc persists
- What's on in Germany: December 9 - 15
- Majority of Germans want to keep the euro
- Suspected dirty cops collude with Hells Angels
- Osnabrück Zoo celebrates orangutan artist
- Importing talent for an export-driven future
- Merkel and Sarkozy team up against eurobonds
- Authorities reject 'Heatballs' attempt to skirt EU light bulb ban
- German troops stationed in France for first time since WWII
- Police kill bank robbers in shoot-out
11 December
- Karlsruhe robbers thought to be evasive "Gentlemen" duo
- Bundeswehr to attract volunteer troops with better pay, bonuses
- Deutsche Telekom preps for Serbian telecom bid
- Berlin critical of Afghan leaders, report says
- Röttgen points to progress in climate talks
- The euro will not fail, Schäuble says
12 December
- Schweinsteiger extends contract with Bayern
- Three dead after blast destroys home
- FDP 'mole' had access to classified files
- Germany, India seek €20-billion trade target for 2012
- More snow, sub-zero temperatures to start the week
- German auto club chief slams 'green zone' scheme
13 December
- FDP woes likened to East German downfall
- Röttgen calls for 30-percent carbon cuts
- Stephanie zu Guttenberg joins husband on Afghanistan visit
- Police raid Hells Angels bikers allegedly planning rival murder
- Amazon.de victim of possible hacker attack
- Mother stabs teen son to death in Munich
- Unions call for end to private health insurance
- German ignorance of economics revealed
- Roller derby warriors skate to glory
- Police raid German-based Ford plants in corruption probe
14 December
- Guttenberg slammed for Afghanistan trip
- More snow to come amid transport chaos
- Russia's ex-oligarch Khodorkovsky receives human rights prize
- Federal police merger faces growing opposition
- Stem cell hair follicle creates hope for the bald, lab animals
- Farmers dig in against Munich Olympics
- The royal Guttenbergs
- Ryanair scales back service over flight tax
- Pensioner shoots dead teen intruder
- Islamist groups raided in three German cities
- Beckenbauer says FIFA damaged by World Cup vote
- Berlin favours possible ECB capital increase
15 December
- Leipzig Zoo named best in Germany, runner-up in Europe
- Unloved euro considered too valuable to ditch
- Merkel vows not to 'abandon' euro nations
- Deutsche Bank goes Vegas with top casino
- Nuclear waste transport crosses French border
- Snow pile for sale on eBay
- Portnoy's Podcast: Getting 'local' with Exberliner's Maurice Frank
- Düsseldorf accused of using 'trickery' to win Eurovision
- Court rules against pet visitation rights
- Germany tops world for shrinking wages
16 December
- German doctors cure man of HIV
- Newspapers appeal for Wikileaks protection
- Blizzard bears down on the north
- What's on in Germany: December 16 - 22
- Troops to start leaving Afghanistan in 2011
- Cities still stripping Hitler of honorary citizenship
- Merkel urges EU leaders to stand up for euro
- Hochtief shareholder to sell stake to Spain's ACS
- Bread like baby Jesus? A brief history of German Christmas sweets
- FDP debates ditching Westerwelle
- Liechtenstein banks end tax evasion probe with €50 million payout
- ECB unveils €5-billion capital increase
17 December
- Bayern Munich hopes to end season on high as Robben returns
- Church fears low turnout for pope's Berlin visit
- Blizzard slams Germany
- Merkel hails eurozone rescue fund agreement
- Sarrazin earns millions with anti-immigration book
- The Local's tips for holiday baking in Germany
- Rwandan Hutu rebels indicted for war crimes
- Bundesrat blocks welfare changes
- Upbeat retailers push business confidence to record high
- ‘Wutbürger’ named word of the year
- Qatar eyeing more German investments
18 December
- Merkel makes surprise trip to Afghanistan
- Thousands stuck at Frankfurt airport
- Spanish police bust timeshare con targeting Germans
- Transport minister rules out new winter-tyre laws
- Bribery scandal hits Foreign Ministry
- Daimler boss predicts auto boom
19 December
- Mainz edge closer as Dortmund stumble
- SPD calls for varying terror-threat levels
- Travel chaos reigns at Frankfurt airport
- FDP dips below five percent in regional polls
- Prince Harry visits Berlin Wall memorial site
- WikiLeaks cable embarrasses Left leader
20 December
- Taxman recovers €1.6 bln from Alpine accounts
- Travellers contend with snow and ice
- Kauder: Gays have no right to children
- Leftists called upon to attack tourism
- Germany calls Belarus crackdown 'unacceptable'
- Löw targets Euro or World Cup glory
- Debt hits new record high
- eBay snaps up online shopping club
- Greenhouse emissions grow with economy
- Munich to switch on Europe's fastest supercomputer
21 December
- Snow briefly shuts down Frankfurt Airport
- Westerwelle under pressure to resign
- Man beats neighbour to death with snow shovel
- Raising a toast to a Hamburg icon
- Harsh winter set to cost €3 billion
- Bilfinger Berger unloads Aussie construction unit
- European court bolsters fathers' rights
- Helmut Schmidt slams 'foolish' US pursuit of Wikileaks
- Police raid neo-Nazi youth group
- Berlin blocks Bulgaria, Romania from Schengen
22 December
- 'White Christmas' likely across much of Germany
- Deutsche Bank settles tax fraud case with €420m payment
- Nurse investigated for child abuse
- Transport freeze begins to thaw
- Heckler & Koch probed over Mexico arms sales
- Guttenberg demands Ronald Reagan memorial in Berlin
- Belarus warned of 'isolation' for crackdown
- Self-operated tanning salons set to be banned
- Bandits beat and rob Catholic priest
- Westerwelle and the FDP: Unloved yet irreplaceable
- France's Veolia wins Bavarian train routes
- Lufthansa to invest heavily in Munich hub
23 December
- Wikileaks donations still flowing, but not to Assange legal fund
- Germany welcomes US approval of new nuclear treaty
- Motorists warned of delays and danger
- McClaren's job on the line at Wolfsburg
- Berlin mulls independent euro rescue fund
- What's on in Germany: December 23 - January 5
- Rhine-Main region shaken by earthquake
- Retailers expect booming Christmas trade
- CDU fined €1.2 mln for illegal party funding
- Dozens injured in Düsseldorf bus crash
- New HIV treatment found
24 December
- Germany gets a slushy Christmas Eve
- Brüderle rejects French eurozone ideas
- Hungary defies Merkel's criticism of new press laws
- Major rail link down as travel chaos continues
- McClaren gets stay of execution
- Top economist forecasts solid 2011 growth
25 December
- German army celebrates Christmas in Afghanistan
- Left party against WWII refugee museum
- 'German Mother Theresa' saves lives in Pakistan
- Nearly half of Germans want Westerwelle out
- Wulff calls for tolerance in Christmas speech
- German aid worker killed in Afghanistan
26 December
- Suspected Serbian war criminal held in Germany
- Westerwelle demands Iran allow family to see German prisoners
- Light bulb ban threatens artworks, says curator
- Berlin scrutinizes Khodorkovsky trial
- White Christmas causes nightmare travel conditions
- SPD calls for 2011 Afghanistan withdrawal
- Snow destroys Schalke stadium roof
27 December
- Review finds security holes at Reichstag
- Socks again for Christmas? You may be stuck with them
- Sweeping patients' rights bill planned
- Chinese hackers target government computers
- Banks to face undercover investment probes
- Mother throws newborn out of window
- Reckless fireworks fans face hefty fines
- Khodorkovsky trial called 'step back' for Russia
- Holidays a high season for Islamist recruitment
- ACS nears 30-percent stake in Hochtief
28 December
- Snowiest December in a century in Berlin
- Families given access to jailed journalists in Iran
- Electricity grossly overpriced, study finds
- Blinded Stuttgart 21 protestor wants apology
- Airports demand racial profiling to fight terror
- Kindergartens told to pay up before singing
- Unions fret eastern Europeans will hit wages
- Lahm says Bayern not yet out of title race
- Celtic tomb hailed as great archaeological find
- Bitter cold brings danger of freezing deaths
- Siemens wins huge US wind turbine order
29 December
- Birth rate on the rise
- Justice Minister rejects passenger profiling
- Ramsauer mans ramparts against English
- Leon and Mia most popular baby names in 2010
- UEFA apologises to Bayern fans for banning jokey Latin banner
- Man buried alive by snow
- RWE chief branded climate 'dinosaur'
- Inflation hits 1.1 percent in 2010
- 2010: The year in review
30 December
- The Local's 2010 quiz
- Terrorism threat remains high, CSU warns
- Jobless benefit bill to be slashed in 2011
- Missing man wanders out of the wild
- 37-year-old loses hand to firecracker
- Lufthansa plane stuck six hours on JFK tarmac
- Youth fire brigade volunteers spark Nazi salute scandal
- Exports seen topping €1 trillion next year
- Berlin 'very worried' after Khodorkovsky sentence
31 December
- Merkel urges euro-faith in New Year's address
- Deep freeze to lift in the New Year
- Politicians call on unemployed not to buy fireworks
- No room for tax cuts, says 'wise man'
- Porsche wins legal battle over failed takeover
- Policeman shoots woman dead in Munich