📰 Breaking News: News Archive for April 2011 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 April
- Knut to be skinned, plasticized by 'Dr Death'
- Nuclear suspension faces court challenge by RWE
- Germany and China call for Libya ceasefire
- Berlin party scene rallies to help family in need
- More welfare cheats slapped with fines
- Stuttgart 21 exit strategies canvassed
- Knut drowned after brain inflammation
- Ballack fined €8,000 for anti-FC Köln chant
- Westerwelle reportedly set to quit as FDP leader
- Deutsche Börse aims to fend off Nasdaq interest in NYSE
- US attack jet crashes in the Eifel
02 April
- Three skiers die in gigantic Swiss avalanche
- St Pauli faces fine and ban after linesman hit from stands
- State politicians took free hotel stay to discuss gambling rules
- BDI head criticises bank pay policies
- Uncle of Krailling sisters to be charged with their murder
- Westerwelle visits Japan while FDP crisis continues at home
03 April
- Bakery prompts ire using black baby to sell chocolate cake
- Knut fans protest his stuffing
- Most Germans would sacrifice lifestyle to ditch nuclear energy
- Suspicions raised in alleged Nazi criminal's death
- Westerwelle stepping down as FDP leader
- Germany briefly basks in the sun before spring returns
04 April
- Rösler frontrunner for new FDP leader
- Wolfsburg squeak out of relegation zone
- Women's boxing champ shot by stepfather
- Electricity imports making up for nuclear suspension
- German media roundup: Westerwelle steps down
- Lucky lotto player wins €24.8-million jackpot
- Berlin condemns arrest of Chinese artist
- New files reveal bungled Nazi submarine mission to US
- Finding company when you're a freelancer
- Submarine helps in Air France salvage
- Kafka's letters bought by German archive
- Auto sales race ahead for March
05 April
- Neo-Nazis infest tiny village of Jamel
- Obama plans state dinner for Merkel
- New Berlin exhibition exposes police role in Holocaust
- E10 sales efforts fail to ease driver fears
- President of elite business school arrested
- Merkel blocks India-Iran oil payments
- The eBay diet
- Firefighters most trusted profession, faith in priests slides
- US deserter denied asylum in Germany
- Spammers love Germany, new study finds
- Croation arrests connected to Daimler corruption probe
- Controversial German art exhibition opens in China
- Art icon Tacheles shrinks after €1-million payout
- Rösler vows to renew embattled FDP
06 April
- Schalke stun Inter Milan
- Greens flying high with record voter approval
- Commerzbank reveals €11-billion capital increase
- Germany can power itself, environment agency says
- After Knut, Berlin Zoo loses young elephant
- Cabinet moves to erase child porn sites
- Bavarian cowgirl udderly over the moon about leaping Luna
- Intelligence agency still keeping secrets on Eichmann
- Galloping growth to hit 2.8 percent
- The sad tooth: one in three people avoid dentists
- Chinese 'invited' for talks on detained artist Ai
07 April
- The German doctor who holidays in an African hospital
- Strike grounds some Berlin Easyjet flights
- More tax for less: Germans fear for future
- What's on in Germany: April 7 - 13
- Catholics quit church in droves last year
- Hochtief shares head down under due to Aussie subsidiary
- Google invests €3.5 million in German solar energy plant
- EU aid for Portugal 'sensible,' Germany says
- Growth forecast of 2.8 percent confirmed by top institutes
- Drifting hole in ozone layer set to expose Germans to skin damage
- Jack the Ripper was a German sailor, detective claims
08 April
- Bundeswehr bound for Libya peace mission
- Dortmund star bets haircut on Bundesliga title
- Police job dissatisfaction on the rise, union says
- Court defends magazine 'rich lists'
- No babies for cross-eyed opossum Heidi, zoo says
- Boring Steinmeier charms his way back into Germany's heart
- Exports remain strong with 2.7 percent rise
- Merkel 'Berlusconizing' politics, philosopher claims
- Berlin zooms in on Euro-Iranian bank
- Reichstag dome reopening for tourists after terror alert
- Eight motorists dead after freak sandstorm
09 April
- University: Guttenberg intentionally plagiarized
- Man accused of spying on Uighurs for China
- "Vincent will Meer" wins top German Film Prize
- Court says Bodenfelde murder suspect admitted to cannibal acts
- Bahn CEO warns of financial claim if Stuttgart 21 blocked
- Victims of deadly crash from 7 German states
10 April
- Nuclear companies cut off eco-fund payments
- SS man who arrested Anne Frank worked for BND after the war
- Mileage fixed on 1 in 3 used cars in Germany
- Bayern's blues: Van Gaal axed, Robben sees red
- Conservatives urge border checks for Tunisian refugees
- Künast seen as Greens' best hope for chancellor
11 April
- Refugees are 'Italy's problem,' minister says
- Ramsauer blasts EU diesel tax hike
- Extension to parenting payments scrapped
- Neo-Nazi group banned in Brandenburg
- Berlin police station firebombed
- Hochtief cuts profit forecast as CEO resigns
- Berlin condemns Syria's 'shocking' crackdown
- Woman sets herself on fire before Reichstag
- The trial that captured the 'banality of evil'
- Red Robben suspended for two matches
12 April
- Schalke's Raul wary of wounded Inter for quarter final
- Dutch Queen Beatrix visits Berlin
- Fun named Germans' main motivator for sex
- Hooliganism on the rise, police say
- Daimler to team with Bosch on electric car venture
- Investor confidence shaken by Japan, Middle East unrest
- German 'thought car' could be driven on Sabbath, Rabbi says
- 'Explain plagiarism,' Merkel asks Guttenberg
- Pope's plans for September trip to Germany finalized
- Lufthansa pilot caught with deadly slingshots
- Sisters found murdered in Lower Saxony
13 April
- Socialist politician accused of stealing toilet paper
- Guttenberg escapes Bundestag probe
- Cyberbullying website sparks growing outrage
- Clean energy can be cheap, minister says
- Airport worker fired for filming women on the toilet
- Deutsche Bank plans restructuring to dodge US regulations
- Demjanjuk's SS identity card was forged, his lawyer says
- Germany expels five Libyan diplomats
- Arcandor's Middelhoff gears up for trial
- Train drivers to strike Thursday, Friday
- Future of Berlin's cricket community in jeopardy
14 April
- Schalke headed to Champions League semi-finals
- Bickering NATO allies discuss Libya in Berlin
- Train drivers' strike creates major delays for commuters
- Construction workers get hefty pay raise
- What's on in Germany: April 14 - 20
- Depressed workers costing up to €22 billion annually
- Giant seesaw to honour German reunification
- Economy growing faster than expected
- Ancient 'debit card' discovered in Saxony-Anhalt
- The best of Berlin in April
- Ministry paper warns of looming power shortages
- President Wulff pelted with eggs
- NATO calls for Qaddafi ouster as Tripoli bombed
15 April
- April showers giving way to sunny weekend
- Hamburg company hopes kites will make shipping greener
- Friedrich aims to toughen anti-terror law
- Human traffickers sell children to paedophiles
- Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt and Zsa Zsa Gabor want a baby
- US slams Deutsche Bank for financial crisis role
- Scientology recruiting kids through Facebook
- Suspected serial killer admits to slaying 3 boys
- Germans back troops for EU humanitarian mission in Libya
- Brüderle: nuclear power exit to cost billions
16 April
- Industry boss sentenced to jail in Italy
- Industrial espionage a growing threat
- Late goal keeps Mainz on course for Europa League
- Brüderle wants Libya's assets for relief aid
- Nuke shutdown could boost energy profits
- Berlin artists protest against Tacheles closure
17 April
- Schalke fight back for draw at Bremen
- Abbas to seek German help for Palestine
- Steinmeier wants everyone asked organ donation question
- Luxembourger triumphs in German office chair race
- Joschka Fischer rules out chancellorship bid
- No quick change in Libya, says intel chief
- Germany crush USA in Fed Cup
18 April
- Train drivers in fresh strike on Monday
- Violent neo-Nazis on the march
- Road tolls canvassed in secret ministry paper
- Flipped truck spills cattle onto A7 motorway
- Rapper turned Islamist preacher faces weapons charges
- Boom pours tax money into treasuries
- Schalke's Neuer heading to Bayern
- Berlin urges Finland to back euro consensus
- Summer-like weather expected as Easter nears
- Deutsche Bahn spending €600 mln on diesel trains
19 April
- Politicians driving 'climate killer' cars
- Penalties handed out to jobless soar
- Pro-footballer arrested over casino robberies
- Atomic village bucks anti-nuclear trend
- Germany’s imperfectly balanced reunification
- Volkswagen unveils new, macho Beetle
- Digestion disaster warning as barbecue season begins
- Cigarettes price rise set to leave smokers fuming
- Maypole guards step up watches as big day approaches
- Woman arrested for burgling homes during funerals
- EnBW warns nuclear moratorium to hit profits
- Shots fired as rival circus clans brawl in double booking row
20 April
- Berlin takes fifth national hockey title
- Koch-Mehrin plagiarism charges thicken
- Government will prompt welfare families to get help for children
- Turkish-German actress causes stir with Playboy shoot
- Flashmob to break Easter dance ban in Frankfurt
- China's Ai Weiwei named Berlin professor amid calls for his release
- Deutsche Bahn loses case against rival bus service
- Firing of Jesus-loving call centre worker found kosher
- Polish offer to run nuclear power plant embarrasses RWE
- Neuer confirms he's leaving Schalke 04
- Engineers make cycling even greener
21 April
- Parties agree Stuttgart 21 price cap and vote
- Youngest surviving premature baby released from hospital
- Pervy penguin falls in love with keeper's rubber boots
- Drivers warned of Easter traffic and fuel misery
- What's on in Germany: April 21 - 27
- Police hunt father of bludgeoned boy
- Construction accidents delay on major rail routes
- Business confidence takes another dip
- Dresden art director to take over London's Victoria and Albert
- Councils with liquidity problems leave swimming pools out to dry
- Islamist preacher ordered to leave Germany
- Oliver Kahn fined €125,000 for tax evasion
22 April
- Sarrazin remains SPD member
- Oliver Kahn fined for tax evasion on fancy clothes from Dubai
- Munich pair exposed to massive fine for public sex
- Central Council of Jews renews call for neo-Nazi NPD party ban
- Live webcam the first to show intimate scenes of eagle family life
- Accident involving truck full of candles closes motorway to Poland
- Defence Ministry warns cuts could ruin forces
23 April
- Merkel to meet Abbas as Europe mulls recognising Palestinian state
- Silent dancers descend on Frankfurt to break Christian law
- La Belle victims ask for Qaddafi money
- Sunny weather puts a head on flat beer industry figures
- Police called to investigate noise find lone jiggling vibrator
- Germany enjoys better weather than the Med
24 April
- Bishop says Europe must take refugees
- Schalke to reshuffle line-up for Manchester United clash
- Father of dead boy arrested, admits killing son
- Thousands march for nuclear-free peace
- Car industry must downsize, says new Green state premier
- Jahn determined to remove ex-Stasi workers from files authority
25 April
- Görges the first German to win Stuttgart WTA in 17 years
- Water-based accidents kill four including toddler
- Porpoises attract tourists and biologists in river towards Bremen
- Audi to create more than 10,000 new jobs by end of decade
- Mixed feelings as labour market expands
- Electricity network head says no danger of blackouts
- Chernobyl remembered at French protests
26 April
- Tougher crime laws to follow U-Bahn bashing
- Sarrazin pardon sparks fierce SPD backlash
- Low-paid 'mini-jobs' on the rise
- Petrol station charges €9.99 a litre for gas
- All in the (royal) family
- Carmakers slam Greens' Kretschmann
- Industry blasts Merkel's 'disorientated' coalition
- Gwyneth Paltrow says her German granny was 'mean as hell'
- British royal wedding set for mass exposure
- After glorious sunny holiday weekend, rain returns
- Every fifth German has a drinking problem
27 April
- Schalke's prospects of Champs final dim
- Hugh 'House' Laurie plays New Orleans blues in Hamburg
- Two thirds of joggers may be damaging themselves
- Iconic Hamburg harbour canteen gets a makeover
- Firefighters quench huge forest blaze near Aachen
- Job market finally opens to eastern Europeans
- Löw dismisses gay and toupee rumours
- Booty haul: thieves clean out dominatrix studio
- Germany 'strongly' backs EU sanctions on Syria
- Volkswagen sets sales record in first quarter
- Typo turns Eurovision gay
- Frankfurt bouncers held in Briton's beating death
28 April
- Berlin braces for surges in May Day violence
- Competition authority probes Lufthansa
- One third of Deutsche Bahn trains found late
- Deutsche Bank quarterly profit surges
- What's on in Germany: April 28 - May 4
- Anti-Semitic flyer found on The Left website
- Surrogate children have no right to German passport, court rules
- Jobless rate hovers around 20-year low
- Germany dubious on Palestinian unity deal
- Bayer raises outlook on strong results
- Germans cool to marriage and monogamy
29 April
- Guggenheim 'Lab' set to swing through Berlin
- British ambassador stunned by interest in royal wedding
- Daimler nearly doubles first-quarter profit
- Petrol price hits new high
- Merkel reportedly to back Draghi as ECB chief
- Lock up leftist May Day troublemakers, conservatives say
- Biker boss suspected in Bögerl murder
- Lagerfeld approves Kate's 'elegant and chic' bridal gown
- Eastern immigrants warned to integrate
- Mother of Frankfurt club victim seeks justice
- Al-Qaida suspects seized with explosives
30 April
- Parliament to investigate Steinmeier claims
- Lobster protection law could force better crustacean conditions
- Germany opens ice hockey world championship by beating Russia
- Al-Qaida suspects were 'testing shrapnel bomb'
- Food campaigners question Milch-Schnitte advert claims
- Warm and dry April to end with storms as farmers hope for rain