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

01 May
- Dortmund crowned Bundesliga champions
- Walpurgis Night relatively peaceful in Berlin and Hamburg
- Tax breaks for home help and nannies planned for middle class
- Schlecker caught with 'to fire' list of problematic staff
- Hutu leaders on trial for organising Congo atrocities from Germany
- Protests at NPD marches against new EU workers
02 May
- Germany on high alert after bin Laden death
- Handful of arrests on mostly quiet May Day
- First offshore commercial wind farm goes online
- Woman puts attacking deer in sweaty headlock
- Topless sunbathing goes out of style
- Coalition split by anti-terror laws row
- Frost and snow to return
- Commerzbank shares surge as Q1 profit jumps
- Beheading al-Qaida: Is Germany safer?
- Bavarians revel in maypole intrigue
03 May
- Private train drivers to strike again
- Wulff condemns Mexican drug violence
- MPs call for hike in commuter allowance
- German recycling system gets an overhaul
- German media roundup: The death of bin Laden
- Pub smoking still widespread despite ban
- East Side Gallery artists sue over Berlin Wall restoration
- Man throws firecracker at crying child
- Mosel Valley bridge to be built in wine country
- US sues Deutsche Bank for mortgage fraud
04 May
- Egypt to demand Nefertiti bust's return officially
- Greens gaining on Merkel's conservatives
- Merkel slammed for joy over bin Laden killing
- Berlin swimming pool hosts underwater opera
- Bachelor's degree sufficient for good job prospects, study finds
- Sarrazin blasts SPD immigrant quota plan
- Court orders overhaul of preventive detention
- Riot police attack undercover cops at May Day protest
- Scientists invent packaging able to detect bad food
- Allianz Q1 profit hit by Japan disaster
- Matthäus' foul-mouthed 'Loddar-speak' becomes web hit
05 May
- Berlin’s legendary boulevard Ku’damm turns 125
- Riesch's row with Vonn simmers on
- Free Democrats losing members, money
- Giant flower stinking of rotting flesh set to bloom
- First Nord Stream gas pipeline completed
- What's on in Germany: May 5 - May 11
- Germany reportedly mulling e-car subsidies
- Scientology struggles to find followers amid recruitment drives
- State won't let welfare recipients bet on sport
- Charges filed in Berlin metro beating case
- MP says Portugal should sell its gold to save itself
06 May
- Stuttgart gets revved up for automotive summer
- Merkel plays down French rift over Palestine
- Germans say bin Laden's death no cause for joy
- Düsseldorf terror plot uncovered via passenger data from US
- Several children injured as truck rams school bus
- Woman ‘misplaces’ her car in Munich for 39 days
- Lufthansa traffic hit by Japan disaster
- Merkel fed up with energy firms over nuclear phaseout
- Balmy and dry weekend forecast
- Controversial naval training ship sails into port as question linger
- University: Guttenberg wilfully plagiarised
07 May
- Europe slams report of Greek euro-withdrawal
- Merkel reevaluates 'joy' over bin Laden killing
- Wulff cancels ThyssenKrupp trip after hearing of job losses
- Farms getting bigger and fewer, figures show
- Greens to limit autobahn speed and replace car tax with road toll
- Escape by murderer-rapist sparks manhunt
08 May
- Bayern Munich secures St Pauli relegation
- Islamist preacher ditches prayer for bin Laden
- German families still function as important social glue
- Garmisch votes on hosting 2018 Olympics
- 'Playboy' Gunter Sachs kills himself at 78
- Tacheles demonstrations to continue at least once a week
09 May
- Taxi killer nabbed after 36 hours on the run
- Hospital infections kill 30,000 a year
- Exports and imports hit record sums
- German man drowns after falling into Swedish lake
- Lena faces uphill battle to defend Eurovision title
- Germany begins first census in decades
- Schröder demands help for infertile couples
- VW hikes MAN stake, eyes Scania merger
- Immigration surge halts population exodus
- Dortmund star Sahin poached by Real Madrid
- Germany’s civilized killjoys
- Terror cell member jailed
10 May
- Free Democrats spin personnel carrousel
- Booming economy to hit pre-crisis levels
- Demjanjuk 'Nazi guard' trial verdict this week
- Eurozone fury unleashed over German Greek leaks
- IOC boosts Munich bid to host 2018 Winter Olympics
- Eurovision svengali Raab dominates song contest
- Wernher von Braun's contribution to Nazi V-2 rocket questioned
- Westerwelle warns Syria of tighter EU sanctions
- Merkel backs EU free trade deal with Japan
- Seven including baby die in autobahn smashes
- Rösler takes Economics Ministry in reshuffle
- Philipp Rösler: From Vietnamese orphanage to vice chancellor
11 May
- Mothers and over-55s called back to work
- Bug-busters spray Rhineland trees to head off caterpillar threat
- One in three cash machines replaced after 'skimming' attacks
- Bayer faces US lawsuit over YAZ contraceptive
- Germany could be nuclear-free within a decade, says commission
- Merkel prepared to back Draghi for ECB job
- University plagiarism report slams Guttenberg
- Sound problems plague Eurovision semi-final
- CDU floats 'private sheriffs' idea to tackle big city crime
- Fake census forms probe drug consumption and penis size
- Bavaria won't extradite Nazi hitman
- Friedrich defends EU border control changes
12 May
- Call goes out for bird census volunteers this weekend
- Koch-Mehrin resigns due to plagiarism row
- German ice hockey hopes melt in face of red-hot Swedes
- Food prices on the rise as inflation tops two percent
- Germany slams Denmark over border control
- BMW pays big bonuses for bumper 2010
- Hochtief managers bow before Spanish owners
- Nazi guard Demjanjuk convicted but set free
- Kretschmann sworn in as first Green premier
- What's on in Germany: May 12 - 18
- Judge fines frog-killer for illegal gun possession
- Activist couple rewarded for sole resistance to neo-Nazis
- Lena fatigue dampens interest in Eurovision
- Ballack left out of squad - again
13 May
- Lena faces down Irish twins, French tenor
- Nuclear energy exit 'irreversible', says CDU
- New film makes Paul the Octopus a celluloid cephalopod
- Economy firing on all cylinders in first quarter
- VW and Audi to invest in wind power
- Media roundup: Is Europe coming apart?
- Cool, wet weekend forecast
- Westerwelle to cling on as foreign minister
- Two decades later, teen's murder solved by DNA
- Hamburg-based Iranian bank to be blacklisted
14 May
- Berlin calls on Greece to restructure debt
- Merkel and Netanyahu discuss Mideast peace
- Steinbrück signals chancellorship ambitions
- Government threatened with anti-EU revolt
- Easyjet strike causes delays in Berlin
- Job centre: Germany needs two million skilled immigrants
- Eurovision counts down
- The Local's live Eurovision commentary
15 May
- Azerbaijan scoops Eurovision first place
- Injuries and arrests as neo-Nazi march stopped in Berlin
- Wolfsburg scrape to safety on last Bundesliga day
- Germany breaks foreign aid promises
- Germany curbs terrorist intel flow to US
- Government to pump billions into electric cars
16 May
- Schäuble warns investors on Greek restructure
- Police failures contributed to Love Parade crush: report
- New FDP calls for end to parenting payment
- German world beard champ judged a cut above the rest
- Registration begins for tickets for pope visit
- Swedish queen probes her father's Nazi past
- Fire breaks out on high-speed ICE train
- Merkel wants EU boss at IMF if Strauss-Kahn goes
- Gardening goes guerrilla in Berlin
- Public health insurance premiums seen spiking
- Painting with a broad (toilet) brush
- Children hurt in Slovenian bus accident
17 May
- Expat's language essay wins her a trip to Brussels
- Shipbuilder HDW sinks Greek sub order
- Cologne apartment blaze leaves one dead, 17 hurt
- Burglary rate surges
- FDP calls for basic children's income
- Man's body eaten by pet dogs
- Exhibition shows everyday life as communism crumbled
- Schäuble promises hard line on eurozone bailouts
- Bayern Munich dominate Bundesliga... for vegetarians
- Plane crashes pose threat to nuclear plants
18 May
- Gabriel accuses Merkel of preparing nuclear deal
- Landowners give way in dispute over Munich's Olympic bid
- Google's Android mobile operating system 'easy to hack'
- The Local secures investment for European expansion
- 'Lost' royal music to be played after more than a century of silence
- Merkel tells southern Europeans to work longer
- Protest leaves soldiers hurt, Afghans dead
- Defence reform slashes troop numbers
- Lahm says gay footballers better off in the closet
- Deutsche Bank funded firm selling cluster bombs to Libya
- The family secret behind the economic boom
- Tognum accepts takeover offer from Daimler and Rolls-Royce
19 May
- Carmakers rethink sustainability approach amid E10 fuel fiasco
- Insurance firm held sex party for sales reps
- Towns face shrinking budgets if census reveals smaller populations
- Acid truck crash closes road to Stuttgart Airport
- What's on in Germany: May 19 - 25
- Berlin 'respects' decision to quit by Strauss-Kahn
- Artist told to cover willy in ad row
- Woman shot dead after knifing police officer
- De Maizière says Germany must pull its weight abroad militarily
- Group to return items from Nazi camp victims
20 May
- The best of Berlin's 24-hour bars
- Insurers face crackdown for rejecting people
- Bremen election due to cement strong Green, weak FDP positions
- Power grid going increasingly nuclear-free
- Merkel praises Obama's Mideast speech
- Border region fears Danish border checks will hit commerce
- Women more likely to manage small companies
- Taxi driver killer confesses 15 years later
- Wild weather forecast for weekend
- VW slashes US car prices to gain market share
- German soldiers admit to shooting Afghans
21 May
- Schäuble backs Lagarde for IMF top job
- Retailers hit by shortfall in Japanese imports
- German crime drops to record low
- FDP rejects proposed use of army inside Germany
- SPD calls for more education spending
- Security gaffe at Frankfurt airport
22 May
- Schalke lift Cup as Neuer speculation cranks up
- Bremen's 16-year-olds vote in state election
- Rolling Stones museum opens in Lower Saxony
- Merkel tells Germans to work harder too
- Budapest sales rep sex party cost €83,000
- German petrol prices too high, says cartel authority
- CDU sinks behind Greens in Bremen state election
23 May
- Scientists hunt source of life-threatening stomach bug
- Wind power could be stored in water under the Harz mountains
- Stasi files chief says GDR was more than spies
- Germany mediating US-Taliban talks: report
- Trier abbot calls for monk's abuse victims to come forward
- Microsoft starts filming for 'Streetside' online map service
- Police probe fire cutting Berlin trains and phones
- Can 'elite' Kitas fill Germany's day-care gap?
- Germany fails to find credible IMF candidate
- Greens' rise muddies political landscape
24 May
- In bed with Ida Hattemer-Higgins
- Huge explosives stash found in Kiel
- Karlsruhe scientists transfer 700 DVDs of data in one second
- Volcanic ash approaches North Sea coast
- Scandalous insurance reps filmed 'taking drugs' on other trips
- Police target leftist group for rail cable arson
- Industry wants women, migrants and older workers to plug jobs gap
- Deadly E. coli outbreak claims first victims
- Business leaders reject government econ policy
- 'We shouldn’t panic. We can actively do something to fight this'
- Merkel’s coalition conundrum
25 May
- Airports reopened after ash cloud closure
- Daimler chides workers who insulted CEO on Facebook
- Merkel preparing to drop nuclear tax in deal with industry: report
- Hotel offends with prison theme parties where Nazis held workers
- Health politician calls for free Berlin condoms
- Bundeswehr soldier killed in Afghanistan
- Euro crisis, inflation sap consumer confidence
- E.coli deaths continue as ministers warn of threat
- Counterfeit euros flood Germany
- Violent weather expected amid climate change
26 May
- Berlin club scene wants culture high
- Man points gas pistol at Frankfurt Airport police
- MPs push for national smoking ban
- Schäuble shares ECB's concerns on Greek debt
- Ash airspace closure possibly unnecessary
- One dead after teens set themselves on fire
- Merkel calls for global nuclear reactor tests
- Deadly E. coli found in Spanish cucumbers
- Nine children injured in Hesse bus blaze
- WWII bomb discovery causes massive evacuation in Berlin
- Police arrest 11 in people-smuggling ring
- Big petrol firms inflating prices, watchdog says
- Greece approaches Telekom on OTE sale
- What's on in Germany: May 26 - June 1
27 May
- Death toll from E. coli outbreak rises to five
- Seven old reactors set to be mothballed
- Beer purity law proposed as UN world cultural heritage
- Toasting the renaissance of Germany’s oldest Sekt
- Tiny instrument makes big impression on German musicians
- Media roundup: The contagious madness of E. coli
- Farm girls calendar casting begins
- Web makes kids more sociable, study finds
- Farmers set to sue over E. coli warning
- Doctors test robotic suit to help paraplegics
- Nazi plan to teach dogs to talk uncovered
28 May
- ‘Green’ cars battle for eco-marathon title
- Deadly E.coli outbreak claims ninth victim
- Commission sees nuclear exit within decade
- Rosberg Escapes Monaco Crash Unharmed
- German judge appointed to oversee Mladic trial
- Herpes virus kills elephants in Berlin Zoo
- Afghan police chief and German soldiers killed
29 May
- Deputies return from Greece with tales of woe
- Conservative criticism of Merkel grows
- Petraeus to meet general hurt in Afghan attack
- Hitler knew about WWII flight to UK by Heß
- Woman sets fire to man in mosque
- Hunt for source of deadly E. coli source continues
- Zwanziger demands reforms at scandal-ridden FIFA
30 May
- Germany to quit nuclear power by 2022
- Crisis team meets as E. Coli death toll hits 13
- ISAF general describes Afghan bomb attack
- Germany tops Europe for foreign capital
- Renewables unlikely to fill nuclear gap without bold policy changes
- Insurer deducted €83,000-orgy from taxes
- Court rules 'kiss my ass' insulting
- Sunniest, driest spring since 1893 recorded
- Minister plans to keep petrol prices down under
- 'This nuclear phaseout is not a revolution starting after Fukushima'
31 May
- Mixed signals from European allies on nuclear issue
- Iran sparks row by delaying Merkel flight
- Spanish cucumbers not behind E. coli outbreak
- Weatherman Kachelmann acquitted of rape
- Expectant mothers face midwife shortage
- Germany in 2011: Economic giant, political dwarf
- Jobless figure sinks below three million
- Adidas speaks out in FIFA controversy
- Activists agitate against rising Berlin rents and gentrification
- US chopper flights whip Bavarians into fury
- Utility EON to sue over fuel rod tax