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

01 August
- Germany demands UN meeting on Syria
- Conservatives rule out legalising gay marriage
- Despite skills shortage, many qualified workers remain jobless
- Thai prince to pay €20m bond on seized jet
- Telekom reportedly mulling massive job cuts
- Franco-German alliance for warships mooted
- Couple killed in home explosion hours before eviction
- 'Naked' body scanners a failure, police union says
- Gloomy summer provides extra sunshine for tanning salons
- Greens sue government over Saudi tank deal
- Convict connection: US pen pals found in jail
02 August
- Internal party anger puts pressure on Merkel
- Summer arrives - for a day or two
- Many public taps fail water quality test
- Demand for luxury cars drives BMW results
- Retailer Metro hit by weak sales
- Heidi Klum's 'Top Model' dumped by management
- Inmates start hunger strike for internet, pay TV and conjugal visits
- Germany faces insect infestation
- Taliban target German security firm in Kunduz
- Deutsche Post triples profit as Asia boosts DHL
- Porsche returns to profit ahead of VW merger
- Workers not as happy as they used to be
- Greenpeace dumps boulders off Sylt coast
03 August
- The Best of Berlin in August
- Teens arrested for Berlin U-Bahn assault
- Many eastern Germans sympathize with decision to build Berlin Wall
- Facebook facial recognition called illegal
- Leadership troika helps SPD recover support
- Court forbids air traffic controller strike
- Attitudes toward German citizenship changing
- Long-distance bus market to be liberalized
- Muslim footballers allowed to eat during Ramadan
- Honour killings not rising
- BMW buyers kept waiting amid high demand
- Initiative seeks to halt country doctor drain
04 August
- Rare ibis trained to migrate over the Alps
- Website lets parishioners to rate their priests
- Still not enough children for the future
- What's on in Germany: August 4 - 10
- Deutsche Telekom Q2 profit plunges
- Munich Re profits rise despite Greece hit
- Tight job market exposes looming worker deficit
- Chinese paper confuses George Soros with Joschka Fischer
- Child murderer awarded damages for police threat
- Neo-Nazi shoots self as police find his dead son
- Refugees airing East Germany's dirty laundry
- Fare dodgers turn to Facebook and Twitter to avoid ticket checks
- Last gay survivor of Nazi death camps dies aged 98
05 August
- Economists worry as stock markets plummet
- VW making progress in tough US market
- Interior Ministry to probe ban of far-right NPD
- Dortmund kick off new Bundesliga season
- Race is on to find escaped cow Yvonne before hunters kill her
- Wacken heavy metal festival gets heads banging
- Unseen eastern side of the Berlin Wall revealed
- Weekend set to remain wet, introducing a few days of autumn
- Hunt for double killer suspect goes nationwide
- Merkel talks euro rescue with France and Spain
06 August
- Toilet cleaner hid €40,000 in small coins from the taxman
- Germany's last millstone mason gets busier
- Giant water nymph causes a stir in Hamburg
- Merkel pledges new steps to punish Syria
- CDU finds no respite from 'navel-gazing'
- E.ON planning even bigger job cuts
- Air traffic controllers threaten new strike
07 August
- Stuttgart off to a flyer in the Bundesliga
- Dismantling an East German nuclear reactor
- Germany says eurozone can't save Italy
- Report: higher tobacco tax only helps smugglers
- Pensioner held for killing and dismembering wife
- CSU flags Left party ban, sparking war of words
- Bayern shocked at home by Mönchengladbach
08 August
- Berlin double-murder suspect arrested
- Eurozone scrambles to calm investors
- Friedrich's call to identify bloggers meets broad resistance
- Man cheats death despite shocking drunkenness
- Germany says Syria's Assad losing legitimacy
- Germans donating more to help famine-hit East Africa
- Iron Age people gave interiors of dwellings a decorative streak
- RWE CEO stepping down early
- Spending a day at the beach without leaving Hamburg
- Air traffic controllers to strike Tuesday
- DAX tanks amid global economic fears
09 August
- Berlin tries to preserve remaining traces of the Wall
- Air traffic controller strike averted
- Man shot after knife attack on cops
- Bathtub stuntman busted for road hijinks in Lower Saxony
- Stink of manure blowin' in the wind for Erfurt
- Stocks gyrate wildly as markets remain skittish
- Germany warns citizens about UK riots
- Rösler calls for eurozone 'stability council'
- Berlin MP charged in fight over currywurst
- Swedish queen's probe shows father was hero, not Nazi
- Germany's Jack Sparrow sues Disney in dubbing dust-up
10 August
- FDP calls for benefits cuts for older jobseekers
- 'I don’t think people expected the Wall would last 30 years'
- Tarantula startles Berlin train station staff
- EON confirms up to 11,000 jobs will go
- Neo-nazis bamboozled by tricky T-shirts
- Germany frees Thai prince's plane
- Germany also at risk of riots, police union warns
- Commerzbank profit hit by Greek holdings
- Swiss banks pay €1.9bn to German taxman
- Kramp-Karrenbauer elected Saarland premier
11 August
- Footballers power past team Brazil
- Group calls for workplace kissing ban
- Police union wants more online 'cybercops'
- What's on in Germany: August 11 - 17
- Village remembers Iron Curtain coming down
- Media roundup: Diagnosing Britain's riot sickness
- Neo-Nazis slammed for 'gas' campaign poster
- China buying strongly into Munich Re
- Merkel, Sarkozy to hold debt crisis meeting
- Hackers gather around the computer campfire
- Universities bracing for flood of students
12 August
- 1. FC-Nürnberg has most stylish football kit
- Seattle man brings Berlin döner to hungry Americans
- Convicted Nazi war criminal may avoid jail
- Bundesliga preview: Bayern Munich looks to bounce back this weekend
- Investor Soros blames Merkel for euro crisis
- Children's bodies found in burned-out car
- Woody Allen eyes Munich for film
- One third of children born out of wedlock
- Grab it while you can: Saturday to bring one-day summer
- Germany rolls over Egyptian debt into aid
- Murdoch to launch Wall Street Journal in German
13 August
- Berlin remembers building of the Wall
- Germany may import Austrian energy in winter
- Bulls deployed to catch runaway cow
- Germans stay positive despite global crash
- Germany takes over EU anti-pirate mission
- Greens to challenge government over Libyan mission
14 August
- Dortmund crash, Wolves fume in the Bundesliga
- Schäuble calls for solidarity to fight crisis
- Slutwalk comes to Germany
- Panic in train stuck in Hamburg tunnel for 30 mins
- Adenauer wanted to swap West Berlin
- Rösler tells his party: 'Don't panic!'
15 August
- Top CDU man resigns over love affair with teen
- Computer Chaos Club throws out former Wikileaks spokesman
- Police probe family tragedy after two girls found dead in burned car
- Pipe bomb hurts man at Berlin park
- Germany fights growing support for eurobonds
- Investigation seeks reason behind cable car-paraglider snarl-up
- Warmer temps on the way but wet weather will continue
- Execs face jail for carbon dioxide trade tax fraud
- Heavy rains cause Rügen chalk cliffs to fall into Baltic Sea
- Spymaster's widow loses pension battle
16 August
- Eleven cars set on fire in Berlin
- Climate change prompts search for exotic trees
- Growth grinds to a halt
- Anti-discrimination chief calls for tougher sanctions
- Deutsche Bahn staff grumpy and demotivated
- Power cut leaves 117,000 chickens to suffocate in factory farm
- Social Democrats warn leftists after Wall praise
- Shit hits the fans at Bundesliga match
- Eurobonds could stop the downward spiral
- Sarkozy and Merkel plan eurozone government
- Saxony leads education vanguard
17 August
- Cars burn in Berlin for second night in a row
- Campaign aims to get foreigners the vote
- Bayern Munich players hit back against legend Kahn's criticism
- Berliners enjoy best standard of living in Germany
- Swine flu vaccine worth €250 mln to be destroyed
- Stormy Australia weighs on Hochtief results
- Media roundup: Plotting the euro's future in Paris
- Finance industry blasts proposed tax
- Monster trucks may ply autobahn for field trial
- Antimatter spotted on the edge of the world
18 August
- Sloppy Bayern cruise to victory over Zurich
- Car arson continues unabated in Berlin
- Police officers riled by new ID requirement
- Finding happiness without money
- Canine detectives show promise in sniffing out lung cancer
- What's on in Germany: August 18 - 24
- New campaign to combat ATM fraud launched
- Schleswig-Holstein CDU unveils new leadership
- Births surge to highest rate since 1990
- Air Berlin boss resigns after poor results
- Court allows students to offset uni costs from future income taxes
- Germany, France and UK tell Syria's Assad to go
- Polishing the pearls of Berghain
- DAX suffers worst dive since November 2008
19 August
- Mousetrap display traces history of rodent catching technology
- Insurers say hospitals overcharge €1.5 billion
- Fourth night of car arson prompts terror debate
- Storms chaos hits North Rhine-Westphalia
- Greens MP says involvement in NATO Libya mission illegal
- Germans doubt Merkel can avert financial crisis
- Husband of post-war journalism legend charged with her murder
- Rösler says financial transaction tax must apply to all EU members
- Skin cream possibly gave Egyptian queen cancer 3,500 years ago
- Facebook ‘like’ button declared illegal
20 August
- Mönchengladbach trounce Wolves
- Police make second largest cocaine haul ever
- Nuclear shutdown slowing economy
- Friedrich welcomes arming German cargo ships
- Left deputy leader wants to expel Wall apologists
- Schäuble sees no danger of losing credit rating
21 August
- Bayern blast 5-0 past hapless Hamburg
- Merkel to visit Balkans to ease tensions
- Rösler promises tax cuts for 2013
- Three more vehicles burnt in Berlin
- No major clashes at Hamburg's Schanzenfest
- Bank boss calls for EU finance minister
22 August
- Restaurant turns down Swedish royalty
- Citizen patrols mooted to stop car arsons
- More pensioners working low-paid jobs to get by
- Merkel emphasizes 'no' to eurobonds, for now
- High court considers fees to scare off frivolous appeals
- Germany cuts deficit faster than expected
- Berlin mulls troops for post-Qaddafi Libya
- Police ditching the German Shepherd for Belgian breed
- Former Wikileaks insider destroyed files
- Website of music copyright watchdog GEMA hacked
23 August
- Outdoors clothes companies making major inroads
- Deutsche Post struggles with rising mail theft
- Westerwelle plays down engagement in Libya
- Bayern's Lahm exposes deep rifts with ex-coaches
- Media roundup: Libya after Qaddafi
- Mountain climbers go missing in Afghanistan
- Beloved humorist Loriot dies
- Teen confesses to brutal metro beating
- Porsche unveils new 911
- Investor confidence slumps to 2008 lows
24 August
- Rhineland cops under investigation for faking attack
- Unpopular tuition fees could soon be history
- US prosecutors: Deutsche Bank was aware of mortgage fraud
- Merkel urges eurozone budgets court enforced
- Man's torture chamber awaited captive woman
- Wulff attacks ECB for bond purchases
- Business confidence drops to 14-month low
- Kohl slams Germany's 'unreliable' foreign policy
- Da Vinci portrait looted by Nazi returns to Berlin
- Bin laden documents detail terror threat
- Eating sausage standing saves taxes
25 August
- Climbing legends in the Dahner Felsenland
- Merkel named world's most powerful woman
- Munich S-Bahn train driver kicks black passenger after using racial epithet
- Consumer confidence hits year's low
- Thunderstorms and hail herald summer’s end
- RTL eyes Poland's TVN
- What's on in Germany: August 25 - 31
- Deutsche Bahn boss offers to delay Stuttgart 21 demolition work
- Gay marksman allowed to attend competition without his partner
- Schäuble: Euro needs joint budgetary policy
26 August
- Kaiser couple to marry in Potsdam
- Local reader helps film legend Luise Rainer get spot on 'Boulevard of Stars'
- Petrol industry to charge more for E10 debacle
- VW set to invest in renewable energy
- Auditors attack Transport Ministry for expenses
- Defence officials split over troops for Libya
- Berlin's mayor welcomes Pope through gritted teeth
- Runaway cow now wanted alive, not dead
- Leverkusen looking for Bundesliga bragging rights in Dortmund
27 August
- Lufthansa cancels all NY flights due to hurricane
- Germans wealthier than ever
- Telekom boss wins 'award' for abusing the German language
- Goethe voted greatest German
- Hailstorms cut western swath of damage
- Kaiser heir weds princess in Potsdam
- Merkel praises NATO for Libya campaign
28 August
- Obama, Merkel agree to boost global economy
- 'The Devil’s Niece' wins world air guitar championship
- Friedrich rejects compensation for German forced laborers after WWII
- Cancer experts want shock photos on cigarette packs
- Eurozone seen recovering before US
- FDP leadership backs beleaguered Westerwelle
- Ex-spy chief says BND 'misused' for Iraq War
29 August
- Neo-Nazi cartoon stork irritates far-right
- Tax cuts will be moderate, says Merkel
- Google apologizes to Hamburg police for bad link
- Small plane makes emergency road landing
- Urban gardening takes off at Berlin's fabled airport Tempelhof
- Frankfurt dubbed Germany’s crime capital
- The Local launches France's news in English
- Merkel wants old East German plane back
- Porsche wants piece of Ferrari market
- Berlin resets Libya policy
- Cooler days mark end to wet and grey summer
30 August
- Nowitzki hoping to lead Germany to glory at EuroBasket
- States mull electronic shackles for convicts
- Lahm denies gay rumours in new book
- Mediaeval 'Black Death' linked to present plague
- Official blames Sarrazin for hindering integration
- Street prostitutes taxed via vending machine
- Over half of e-book downloads deemed 'illegal'
- VW named world's best car company
- Foreigners face pricey prep for universities
- New Otto Dix paintings found
31 August
- Heidelberg home has huge hornet nest
- Libyan rebels use German weapons
- Pope's visit delays crucial euro-vote
- Frankfurt man confesses to killing US airmen
- Report: defence cuts endangering soldiers
- Elvis estate slaps German record label with lawsuit
- Unemployment, retail sales hold steady as economy slows
- Germany kiboshes body scanners at airports
- Rich call for higher taxes
- Nuclear reactor not to be kept on stand-by