📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2012 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- Investors sue Porsche over failed VW merger
- One million kick off 2012 at Brandenburg Gate
- Man kills himself with illegal firework
- Fed bank boss wants deeper cuts
- 13.31 billion Deutsche Marks still missing
- Man stabs dog to death after row with wife
02 January
- Berlin wants 'concrete' nuke action from Iran
- 'Making it' by interpreting culture
- President 'used threats to try to stop scandal story'
- Polish ambassador: too easy to nick German cars
- Art listing Hitler as 'freely elected' attacked
- Employment numbers hit new record
- Tax shake-up means up to €160 more in 2012
- 'Anonymous' declares 'Blitzkrieg' on neo-Nazis
- Teachers 'need help to fight youth extremism'
- Merkel and Sarkozy prepare next EU summit
03 January
- Treasures on show again after building collapse
- Streep to be honoured at Berlin film festival
- German arson suspect arrested in Los Angeles
- Jews 'ashamed' of Israeli Holocaust protest
- Twins born: One white, one black
- Unemployment falls to record low
- German firm sold cheap boob silicone
- Randy cop sentenced for half-price brothel bribe
- Germany braced for stormy start to 2012
- A voice for all of Germany's Jews
04 January
- Germany and France end tussle over key ECB job
- Faeces-filled flat cleared by authorities
- Political foundation office re-opens in Cairo
- Six arrests after suspected drug deal goes wrong
- President to face TV grilling on loan scandal
- Germany to 'escape recession' in 2012
- Germany ravaged by New Year's storms
- Scientists discover new marine dinosaur
- Top ten German sayings
- President Wulff clings on
05 January
- Berlin attack may be work of Kurdish terrorists
- For rent: One WWII U-boat bunker
- Hollywood arsonist 'hated America'
- Germany forced to buy Austrian electricity
- What's on in Germany: January 5 - 11
- China officially Audi's biggest market
- Disasters made 2011 most expensive year ever
- Retiree 'set fire to homeless man'
- Ruhr ruins invite tourists for highwire hijinks
- President in crisis as poll numbers tank
- Germans watched more TV than ever in 2011
06 January
- Neo-Nazi radio presenters sentenced
- Cops shoot cat
- Wolfsburg's spending spree continues
- Road accident turns into bizarre murder
- Tattletale keeps records on parking violators
- Bobsleigher nearly dies from wood in buttock
- France heads for Tobin tax without Germany
- Merkel backs embattled President Wulff
- FDP in tatters as state government falls
- Blackface in Berlin play just 'tradition'
07 January
- Neo-Nazis may be behind 2003 murder attempt
- Germany calls for PIP breast implant removal
- Football tournament scrapped after fans riot
- German carmakers seek more diesel sales in US
- Forecast shows more rain and wind on the way
- Official didn't apologise to maligned speedskater
08 January
- Merkel under pressure in president scandal
- Renewables 'may not produce job boom'
- Guttenberg says he's ready for comeback
- Many brave Elbe for New Year's swim
- Many seek switch to public health insurance
- Search for girl trapped in landslide called off
- German automakers eye US market
09 January
- Protesters say police used excessive force
- Ex-Chancellor Schröder's wife enters politics
- Police hacked after top cop rows with daughter
- Chicken infected with antibiotic-resistant germs
- Hopes shine for Olympic gold in London
- Three children die of injuries each day
- Economists: Germany in a recession now
- Merkel, Sarkozy vow to solve eurozone crisis
- Merkel sticks by embattled president
- Jihadist killer deserves life say prosecutors
10 January
- German support for new North Africa underlined
- Man in court after taking old biscuits from bin
- Identical quadruplets 'one-in-13 million'
- Hospital doctors ready to strike for better pay
- Coalition at risk over financial transaction tax
- Scared Germans 'wasting money on insurance'
- Wall Street Journal launches German edition
- T-mobile phones to get Groupon offers
- Leverkusen fans frantic for Barca match tickets
- Warm temperatures cause early hay fever
11 January
- Cologne is country's stalker capital
- Rays of light as Merkel seeks eurozone fixes
- Football hooligans 'getting more violent'
- Teacher in probe for 'making bombs with kids'
- Pressure on Wulff now from own party
- Lufthansa positive on biofuel but delays use
- Merkel praises Italian economic reforms
- At least 25 Germans have burst boob implants
- 'Bondage Fairies' launch global USB treasure hunt
12 January
- Internet users 'should check for blackout virus'
- Doctors: law must cover breast implants
- Banks test touch-free payment cards
- Man who shot prosecutor only faced mild sentence
- What's on in Germany: January 12 – 18
- One woman tackles neo-Nazi graffiti
- Court acquits teacher who seduced teen
- Union: Allianz forced protest cancellation
- 'We need a real leader - like Willy Brandt'
- Wulff silent as calls to resign multiply
- Frederick the Great's 300th birthday nears
13 January
- Environmentalists urge better forest care
- Wedding bills served up to Boris Becker
- Judges call for rethink on court security
- Immigrants stop 8-year population decline
- Stinky rubber boot fire puts 50 in hospital
- Canine name trend leaves Bello in dog house
- Fancy beer bottles brew up problems
- Thousands of US soldiers to leave Germany
- Germans work six weeks a year longer than French
- Work ciggie break ban idea hits opposition
- Bailiffs chase football legend Lothar Matthäus
14 January
- Merkel: Europe faces 'long road' to restore confidence
- Ashton Kutcher invests in Berlin start-up Gidsy
- Critics slam 'recycling' of notorious Sarrazin book
- Prosecutors confident of neo-Nazi terror case
- Footballers outshine English on Facebook
- Restored Stasi HQ opens doors to public
15 January
- Deutsche Börse-NYSE merger heads for rocks
- Fresh revelations hit beleaguered president
- Sarkozy wants France to be more like Germany
- Mein Kampf headed for German newsstands
- Punkrockers ride to ice hockey team's rescue
- Five siblings suspected of killing Kurdish woman
16 January
- Twelve Germans missing from cruise liner
- Westerwelle: Germany 'still stands by Greece'
- Merkel calls for more minority public servants
- Tighter 'Made in Germany' rules criticised
- Basketball star's sausage advert is the 'Wurst'
- Fashion Week turns Berlin into runway
- German dairy king buys British milk giant
- Criminal found in attic after dramatic jail break
- Germans' fuss for bubbly 'forces plane to land'
- Women discover thrill of the hunt
17 January
- Germans 'stole' Auschwitz personnel files
- Man tells court it was dog who strangled wife
- VW and BMW recall half a million cars
- Airports still stingy with their wireless internet
- Freezing nights and frosty days this week
- Last GM crop developer leaves German soil
- 'Kebab-Murders' called 'worst word of 2011'
- Fiery German heads European Parliament
- Researchers make malaria breakthrough
- German victim's body 'recovered from ship'
18 January
- Chinese poised to take German tourism crown
- Cost of nuke phase-out 'could near €2 trillion'
- Football head: Gay players welcome
- Tropical island warmth - in icy Germany
- Sadist pimp 'hurt women with his metal genitals'
- The Local's top ten German novelists
- At least two Germans killed in Ethiopia attack
- Pony kicks escaped cheetah in face
- German firms 'still failing to promote women'
- Germans join internet blackout protest
19 January
- Looking at food 'prompts appetite hormone'
- North Korea claims 'natural wonder' in Berlin
- Man can keep €84,600 after tax office error
- What's on in Germany: January 19 – 25
- Music site ends German business on a sour note
- Millions needed to fix five-year-old rail bridge
- Banks 'stashing money in fear of meltdown'
- UN envoy urges more action on Syria
- Police raid president's ex-advisor's house
- Green Week: Animal-friendly food costs more
- 'Trash baron' jailed for more than four years
20 January
- Munich baby elephant first to get heart surgery
- Garlicky smell sparks university evacuation
- North Korean envoy wriggles off hook
- Guttenberg rules out return for 2013 election
- Three Germans held in global piracy raid
- Berlin fashion designers 'need more help'
- Ikea boss bemoans German bureaucracy
- Would you pay more for green grub?
- Schlecker goes bankrupt, tries to save stores
- Berlin urges swift action on EU transaction tax
21 January
- Westerwelle counters US Europe-bashing
- 30 vehicles ensnared in mass crash
- Wulff's ex-spokesman faces fresh allegations
- Bayern stung by 'Gladbach's goal-getters
- Costa passengers seek damages after wreck
- Megaupload founder hid from cops in panic room
22 January
- Munich baby elephant dies before operation
- Protesters mount diggers in bid to save trees
- German victim on Italian shipwreck identified
- VW eyes 2012 merger with Porsche
- Al Qaida 'planned to take German hostages'
- Cop facing divorce kills daughter then self
23 January
- Minister: Markets trust eurozone again
- German takes over Blackberry makers
- Klum and Seal split
- Megaupload founder had 'lavish' lifestyle
- 12 cop cars burnt out
- German 'spies' detained in Pakistan
- Secret files: Communist Honecker cheated on wife
- Cathedral usher caught stealing cash donations
- Young feel brunt of age discrimination
- IMF boss throws down gauntlet to Merkel
24 January
- German sent to bring Mideast peace
- Hamburg has most delayed trains
- Germany joins European oil embargo against Iran
- Siemens suffers profit collapse
- Bonn calls prostitute 'sex meter' a success
- Cruise survivors unable to board train home
- Spying on leftist MPs condemned
- Virus sweeps through hospital cancer wards
- Asylum applications jump to eight-year high
- Frederick the Great celebrations kick off
- Girlfriend blames Boateng injury on sex
- Bosch makes billion-dollar US acquisition
25 January
- Leftists suggest legal cannabis clubs
- Kim Dotcom denied bail in New Zealand
- Man cites Christian faith for kidnapping children
- Hollywood arsonist accused of 100 fires
- Poland aims to boost tourism at Hitler's lair
- Gigantic crack spooks officials on Baltic island
- Business confidence gets early 2012 boost
- Police pinch pug-pilfering pensioner
- Man dismembered and cooked after sex games
- Deutsche Post rejects EU demand to repay €1 bln
26 January
- Publisher backs down on Mein Kampf plans
- Handball team's European loss ends Olympic dream
- Merkel: Germany can't save euro alone
- Cops allowed to film on Reeperbahn
- Ice queen Witt provokes UK tears after 'big' jibe
- Email 'snowball' creates Bundestag chaos
- Child poverty decreases
- Soros damns German handling of euro crisis
- Hope dwindles for NYSE- Deutsche Börse merger
- Six-year sentence for paedophile priest
- Print Mein Kampf to fight neo-Nazi extremism
27 January
- New tool unravels Stasi secret files
- Police officers killed in motorway crash
- Chills and snow are on the way
- Cop patrolled 22 years without driver's license
- Germans confront latent anti-Semitism
- German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria
- No recompense in case of world's dearest rug
- What's on in Germany: January 26 – February 1
- Schäuble slams Cameron for blocking EU deal
- 'Muslim taxi' offers gender-segregated rides
- Germany rakes in record tax income
- Deutsche Bank boss sees Greece debt deal
28 January
- President 'can be called liar', loses public favour
- Grenade disguised as toy left on supermarket shelf
- Liberal party support 'too small for statistics'
- Germans spend €150 million on hold
- Berlin: EU should manage Greek budget
- German held at elite ball protest 'had explosives'
29 January
- Bayern cling to Liga lead on goal difference
- First German DNA screen baby born healthy
- Fifth German body found on wrecked cruise ship
- Cops 'quizzed neo-Nazi terror cell woman' in 2007
- Urban slang is 'more logical' way of speaking
- Corruption cops raid presidential office
- Police arrest 70 in left-wing Berlin riots
30 January
- Merkel backs away from Greek budget control
- Art explores discount shopping culture
- Germany's top warm winter getaways
- Electric cars less climate friendly than thought
- German firms expect robust exports in 2012
- Investigations of soldiers deployed abroad surge
- Siberian cold puts deep freeze on Germany
- Railway wants free ICE train from Siemens
- China's Sany to buy Putzmeister
- Founder of bankrupt Schlecker chain 'ruined'
31 January
- Gritty Reeperbahn faces growing gentrification
- Merkel pushes through EU fiscal pact
- Robust economy leaves long-term jobless behind
- Bahn investing €800 mln to improve stations
- ThyssenKrupp sells stainless steel business
- Body of girl lost in Baltic landslide found
- Bismarck recordings found in Edison's lab
- Doctor accused of helping top athletes dope
- Language school grads 'barely spoke German'
- Westerwelle demands 'urgent' action on Syria