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

01 July
- Wagner opera house gets 'world heritage' status
- Germany and US 'benefit from closer ties'
- East German soldiers dying more than West
- French breathalyzer law to hit German drivers
- Syphilis cases rise in Germany
- Weekend of storms kills four, injures 100
02 July
- Fiat focuses truck production in Germany
- Revenge! Drunk man rams cop station
- Protesting pensioners squat seniors' club
- Footballers 'should be forced to sing anthem'
- Intelligence chief resigns over mistakes
- Germany joins call for arms trade treaty
- Supermarket thieves tear down wall, but leave cash
- Immigrants boost German population
- Top court will rule on euro rescue next week
- T-Rex babies were 'fluffy'
03 July
- Bavarian Alps losing 'almost all glaciers'
- Pope's German friend to guard Vatican orthodoxy
- University sues student who 'studied too fast'
- Vattenfall: households will pay for green power
- Driver's legs sawn off from under crashed car
- Teens hit Frankfurt for language Olympics
- Police search for missing boy on island
- Bad bank lost €10 billion last year, more to come
- 'Sensational' world map found after two centuries
- Merkel ally: I'll destroy government over EU
04 July
- File shredding scandal leads to security reform
- Olympics take back seat for German tennis duo
- IMF: German economy will recover this year
- Five hikers dead after 400-metre fall in Alps
- Cabinet to strengthen single dads' rights
- 'Red light king' caught in brothel scam crackdown
- Five dead after police hostage raid
- Northern state mulls 'drug quality test'
- Police find boy's body on North Sea island
- Ex-Bayern footballer convicted of arson
05 July
- What's on in Germany: July 5 - 11
- Germans hope to harvest Olympic gold on field
- VW to complete Porsche takeover early
- New royalties charges threaten Berlin clubs
- Rhine sulphuric acid spill threat averted
- Mystery deepens - did agent aid murder?
- Berlin Fashion Week goes underground
- ThyssenKrupp fined €103 million for price-fixing
- Gunman who killed four was French national
- Elite student group 'could split over extremism'
- Kerber defeat dashes hopes of Wimbledon final
06 July
- Deutsche Bank's 'hunger trade' in spotlight again
- Harmony restarts work on Hamburg opera house
- Jews, Muslims increase calls for circumcision law
- Romney 'plans to visit Berlin this summer'
- Road fatalities up - eleven die each day
- Rammstein singer: I hate noise, prefer nature
- Germany braces for stormy weekend
- The most famous and infamous German kisses
- Unborn baby causes car smash
- Court jails ex-RAF member for 1977 murder
07 July
- Smart bus driver saves kids from fireball
- More traffic jams expected this summer
- Merkel's approval ratings soar amid euro row
- Former rapper turned Salafist flees Germany
- Allianz chief: don't go back to Deutschmark
- Mayor designates parking spaces for men
08 July
- German WWI graves desecrated in France
- Four dead as storms rage across Germany
- Building minister calls for more housing
- Klitschko victory brings big ratings
- Hitler ordered his Jewish commander spared
- President to Merkel: explain euro crisis better
09 July
- Merkel: Europe more than a currency
- Brokeback rider heads for Olympic bike sprints
- Government disowns new info-selling law
- Gun club open day leaves two injured
- Young teens in party ban to fight binge-drinking
- Merck to Portugal: pay bills or lose investment
- Fears of violence as Berlin biker war escalates
- Castration only way out of prison for child abuser
- Divorce lawyer launches chainsaw massacre ad
- Energy transition cheaper than expected
10 July
- Scientists find fish 'compass' cells
- 'Crocodile sighting' sparks Bavaria lake hunt
- German named head of permanent bailout fund
- BMW, Porsche 'quality drops' as US sales soar
- Constitutional Court mulls euro bailout fund
- Businesses to Merkel: stick to guns on euro
- Motorway mop up after salad dressing spill
- Four Germans arrested in snatched baby case
- Former prostitute murdered 'saviour' hubby
- Pope blocks magazine over 'leaks' stain picture
11 July
- Chess referee recalls 'Cold War clash'
- Tax raids target Credit Suisse investors
- Death of boy found on beach 'an accident'
- Indonesia tank deal on cards after Merkel trip
- German economists: make the rich buy bonds
- Probe turns up heat in state energy deal row
- Teacher jumps down mineshaft to save boy
- Dolphins need new home as small, old one closes
- Third official resigns over neo-Nazi intel gaffes
- Should Germany hit the rich with a wealth tax?
12 July
- Rubens copy returns after war booty odyssey
- Apes escape from enclosure, roam zoo
- What's on in Germany: July 12 - 18
- Daughter sues mum over Facebook humiliation
- Court gives investors glimmer of hope
- Pressure mounts for swim sweethearts
- Berlin minister: smoke alarm in every home
- Three Germans among nine killed in avalanche
- Lone-living ladies 'more likely to have top job'
- Student victim of terrorist photo blunder
- Head of GM Europe and Opel resigns
13 July
- Merkel takes Romanian envoy to task over crisis
- German loses appeal to serve time back home
- 102 Brits rescued from burning riverboat
- Top 10 German superstitions
- E-coli contamination 'false alarm' sparks row
- Quarter of Germans think bankers are criminal
- Neo-Nazi acquitted after driving into leftists
- 'Millions and billions' mix-up confuses MPs
- Anthrax outbreak kills cows, 50 people treated
- Police watched as brothel visitors drugged, robbed
14 July
- Germany pledges 'right to circumcise'
- Jobs fears rise after shock Opel resignation
- Germany buys data on suspected tax dodgers
- 'Horror Landlord' politician could face jail
- Wet and windy weather continues
- Government torn over future of intel service
15 July
- Germans call for action on FIFA bribery claims
- Western state attracts most foreign investors
- Pug fashion leading to 'longer noses and legs'
- Weather and mice hit grain harvests
- Germany 'plans to relax weapons export rules'
- Elderly man 'kills brother' in cellar hostage drama
16 July
- Puma expects swift sales with Bolt boost
- Germans arrested, wind farm seized in mafia raid
- Minister condemns buying tax evader CDs
- Court: no euro rescue decision until September
- Blatter hints Germany bought 2006 World Cup
- Beds, chairs and lifts grow as obesity rises
- Merkel ties own political future to Europe
- Police admit phantom croc was 'a large beaver'
- Fury as masterpieces make way for modern art
- Police nail screw thief
17 July
- Couple embark on Afghan circus road-trip
- Olympic torch sponsor sends execs as runners
- ECB 'ready and waiting' to oversee banks
- States split as Bavaria fights finance transfer
- Thousands of jobs to go at Karstadt and RWE
- Illegal marriage trick leaves woman hitched
- Sun vouchers 'could draw Germans to Greece'
- Germany urges China: treat our man better
- Berlin doctors release first MRI film of birth
- Restructuring expert takes the wheel at Opel
18 July
- Legendary Nürburgring track to go bankrupt
- 'At least 400' school massacre threats a year
- Thalidomide victim wins millions from drugs firms
- Court: Refugees must have the bare minimum
- German scientists create world's lightest material
- Football hooligans could be banned for a decade
- Europcar fined for tracking rental customers
- Grave error: woman finds skull at mum's headstone
- Intel warns of neo-Nazi copycats, pledges reform
- Schlecker homes raided on suspicion of foul play
19 July
- Court: speedy student must pay fees
- Most see MPs in grip of lobbyists
- Merkel: Europe needs changes to work well
- Germans evenly split over circumcision law
- East Germans return 'home' after moving west
- Two German 'child kidnappers' held in Italy
- Neckermann bankrupt, 2,400 jobs at risk
- What's on in Germany: July 19 - 25
- Stalker fined for sending genital pic to high jumper
- Man answers door - finds newborn baby
- Minister tells banks: cut overdraft interest rates
- Germany approves €100 billion Spanish bailout
20 July
- Europe's fastest computer boots up
- Germany probes drone killing in Pakistan
- One killed in hospital fire
- Doctor 'cheated' to get patients on organ list
- No honour for new intel chief over Gitmo scandal
- Pilot swims for hours in Borneo river after crash
- Former national goalie faces court over cocaine
- Only albino fur seal in zoo takes to the water
- German travel agents 'only happy when it rains'
- IOU 'worth trillions' gives mayor headache
21 July
- Woman in coma drank poisoned Capri Sun
- Opposition: Banks blackmail and dictate
- Renegotiation no-go for Greece, says Germany
- 'Body in a box' woman died natural death
- Hitler bomb plot ceremony marred by row
- Iconic Nürburgring track heads into final lap
22 July
- Opera star pulls out in swastika tattoo scandal
- Ex-state premier slammed by own party
- Skinny jeans at dawn: Hipster Olympics 2012
- Human rights activists storm French consulate
- Flawless Ferrari wins German Grand Prix
- Here comes the sun, say forecasters
23 July
- Vice-chancellor: 'horror' of Greek exit has gone
- Gunmen rob World Heritage Site vicar
- German taxes spent on training Saudi guards
- Merkel unavailable: Romney avoids Berlin
- German fencer skewers Olympic boards
- Intel fiasco 'scuppers neo-Nazi party ban'
- Dentist 'cut off own finger in fake robbery'
- Budget trains steam into Bahn monopoly
- Many students 'lack basic writing skills'
- 1972 Olympic attack clues 'were ignored'
24 July
- Munich opera defends Nazi tattoo singer
- Moody's cuts Germany's outlook to 'negative'
- Fake kidnapping stunt sparks police hunt
- Most Germans 'have had an office romance'
- Afghan Bundeswehr aides 'must get help'
- Berlin tenders local train service contracts
- Aldi gets just desserts in pudding war
- Half of field birds gone, modern farms to blame
- Sinti Auschwitz victim's widow denied pension
- Security tight at Batman film screenings
25 July
- Unique North Pole seaplane replica unveiled
- A beer costs three minutes' work - like 1991
- Prosecutors probe voyeur gynaecologist
- Finance Minister: Spain stronger than its debt
- Live wolves in dance show 'the latest shock'
- Court: new election law needed pronto
- Voters favour Merkel but neither major party
- Sea Shepherd hauls anchor, skips bail
- Düsseldorf 'terror cell' in court over bomb plot
- Luftwaffe escort startles holidaymakers
26 July
- Fishy demand for North Sea seal cull
- What's on in Germany: July 26 - Aug 1
- Cyborg 'Dutchman' booed in Bayreuth
- Moody's downgrades 17 German banks
- Retailer calls on 'grey strike-force' of retirees
- Ecclestone 'in talks to buy Nürburgring' circuit
- Giant rubbish fire sends smoke over Cologne
- Jude Law co-star dies aged just 51
- Boys who cried 'Tiger' say sorry for scare
- Hot weather hit by storms by Sunday
- Crop circle feud leaves farmer fuming
27 July
- Ten German Olympic moments
- Missing man found in freight train wreck
- Thalidomide makers 'ignored defect warnings'
- Maybe not so clever - Marlboro pulls adverts
- Volkswagen-Fiat fight changes up a gear
- Germany will get 15 golds, say scientists
- Fugitive Sea Shepherd activist wanted in Japan
- Student shatters Lake Constance glass ban
- Top cop 'set to resign over Belarus contacts'
- School child rapist jailed for six-and-a-half years
28 July
- Germany, France will do 'everything' for Eurozone
- Cruise ship mutiny over Maltese flag
- Chinese 'theft' leaves VW competing against self
- Dingo savages German tourist in Australia
- Germany considers using armed combat drones
- Swimmers fail to make splash as Olympics open
29 July
- German fraud suspect found in Las Vegas
- Minister sacks entire federal police leadership
- Nazi U-boat found in Canadian river
- Qatar in talks to buy 200 German tanks
- Support for euro fades as Greek doubts grow
- Museum director warns of Syrian cultural losses
30 July
- ‘The euro is still a brilliant notion’
- Syrian charged with spying from embassy
- Germans 'probe possible KKK link' in cop killing
- Lack of medals in London 'a false start'
- US, German finance ministers 'confident'
- Mud Olympics shows gold where there's muck
- Organ transplant scandal suspicions 'date to 1990s'
- 'Diesel dine-and-dash' on the rise
- CNN mix-up crowns Whitney drag act
- Young men launch pro-circumcision petition
31 July
- ‘We can’t take the next generation for granted’
- First German medal: a contested fencing silver
- Deutsche Bank cuts 1,900 jobs as profits halved
- US 'murder' gran 'had problems from WWII'
- Car parts supplier fined millions for price fixing
- Police evacuating for bomb disposal find body
- Berlin mayor: we are fit to host Olympics
- Foreign Minister: play nice over euro crisis
- Germans take double gold in eventing
- Daddy dog adopts lion