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

01 August
- Storms 'getting stronger' due to warmer ground
- Biker gang war in Berlin 'goes Scandinavian'
- Deutsche Bank 'led by losers', says ex CEO
- International diamond snatcher granny jailed
- Woman cheats death as rock destroys car
- Day care missing for hordes of toddlers
- Assisted suicide law splits government
- Haribo fined for sour business practices
- Minister completes security service shake up
- Gold and silver on water, wheels and foot
02 August
- Beach towel wardens police cruise ships
- Most Germans would keep job after lotto win
- Police shoot ill man after hammer attack
- Stasi spy pastor leaves church in disgrace
- What's on in Germany: Aug 2 - 8
- German professor held in US 'to stop bloodbath'
- Germans find evidence of Antarctic rainforest
- Bishop calls for blasphemy laws
- Property prices soar but 'no danger of bubble'
- ECB 'could oppose Germany and buy bonds'
- Gymnastics medal the first since 1936
03 August
- Thousands head-bang their way to Wacken
- Academy of the Arts joins Pussy Riot protest
- General Motors vows no plant closures at Opel
- Hail storm kicks off bad-weather weekend
- Germany ditches rower over 'neo-Nazi lover'
- Women banned from water slide after 'injuries'
- Three dead kids in fire 'were victims of crime'
- Government slates 'Robin Hoods' wealth tax
- Teen trapped in train doors loses half a leg
- Brokeback cyclist takes Olympic gold
04 August
- Ex-Chancellor Schmidt, 93, in love again
- Suspected art smuggler freed on bail in China
- Two lions 'poisoned' in Berlin zoo
- Survey: Private sector downturn in Germany
- Woman suspected of killing partner's children
05 August
- Bus drivers, locals spoil neo-Nazi day out
- Five including teen pilot die in plane crashes
- Five million shopped at Schlecker in final month
- Town pigeon numbers hit hard by renovation
- Athlete fights for silver; swimmers sink
- Hamburg Pride parade attracts 300,000
06 August
- Autobahn network 'needs a face lift' at 80
- Festivalgoer accidentally gases himself
- Bolt thanks his German doctor 'Mull'
- German vicar goes limp in 'erotic service'
- 'No ignoring Bundestag' Berlin tells EU
- Germany: Signs of regime erosion in Syria
- Half of Germans approve of euthanasia businesses
- Squirrel dies despite police olive oil rescue
- Clearing begins at Frankfurt 'Occupy' camp
- German rower: 'It was my decision to quit'
07 August
- German firms wooed by Turkish boom
- Woman's body 'found defiled' in funeral home
- Minister: gay relationships share 'conservative values'
- E.ON treble profits after Russian gas deal
- One in four hearts skip the waiting list
- Can a Nazi's lover represent Germany?
- Police arrest suspected spy at NATO air base
- Driver follows satnav directions - car totalled
- Bawling, back-flopping bad day in London
- 'What's a euro crisis?' German kids get raise
08 August
- 'Cops punched me,' says Megaupload millionaire
- Juncker: Greek exit manageable, but it'll hurt
- Gold glory for German discus thrower
- Millionaire dentist falls to death 'after lovers' tiff'
- Germany braces for yet another airline strike
- Swiss bank buys up German debts
- African swine fever 'could cost billions'
- Tourist killed in boating accident
- Germans put the paddle to the medals
- Top marks for Germany from US ratings agency
09 August
- Sunny spell on the way after stormy week
- What the Stasi butler saw - terrible table manners
- Firms: We need UN anti-corruption law
- Guilt-stricken tax evader gives cash back
- Fans cry foul on soccer team's poultry 'kit deal'
- Deadly air strike colonel to be promoted
- Burned cargo ship hunting for a port
- Child 'stabbed to death by mum's boyfriend'
- Olympic rower's lover could be jailed for attack
- Double double gold for German kayakers
10 August
- New Berlin airport 'cannot service its loans'
- Trucker swerves past cyclist and hits 30 others
- Facebook 'should help pay for illegal parties'
- Economic clouds gather despite strong GDP
- Craft guild: euro rescue cost must have a limit
- Germany's triumphs and disasters at London 2012
- Woman must pay €40 for electrician's 40-metre trip
- Do not tattoo your pony, court tells German man
- Merkel shows deadpan comic genius
- Olympic targets revealed – and missed by a mile
11 August
- Project to name victims killed at Cold War border
- Experts: Bavaria is a 'hotbed' of Mafia activity
- Bronze medal confusion over computer failure
- Court to investigate demise of 'Dr Death'
- Three Germans killed in plane crash
- Germany offers youth best job prospects in EU
12 August
- Germany fights hard to defend hockey gold
- Security services record Islamist exodus to Egypt
- Mystery winner bags record lotto loot
- Schlecker boss 'paid family business assets'
- Minister demands tax break for gay couples
- Germany: no more chances for Greece
- 44 medals earns German Olympic team 6th place
13 August
- Bayern bag first bragging rights over Dortmund
- 'Willy the Gasman' survives gas explosion
- Consumers to pay for energy guzzler cuts
- Bavarian machos gather for finger-pulling fest
- Leadership dilemma dogs centre-left troika
- What's on in Germany: August 13 – 15
- Plant wildflowers not corn, say beekeepers
- Germans struggle to turn Olympic gold into gold
- Thief returns anti-Nazi bishop’s treasures
- Fox and boar help kangaroos escape
14 August
- 'Free Bavaria!' demands veteran politician
- Minor traffic accidents 'waste police time'
- Ticket prices set to soar as airlines chase profits
- Scientists search for stinky schnitzel solution
- Do we need cops at minor car accidents?
- Top journalist 'murders former boss' - in a book
- Berlin airport worker 'may have planned attack'
- Ex-Chancellor's wife's office attacked
- Elderly climber survives week stuck in glacier
- Health insurers caught wasting contributions
15 August
- Pocket urinals hit the streets of Cologne
- Footballer defends right not to sing anthem
- Hamburg signs historic deal with Muslims
- Berlin double-murderer is jailed for life
- Late pay-day for 150,000 pensioners after errors
- 'Free Pussy Riot' call given a German accent
- Berlin airport: new opening date in danger
- Hamburg welcomes Olympians as heroes
- Wanted: a green, fair economic system
- Scary photos on tobacco 'should be copied' here
16 August
- Police hunt 'Kermit the con-artist'
- Germany crumble in Argentina friendly
- Sunshine, scorching temperatures on the way
- Minister: ban biofuel, it boosts famine
- What's on in Germany: August 16 - 22
- Half of young prisoners attacked each month
- German seas 'among best in the world'
- Nestlé fails to stop copycat coffee capsules
- Parliament must pay €50,000 to neo-Nazi party
- Pilots: Ryanair pushes us to run on empty
- Speeding bus driver 'was on cocaine'
17 August
- Workers with no weekend head for burn-out
- Merkel pushes EU free trade pact with Canada
- Anti-Islam group targets mosques and leftists
- Vigilante pigeon hunter regains license to kill
- Court lifts ban on domestic military ops
- Berlin event hosting start-up goes global
- Man missing after rabid bat attack
- Walker unearths doomed Cold War spying tunnel
- Hunt for soldier's rapist continues
- Jail for Pussy Riot sparks protests in Germany
18 August
- Polar bear herpes case stumps scientists
- Facebook party brings trains to standstill
- Shooting at Germany's biggest brothel
- Murder charges levelled at neo-Nazi suspect
- 'We still believe in euro,' say half of Germans
- Far-right activists stage anti-Muslim protest
19 August
- Mother 'kills sons before committing suicide'
- German spies 'active on rebel side in Syria'
- 'Engine fire' forces Berlin-bound plane back
- No let-up on Greek austerity, says Germany
- School trip ends in fatal bus crash
- Minister: Fine parents of truant children
20 August
- State premier: Buying tax cheat CDs is legal
- Pussy Riot copycats sing in Cologne Cathedral
- Stock market prediction fraudster faces court
- German tax revenues up 9 percent on a year ago
- Syrian rebels plan 'The Day After' in Berlin
- Greek euro exit would be 'manageable' says ECB
- Storms to follow hottest day of the year
- Germans take dim view of light bulb inspections
- Blind man hurt: 'balcony removed' sign no help
- New Nazi cases on 'Demjanjuk principle'
21 August
- Fuel prices hit all-time high
- Controversial Down's test reaches Germany
- Police hunt man as family found shot dead
- Siemens 'set to slash thousands of jobs'
- WWF: We're all eating GM-based meat
- Man jailed for guns and explosive stash
- Porn pirates set to be outed by lawyers
- Six hurt as train derails in Berlin
- Robot can do shopping - if there are no steps
- State 'paid prostitute bill' in investor hunt
22 August
- Underground workers face mammoth tusk
- Greece's fate 'hangs on Merkel-Hollande meet'
- Customs seize million-dollar violin
- Ikea planning 'to build new district in Hamburg'
- Bubble tea 'contains all sorts of crap'
- Man gives baby away then kills family and self
- Minister blocks energy plan, coalition fuming
- US to retake top investor in Germany crown
- World's oldest panda dies a lifelong bachelor
- First report against rabbi for circumcision
23 August
- Two Germans die in Maasai Mara plane crash
- Greek PM: Germans will get their money back
- Merkel still world's most powerful woman
- What's on in Germany: August 22 - 28
- Dresden test drives longest ever bus
- Police launch strike on western neo-Nazis
- Opel puts cuts shifts to part-time
- Pixelhead - the ultimate in anonymous?
- Pussy Riot copycats could see church charges
- Most expensive 'A-hole' costs man €60,000
- Politician: gays biggest threat after euro crisis
24 August
- Pink stinks, says toy marketing campaigner
- Four children killed in house fire
- Greece: we need more time for reforms
- German cops trained Belarusian militia
- Drug-smuggling granny 'did it to stay active'
- 'Mafia boss Merkel' book makes waves
- Ullrich tight-lipped on retroactive Tour wins
- Flying fish-eating dinosaur unveiled
- Street prostitutes 'accept sex meters'
- Stricken cargo ship heading for Germany
25 August
- Dortmund strike first in 50th Bundesliga
- Nine injured in fire at home for asylum seekers
- Household electric bills 'billions too much'
- Escaped tiger kills zoo keeper
- Teacher fined for pointing out cleavage with pencil
26 August
- 'Racism the problem' - 20 years after Rostock
- China correspondents ask Merkel for help
- Study shows slim chance for fat job candidates
- Coalition split on equal rights for gay couples
- Escaped rapist found with woman and children
- Athletics official dies after javelin accident
27 August
- Hannover and Schalke draw as season begins
- Party ends in surprise 175km train trip
- Man stabbed trying to put out Hamburg riot fire
- 'Society failed to change the climate of 1992'
- Minister: 30 percent power cost rise dubious
- Swiss banker arrested for 'selling German data'
- Scrap starts over bankrupt solar cell firm
- Load of bullocks ox-trot at bovine races
- Zoo chief 'had to kill tiger to try to save keeper'
28 August
- Merkel: 'nein' to gay equality on tax and kids
- Father 'killed daughter's boyfriend in flat fireball'
- Paralympics founder's dreams come true
- Bavarian late night beer, juice, only for drivers
- WWII bomb forces central Munich evacuation
- Pensioners working more 'to avoid old-age poverty'
- Lufthansa cabins crews to strike 'any day now'
- Berlin to mark 100 years since Nefertiti find
- German hockey champs face €500,000 party bill
- Merkel to court Chinese help for euro crisis
29 August
- Munich WWII bomb could have damaged buildings
- Merkel's conservatives hit four-year poll high
- Workers fear for jobs as shipbuilder goes belly up
- German president 'avoiding Putin'
- 'ECB must buy bonds to prevent German inflation'
- Berlin a 'nightmare for pedestrians'
- Transfer jitters unsettle Munich and Hamburg
- Munich bomb blows open compensation question
- Merkel optimistic Italian reforms are working
- Anti-fascists axe Rostock remembrance oak
- Youths attack rabbi in street for 'being Jewish'
30 August
- Call boosted for boys to get cancer jab
- Ex-family ministers: child care cash humiliating
- Chinese 'will invest to help boost euro'
- What's on in Germany: August 30 – September 5
- Lufthansa strikes to hit on Friday
- Prostitute-orgy insurer had a sex habit
- Woman's tumour as heavy as four babies
- German label launches €190 brown paper bag
- Rainy days signal summer's end
- German scientists find 'internet-addiction gene'
- First medal for Paralympians in shooting
31 August
- Lufthansa strike grounds a third of Frankfurt flights
- Vatican drops injunction against satire magazine
- Family stopped with dead dad in car
- Jews call on Muslims to fight anti-Semitism
- Tech-hungry visitors flood IFA electronics fair
- Zoo chief threatened after shooting attack tiger
- Frankfurt airport strike creates flight chaos
- Germany's original teen sex advice writer dies
- Man snatches child 'to increase contact with ex'
- 'Eating posture' tax codes to be scrapped
- Watchdog slams McDonald's book scheme