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

01 September
- Van der Vaart returns to Hamburg for €13m
- More Lufthansa flights cancelled day after strike
- Thalidomide maker says sorry 50 years later
- Minister wants to ban stolen tax-dodger details
- Loose moose killed by truck near Berlin
- 'Missing' posters prompt Muslim anger
02 September
- Romanian PM: Secret police in German press
- Cologne player quits over fans' threats
- Judge questions legality of child ear-piercing
- German thought dead in Spanish wildfires
- Canine lovers protest for dogs' rights
- Minister: Millions at risk of old age poverty
03 September
- Berliners protest after rabbi beating
- German MP visits Assange in embassy
- Lufthansa crews call new strike for Tuesday
- Minister: former East Germany needs a trillion
- Greens call for €200 'cash for clunker fridges'
- Man dies as playground dare backfires
- Dead businessman 'could be victim of contract hit'
- 11 injured as smoke fills plane in Cologne
- US-German relations ailing, says ex-FM
- Lowest German exports for three years
04 September
- Women managers still rare and earning less
- Lufthansa strikes hit Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich
- Murderer found on cruise 13 years after escape
- Kohl has heart surgery to tackle health problems
- Free artists evicted from Berlin city centre icon
- Israel: selling subs to Egypt endangers us
- More than 1,000 pharma jobs to go at Merck
- Berlin airport delayed until October 2013
- Foreign investors 'snap up prefab German flats'
- 'Buy your own wine,' court tells divorcee
05 September
- Euro rescue sparks biggest court challenge
- Ex-husband finds dead baby in freezer
- Lufthansa strike to go national on Friday
- Germany outranks US in global competitiveness
- Farmer starts 'accidental cannabis plantation'
- US nuclear bombs will remain in Germany
- Greens put factory farms onto election menu
- Streaming music hits high note in Germany
- Cologne football bullies could face charges
- Munich remembers 1972 Olympic victims
06 September
- Bosses' brains work differently, scans show
- Jewish graves vandalized in northern Germany
- Lufthansa cancels 1,200 Friday flights
- What's on in Germany: September 6 – 12
- Great green energy hope for Germany and India
- Police hunt for missing boy, 11
- Study finds 'chain of errors' among doctors
- Bring back your empties, Munich brewers beg
- Rain eases as Germany catches last rays
- ECB unveils new bond-buying scheme
- GEMA faces march of the angry clubbers
07 September
- Euro and politicians top list of German fears
- Strike grounds 100,000 Lufthansa passengers
- Family's 'parked' car used as airport shuttle
- VW 'to make 300,000 fewer cars this year'
- 'No models' mag drops ban after thinner sales
- Cuckoo clocks: kitsch, colourful and cheerful
- Merkel: states must work with ECB on euro
- Most military leaders say reforms 'will not last'
- Cabin crew union forces Lufthansa to talk
- German command of Kosovo force renewed
08 September
- Germany struggle to beat Faroe Islands
- ECB bond-buying under fire in Germany
- Lufthansa flights back on plan as talks start
- Damaged cargo ship enters German waters
- Former first lady sues over red light rumours
- Giant catfish empty rivers, turn cannibal
09 September
- Bullied footballer:club abandoned me
- Merkel calls for a 'Greece solution'
- Kurdish gathering turns violent in Mannheim
- Police warn of neo-Nazi terror assassins
- Health authorities warn of severe flu season
- New challenge filed to stop euro rescue
10 September
- FM: Nuclear-armed Iran 'not an option'
- Three dead, ten injured in airfield accidents
- City struggles to fire teacher for 'racial abuse'
- Jews, Muslims protest for right to circumcise
- German Paralympians bag 66 medals in London
- 'Bonksville' opens 'path of love' for frisky walkers
- 'Finger-biting train station stripper' nabbed
- Lack of cheap flats risks creating 'luxury ghetto'
- More are working for low wages
- German Pirates reject founder's child porn call
11 September
- Beer fans lobby for Oktoberfest price cap
- Germany 'fails to level educational playing field'
- Soros: Germany should fix euro or leave it
- 'Internet better than sex' for many under-35s
- Greece: Germany could still owe us from WWII
- Price-fixing steel bosses 'entertained in brothels'
- Naked monk in woods 'had eaten bad berries'
- School: German children cannot learn Turkish
- Court: Transsexuals have right to breasts
- Painter creates clash of circumstance
12 September
- Germans happiest in north and south
- Germany still out of sorts, beat Austria 2-1
- British tarmac truck had historical GDR tyres
- Protests as 'Israel-hater' gets philosophy prize
- Constitutional Court approves euro rescue
- Data protector 'cannot check police spyware'
- Gay Bundesliga player fears public outing
- Relief across Europe at German ESM decision
- 'King of Screws' winds up own sales reps
- Court: Jeweller shot teen in 'self-defence'
13 September
- Third of pilots 'have slept in cockpit'
- Parents save son by each giving him a lung
- 'The yes is as weak as the but'
- What's on in Germany: September 13 – 19
- Holidaymaker sues after TV 'monster' joke
- EADS and BAE plan merger to take on Boeing
- Germany welcomes pro-Europe Dutch vote
- Helmut Schmidt defends Tiananmen massacre
- Toxic chemicals scare at Berlin US consulate
- Doctors prescribe strike in wage fight
- Thatcher letter thanking family surfaces
14 September
- Court: saying 'no' not enough to stop sex
- Neo-Nazi gang's TNT man 'talked to cops'
- More porpoises die in North Sea than normal
- Merkel: gay footballers should have no fear
- Wolves freak out soldier with stalking game
- Germany boosts security at embassies after riots
- Whistle-blower sues Siemens over 'threats'
- Germany condemns film as mob burns embassy
- ECB boss offers to explain euro plan to MPs
- Chilly, rainy days to dominate next few weeks
- Germans get 'hot dating fun' rather than iPhone
15 September
- Germany ready to help Japan go non-nuclear
- Merkel worries Arab violence could spread
- Brits jailed for stealing museum rhino horns
- SPD turns from idea of working with Merkel
- New rules drive suicide firm to Switzerland
- German joins EU group against women's quota
16 September
- Kissinger visit fails to boost Fürth's fortunes
- Minister: I'll fight attempt to show anti-Islam film
- Czechs bury WWII revenge attack victims
- Elderly German hiker freezes to death in Alps
- Stamp costs rise to 'keep delivering quality'
- Lucky escape as fairground ride falls apart
17 September
- Pumpkin paddlers punt for vegetable victory
- Sunday league footballer shot in Berlin
- Berlin police 'lied' over neo-Nazi terror info
- One-legged Boris Becker endangers traffic
- Centre-left opposes ban on anti-Islam film
- Merkel: austerity not my idea, not my fault
- VW call in 'Mr Truck' to overtake Daimler
- Teen drinking down - but still high
- Germans less than ecstatic on EU and euro
- Dad, 88, fined for hitting son, 65, with broom
18 September
- Internet Explorer security problems - warning
- Germany's rich get richer despite crisis
- One in ten graduating in Germany is foreign
- WWII bomb blast damages two houses
- Army lures Bravo readers with 'free' trips
- Boozy dieters shed kilos the 'Schrothkur' way
- Germany and Poland: EU needs more democracy
- Beware of poisoned Czech liquor: ministry
- Bundesbank chief stands up to finance minister
- Nearly a third of vertebrate species at risk
19 September
- Shopkeepers worry about Christmas profits
- Dortmund clean up against Ajax Amsterdam
- Kik bought clothes from doomed factory
- Investors confidence up after months of gloom
- Ban on speed camera warnings 'outdated'
- Court sides with Porsche against investors
- Religious offence - hate speech or free speech?
- Cabinet agrees law to reduce drugs in meat
- Graffiti 'florist' fined despite flower fans
- ATM hackers turn to train ticket machines
20 September
- German trains to be made in Poland
- Bayern start Champions League with win
- Hewlett Packard execs face bribery charges
- Thief racks up €300,000 bill on church phone
- Court: Post must deliver neo-Nazi junk mail
- What's on in Germany: September 20 - 26
- Apple truck upset causes sticky situation
- 1 in 7 German children growing up poor
- Catholics to exclude church tax dodgers
- Touts target Oktoberfest table bookings
- Vice-chancellor fights for Vietnamese orphanage
21 September
- Toilet paper thief evades high-tech police hunt
- Magazine pokes fun at Islam video row
- Chinese wood-eating beetles invade Rhineland
- The Local's guide to Oktoberfest
- Deutsche Bank 'to cut thousands of jobs'
- OPEC 1975 terror attack suspect on trial
- Bundesrat overturns '57-second' data law
- iPhone 5 launch day fever in Germany
- Graverobber 'blackmailed woman with son's ashes'
- Upper house approves gender quota
22 September
- German Muslims stage peaceful protest
- Bankrobber granddad spared jail for sick child
- Facebook blinks first over facial recognition
- Frankfurt bounce into history with four wins
- Munich rolls out the barrel for Oktoberfest
- Hundreds face outside showers in water scare
23 September
- Germany's poor count cost of recession
- Interior minister rules out blasphemy law
- Neo-Nazi pepper sprays Polish WWII survivors
- German climber dies in Nepalese avalanche
- Discord overshadows Franco-German harmony
- Schumi spends a penny as F1 mourns doctor
24 September
- Oktoberfest apps impress festival-goers
- Fake pilot sat in cockpit on commercial flight
- EU foreign ministers call for new Iran sanctions
- Four feared dead among house fire wreckage
- Air Force calls for armed Euro-made drones
- Thieves dynamite ATM, blow up bank
- 'Vampire' man sentenced for blood attack
- Local bakeries left with crumbs in bread wars
- Euro rescue of €2 trillion 'an illusion'
- British nuclear fuel rods arrive from Sellafield
25 September
- Accused: jail better than my neighbour
- German killer granny jailed for 21 years in US
- Ryanair plane lands unexpectedly in Berlin
- Women 'still stuck at home with the kids'
- Wage worries feed German consumer jitters
- Schumacher under fire for poor track record
- Finding grace in Alpine avian acrobatics
- Pastor drops dead in front of wedding couple
- Social Democrats declare 'war on the banks'
- Kohl pays historic visit to conservative MPs
26 September
- Drunk survives fall under high-speed train
- New law to set conditions on circumcision
- Two women assaulted at Munich Oktoberfest
- Merkel and Kohl to unite for party and euro
- Breivik's mass murder speech hits the stage
- Berlin underground scares passengers
- Liquidation beckons for Neckermann online
- Granny grabs wheel after driver passes out
- Talent and growth head for the cities
- Job centre employee stabbed to death at work
27 September
- Merkel: stop worrying about Muslims
- BMW to create 3,000 jobs in return for flexibility
- Blood and booze for foreigners at Oktoberfest
- New grandparents 'to have time off work'
- Woman stabs ex to death after he tortures her
- Merkel: I didn't cut corners on nuke waste
- September to end on a damp note
- Hockey team brothel sponsor turns others off
- What's on in Germany: Sept 27 – Oct 3
- Mum 'killed five babies' to keep standard of living
- European Central Bank head will talk with MPs
28 September
- Pretzel factory 'failed hygiene tests'
- Germany looking to China for nursing power
- Germany charges two alleged Russian spies
- Steinbrück: We want to remove this government
- Germany demands parity with France in BAE-EADS
- Airbus 'nearly crashed' when pilots fell ill
- Thousands of school kids 'struck by virus'
- Schumacher to be replaced by Hamilton
- Drivers could save €1,000 a year by ditching cars
- Builders dig up 100,000 D-Marks
29 September
- Court rules Muslim girl must take swim class
- Aldi to start selling more brand names
- German image in US still beer and brats
- German wins ultra marathon in 26 hours
- Beck's resignation over health questioned
30 September
- Berlin 'abandons one million electric cars goal'
- Stuttgart station partly reopens after accident
- German 'grey finance experts' to help Greece
- Kenyan Mutai wins Berlin Marathon
- Afghan situation 'worse than government says'