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

01 November
- Scientists induce temporary Tourette's
- Drunk but alert: students brew caffeine beer
- What's on in Germany: November 1 – 7
- Ballack: I'm too poor to pay speeding fine
- Organ donor law starts as interest flatlines
- Office staff must get expert to open windows
- German cops bust international drug ring
- Halloween sweet thefts keep cops busy
- Dynamo Dresden face fines after fans riot
- Opel cuts thousands of jobs across Germany
- Marks and Spencer takes on German market
02 November
- FM: Mali's stability important to Europe
- German Taliban 'put off by dirt and violence'
- UN: immigrant women need better protection
- Sex party charges hit insurance managers
- Indian schools introduce German lessons
- Ballack fires 'I'm too poor for fine' lawyer
- November kicks off with wind and rain
- Domestic abuse fight takes shape online
- ThyssenKrupp wins billion-euro factory deal
- Supermarkets put up milk prices by 20 pc
03 November
- Italian crisis helps German property buyers
- Insurance will save late airport's managers
- War refugee becomes British - after 70 years
- Merkel: we will meet green energy goals
- Hundreds of doctors 'sold unapproved drug'
- Teen admits killing convicted sex abuser
04 November
- Neo-Nazi terror gang trauma still raw a year on
- Bayern bounce back after last week's defeat
- No more Merck cancer drug for Greek hospitals
- Deutsche Bank talks austerity in posh hotel
- Munich-Berlin train 'will soon take four hours'
- Extradition trials delay Berlin killing charges
05 November
- Leverkusen fourth in Liga after Düsseldorf win
- Merkel visits Cameron for EU talks
- Coalition strikes election benefits deal
- Tom Hanks slates top German TV show
- 'America may not see it but Obama's a visionary'
- Starbucks has 'never paid German income tax'
- Green official stole to fund prostitute affairs
- Hesse acts to recruit Spanish carers
- Cash and vouchers top German present list
- Russian mafia 'would win from Cyprus bailout'
06 November
- Bunny escapes nasty compost bin death
- Merkel: I believe in God, religion is my companion
- Germany and UK: close corporate tax loopholes
- Accidentally stolen bodies return to Germany
- 'Voting is a responsibility'
- Authorities fear parents could sue for day care
- Huge drug import 'was sparked by police'
- Air Berlin sues over new airport delay
- Man who beheaded wife: 'I thought I was Jesus'
- Fink keen to keep rising star Son at HSV
07 November
- Schalke strike back to draw with Arsenal
- Merkel, German MPs congratulate Obama
- High profits for insurer despite Sandy claims
- Obama could be 'one of the great presidents'
- All the US wants from Germany - fix the euro
- Teen locked up for killing 11-year-old girl
- Belgian Ford workers storm Cologne factory
- Germany wins record number of Michelin stars
- EADS offices raided in corruption probe
- Court: okay to sweep neo-Nazi from public job
08 November
- Teen horror mask killer to serve ten years
- Bayern bash lowly Lille
- Is Germany returning to service dark ages?
- Banana skin slip stops steak knife stabbing
- What's on in Germany: November 8 – 14
- Plea bargains 'could warp German justice'
- German giants post feeble figures
- Holocaust animal rights campaign ban upheld
- Frankfurt cops in focus after 'racist attack'
- 'Third Nazi terrorist' charged; trial in spring
- No quick fix for Greece, warns Schäuble
09 November
- Nearly one in ten Germans cannot pay bills
- Goalie's suicide 'helped to change attitudes'
- Eastern Germans 'still shut out from elite'
- Not much blue sky on the horizon for Germany
- Steinbrück's money 'hurts party's chances'
- Olympic hero in doghouse over shooting
- Budget 'full of tricks' banned to Greeks
- Germany exports 'more energy than ever'
- Changes to custody law spark controversy
- Stricter rules mean no pony for St Martin
10 November
- Incontinence is 'secret widespread ailment'
- Palace loses historic wood to recycling firm
- German rare violin dealer jailed for fraud
- German economy to be overtaken by 2060
- Germany to offer Syrian Christians asylum
11 November
- 'Bayern are unplayable,' says defeated coach
- German firms brace for tough 2013
- Leading Hindu priest attacked at home
- Minister reveals power line investment plan
- Police puzzle over factory shooting spree
- Baby food maker pulls 'misleading' tea
12 November
- Holland loom large as Germany shed stars
- Public funds '17 cars' for three ex-chancellors
- Minister: civilian Afghan flight is 'progress'
- 'Hitler connection' stops Bavarian music award
- Car parks 'too dark, expensive and narrow'
- Main parties start tug-of-war for Greens
- Portuguese teddy bear makers plead with Merkel
- 'One in six' east Germans think like neo-Nazis
- Council replaces 'NSU' terror gang car plates
- Tax men raid hundreds of homes
13 November
- It's your funeral - burial culture changes
- Germany gets on UN Human Rights Council
- Church bans 9-year-old's football gravestone
- Hamburg's deal with Muslims sparks concerns
- US mag prints list of 'top 10 German generals'
- Anti-austerity strikes hit European train services
- German cash dries up for desert solar project
- Lufthansa makes deal with cabin crews
- Disabled man barred from loo over safety fears
- Man finds roasted pig's head in pram
14 November
- Toxic breast implant case reaches German court
- Mayor convicted of faking arson attack
- Neo-Nazi party seeks legitimacy in court
- Seven injured in fight at Libyan embassy
- Police clear forest camp for coal excavation
- German unions voice solidarity with strikes
- Far fewer caesareans in former East Germany
- Bank accounts emptied by phone Trojan
- Fifth head rolls in NSU investigation affair
- 'Catch Me If You Can' con man stands trial
15 November
- Germany hold the Dutch to goalless draw
- Bosses can demand sick note from day one
- Munich blackout hits 450,000 people
- GM 'scraps Opel - Peugeot Citroen merger'
- Teacher-student sex ban to be tightened
- Mother 'kills three children before car crash'
- What's on in Germany: November 15 – 21
- Greeks throw coffee and eggs at German consul
- 'Cuddle hormone' could keep men faithful
- Electricity bills to take record hike in January
- More Greeks, Spanish moving to Germany
16 November
- Holocaust compensation reaches eastern Europe
- Parents not liable if kids download illegally
- Kids ill after 'refusing to use smelly school loos'
- Goose carnage as fog engulfs Germany
- 'Leave town' police tell pair harrassed by Nazis
- Green official was 'pimp as well as fraudster'
- Merkel blames Hamas for Gaza Strip violence
- 'Kidnapped' French teen found in car boot
- Merkel to Putin - Pussy Riot jail sentence unfair
- Ikea: sorry for East German prison labour
17 November
- German soldiers 'ready to defend Turkish border'
- Mine protester pulled out of tunnel after four days
- Did 1977 'goal of century' beat Zlatan's?
- Phone firms told to halve 'other network' charges
- Gauck: see the human cost of our luxuries
- Porn-actor teacher moved to new school
18 November
- Six die in four-car autobahn pile-up
- Bayern Munich 'content with 1-1 Nuremberg draw'
- Breivik claims Zschäpe as fellow martyr
- Greens hand party leaders solid re-election
- Experts fear shortage of 'unprofitable' cancer drug
- Ex-president 'gave bad info to corruption probe'
19 November
- Mother-of-ten dead in church: husband held
- Farmers prepare for EU subsidy cuts
- Investors spy big bucks in day-care crunch
- Man refuses food over welfare cuts
- Opposition demand vote on missiles for Turkey
- Wolves close in on Berlin
- Man 'held for years over paranoia that was right'
- Quarter of German firms 'cutting jobs in 2013'
- 'Ice cream parlour killer' chopped up two men
- Bus driver 'made €200,000' on fake tickets
20 November
- Schalke 'ready for victory over Olympiakos'
- Germany to extradite 'girl in boot' kidnap suspect
- Iranian police arrest man who 'mutilated girlfriend'
- Firms 'tweak formulas temporarily for ratings'
- Palestinians: Germany too biased for diplomacy
- National gun register poised for 2013 launch
- German film on music in torture wins Emmy
- Schäuble: don't panic on French economy
- Protesters occupy Berlin bear compound
- 'Racy' song upsets Kiwis in national German exam
21 November
- Germans build more homes in shadow of euro
- Police offer reward for motorway shooter
- Court: church employees can strike - mostly
- Bayern get just enough from Valencia draw
- Financial Times Deutschland to fold
- Merkel: Greek bailout deal possible on Monday
- New European rocket to be Ariane 5 upgrade
- School kids 'suffer from stress too early'
- Headmaster fined for playing golf on duty
- Boy, 11, disappears after stealing parents' van
22 November
- Siemens cuts woman who broke glass ceiling
- Fuchs strike fires Schalke into next round
- Minister seeks go-ahead for Turkey missiles
- What's on in Germany: November 22 - 28
- Cops: 'Mafia-style killing' was complex suicide
- Hospital sex abuse claim 'just the latest'
- Expellee Federation admits Nazi past
- New fears, same desires: refugees then and now
- Rain, fog but no ice in sight
- Ant-man ruins house with poison bombs
- Merkel, Hollande to meet before EU summit
- Swallowing anger really does make you ill
23 November
- Bearded baby bouncers on the rise
- Merkel dampens hopes for EU budget deal
- Leading Catholic: Let priests have sex
- Brezel ban for bug-ridden Bavarian bakery
- Invasive ladybirds 'could fight malaria and TB'
- Firms to be paid to take on long-term jobless
- Financial Times Deutschland closes
- Bundesrat blocks Swiss-German tax deal
- Naked sledging race nipped in the bud
- Frankfurt airport deploys full-body scanners
24 November
- Merkel keeps UK close as EU budget talks fail
- Germans gay about sexy Shakespeare sonnets
- Bahn runs on thin ICE as Siemens delays trains
- Neo-Nazi arson victims remembered 20 years on
- Police: Sex workers too well-behaved to ban
- Hamburg suffer defeat, injury, fire, evacuation
25 November
- Party conference leaves Pirates groggy
- Protest makes noise for night flight ban
- Klinsmann considering taking US citizenship
- Liberal fraternities lose battle with far-right
- Dog finds giant scorpion on Munich street
- Schumacher: No regrets at last Grand Prix
26 November
- Germany plans to ban bestiality
- Merkel soothes Jewish ire over circumcision row
- Vettel takes Formula One crown in São Paulo
- Man sets pregnant wife on fire in cafe
- English 'YOLO' voted top German youth word
- Germany attracts better-educated immigrants
- Berlin firmly against debt 'haircut' for Greece
- Neo-Nazi Zschäpe breaks silence in jail
- Wind, cold, snow herald start of winter
- Wary consumers still splash cash at Christmas
- Fire kills 14 at workshop for disabled people
27 November
- Woman ordered to learn German after 30 years
- Hard work is pointless, young poor reckon
- Doctor appeals French teen killing over kidnap
- Hungry boys panic, jump through store window
- Santa's helpers await Christmas wish lists
- Google searches for web copyright bill opponents
- Germans set to confirm Greek aid Thursday
- Fear of power grid collapse grows
- Gas leak blamed for deadly Black Forest blaze
- Barracks and boats eyed for student housing
- Düsseldorf mayor launches 'friendly' logo
28 November
- 1-1 draw for Dortmund and Düsseldorf
- Behind the Christmas market holiday sparkle
- Duisburg shuts down for WWII bomb detonation
- Murder squad probes Hells Angel death
- Should trains become booze-free zones?
- Bavaria unearths cash for new Munich train tunnel
- Government 'massaged' poverty report
- US court halts AP split from DAPD news agency
- Corruption watchdog barks at German inaction
- Germany will not support Palestine at UN
29 November
- What's on in Germany: Nov 29 – Dec 5
- Berlin airport building stops over cash woes
- Greek court clears three of German counsel attack
- Following the Brothers Grimm fairy trail
- Snow onslaught begins
- HypoVereinsbank raided by police for tax fraud
- Businesses call for email-free Christmas
- Unemployment edges higher in November
- Legless Dachau court killer faces life in prison
- Court: Tattoos no reason to arrest cop career
30 November
- Bayern clashes with BVB in German 'Clasico'
- Musicians play with brainwaves in tune
- Wintry conditions wreak road havoc
- Runaway train cars crash into Stuttgart station
- 'UN Palestinian upgrade no danger for Israel'
- Struggling with Berlin's artsy hype
- Parliament approves €43.7 billion for Greece
- Siemens light bulb unit to cut 4,700 jobs
- Retailer Metro sells eastern unit for €1.1 bln
- State considers forced HIV and hepatitis tests
- Humanity's 'greatest treasures' move to Bonn