📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2013 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- What’s new in 2013
- Germany dusts off chimney sweeping job
- More than a million ring in New Year’s in Berlin
- Three die in huge crash south of Ulm
- Tech glitch prematurely publishes Bush obit
- Father of school shooter sues son’s clinic
02 January
- Neureuther wins parallel slalom in Munich
- Bollywood goes berserk for German actress
- Doctors manipulate Leipzig organ donor list
- Industry chops big political donations
- Truck driver flees scene of fatal A1 accident
- Neo-Nazis infiltrate community sports clubs
- Germans wrap up to keep warm at home
- Record number of Germans working
- Huge health survey taps 200,000 for key data
- Daimler snubs coolant after explosive tests
03 January
- Trade guilds tell students: be practical
- Weather systems seek Victor, Volker or Vincent
- A third of volunteer military recruits drop out
- What's on in Germany: January 3 - 9
- The 'perfect flesh' of Helene Fischer
- Women in west fill 'misogynistic' mini-jobs
- Fastest postie charged for being too quick
- 2012 natural disasters cost €122 billion
- Most Germans want Britain to stay in EU
- Thierse 'drags Berlin debate to a new low'
04 January
- Greater green zones ban more gas guzzlers
- One in four Germans has moved for work
- Minister: 'Give children the vote'
- Budget balance demands billions more in cuts
- Tax payers 'could save up to €240' in 2013
- Nuclear power will 'never return' to Germany
- Collectors dub new stamp 'ugliest ever'
- DNA solves cold case months after killer dies
- A month of rain to soak the south this weekend
05 January
- Germany deploys Patriot missiles to Turkey
- New sandy bird island rises off North Sea coast
- North Korea seeks German economic advice
- Bigger vineyards 'a threat' to German wine
- Steinbrück defends low wage Chancellor remark
- Row over 'anti-Semitic' journalist escalates
06 January
- Iraq's PM recovers well in Germany
- A million migrating fish climb largest ladder
- 25,000 evacuated in Hannover bomb disposal
- Centenarian monk injured in monastery fire
- New technology turns leaves to coal in hours
- Embattled Rösler tries to rally sinking FDP
07 January
- New calendar puts men in pants on groovy cars
- Detective: Aldi spies on staff private lives
- Top texter Merkel not aflutter about Twitter
- New Berlin airport delay forces mayor from board
- Air Berlin waves goodbye to CEO Mehdorn
- German iguana-smuggler caught in Galapagos
- China eyes Daimler stake
- Disgraced ex-president Wulff splits from wife
- German bigotry shifting from race to religion
- Teacher wins snowball fight injury legal battle
08 January
- 'Dinner Exchange' serves trash for tea
- 40 years of German Sesame Street
- Bavaria and Hesse want to pay other states less
- German reporter faces sabotage in China
- NRW drivers spent 50,000 hours in traffic jams
- Organ donations drop after corruption claims
- David Bowie releases Berlin song on birthday
- Greek PM to Merkel: 'we are making sacrifices'
- Exports crack €1-trillion despite euro crisis
- 'Some Germans want a second Holocaust'
09 January
- Cyber Cyrano saves woeful web wooers
- Court eases lockdown on neo-Nazi terrorist
- Catholic Church thwarts child abuse investigation
- Merkel rides high as partner FDP nose-dives
- Russian shoppers drop in on Dresden for Christmas
- Daughter says Klaus Kinski raped her
- Truck crashes into bus stop injuring five children
- Industry bounces back slightly amid weak Q4
- Cologne Cathedral gets bad vibrations
10 January
- What's on in Germany: January 10 – 16
- Immigrant workers 'paid less' than native peers
- Berlin sees world's first Scorsese exhibition
- Minced pork declared 'ticking time bomb'
- Airport debacle hurts 'Made in Germany' brand
- Dawn raids target Rhineland burglary gang
- Firms and disabled slam new TV licence fee
- BMW and Audi race to record sales in 2012
- Winter's weekend return to banish balmy temps
- 'Language doesn't matter - kids are all the same'
- Simon Rattle to quit Berlin Philharmonic
- One dead as helicopter crashes on autobahn
11 January
- Making silicone soulmates
- 94-year-old escapes hospital for birthday beer
- Steinbrück's approval ratings collapse
- FDP woes, Berlin's wonky airport and Mettwurst
- ThyssenKrupp paid for plush trade unionist trips
- Nastassja Kinski 'proud' of sister revealing abuse
- GEMA demands YouTube pay €1.6 mln in damages
- Merkel to Cyprus: Keep reforms on track
- Jude Law, Soderbergh head for Berlinale
- Man sues teflon oven tray firm over dead parrots
12 January
- Britain to Germany: EU must change to keep us
- Signs warn drivers of wrong direction
- Minister: more diplomacy to solve Mali conflict
- Wowi survives vote despite BER debacle
- New rules to ban secret spying on staff
- Police catch teen runaway in dad's Merc
13 January
- Analysts: German downturn won't last
- Scandal as rapper posts anti-Israel map
- Thierse welcomes Swabians after hate mail
- GM head: Opel in for two troubled years
- Doctors' group admits widespread corruption
- Lack of evidence may prevent ex-President trial
14 January
- Hunters raise alarm as raccoon invasion spreads
- Gottschalk 'cashed in on secret TV advert deals'
- VW's record sales cannot overtake Toyota
- Hitler Youth songs found on Christmas carol CD
- Christoph Waltz triumphs at Golden Globes
- Germany mulls ways to help France in Mali
- Thieves dig 30-metre tunnel to rob bank
- Immigration boosts population in 2012
- Murdoch owns majority of German Sky
- Germany braces for steady snowfall all week
15 January
- Staid Mercedes targets youth with small coupe
- 'Sausages are a really big deal in Nuremberg'
- Growth slumps in 2012 as Q4 economy shrinks
- French and Germans still stereotype each other
- Alleged Russian spy couple in 'Cold War' trial
- 'Victim subscription' worst phrase of 2012
- 1860 Munich hires Sven-Goran Eriksson
- Berlin Swabians hit back with noodle attack
- Bundesbank to repatriate gold from Paris and NYC
- Public holidays do not count for shift workers
16 January
- Merkel rules out German combat troops in Mali
- Gauck: Refugees offer hope for German future
- Surfers want to make waves in Berlin
- Lidl pays €1.5m for deadly cheese delay
- Support for Social Democrats slides further
- Germany slashes 2013 growth forecast to 0.4 pct
- Centuries-old shipwrecks emerge from sandbank
- Icy roads cause widespread traffic chaos
- Japanese-Dutch partners tie windparks to Germany
- Bayern score big with ex-Barca boss Guardiola
17 January
- Men take on more household shopping
- Court fines British bishop for Holocaust denial
- Playing the Jewish card in Germany
- Lower Saxony poll kicks off key year for Merkel
- Telekom cuts 1,200 jobs in reshuffle
- What's on in Germany: January 17 – 23
- Germans hunting Mr or Ms Right not having kids
- Now Berlin airport won't open before 2015
- Kid traps grandpa on freezing Munich balcony
- Fine for first Rhineland wolf kill since 1879
- Bundesbank axes advice over death penalty
18 January
- Rare vintage posters up for sale in US auction
- Tiny Saarland has the most guns per capita
- McAllister: 'I'm happy to be Merkel's Mac'
- Security strike causes Hamburg Airport delays
- Cops spied on each other to nab loo roll thief
- Spies, Sponsors, Sport, and Spätzle
- ThyssenKrupp halves pay after losses
- Dutch invade German borderlands for beer
- Catholic hospitals refused rape victim help
- Commerzbank 'ready to cut 6,500 jobs'
19 January
- Germany top destination for foreign investment
- Deep freeze returns
- Eriksson refuses 1860 Munich coaching job
- Jail term for neo-Nazi protestor sparks outcry
- Ikea's record sales lead to expansion
- Tunnel bank raid possibly an inside job
20 January
- Megaupload mogul starts anew despite legal woes
- Merkel's future tied to Lower Saxony vote
- Racist terms in children's books divide Germans
- Ramsauer under fire for handling of Berlin airport
- Wintry weather cancels flights in Frankfurt
- High rate of Caesarian births questioned
- Lower Saxony poll turns into cliffhanger
- SPD/Greens win Lower Saxony by one seat
21 January
- Germany still supports foreign nuclear power
- Winter weather chaos hits air and land travel
- Rösler safe after wrong-footing FDP rival
- Berlin zoo head cagey over sexism allegations
- 'This is Rösler's chance to resign with dignity'
- German skier dies in Swiss Alps avalanche
- Coke staff strike over bottled up frustration
- It's official: Facebook makes you miserable
- Study: banks expect bad luck in 2013
22 January
- 'Life would be difficult if I didn't speak any German'
- Franco-German ties feted amid euro crisis
- Smoking rules start to stub out the cigs
- Six billion tonnes of snow smother Germany
- SPD win grants majority to mess with Merkel
- Nearly a third of Germans fail their driving test
- Investor confidence highest in years
- Hannover 96 bemused by Brazilian's missing 9 cm
- Opel could shut Bochum plant two years early
- French have more dogs, live longer than Germans
23 January
- Live pigsty film provokes fury at 'animal hell'
- Football fans heat up stadium security debate
- Rare white porpoise sighted in German waters
- Two years jail for man who enslaved teen
- Turkish mob threatens German soldiers
- Siemens earnings and orders dip in first quarter
- Berlin wants UK in EU but rejects cherry-picking
- Plagiarism case against education minister starts
- First German to trek to South Pole returns
- Bundesliga clubs crack €2-billion barrier
24 January
- 'I am not a bad person'
- Airport security strike hits Cologne, Düsseldorf
- Russian star to lead Munich Philharmonic
- What's on in Germany: January 24 – 30
- Commerzbank to axe 4,000-6,000 jobs by 2016
- Terrorist fears undo planned Berlin flight path
- BMW expands greentech cooperation with Toyota
- Eradicating racism from German children's books
- Russian day care on graveyard sparks outrage
- FDP demands flat-rate cut to all ministries
25 January
- Polls, pets, plagiarism, and prejudiced prefixes
- Germans urgently warned to leave Benghazi
- Germany to buy first armed drones
- Airport strikes shut down Cologne and Düsseldorf
- Court rules internet access a basic right
- Business confidence at seven-month high
- Expert: Neo-Nazi terror gang had more members
- MP's 'dirndl' quip sparks sexism debate
- Soros: German austerity could spark currency war
- Al-Qaeda members jailed
26 January
- 'Brixit' talk sparks Anglo-German tabloid love-in
- Police stumped by Bahlsen biscuit mystery
- Dortmund storm into second in Bundesliga
- Elite soldiers 'growing left breasts'
- Germany to get 20C warmer in two days
- Politicians warn against more defence cuts
27 January
- Leverkusen ground to 0-0 by gritty Freiburg
- Merkel: Holocaust guilt is 'everlasting'
- Wintry weather hits dozens of flights
- Grown men shiver in cold to be in Clooney film
- Rio gives Carnival a Teutonic touch
- FDP celebrate under-fire election candidate
28 January
- 'Bonn is such a relaxed, laid-back place'
- Winning Bayern 'still need to up their game'
- Bavarian conservatives: Cameron is right on vote
- Clooney baffles Berliner by paying dinner bill
- 'House of doom' sees nine die in 15 years
- English uni would attract best brains to Berlin
- Old lady stuck on eighth floor for three months
- Cyprus: German politics and 'envy' hurt bailout
- Star-studded Berlinale to explore crisis fallout
- Daimler teams up with competition for fuel cells
29 January
- Cult members jailed for child abuse in Chile
- Bill Gates: Finance tax should aid world's poor
- German stirs up Israeli TV cooking show
- Bremen space team prepares comet landing
- Police raid paper HQ for forum user's details
- Security officials warn of growing terror threat
- Consumer confidence edges up slightly
- Pressure rises to return art stolen by Nazis
- German workers feel more stressed
- Video artist feels the Techno Viking's wrath
30 January
- Sperm whales adopt kinky dolphin
- YouTube puts Germany into digital dark ages
- Hitler's rise to power remembered 80 years on
- Lower Saxony win boosts SPD and Greens
- Germans lose their thirst for beer
- Criminal Cookie Monster blackmails biscuit firm
- Strong winds to blow Germany into February
- Your guide to all things German
- Most Germans think fat cats get too much cream
- All of The Local's Germans of the Week.
- E.ON say profits hit by tricky conditions
- Merkel: Egypt must talk with opposition
31 January
- New in cinemas this week: 'Zero Dark Thirty'
- Eight wriggly white lions and tigers greet world
- 'A CV will get thrown out if not in German style'
- Germany aims to protect consumer bank deposits
- Berlin to refuel French jets for Mali mission
- This Week's Highlights: January 31 – February 6
- The Local's My German Career archive
- Farm inferno kills herd of 86 camels
- Police bust fraudster family faking car crashes
- Deutsche Bank bleeds hefty losses
- Job market remains resilient despite crisis
- More Germans than ever take early retirement
- Neo-Nazi faces 10 murder accomplice charges