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

01 February
- World leaders head to Munich for security talks
- Gay chatroom hustler extorts €865,000
- 'Racist' VW Super Bowl ad offends Americans
- High levels of poison found in Rhineland water
- Leftists demand 100 percent tax on the rich
- Minister: EU needs US-style entry database
- Beer, biscuits, Big Brother, and Brüderle
- Daimler to take stake in China's BAIC Motor
- Customs catch Iranian with €54 million cheque
- Zoophiles protest against German bestiality ban
02 February
- Syrian opposition calls for help in Munich
- More Turks in Germany than previously thought
- German wetlands 'nearly all gone'
- President and partner 'have no marriage plans'
- Study: Older, educated Germans fill protests
- Crystal meth usage rising in Germany
03 February
- Syrian opposition meets Russian, US leaders
- Report: EU civil servants make more than Merkel
- Germans grab gold at luge world championship
- Injured Bolshoi director to be treated in Germany
- Report: Expensive family policies don't work
- Mother of neo-Nazi says fair trial unlikely
04 February
- Dads to get joint custody even if mum says no
- Germans will not copy French Google deal
- Germany rejected Ankara bomber's asylum plea
- Thief returns Munich hotel loot 40 years later
- More skilled immigrants 'key' to German success
- Massive profit losses at Commerzbank
- Intimate Bryan Adams photos 'exposed'
- Match-fixing scandal taints Bundesliga
- Bienvenue to The Local in France
- Criminal Cookie Monster to return golden biscuit
- Merkel praises Spanish PM for economic reforms
05 February
- Colombian rebels claim to have German hostages
- German student takes unicycling to the extreme
- Bahn fails to get extra billion for Stuttgart 21
- Church backs morning-after pill for rape victims
- Europe needs local news in the global language
- 'Cookie Monster' returns golden biscuit
- Woman awarded record compensation for rape
- Doc convicted for porn star's deadly boob job
- Bavaria, Hesse challenge aid to poorer states
- Munich Re quadruples profit despite hurricane
- Friedrich: Turkey knew of US embassy bomber
- Education minister loses doctorate for plagiarism
06 February
- 'Everyone thinks they can be a translator'
- Smart car parks itself
- France's Ribery eager to face Bayern team-mates
- Snow and ice snarl road and air traffic
- New in German cinemas this week: 'Quartet'
- Schavan won't resign, fights for doctorate
- ECB to create 2,000 new jobs in Frankfurt
- Obama Berlin visit to recall JFK speech likely
- Steinbrück tells Merkel: Give Greece a chance
- Bank rules will shield consumers from risk
- Woman wins right to sperm donor dad's name
07 February
- Karneval – the glossary
- Karneval – the societies
- Karneval – the history
- Karneval – the schedule
- 'Last' Soderbergh, French divas battle at Berlinale
- The Local’s guide to Karneval
- Classy Germany break French curse
- Football joins Merkel, Hollande on EU budget
- This Week's Highlights: February 7 – 13
- Job centre offers teen work at brothel
- Chilly Karneval kicks off in the Rhineland
- Germans trust political parties least, police most
- Justice minister brushes off drink-driving offence
- Daimler revs up profits on record sales
- Condor claims force court to employ more
- Berliners get Coke to return their sunshine
08 February
- Beckenbauer wants stinky boots for Brazil
- Tegel to get €50m facelift amid Berlin airport delay
- Pro-Steinbrück blog dies after hack attack
- German trade surplus hits five-year high
- Berlinale kicks off with kung fu epic
- ThyssenKrupp to axe 2,000 European steel jobs
- Sperm, snacks, Schavan, and silver screens
- Snow returns with a traffic-halting vengeance
- French more honest taxpayers than Germans
- Berlinale premiers 'Pirate' file-sharing film
- Merkel joins Cameron to push EU to trim budget
09 February
- All eyes on election date set for September
- RAF investigates Berlin child sex abuse charge
- Matt Damon's fracking film bombs at Berlinale
- Munich officer broke woman's nose in cell
- Schavan resigns amid plagiarism affair
- German voters 'won't accept' Asian politician
10 February
- Shock win for Hamburg drags Dortmund down
- Women still 'much poorer' than partners
- Germany and UK to recreate WWI footie truce
- Red face for Green head who high-fived Iran rep
- Teenage love-biter forced on sex crime register
- Opposition up in arms over Saudi weapons deal
11 February
- Archbishop Meisner sees growing 'Catholic-phobia'
- Hooligan violence mars German football matches
- 'There is an urgent desire for social change'
- Online Merkel death threat video removed
- Socialists back 30-hour workweek initiative
- Prospects for German economy brightening
- Germany's Pope Benedict to step down
- Rosenmontag parades mark Karneval climax
- Kaiser's pulls frozen lasagnes for testing
- Bavaria to revamp post-war politics college
12 February
- Colombian kidnappers 'may be ready to release'
- 50,000 students change password after hack
- Conservatives 'should be glad' gays want to marry
- Steel demand slumps, ThyssenKrupp suffers
- Hawke and Delpy meet up again 'Before Midnight'
- Germany: UN must mull North Korea sanctions
- 'Benedict's resignation was his biggest reform'
- Axel Springer launches tech startup accelerator
- Knut's real fur used for new museum statue
- Probe into Porsche stock manipulation widens
- Pope's exit saddens Bavarian hometown
13 February
- Iran director Panahi makes cry for freedom
- Germans unwilling to take pay cut to work less
- Pig farmers ignore EU animal protection laws
- Neo-Nazis to march as Dresden marks bombing
- New in German cinemas: 'A Good Day to Die Hard'
- Minority chancellor a 'problem' for many voters
- MP demands fine for parents of drunk teens
- Berlin praises Obama's US-EU free trade plan
- Horse meat scandal spreads to Germany
- Bank gave rate-fixer €80 million bonus in crisis
14 February
- Lifetime award for Holocaust film director
- 'I love the independent spirit in Bremen'
- This Week's Highlights: February 14 – 20
- Bikes and body hair - German Valentine tips
- German economy set for rebound after contraction
- Hamburgers can now vote at age 16
- Supermarkets find horse meat in lasagne
- Deutsche Bahn sues train builder over faults
- Strikes at Hamburg and Rhineland airports
- German-Czech alliance fights crystal meth surge
15 February
- River Phoenix haunts last movie 20 years on
- Germany picks Glorious song as Eurovision entry
- Cologne-Bonn, Hamburg airports hit by strikes
- 'Cookie Monster' gang admits biscuit heist
- Frankfurt gallery opens Yoko Ono retrospective
- Horses, bears and Ratz
- Amazon accused of abusing Christmas staff
- HIV man loses restaurant loan 'for own protection'
- Vatican bank appoints German head
- Commerzbank slashes employee bonuses
16 February
- Bayern secure Liga lead with Wolfsburg win
- Two German firms in top ten of 'design thieves'
- Frankfurter invents what others 'forgot to make'
- Older women make a mark on Berlinale
- Germany, France, UK: big firms must pay tax
- Blue Card work permit scheme attracts 4,000
- Coalition split over financial transaction tax
17 February
- Romanian film wins Golden Bear prize
- 'Shark skin' jets cut fuel consumption
- Germans place fourth for gun ownership
- 20,000 problems plague new Berlin airport
- Germany wants Amazon working conditions probe
- Tonnes of horse meat shipped to Germany
18 February
- Nuremberg pull Hannover to late draw
- 'Don't act German or conform to German ways'
- Berlin teachers start public sector strike
- Top bishop expects new morning-after pill rules
- Shifts and nights replace nine-to-five for Germans
- Germany returns to growth in 2013
- Probe into possible Eurovision plagiarism
- TV fees: Is Germany getting its money worth?
- Winter will be 'darkest on record' in Germany
- Amazon sacks security firm amid scandal
- 'A pioneer and legend in the German retail world'
19 February
- Fake police hunt stresses ad gag victims
- Gauck: neo-Nazi victims must not be forgotten
- Iran slams Berlinale prize for dissident Panahi
- Union calls more public workers out on strike
- Aigner warns horse meat scandal may grow
- Justice Minister: relax dual citizenship law
- Germany approves 330 troops for Mali
- High court strengthens gay adoption rights
- Investor sentiment rises to three-year high
- Banks block Iranian students' accounts
- Ibrahimovic: 'If I go to Germany, it's to Bayern'
20 February
- Biking for free in Berlin
- Hamburg Airport strike cancels over 100 flights
- Police bust massive property fraud scheme
- New in German cinemas: 'Les Misérables'
- SAP founder Plattner joins billionaire giveaway
- Lufthansa orders new jets amid job cuts
- Row holds up child abuse compensation
- Five teens held after sexual attack at party
- Watchdog probes Amazon's pricing policy
- Beloved children's author Otfried Preußler dies
- Merkel says fracking Germany not easy
21 February
- Youth custody for lovesick teen shooter
- This Week's Highlights: February 21 – 27
- Neo-Nazis blamed for stunting east Germany
- Strikes hit Cologne-Bonn, Düsseldorf airports
- Cheap toothpaste 'as good as brand-name'
- SAP billionaire defies Bill Gates over donation
- Merkel urges European Parliament to ok budget
- Allianz more than doubles net profit in 2012
- Iggy Pop's top song 'a hymn to Berlin's trains'
- Royalties agency GEMA kills off senior tea dance
- EU Parliament chief warns Italy off Berlusconi
- Catholics back morning- after pill for rape victims
22 February
- 'Munich is still just a village for many people'
- Snow returns as spring seems far, far away
- Smoking ban cuts heart attacks and strokes
- Saudi Arabia tops German arms trade list
- Business confidence hits 10-month high
- FDP: being SOBs makes us popular on Twitter
- German cinema's top Oscar moments
- Amazon, gay adoption, Eurovision, and GEMA
- Gauck seeks to quell Europe's German fears
- Theatre makes a drama out of national identity
- Charities say 'neigh' to feeding horse to the poor
23 February
- CDU MP calls France Europe's 'problem child'
- Sunny spring to make good for current gloom
- Germans know better but still eat lots of fast food
- Flu infections run rampant in Bavaria
- Conservatives reverse on gay marriage equality
- Job vacancies reach record high
24 February
- Berlinale winner returns to poverty at home
- Sceptical Merkel wants Turkey-EU talks
- US firms often fail to understand Germany
- Internet shopping not always greener
- German firms see rising Chinese cyber attacks
- Hannover blonde crowned Miss Germany
- Horse meat scandal traced to Poland
25 February
- Defence minister tells soldiers 'stop whining'
- Prosecutors crack 'systematic egg fraud'
- Neo-Nazi party loses public funding
- 'Germans care about good work-life balance'
- Berlin urges Cyprus to pursue bailout talks
- Smartphone 'air-writing' glove wins Google prize
- Greens to push dual citizenship issue
- Princess pulls Spanish King into royal scandal
- Shrinking school pays €500 for new pupils
- Merkel: Turkey's EU bid must be kept 'on track'
26 February
- 'Europe will fail without a common narrative'
- Greenhouse gases rise as Germany burns coal
- How divided Berlin forged Kerry's world view
- Police raid child abuse suspects nationwide
- Germany says Italy must reform despite deadlock
- Berlin Wall to be torn down for luxury flats
- Ministers reach cautious fracking agreement
- Wind park building noise 'can kill porpoises'
- Politicians stick by Stuttgart 21 despite polls
- Education 'protects against unemployment'
27 February
- Dortmund out to shatter Bayern's 'perfect' season
- Nostalgia stokes demand for East German brands
- Germany moves to dilute criticized 'Google law'
- New in German cinemas: ‘Hansel and Gretel’
- Berlin politicians stop birth reality TV show
- German sailors in suspected racist mutiny
- Getting fat under stress 'the healthy option'
- New rules 'open door' to skilled foreigners
- BMW and Audi top Consumer Reports list
- Italy's president snubs Steinbrück over 'clowns'
28 February
- Germany groans at Italian 'anti-Merkel' vote
- Deutsche Telekom 'lost billions' in 2012
- 'Austrians have humour, Germans not so much'
- Bayern top dog after downing Dortmund
- EU tells Germany: clean up filthy city air
- Conservative Frankfurt paper saves lefty rival
- German joblessness falls to five-month low
- This week's highlights: February 28 – March 3
- Study: Pessimists live longer, healthier lives
- German Catholics bid farewell to their pope