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

01 June
- New law reignites debate over 'baby hatches'
- European Central Bank turns 15 in Frankfurt
- Britain urges German help for EU reforms
- Anti-austerity protesters march in Frankfurt
02 June
- Bayern win Cup final to earn historic treble
- Berlin company counts on the autistic
- Mexico and Germany to ratify UN arms treaty
- Klinsmann's US squad faces familiar Germany
- Merkel opposes giving EU wider powers
- Thousands cheer rainy Bayern treble party
03 June
- Merkel to tour areas devastated by floods
- 'We are a team despite national differences'
- Dempsey scores two as USA down Germany
- German drone nearly hits Afghan airbus
- Law change kills 63-letter longest German word
- German students 'too stressed out for love'
- Fewer workers have union-agreed wages
- Farmers cannot tend crops in soggy fields
- Berlin judge declares Jonny K murder mistrial
- Germany urges calm in Turkey after clashes
- IMF trims German 2013 growth forecast
04 June
- Merkel ally faces heat for drone 'debacle'
- Merkel pledges €100 million in flood aid
- BASF to invest €10 bln in Asia-Pacific region
- Americans leave their hearts in Heidelberg
- One in four children smacked by parents
- Conservatives question pink prison cells
- Truck maker MAN warns of falling profit
- Software finds faces in the world's folds
- Police bust human trafficking ring open
- Westerwelle 'outraged' at Egyptian court ruling
05 June
- New in German cinemas: ‘Before Midnight’
- Bill Gates backs Berlin science start-up
- Germany puts fracking on back burner
- Uni switches to feminine professor titles for men
- The Local launches Italy's news in English
- Part-time work 'makes men ill'
- Eastern German cities brace for flood wave
- Before and after: Seven flooded German towns
- Germany's Rösler fears EU-China trade war
- Accomplice admits to getting NSU murder gun
- Obama's Berlin speech follows JFK and Reagan
06 June
- Ballack attracts 50,000 to farewell match
- German holidaymakers take top spot in tipping
- Immigrant families shun German nurseries
- Tax equality for gay German couples
- German floods 'likely to cost billions'
- Sandbag volunteers: 'You have to help'
- Puma signs Bangladesh factory safety pact
- Scales of justice: mackerel mafiosi jailed
- 'Germany needs moral guidance of a monarchy'
- Germany slams Turkish violence as 'shocking'
07 June
- 'Stuttgart even has cricket teams'
- Merkel praises flood fighting efforts
- Experts warn mosquito plague to follow floods
- Topless women protest outside Merkel's office
- Deggendorf devastated: Danube floods town
- Berlin's 'forest boy' charged with fraud
- Outlook brightens as German trade picks up
- Key German exports eclipsed by China
- Northern Germany races to repel flood surge
- Minister: time to throw out illegal immigrants
08 June
- Egypt deports German Islamist preacher
- Afghan helpers threaten Kunduz base blockade
- Guards under suspicion after Rabbi attack
- Minister: At least 50 Germans fighting in Syria
- Flood wave spreads across eastern Germany
- Cops kill 73-year-old in police station
09 June
- Bayern can be the new Spain, says captain
- Army chief-of-staff: minister could sack me
- Bavarian gives random kid wife's alimony
- Germany to fast-track gay marriage law
- Unknowns threaten to attack flood dams
- Germany expands EU small business scheme
10 June
- Porsche 911 gracefully races into middle age
- Germany steps up flooding evacuations
- Student dives 700 times in 24 hours
- 'Germans don't take their work home'
- South begins cleanup as waters recede
- Guardiola perfecting his German for Bayern
- Struggling Merkel rival Steinbrück fires PR man
- One in four Germans work in low-wage sector
- ECB official: German court could sink euro
- Flooded Germany to see sunny respite
11 June
- Aachen Cathedral
- Germans import an Indian splash of colour
- Census shows 700,000 German flats lack loos
- WWII bomber raised from watery English grave
- Banker transfers millions by napping on keyboard
- Poorer pensioners forced to work into 70's
- Germany exposed as 'Europe's biggest brothel'
- North bears brunt of deadly floods
- German court scrutinizes ECB's bond buying
- 'We must learn to give rivers space'
- Germany seeks answers from US for NSA spying
12 June
- Historic centres of Stralsund and Wismar
- Biscuit-maker unamused by golden cookie theft
- German authorities worry about growing Salafism
- Berlin begins costly palace reconstruction
- Nine weird German weather phenomena
- CSU politicians threaten to sue critical pensioner
- In German cinemas: ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
- Germany calls Turkish crackdown 'disturbing'
- Oktoberfest beer price reaches heady heights
- Vodafone makes bid for Kabel Deutschland
- Death toll rises as floods roll northward
- German chains 'ignore Turkish shoppers'
- Tunisia jails topless protesters for 4 months
13 June
- The Roman Limes – frontiers of the Empire
- Bitter bakers scoff at half-baked bread idea
- 'I am Senegalese, but firstly I am German'
- Fire resurrects 'devil talk' in exorcism town
- Franz Ferdinand singer: I love German asparagus
- Germany forms €8-billion fund for flood victims
- EU immigrants leave Germany within a year
- Berlin: EU can find 'good solution' to US free trade
- Rat poison found at Lidl supermarkets
- German cops arrest American for Nazi insults
14 June
- Bremen City Hall and Roland statue
- German raids put forged art gang in the frame
- Germans realize women drivers are better
- Udderly charming: cow beauty contest
- Canny footballer shoots, scores, is banned
- Teen dies from measles he picked up as baby
- Germany joins EU youth unemployment fight
- 'Sahara heat hammer' to bring 39C next week
- 'I come to Germany for prostitutes - it's like Aldi'
- German MPs aim for positive doggie vibes
15 June
- English Channel tunnel opened to German rail
- Obama tries to ease German spying angst
- Nowitzki puts basketball on hold for family
- Exploded ships could help plug broken dyke
- Zschäpe's letter may complicate case
- FDP: No German arms for Syrian rebels
16 June
- Germany welcomes new Iranian president
- Obama faces more sceptical Germany
- Europe's largest gay festival held in Berlin
- Friedrich calls for tougher travel controls
- Greens' Roth sees Turkish violence live
- BND to spend €100 mln on internet spying
17 June
- Engineers sink barges to plug bust dyke
- Motorists flush away millions in toilet tickets
- St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church
- Sun sets on Siemens solar division
- Germany mourns two football legends
- Steinbrück cries on stage at wife's sympathy
- Merkel: Turkish response to Gezi 'much too harsh'
- Merkel remembers East German uprising
- Bare-headed cyclists at 'some fault' for injuries
- 'Many universities teach classes in English'
- Assad: Europe will 'pay price' if it arms rebels
18 June
- Mine of Rammelsberg and Goslar town
- Merkel: I'll tackle Obama on surveillance
- Pesticides kill more river life than was thought
- Deutsche Bahn fires staff in corruption clean-up
- Commerzbank 'to shed 5,000 jobs'
- Germans lose interest in voting as election looms
- Probe after abuse claims at private kids' homes
- Storms to replace heat wave by Thursday
- German investor confidence on the up
- Attacking Obama 'shows European weakness'
19 June
- Hamburg to be run by at least 40 percent women
- Potsdam's Prussian palaces and parks
- Six famous American quotes about Germany
- Centre-left SPD party plummet in polls
- Bahn feels heat as cooling systems fail
- New in German cinemas: ‘Monsters University’
- Germany home to one million millionaires
- 'Michelle is more popular than her husband'
- Nuclear cuts top Obama's Berlin speech
- Dentist cut off own finger for insurance cash
20 June
- Luther Memorials of Wittenberg and Eisleben
- CDU to 'spend more money on roads'
- Ballooned to fame: Nena rides high 30 years on
- One killed as roads burst in heatwave
- Farmers on watch as pony killer runs free
- 'Snake charmer' dies during viper demo
- 'Does Germany trust Obama to lead the way?'
- Minister unveils tax break plan for families
- Viral scorn over Merkel's 'virgin territory' quip
- Catholics slam liberal Protestant leaning
21 June
- Merkel election win 'likely but uncertain'
- Experiment simulates chronic crowd crush
- Bauhaus in Dessau and Weimar
- 3D digital model gives new view into brain
- Man dies as violent storm hits Germany
- Clothes shops slash prices after poor weather
- Germany offers health care to Tymoshenko
- Opposition sinks plans to split Deutsche Bahn
- Germany summons Turkish envoy over EU
- Merkel and Putin create diplomatic chaos
22 June
- Germany slams Russian gay adoption ban
- Majority say NSA 'not spying on me'
- Sandbag handbags swell flood clean-up effort
- Ullrich admits: 'I'm no better than Armstrong'
- German booze cheapest in Western Europe
- Election year pride parade gets political
23 June
- State powerless to boost crawling birth rate
- Tensions grow over Turkish crackdown
- 'Sub-polar' air to bring cooler, rainy days
- Study: foreigners rarely high earners
- Veteran Germany defender retires at 34
- Croatian PM tells Germans to relax
24 June
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
- Deutsche Bahn ditches bad English for German
- Pep Guardiola makes his Bayern Munich debut
- Cops 'arrest mystery autobahn shooter'
- Mice games reveal why we sell out our morals
- Vodaphone set to buy Kabel Deutschland
- Medics: gays should be allowed to give blood
- Fire for Merkel's 'feel-good' election plan
- Nearly half fear working until later pension
- Young Germans stub out cigarettes
25 June
- The imperial town of Quedlinburg
- Germany compromises over Turkey EU bid
- Booze battle tackles sozzled soldier scandal
- Building begins of replica medieval town
- ADAC in pole position for Nürburgring sale
- 'Brit brother' taps Germany-US data cable
- Raids target 'model plane bomb plotters'
- 'Unlike Germany, the US is apathetic to spying'
- Builders see slow thaw after winter freeze
- Being hungry 'changes brain' to take risks
26 June
- Backlash over EU crisis hits German popularity
- JFK cleared of 'I am a jam doughnut' gaffe
- Magnificent Muskau park
- Thieves swipe medieval bishop's shiny ring
- Red tape tangle forces cops to pay to park
- Wealthy Bavaria gets €227 mln state payback
- Crazy Frog 'squashed by subtle ringtones'
- New in German cinemas: ‘World War Z’
- Eight German gaffes JFK didn't make
- Britain ignores German questions on spying
27 June
- Femen activists to leave Tunisia after release
- Report: Racial profiling should be banned
- Speyer's imperial cathedral
- German unknown beats Hewitt at Wimbledon
- His and hers 'sexist sausages' cause a storm
- Tax officials 'sniff out evaders with sixth sense'
- Minister: refugee hunger strike is blackmail
- Protest torpedoes forced freelancer pensions
- Playmobil mogul still in the game at 80
- Car lobbyist swerve derails EU emissions law
28 June
- The Wieskirche at Pfaffenwinkel
- 'Germany is a sea of opportunities'
- German court keeps Eichmann files classified
- Siemens seals deal to sell train carriages to UK
- Six kids collapse in sex education class
- German teen basketball star moves to NBA
- Merkel has 'contempt' for scoffing Irish bankers
- Sensitive robotic hand within human grasp
- New Berlin airport 'just for easyjetters'
- Mixture of grey skies, showers and sun ahead
29 June
- Merkel 'slaps' Croatia with EU bash snub
- Germany warns Egypt facing 'moment of truth'
- Berlin police say lethal shot was 'defence'
- World watches epic hot air blimp flight
- Bremen's 'bishop's ring' found broken
- Tenants told to lump neighbour peeing noise
30 June
- Police clear Munich hunger strike camp
- Concern grows over kidnapped aid workers
- Angry Germany demands answers over US spying
- Book explores gay scenes in 'The Simpsons'
- Google doodle takes Currywurst stance
- Wayward horse injures five at marksmen’s fair