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

01 September
- Election rivals to face off in TV debate
- President to visit French Nazi massacre site
02 September
- Dortmund keep unbeaten record to go top
- Merkel and rival play it safe in TV debate
- German pensioner dies in holiday island robbery
- 'Starting my own firm was my best decision'
- Village builds giant rake in search for turtle
- Merkel's necklace gets its own Twitter account
- Green energy costs to spark bill rise
- German dictionary wins prize... for bad German
- SS officer, 92, faces life in prison for 'murder'
- Tuba player: 'Bonnet bonk wrecked my car'
03 September
- Video deal frees up music streaming
- Summer set to return to Germany
- German star Özil makes €50m Arsenal move
- Three killed in Dolomites climbing accident
- Fake Merkel debate tricks party members
- Let's drop the Angst about Anglicisms
- Merkel to push for unity on Syria at G20
- 'Dead' crash victim found alive in morgue
- New Berlin airport has 66,500 problems
- Pink Floyd founder: We need Berlin's Wall
04 September
- Spaniards queue nine hours to learn German
- Charity worker escapes from Syrian kidnappers
- Sceptical Germans split over more Euro aid
- Huge Merkel hand poster sparks outcry
- Germans 'value wedding rings like CD collections'
- Assange: US marine spied on me in Berlin
- Five injured as bus plunges off bridge
- Germany fourth best place to do business
- The ten hardest things about learning German
- Leaders join hands at Nazi massacre site
05 September
- Mummy found in attic could be 2,000 years old
- Firm sacked woman as she 'might get pregnant'
- Günter Grass: Facebook is 'crap'
- Berlin tech fair gives glimpse into future
- Mesut Özil: Germany's €50-million footballer
- Bavaria warms up for election with TV fight
- Cops remove 40 kids from Christian sect
- Germany's greatest fear? The euro debt crisis
- Gynaecologist 'took 35,000 pics of patients'
- Hitler's ruby swastika ring on offer for $100,000
06 September
- Germany set for €200 billion trade surplus
- Man drives into group after family fight
- Christians 'will be minority in Germany'
- US: German death row mum freed - for now
- Artist uncovers life inside US Berlin spy station
- Neo-Nazis send out 'condoms for foreigners'
- One huge election poster and one pricey footballer
- Weekend brings last of the summer sun
- Germany: UN must speed up Syria chemical probe
- Hitler's bodyguard dies in Berlin aged 96
07 September
- Klose equals Müller's Germany goal record
08 September
- Thousands join German anti-NSA protest
- German coal mine turns village into ghost town
09 September
- Germany criticizes allies over Syria statement
- Steinbrück shrugs off 'blackmail attempt'
- Berlin man gives birth to baby boy at home
- EU roaming charges 'to go by July 2016'
- Headscarf photo 'ruins job interview chances'
- Your guide - the Christian Democratic Party (CDU)
- Unseen Hess files on WWII flight up for auction
- Helicopter circles US consulate in spy probe
- Man spikes wife's Capri Sun drink for more sex
10 September
- Court hears Brit bishop's Holocaust appeal
- Germany welcomes Russian Syria proposal
- Wanka blows €260m on education consultants
- 'We’ll see energy revolution to the end'
- Your guide - the Christian Social Union (CSU)
- Mini-me: Firm prints 3D figurines of customers
- Police foil far-right 'model plane bomb plot'
- French accuse BMW of electric car 'spying'
- First female genital mutilation clinic opens
- Man who gave birth faces court battle to be father
11 September
- Germany closer to World Cup after Faroe win
- Carmakers show off latest models at IAA
- Your guide - the Social Democratic Party (SPD)
- German men 'lust after female earners'
- Green vote in freefall while SPD makes gains
- Top ten expat complaints to their German partners
- Town to drop Hitler honour after 80 years
- Welcome: First of 5,000 Syrian refugees arrive
- 250 summer swimmers die in German waters
- Muslim schoolgirl loses swimming class appeal
12 September
- University canteens struggle with student rise
- Legionnaires bacteria found at leading brewery
- Village brings in traps from USA in turtle search
- Your guide - The Free Democratic Party (FDP)
- Mass Vodafone hack hits two million users
- Kahn to gay footballers: 'Don't come out'
- 400 patients queue to see one eye doctor
- Driver fuel price database to break cartel hold
- From fencer to Olympic boss - Thomas Bach
- The Hoff 'to join German celeb Big Brother'
13 September
- 'Das Boot' star Otto Sander dies aged 72
- Should Germany have a minimum wage?
- Diplomats rack up 5,000 traffic violations
- Your guide - the Green Party (Die Grünen)
- Chinese target Bayer in drug firms probe
- German political parties, explained
- Merkel's rival gives voters the middle finger
- Businessman sentenced to death for drug deal
- Court jails teacher for colleague rape claim
- Refugees to NSA protests - seven days in pics
- Oktoberfest hoteliers pump up prices six-fold
14 September
- Merkel woos voters with 'Mummy' campaign
15 September
- Germany hails 'fresh chance' for Syria peace
16 September
- Merkel gets lift from big win in Bavarian poll
- U21 captain Volland shines with fourth goal
- My tip to getting on in Germany? Network.
- Half of Germans have 'never pulled a sicky'
- 'I stole Berlin's original Checkpoint Charlie sign'
- Police capture fugitive murder suspect
- Green leader linked to pro-paedo manifesto
- Your Guide - The Left Party (Die Linke)
- Berlin Zoo wins Knut polar bear court battle
- Pirates crash protest drone at Merkel rally
- German stock index hits record high
17 September
- Neo-Nazis attack children on school trip
- Merkel gets a makeover (in wax)
- Germany to 'fall short' of electric car target
- Judge orders lawyer to remove headscarf
- Germans mistrust EU but British PM popular
- 'Burkini ruling shows weakness of schools'
- Hitler Mercedes 'advert' scoops film award
- Police arrest murder suspect 25 years on
- Reasons why the election matters to non-Germans
- Court: E-cigarette sales can not be restricted
- Neo-Nazi party sends politicians plane tickets
18 September
- Court: homeopathy can’t cure erectile dysfunction
- City does U-turn on 'veggie-day' pledge
- Oktoberfest tents told to stop skimping on beer
- 'UN probe proves gas attack was Assad'
- Hasselhoff exits Celeb BB after four days
- Audi sets sights on car production in Brazil
- Top 10 weirdest election campaign moments
- Germans gift foreigners election votes online
- Germany spends millions on animal-only bridges
19 September
- 20 dead snakes found in bag, live ones on train
- Rivals dodge each other in final campaign spurt
- Germany defends chemical sales to Syria
- Neo-Nazi party must take down election posters
- Lufthansa splashes out €14 billion on new fleet
- Church sermons to explore sex and gay love
- Holocaust survivor and literary legend dies
- Four teens, five adults die in car crashes
- Eurosceptics could enter parliament - poll
- Sex offenders win thousands in pay-outs
- Your guide to Munich's Oktoberfest
20 September
- Merkel rival urges Berlin voters to help change
- French: Low German wages are unfair on us
- Germany prepares for Oktoberfest - in pics
- Missing Israeli woman found dead in Alps
- Punks and pirates: the oddest political parties
- Tiger kills zookeeper during feeding time
- Berlin honours executed US freedom-fighter
- Waxworks, crashes and the Hoff - a week in pics
- Aldi staff wrapped in film, chastised by rats
- Which firms donate to which parties?
21 September
- EU approves Vodafone Kabel Deutschland buy
- Merkel in personal pitch as election nears
22 September
- Beer trumps politics as Oktoberfest opens
- Cyber protection market takes off in Europe
- Merkel hails 'superb' election result
- LIVE BLOG: German election night 2013
23 September
- SPD supporters wary of Merkel coalition
- Far-left becomes third biggest party
- Bayern Munich close gap on rivals
- Merkel's CDU jubilant but coalition-cautious
- 'Don't let your lack of language skills stop you'
- Liberal leader quits after poor poll showing
- What do the papers make of election drama?
- Green leadership quits en masse
- Merkel 'open' to grand coalition with SPD
- Woman falls to death from mountain peak
24 September
- Court rejects Brit bishop Holocaust denial appeal
- German hackers crack iPhone security system
- Germany's first black MPs enter Bundestag
- Nightclub invites guests to 'catch a dwarf'
- Five ministers resign in Liberal party meltdown
- 75 Syrian refugees disappear from shelter
- Sailor: Navy 'mongs' mutiny was all a joke
- Taxi driver molests US tourist at Oktoberfest
- Liberal collapse worrying for Brit Lib Dems too
- Court: No payout for bird strike passengers
25 September
- Germany welcomes 'new tone' from Iran
- Usain Bolt celebrates Puma deal at Oktoberfest
- Ex-President calls for German-Polish state
- Opposition drags heels over Merkel coalition
- Merkel's East Berlin flat - rent for €55 a night
- Attic 'mummy' mystery solved - it was plastic
- British firm signs €1.6bn German train deal
- Father 'shut baby girl in fridge for crying'
- Top ten reasons diplomats like Berlin
- CDU softens stance on tax hikes in ally search
26 September
- Court: circumcision too risky for six-year-old
- 'We have the power to take your kids away'
- Revamped ruin and a former royal seat
- Toilet giant Grohe gets €3bn Japan investment
- 'Forest Boy' faces work after court fraud hearing
- Merkel's German-Scot 'to reach out to UK'
- Leading opera singer turns to comedy
- Becker: Ex-wife hit me during marriage crisis
- Only a few Germans say their English is good
- Auschwitz 'cook' faces murder complicity charge
27 September
- US spies knew of plans to build Berlin Wall
- Fresh chicken legs home to drug-resistant bacteria
- Boy survives crash, mum and grandparents die
- Social Democrats debate working with Merkel
- 'States can't keep secrets from young techies'
- Transsexual wine queen wields tiara for rights
- Merkel to mountains: the week in pictures
- Kipsang aims for record at Berlin marathon
- Shredding ban saves one-day-old male chicks
- Sunshine for the north, but first frosts approach
28 September
- Social Democrats agree to Merkel talks
- German charged with murder-for-hire plot
- Court jails 'peeping Tom' dentist
29 September
- Germany offers help to Syria chemical mission
- Kipsang breaks world record in Berlin marathon
30 September
- Stuttgart hammer struggling Braunschweig
- My granddad was 'Schindler's List' killer
- Siemens to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide
- Police charge Berlin marathon intruder
- 'I fell for a German and started my dating site'
- 3,000 people leave homes after gas blast
- Israel: German Islamists helped in Kenya attack
- Merkel to start coalition talks with SPD on Friday
- Wanted: Owner of gold fortune found in locker
- Hitler's last motorway to disappear
- Amazon looks east, away from German strikes