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

01 October
- Study: German men think gender equality reached
- Syria chemicals sale larger than thought
- Flour and cinnamon 'bomb' shut down airport
- Unemployment rate rises in surprise spike
- What does Germany make of US shutdown?
- Students break record for biggest paper plane
- Aldi attracts ever more British shoppers
- TV-maker Loewe files for bankruptcy
- Germany 'third best place to grow old'
- Author and NSA critic denied entry into US
02 October
- Sexual assaults double at Munich's Oktoberfest
- Explosion kills three miners, four rescued
- German clubs win in Champions League
- Wolves kill flock of sheep near Berlin
- Transport chief: Charge foreigners on autobahns
- Germany lowers 2013 public deficit forecast
- Top ten things Germans find odd about Britain
- Germany 'regrets' US government shutdown
- Green Party warms up to Merkel coalition
- Israeli minister slams Jews moving to Berlin
03 October
- German universities slip in world rankings
- Germans celebrate once-in-a-lifetime holiday
- A country estate in Lower Saxony
- State leader sends Merkel error-packed note
- How united is Germany?
- 'He can flirt like you wouldn't believe'
- Mosques open doors to non-Muslims
- Investigation begins into fatal mine gas leak
04 October
- Insider tips: Where to go in Leipzig?
- President: Germany must play greater global role
- Berlin's mayor to leave party leadership
- Oktoberfest drinkers treated every 10 minutes
- EU-US deal would create '160,000 German jobs'
- Schoolboy, 12, stabbed in chest during fight
- Merkel and left-wing rival end first round of talks
- Apple drops trademark case against family café
- The enduring appeal of East Germany's Trabi
- World records and gas blasts - the week in pics
05 October
- Merkel and rivals upbeat after coalition talks
06 October
- Bayern go top and eye 30-year record
- Publishing start-ups crowd Frankfurt book fair
- German embassy guard shot dead in Yemen
- Assad admits mistakes, calls on Germany to help
07 October
- Germany hands Kunduz camp to Afghan security
- Hamburg rout Nuremberg 5-0
- Germany 'must take in more refugees'
- 'English business teachers are in demand'
- Firefighters fail to battle blaze in own building
- German wins Nobel Medicine Prize
- Berlin man 'burns girlfriend to death'
- Three German innovators make top 100 list
- A €67m beer bill, 114 Oxen, and a lost Segway
08 October
- German scientists: Lake Garda is full of plastic
- Eyewitness Auschwitz testimony goes online
- Business booms in Berlin graveyard cafe
- Bishop racks up €31 million building bill
- German trade surplus widened in August
- Hannover finds 'Gypsy' schnitzel tasteless
- 'Germany plays a larger role than people think'
- Berlin Airlift site touted as tech start-up hub
- Every sixth German as literate as a ten-year-old
- Minister calls for 'poverty migrant' crackdown
09 October
- World's biggest book fair opens with a warning
- Greens elect leader and prepare for Merkel talks
- Deutsche Post and ADAC unveil bus network
- Family planning group 'justified paedophilia'
- Indebted Berlin hikes tax on property sales
- Police identify baby 25 years after death
- Top ten über-long German words
- Thousands from US and UK on German benefits
- Museum opens risqué animal sex exhibition
- Neo-Nazi cell 'plotted to kill ex-Chancellor'
10 October
- Germans are poorer than Italians and French
- 'Germany must prepare for rise in OAP crime'
- Police launch mass speeding crackdown
- Germany bans Marlboro 'Maybe' cigarette ads
- Nobel Prize winner Südhof yearns for home
- Letter declares living football legend 'dead'
- The end of the discount supermarket?
- Berlin Festival of Lights - in pictures
- Vatican calls rebel German diocese to order
- Again? Third of Germans want fresh elections
11 October
- Spaniards stranded in fake German job scandal
- World Cup qualifiers - a tale of two teams
- Catholic bishop spends €350,000 on wardrobes
- Jobless EU citizens can claim benefits - court
- First heavy snow falls in southern Germany
- Merkel hopes for coalition within a week
- 'People who don't believe in ghosts are scared'
- Winter's arrival to Berlin light festival - in pics
- Refugees go on hunger strike in Berlin
- Husband forgets wife on honeymoon
- Former SS captain and Nazi war criminal dies
12 October
- Argentina refuses Nazi criminal's remains
- Joachim Löw keen on Swede revenge
13 October
- German retailers embrace ugly fruit
14 October
- Poor pensions frighten half of Germans
- Madeleine McCann trail leads to Germany
- 'The work-life balance is fantastic'
- 'Nazi criminal remains should go to Germany'
- Comms giant pushes anti-spy network
- Why do Germans seem rude? Blame history
- 'Lavish' bishop flies Ryanair for Pope talks
- Air Berlin offers pet owner €100 for dog death
- Berlin blogger records entire life online
- Merkel and centre-left party set for more talks
15 October
- Medics wrongly keep man in clinic for 38 years
- Football hooliganism falls in top leagues
- Cyclist gored to death by fighting bull
- Berlin bids to put energy grid back in public hands
- Bavarian town shuts Czech border
- Germany blocks EU road to emissions limit
- What is the impact of US shutdown on Germany?
- 'Germany can't produce a Breaking Bad'
- Airline offers new life... if you change your name
- Germans look to sink Swedish sub maker
16 October
- Gummy bear boss 'Mr Haribo' dies aged 90
- Greens quit talks with Merkel over coalition
- Germany and Sweden in eight-goal thriller again
- Clashes cancel Nazi war criminal's funeral
- Spurned woman shot at driving instructor
- BMW donation to Merkel party sparks fears
- Five dos and don'ts on German public transport
- Is rent in Germany too expensive?
- Court: Man must share lottery win with ex-wife
- Wild animal road crashes cost €500 million
17 October
- Merkel criticizes Russia over Greenpeace arrests
- Thousands to re-enact the Battle of Nations
- UK woos Germany in EU red tape battle
- Dr Oetker chief admits firm's Nazi past
- Former Miss Germany tries luck in Mexico
- Experts slash German growth forecast by half
- TV show sparks German leads in Maddie search
- Italy at a loss over Nazi war criminal body
- Merkel and SPD agree on coalition talks
- Germany wastes billions on bizarre projects
18 October
- Yoko Ono wins German peace prize
- Germany closes Afghan embassy over threat
- How rich is the Catholic Church in Germany?
- Cable car fault leaves 76 passengers dangling
- Police: 'Family house fire was suicide'
- Judge sends 'King of Germany' to jail
- Coach Löw celebrates contract extension
- Munich double charges thousands of taxpayers
- From bishops to battles - seven days in pics
- Merkel calls for Israeli settlement 'restraint'
- Court convicts Captain Corelli's war criminal
19 October
- Old World War II bomb halts train travel
20 October
- Nazi war criminal gets secret Italian funeral
- Merkel: I love singing traditional tunes
- Germany recreates historic Napoleon battle
21 October
- Football bosses to probe ghost goal 'scandal'
- SPD leaders agree to Merkel coalition talks
- 200 Islamist fighters at Syria 'German Camp'
- Pick-pocketing on the rise on Berlin trains
- Germany's 'Porno King' gives up empire
- Swedes snub German apprentice scheme
- Liberal MPs paid despite losing jobs
- Vets: Dogs overdose on drug-user poop
- 'Bling bishop' meets with Pope for crisis talks
- Dairy prices up by 32 percent in a year
22 October
- Europe tells Yemen to act over German death
- State bans teacher-pupil contact on Facebook
- Syria arms inspectors trained in Bavaria
- Does Germany have the education edge?
- App creates virtual Holocaust memorials
- Germany helped US with 'illegal' drone attacks
- Parliament opens with record number of women
- Warm autumn weather set to continue
- Troops show growing discontent amid reforms
- Foreigners in Germany reach record levels
23 October
- Honours even in England Germany clashes
- Police find dead baby in compost bin
- Barroso warns Germany against less austerity
- Graveyard cremates wrong body in mix-up
- Mayor hit by topless protest over refugees
- Vatican suspends 'bling bishop' after Pope meet
- Germany predicts record number of jobs
- Ten German complaints to their expat partners
- Painting robot sparks 'what is art?' debate
- Court: Red-light hotels must pay full tax rate
24 October
- Court: Gay couples same right to child benefits
- Germany believes US tapped Merkel's phone
- World's biggest toy fair opens in Essen
- Sparks (not planes) fly over Berlin's airport
- 10,000 leave homes as WWII bomb shuts city
- Support grows for foreigner road charge
- Daimler profits increase by half in a year
- From TV detective to German MP
- Berlin mulls ban on new hotels and hostels
- Merkel: Spying among allies 'not on'
25 October
- Neo-Nazi defendant does crosswords during trial
- Police arrest man after fast-food stand-off
- Karstadt stores hit by mass strike
- Where your TV licence fee goes
- Lady Gaga celebrates new album in Berlin club
- Merkel has two phones, just one encrypted
- One in six Germans at risk of poverty
- Gaga to armed siege - seven days in pics
- Merkel: relations with US not 'one-way street'
- Fake Kings and neo-Nazis exploit legal quirk
26 October
- Nazi criminal's grandson: Change my name
- Spy chiefs head to US over phone tap row
27 October
- Obama was aware of Merkel spying: Report
28 October
- Fourth F1 victory sparks party in 'Vettelheim'
- White House 'ended NSA Merkel phone tapping'
- German warning triggers Israel UN meet
- Thieves 'steal and rape dog' in Berlin
- Villagers kill marten after attack spree
- Lou Reed's dark, drug-fuelled Berlin
- 'It's easier to be sacked here than you think'
- Football chiefs dismiss 'ghost goal' case
- Germans want to interrogate Snowden
- 'St. Jude' storm hits Germany, kills four
29 October
- White House says it must do 'better' over spying
- Storms kill eight, travel still disrupted
- Deutsche Bank profits collapse by 94 percent
- Drunk man falls asleep on top of horse
- Politicians' travel costs leap by 41 percent
- Solar panel burglars run off with door instead
- How will NSA spying hit US-German relations?
- Energy boss warns of blackouts in Europe
- Dad acquitted of raping daughter 17 years on
- Germany gives Afghan interpreters asylum
30 October
- French sue Lagerfeld over 'fat slurs'
- US and Germany look to rebuild trust
- Taxi driver returns €250,000 to passengers
- German spies forced to deny US bug claims
- Germans: 'We've found second solar system'
- Women’s quotas closer after coalition talks
- Church spends €130m on new Munich offices
- Private US firms 'spying in Germany'
- Expats: Germany great for kids, bad for friends
31 October
- Living in Germany gets more stressful
- Foreigner motorway fee 'fine under EU law'
- Gestapo chief buried in Jewish cemetery
- US and Germany agree to continue spy talks
- Drinkers get thirstier as beer sales increase
- Police find missing woman set in concrete
- From Berlin to the world - the doner kebab
- Germany hits back at US criticism over economy
- 'Bling bishop' takes refuge in abbey
- Man attempts to rape six women in Frankfurt