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

01 December
- Robben strikes as Bayern extend record
- Gulf widens between UK and EU nations: poll
02 December
- SPD: half of our ministers will be women
- Telekom puts up to 8,000 jobs in firing line
- Brewers bid to give beer purity law Unesco status
- Steffi's father Peter Graf dies after cancer battle
- Coffee machines 'leave lead in drink'
- Germany to ban elective beauty ops for minors
- Germany's most beautiful woman aged over 50
- States try again to ban neo-Nazi party
- Germany backs Ukraine's 'impressive' protests
- How should expats invest in Germany?
03 December
- Daimler faces EADS insider trading trial
- Nazi assassin dies in prison hospital
- Parties pledge to reform prostitution laws
- 'Tolerate the party but stamp on fascist bullies'
- Crop failures push up German food prices
- Berliner yanks American from water with scarf
- Snow, sleet and storms welcome December
- Commerzbank staff hit by huge tax raids
- Germans improve Pisa education results
- Boy in coma can keep loyal Staffy
04 December
- Germans want greater state control of internet
- Germany: 'We're going to win the World Cup'
- UK soldier arrested in Germany in terror probe
- Hunter kills woman's pet wild boar
- Gabriel charms party to approve coalition deal
- Five dos and don'ts on Germany's Autobahns
- Migrants prefer schools with fewer foreigners
- Police probe far-right motive for 750 deaths
- Deutsche Bank gets €725 million Libor fine
05 December
- Murder probe focuses on cannibal site and garden
- Westerwelle: 'Gates still open for Ukraine'
- SPD angry over coalition phone call threats
- Hurricane Xaver hits northern Germany
- Meet the Germans who want to move to Mars
- Burglars favour weekday winter evenings
- Eddie 'The Eagle' to jump again on New Year's Day
- Greens want to ditch limos for bicycles
- Road deaths sink to record low
06 December
- Germany to take 5,000 more Syrian refugees
- Deutsche Post tests delivery drones
- Mandela's complex ties with Germany
- Germany tells citizens to get out of Yemen
- Soldier 'infected two men with HIV'
- Hurricane Xaver - floods give way to heavy snow
- Germany, Mandela and the Cold War
- From Xaver to Nikolaus - seven days in pictures
- Accused Auschwitz guard, 94, unfit for trial
07 December
- Berlin sees progress on banking union
- Germany's Löw ready to face heat in Brazil
- EADS to downsize defence business
08 December
- Germans tune in for dose of murder mystery
09 December
- President boycotts Russia Winter Olympics
- Three men die in sauna after Christmas party
- Ex-president’s aide on trial for corruption
- Revolting youth wings slam coalition pact
- Record German exports exceed €99 billion
- Six top tips for interns in Germany
- Smoking cannabis farm gives game away to cops
- Deutsche Post completes first drone flight
- Leipzig's €1-billion train tunnel to finally open
- Berlin burglars steal 300 phones in one minute
10 December
- Airbus maker to cut 2,600 jobs in Germany
- Father of Berlin Wall reconciliation dies
- Frankfurt buses stay parked in strike
- Customer bah humbugs Nikolaus delivery man
- 'Court error' lands porn streamers in hot water
- German tourist 'raped by yoga teacher'
- German cities pile up mountain of debt
- Gauck 'cannot afford to be vague on Russia'
- Dozens of seal pups missing after hurricane
- Merkel under fire for missing Mandela tribute
11 December
- Bayern stumble to 3-2 Manchester City defeat
- Germans fall out of love with Lebkuchen
- German teen 'dies fighting in Syria'
- Record number of tourists head to Berlin
- Delight as Munich zoo polar bear has twins
- Germany tells Afghan leader to sign NATO pact
- Celebs lead gay rights fight with kisses
- More cops to carry ID numbers - and cameras
- Ten German celebrities we hate to love
12 December
- Daughter killed, mother injured in crane crash
- Sex law change sparks brothel border town fears
- Germany helps British army aide rejected by UK
- Nine horses killed in crash with two trucks
- Vote set to end three months of political limbo
- Baker's daughter moves to save Karstadt
- Topless protesters storm talkshow over Qatar 2022
- 'I was a lazy student, that's how this started'
- Tourism chiefs warn of holiday price rises
- Police: 'Please don’t make us wear blue'
- Thousands of school kids strike for refugee rights
- 'One-man prison' cost €4.3 million
13 December
- Volkswagen 'to build new plant in Poland'
- Germans prove Friday 13th is not unlucky
- Smuggler swallowed 124 bags of drugs
- 'GroKo' named German word of the year
- Germany to build own World Cup camp
- Sex party couple accused of €1m tax fraud
- €17.5m boost for Berlin's public transport
- Nazi art trove: Police break into Gurlitt’s flat
- Hobbits, Helgoland and a tutu - the week in pics
14 December
- Report: Schäuble to stay German finance minister
- SPD members approve Merkel coalition deal
15 December
- Guardiola wants more as Bayern fly to club worlds
- Merkel rival gets 'super ministry' in new cabinet
- Merkel's ex-foreign minister returns to role
16 December
- Merkel escapes limo crash unscathed
- Bremen blazes put 33 in hospital
- Funeral director hoards 67 urns in room
- Meet Merkel's new 'super cabinet'
- Amazon staff strike as pay battle rages
- 'Put in the effort to know what your firm wants'
- Bavarian town rejects anti-Hitler vote
- Christmas stress 'causes heart attacks'
- Lawyers plan widespread fines for porn viewers
- Buses - Germany's new favourite transport
17 December
- Amazon plays down 'record' German strikes
- 'There is nothing grand about this coalition'
- US tourist in court for biting off man's lip
- MPs elect Merkel to third term as chancellor
- Olympians urge Merkel to attend Sochi 2014
- Historic Berlin store 'to make way for Primark'
- South Africa lukewarm over ‘Mandela square’
- Motorists braced for Christmas traffic chaos
- Man beats ex-in-laws to death with hammer
- It'll be windy (not white) this Christmas
18 December
- One in five in Germany have 'migrant roots'
- Court: villages will not be ripped up for coal
- What did Germans Google in 2013?
- Parliament creates 'internet committee'
- Merkel: 'EU must be ready for treaty changes'
- Holidaymakers give Tui a surprise boost
- Ten ways to celebrate Christmas like a German
- Germans 'cut HIV out of infected cells'
- State ends breast implant checks on police
- Merkel: I'll fight probe on energy subsidies
19 December
- Minister with Turkish roots starts key role
- Town reverses Hitler citizenship vote
- Parked car rolls 200 metres onto motorway
- ‘Young people aren't good at getting help’
- Two-tonne lady lifted from river bed
- Third of neo-Nazi officials on police radar
- Stolen German cars linked to Tajik elite
- Berlin set to put all dogs on leads under new law
- Workers' wages drop for first time in four years
20 December
- German deficit narrower than expected
- Hamburg police brace for protest weekend
- Last VW camper van rolls off production line
- Police: Phone scam gang had 30,000 victims
- Merkel: No EU money for French military action
- 'Earthquake' shakes west German town
- The German roots of the Christmas tree
- Spiegel Online slashes English section
- Germany to send sports minister to Sochi
- Russia's most famous prisoner flies to Germany
- GroKo and a two-tonne statue - the week in pics
21 December
- Aldi plans multi-billion US expansion
- Khodorkovsky reunited with son in Berlin
22 December
- Becker quits BBC role to coach Djokovic
- German minister hails Khodorkovsky release
23 December
- Three sauna deaths linked to alcohol
- The Local’s top ten sport stories of the year
- New defence minister visits Afghanistan
- Hundreds injured in Hamburg riots
- Raiders drive car into Berlin Apple store
- Neo-Nazi leader 'faces eviction from party'
- Naked motorcyclist is talk of the town
- Rain washes away hopes of a white Christmas
- Austria threatens action over motorway toll
24 December
- The Local's top ten features of the year
25 December
- Bavaria tries to woo back 'bright minds'
- Khodorkovsky reunited in Berlin with family
- The Local’s top ten lists of the year
26 December
- Japan's SoftBank on course to buy T-Mobile
- The Local's top ten crime stories of the year
27 December
- Robber 'murdered' brother, 77, and sister, 74
- Shrinking towns hang hopes on private schools
- The Local's top ten politics stories of 2013
- UK economy to overtake Germany... in 2030
- Topless protest spoils Christmas service
- Germany needs an extra 4,600 doctors
- Germans are 'more optimistic about 2014'
- Ten ways to celebrate New Year like a German
- Germans still have €7 billion worth of D-Marks
- Letter and powder spark alarm at US consulate
28 December
- Audi to invest billions in new technology
29 December
- German brewers hop on to new fruity flavours
30 December
- Ageing well: Toymaker Playmobil turns 40
- The Local's top animal stories of the year
- Gunmen attack German ambassador's home
- Ben and Mia - Germany's top baby names
- MPs spar over eastern EU immigration fears
- Record numbers claim for train pain
- Bundestag denies 'stolen art' claims
- Swiss grant visa to Khodorkovsky
- Germany prays for 'Schumi'
31 December
- Schumacher's condition improves after brain op
- Slight energy price rise at start of 2014
- 50 years of a New Year's dinner for one
- The Local's most popular stories of the year
- Ten things to look out for in 2014