📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2014 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- Hannover hire first Turkish boss
- Fake priest 'tries to get to Schumacher' in hospital
- Schumacher's condition 'stable but critical'
02 January
- Foreign minister hits out at immigration critics
- Secret services cut back on monitoring
- Hoeneß case prompts tax evaders to declare
- Two 'arson attacks' on Turkish diplomat cars
- Police free boy, 6, from parents' sexy handcuffs
- Dutch clampdown drives cannabis farms east
- Germany's first lesbian minister comes out
- Rare white stag shot and beheaded
- Stormy year lands insurers €7-billion bill
03 January
- Berlin doggy deli sparks howls of 'decadence'
- Porsche to create 1,500 jobs at Leipzig factory
- Military calls for drones to protect soldiers
- Man sets fire to flat after girlfriend dumps him
- 'Fingerprints for foreigners' sparks outcry
- 'Cuddle hormone' nose spray tests monogamy
- Train job for Merkel ally turns to satire
- Dog poop study points to canine 'inner compass'
- Police 'stop Schumacher fans entering hospital'
- Digger driver killed by British WWII bomb
04 January
- Camera on Schumacher's ski helmet inspected
05 January
- Germany mulls Bulgaria, Romania migrant influx
06 January
- Lewandowski swears Dortmund loyalty
- High street stores 'sold cat fur hats'
- Foreigner road charge could be reduced
- Knut autopsy 'most in-depth' in animal world
- Police attacks spark clampdown in Hamburg
- Prosecutors prepare Schumacher ski probe
- Woman's body pulled out of frozen cesspit
- Merkel appears at carol concert on crutches
- Six top tips for job seekers in Germany
- Mild January continues with highs of 15C
- Inflation falls in boost for economy
07 January
- 'Denglisch is for losers, it has to stop'
- Brown coal muddies green energy goals
- Carer 'poisoned woman to steal jewellery'
- Amazon workers protest against strikes
- Schumacher's wife: 'Please leave us alone'
- Blame game begins in €800-million hall saga
- Bremen UFO 'looked like a plane but was louder'
- Hamburg violence 'may spread elsewhere'
08 January
- Germany to launch EU charm offensive
- Berlin airport's 2014 opening cancelled again
- Gurlitt Nazi art find prompts law change bid
- Aldi cocaine banana haul a 'logistical error'
- 'Fakes' and woodcuts - Germany's top UFOs
- Schumacher skiing at 'appropriate' speed
- Ten of Germany's best English blogs
- Hitzlsperger: 'Why I decided to come out'
- Refugee crowdfunds his way to Germany
- Catholic priest 'didn't know 15 was under-age'
- German, 88, charged with Nazi WWII massacre
09 January
- Obama to Merkel: 'Get well and come to USA'
- Group to tackle benefit migrant fears
- Homophobia now has a 'pronounced opponent'
- Warm weather ruins ice wine crop
- Toilet brush becomes city protest symbol
- Foreign minister attacks 'brainless' eurosceptics
- Germany to destroy Syrian chemical weapons
- Parents protest bid to teach about sexuality
- Taxi driver 'charged €400 for tourist's airport ride'
- Ex-defence chief 'almost quit' over drones
- Poll stubs out legal cannabis hopes
- Shell attacked over oil explosion
10 January
- German cheap meat diet proves risky
- Minister: Taxpayers will fund 32-hour week
- 'Jobless migrants must get German benefits'
- Square reverts to Hitler name on Google Maps
- Germany pledges aid to Greece, urges reform
- Share news tips with The Local Germany
- Police roll back Hamburg 'danger zone'
- Cop security review after Holocaust site defiled
- Alcoholism in Germany rises by a third
- Skiing, UFOs and cocaine bananas
11 January
- Guillotine used for anti-Nazi siblings turns up
- Israel unveils tribute to gay victims of Nazis
12 January
- Germany's Neureuther claims giant slalom first
- Police probe fatal plane crash cause
13 January
- Gunter Grass hangs up novelist pen
- Germany yet to plan official WWI events
- Man wins Cold War radio competition, 44 years on
- German carmakers celebrate record US sales
- Family-friendly military 'too expensive'
- German security contact dies in US drone attack
- Germans undress for 'No Pants Subway Ride'
- Price fixing brewers swallow €106 million fine
- Police lift 'restricted zone' in Hamburg
- German parental leave - your guide
14 January
- Pharmacist eye-drop error blinds babies
- Steinmeier: Israeli settlements hurt peace
- Germany's women scoop Fifa 'world's best' awards
- 'What happens when anything goes?'
- Germans abandon hope of US 'no-spy' treaty
- Ski championships called off as snow fails to fall
- Medics: don't kill off drug benefit tests
- Polar bear cubs get first glimpse of world
- Waltz joins Berlin film festival jury
- Driver sexually assaulted blind pensioner
15 January
- GDR prisoners made Aldi and VW goods
- Germany welcomes Hollande's new tone
- Economy grows at slowest rate since 2009
- 'Amber' bomb bits set man's pants on fire
- Nuclear energy firms can sue over shutdown
- Germany's expat tribes: Which one are you?
- Farmer's vodka cocktail floors outlaw bull
- Scientists offer app to help with digital diets
- Army admits rise in Afghanistan violence
- Teenage German tourist raped on Indian train
16 January
- Not just tiny brains - dinos had bad backs too
- Panel fails to rule over 'stolen' church treasures
- Germany seeks 'no spy' pact among EU members
- Should the sick be given help to die?
- Acid explosion injures chemistry students
- Ecclestone steps down over bribery trial
- Hamburg buys its energy grid back for €400 million
- Top manager faces himself in court
- Murderer ate victim's cat with mashed potato
- Young more keen to learn about WWI than parents
17 January
- Hamelin: 'We need more rat catchers'
- Minister unveils €60 billion pension reforms
- Mootube: Milk farmers make a splash online
- New Berlin trains too wide for tunnels
- Ministers face stricter rules over lobbyist jobs
- Tornado jet crashes in woods, pilots unharmed
- Why relationships are off the menu in Berlin
- Double tram smash injures 24 people
- Pants, polar bears, planes - the week in pics
- Haribo pulls 'racist' candy after complaints
- Obama: We won't tap allies' phones
18 January
- Schumacher remains in 'stable' condition
- Berlin welcomes Obama pledge on NSA spying
19 January
- Obama to Merkel: Don't worry about spying
- German skate hopes withdraw from event
20 January
- Minister plans cuts in renewable energy cash
- Legal fees lose Deutsche Bank €1 billion
- Beer prices to rise on back of cartel fines
- ADAC admits making up car award votes
- Why young foreigners choose Germany
- 'The USA knows that for us spying is a crime'
- Germany to stay out of Central African Republic
- Ice blast hits Berlin, -10C forecast
- Beer tunnel causes pavement collapse
- 'Protests make Hamburg different'
21 January
- Patient arrives for liver op with bottle of vodka
- ADAC starts probe as award scandal widens
- Hundreds of football fans banned until 2019
- UK and Germany locked in immigration debate
- Snow prompts weather alerts, -14C forecast
- Hackers access 16 million email accounts
- German kidnapped in online dating plot
- Study: Hospital error kills 20,000 each year
- Berlin rent rises outstrip rest of country
- Lidl takes Coca-Cola off shelves in price war
22 January
- Food industry warns over EU-US trade pact
- Germany and France commit to closer ties
- Deutsche Bank 'helped China’s elite hide assets'
- Police: Bremen UFO 'was a model plane'
- BSI knew about huge data theft weeks ago
- Germany's 10 tackiest souvenirs for tourists
- Army bans rude tattoos and big beards
- 'Germans among dead' in Pakistan air strikes
- Protesters fined €200 for blocking neo-Nazi demo
- Police release wrong photo in bank haul hunt
23 January
- Foreign minister evokes WWI in Syria appeal
- Annotated 'Mein Kampf' set for publication
- Car crashes into group of marching soldiers
- Fire shuts down four Munich U-Bahn stations
- Green energy giant runs out of cash
- Olympic team receives Sochi email threats
- Whale meat sold at Berlin 'Green Week'
- Customs seize 16 million cigarettes bound for UK
- Keeper of Germany's finest wine cellar
24 January
- How to hack 16 million email accounts
- Lufthansa seeks court order against strikes
- ADAC chiefs used rescue helicopters for trips
- Germany summons Ukrainian ambassador
- Court: Google must block Mosley orgy photos
- Two murder suspects killed in court attack
- Town stumbles over naked rambling route
- Beer tunnels, crashes and winter - week in pics
- Prisoner turned Stasi spy can fight for pension
25 January
- Hanover 96 force fans to pay for UEFA fines
- German journalists attacked in Cairo
- Guardiola focused as Bayern surge ahead
26 January
- Teen robs bank with toy gun, escapes on bicycle
- Nazi camp worker faces anti-Semitism charge
- 'Land grab' ups prices in eastern Germany
27 January
- Snowden: NSA spies on German industry
- Germany to play bigger military role
- 'Rules are the best and worst part of life here'
- Police: We understand why you don't feel safe
- Man freezes to death, temperatures hit -20C
- Caviar, Auschwitz, love - Himmler's letters to wife
- Heroin worth €21.5m found in tomato cans
- A third could miss out on minimum wage rise
- Germany commemorates victims of Nazism
- Alexanderplatz to get Germany's tallest flats
28 January
- Doctors: Schumi's coma 'unusually' long
- Gardener, 63, fined for accidental cannabis bush
- Solar energy jobs halve in two years
- 'Gate' named Germany's English word of the year
- Future of Berlin Airlift site hangs in balance
- Flatulent cows start fire with massage machine
- Thieves steal 100 antique string instruments
- How should Germany mark the Holocaust?
- Tourist attraction rises from river bed
29 January
- CDU politician 'shot dead in garage'
- Western drift as security chiefs head to Munich
- Foreign investment floods into Germany
- Bundesliga scores record profit
- Manufacturer to thieves - stolen condoms unsafe
- ADAC pledges reform, flight scandal widens
- Berlin tourist sexually assaulted in India
- Germany doubles funding to return Nazi art
- Ten things Google tells you about Germany
- Merkel rebukes US and UK over spying
- 'Give disenfranchised expats the vote' - EU
- Cardinal offends with Muslim birth rate remark
30 January
- Bayern leave it late to keep unbeaten record
- Germany urges Russia for Ukraine dialogue
- Merkel lays out priorities for next four years
- German beer sales sink to 25-year low
- Police arrest smash and grab 'Apple store' gang
- Watchdog probes Deutsche Bahn tickets
- Three women die in 'online suicide pact'
- Schumacher 'blinks' as he is woken from coma
- Germany slips in foreign policy rankings
- Sochi's youngest hope - German ski jumper, 15
31 January
- Charlemagne's bones are (probably) real
- Boy, 5, drives into mother and child
- German retailers report poor Christmas
- Drunks and onlookers delay bomb explosion
- Germans oppose more military intervention
- Kerry in Berlin: 'US is committed to privacy'
- 'What? No Becks?' Men set fire to shop
- US view of Germany 'better than ever'
- Police break up people smuggling gang
- 'If you want an adventure, learn a language'