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

01 February
- German rugby set to get a helping English hand
- German president meets Ukraine opposition
- Germany: 'tortured' activist can leave Ukraine
- Germany claims Davis Cup last eight spot
02 February
- All-stars face upstarts at Berlin film fest
- German kidnapped in Yemen by tribesmen
03 February
- Bayern beat Frankfurt in 5-0 home win
- 'Plagiarism' minister to take Vatican post
- Porsche board faces €1.8 billion lawsuit
- Tower block demolished, clean-up begins
- The WWI photo album of a German soldier
- Court jails fake prince for rape and fraud
- German ministries hit in 16 million email theft
- Hackers file complaint against government
- Industry boss: 'Too many students harm economy'
- Dying man’s appeal to find his kids goes viral
- Germany lukewarm over UK-EU treaty change
- 21 phrases to help you get on in a German office
04 February
- Couple 'chained teen to floor to go shopping'
- Storm warning as winter pauses with 11C high
- Germany to 'sell Egypt two more subs'
- Ukraine calls in German ambassador
- German engineering suffers a tough year
- The pain of Merkel's S&M government
- Turkey urges German support for EU bid
- Drug addict bank robber 'wanted to go to jail'
- Elephant hunter becomes agriculture boss
- TUI cancels all dolphin and orca show trips
- NSA 'tapped Gerhard Schröder's phone too'
05 February
- 'Minimum wage could encourage moonlighting'
- Lauda outraged by Schumacher mag cover
- School shooting victims to share €2m insurance
- Passengers stuck on lost bus as flight leaves
- US ambassador: Merkel phone tap was stupid
- German tourists stay close to home on holiday
- Who are Germany's Sochi Olympic hotshots?
- Tax evaders dash to beat prosecution clock
- Germany to increase troop numbers in Mali
06 February
- Energy bosses reveal 800km power link route
- Daimler enjoys record €9 billion profit
- Stars head to capital for Berlinale film festival
- 'I listen to what the deer tell me - and I answer'
- Parents fined for letting daughter have sex
- Mother and two sons die in refugee home fire
- 'Champagne socialist' mayor loses his fizz
- Court grants EU migrants German jobless benefits
- President: UN Security Council needs reform
- Fare dodger flees into tunnel to escape fine
- Businessman sues police for car theft
07 February
- Police hold woman, 76, for cocaine birthday bash
- Merkel ally quits over tax scandal
- German trade surplus hits record level
- German doctors save man thanks to 'House'
- Merkel toppled from popularity throne
- Berlin struggles to find successful migrants
- Germany blasts sweary US diplomat for EU dig
- Girl, six, among three killed in explosion
- Satire, scandal, soldiers - the week in pictures
08 February
- German tourist, 76, shot dead in Venezuela
- 'Canadian Psycho' witnesses to be heard
09 February
- German rich and famous in taxman's crosshairs
- German literary ménage-a-trois opens at Berlinale
- Steinmeier in surprise Afghanistan visit
- Dortmund run riot, but life's a pitch for Bayern
10 February
- Loch takes Germany's first gold at Sochi Games
- Jewish ghetto workers to get better pensions
- Car 'arrests' man who broke in to steal
- Arson boy 'did not realize the fire could kill'
- Swiss vote 'a warning sign for Europe'
- Germany 'normalizes' as house prices rise
- Höfl-Riesch defends Olympic ski title
- Monkey stud moved after making 50 babies
- ADAC head jumps before being pushed
- Tortured Ukrainian can come to Germany
11 February
- Jailed band members: We never left Pussy Riot
- Crash shunts traffic reporter to internet fame
- Mother and daughter die in Argentina bus smash
- Polar bear dies after eating coat and bag
- 'Immigration flood hasn’t happened'
- 'Angela's anger at US may help wrong side'
- Social Democrats 'have more weight' in coalition
- Thieves nick Lewandowski's wheels
- MP: raids on my office were not for child porn
- Underarm pepper spray mix-up clears club
12 February
- Nazi looted art law could aid returns
- Schumacher 'has lung infection' in coma
- Estranged offspring must fund parental care
- German budget flights to take wing this year
- Ten face charges over Love Parade disaster
- Allianz invests €110 million in FC Bayern
- Punk's €64,000 TV quiz prize will go to tax man
- Israeli MPs storm out of German 'lies' speech
- Ten German dating dangers to dodge
13 February
- Bayern Munich hammer Hamburg 5-0
- Motorway pile-up kills two, injures eight
- Drone scandal costs another €200 million
- Commerzbank returns to profit, revenues slump
- Berlin's Schönefeld airport 'to stay open'
- SPD leaders knew about child porn allegations
- Postal service 'spied on worker with cancer'
- Police swoop on black market site 'Utopia'
- Merkel jet gatecrasher: I don't remember anything
- Skier beats cancer, returns to Winter Games
- Horse moves into home and won't leave
- Schumacher's family: We still believe in recovery
14 February
- Germany tops medal table thanks to luge stars
- Lufthansa expands in-flight electronic usage
- Axe-wielding teens raid Munich jewellers
- Global 'British grub' map satisfies expat cravings
- German economy grows faster than expected
- The Local launches new expat dating service
- Thousands form human chain in Dresden
- Blog outing online racists causes a stir
- Nazis 'wanted to use mosquitoes as a weapon'
- German flag goes viral in China as sex trade sign
- Child porn scandal: Minister quits over leak
- Monkeys, mischief and marches - in pictures
15 February
- Schumacher has beaten lung infection: report
- Germany debates draft law on Nazi-looted art
16 February
- Asian cinema triumphs at Berlin film festival
- Bayern batter Freiburg to extend title lead
- Germany bids to counter US spying threat
- Merkel 'blocks Greek aid' ahead of EU elections
- Ukraine opposition to ask Germany for EU cash
17 February
- Safety breaches ruled out in Schumacher crash
- Merkel targets Facebook in Euro-web privacy push
- Bling bishop used charity millions for HQ: report
- Thrifty ministers sleep in offices to save cash
- Germans beat Brits to world naked sledging title
- Child porn scandal sparks coalition crisis
- Trainee pilot 'wanted to crash plane'
- Freelancing in Germany - nine tips to survive
- Art recluse Gurlitt fights back with website launch
- Ten best moments of the Berlinale film festival
18 February
- Air pollution 'kills 47,000 a year'
- Merkel meets Klitschko, welcomes amnesty
- Naked child photos 'difficult to ban'
- Forecasters: Winter is over, 14C highs this week
- Court jails ex-mayor for Rwandan massacre
- Prosecutors probe ex-minster in Edathy affair
- 'Morning-after-pill law is a barrier for women'
- Germany’s super train arrives - two years late
- Merkel comes to Swiss defence over poll
- Sugar giants fined €280m for price fixing
19 February
- Bayer Leverkusen lose 4-0 to Paris Saint-Germain
- Thousands of euros shredded by accident
- Firefighters called to 160 false alarms in one home
- Greenpeace dumps coal ahead of Merkel meet
- Amateur treasure hunter finds Roman gold hoard
- Defence staff pay out €55m, boss not told
- Germany's seven scariest children's stories
- France and Germany to send brigade to Mali
- Merkel: We feel for Ukraine victims
- Mayor to restrict sex trade in prostitution town
20 February
- Mother gagged and buried in concrete
- Wife gets six years for marriage misery killing
- TUI dolphin show ban is for Germans only
- Green light for Munich airport expansion
- German cities top world quality of life rankings
- Professor quits over Swiss 'xenophobia'
- Police arrest 'former Auschwitz SS guards'
- German pastor in Kiev: We feel hopeless
- Bamberg trials bin bottle aid
- Wages fall for first time since crash
21 February
- Security staff struggle to track Islamists
- Scientists: Antarctic ice melt 'top threat'
- 'Tug of Germany matches the pull of home'
- Experts fear mild weather mosquito swarm
- German Olympian suspected of doping
- MPs agree own €800 monthly pay-rise
- Fresh Frankfurt strikes ground flights
- Ukrainians: German sanction threat 'too slow'
- Schröder to Merkel: know when to leave
- Spring, strikes and treasure: in pictures
22 February
- Volkswagen offers €6.7bn to snap up Scania
- Athlete's home searched after doping shock
- Schumacher showing 'responses' says Massa
23 February
- Merkel backs Kerry's US Middle East peace bid
- Scania owners reject Volkswagen takeover bid
- US 'steps up' spying against 320 Germans
- Merkel and Putin agree on Ukraine territory
24 February
- Löw worries over injured stars ahead of World Cup
- Germany's best minds leave the country
- 'The predictability here can be comforting'
- Bavarians invent world's first 'smart gun'
- Brit missing for three years found in Munich
- 'Supergeil' supermarket ad goes viral
- German firms hit 2.5-year confidence high
- Rising biathlete star, 19, dies
- Thousands exit Germany for Bulgaria and Romania
- Tymoshenko to head to Germany for treatment
25 February
- Police 'powerless' to stop phones at the wheel
- German public finances in black for second year
- Merkel: Israeli settlement a 'grave concern'
- Edathy: 'Probe against me is wrong'
- Top drugs officer 'had €250k of cocaine'
- Daughter kills mum, lives with body for two weeks
- German answer to 'The Office' a movie smash
- Four things Germany must now do for Ukraine
- Far-right complains over president 'loony' label
- Does Germany need to do more to stop racism?
26 February
- Brits and Germans: Give us more power over EU
- 'Mein Kampf' signed by Hitler to be auctioned
- Police appeal over teens' jewellery store axe raid
- Adidas pulls 'sex trade' World Cup T-shirts
- Court boosts fringe parties' election hopes
- Which subjects are German unis best at?
- Doctors criticized for 'cannabis can kill' study
- Five best (and five worst) German flashmobs ever
- Former Olympic athlete 'kills son then himself'
- Germany's tallest hotel planned for Berlin
- JobTalk: The Local's guide to working in Germany
27 February
- Schalke lose 6-1 at home to Real Madrid
- British Embassy road may open after 11 years
- Germany rejects Greek Jews' WWII claim
- Court clears ex-president of 'favours' charges
- Leipzig zoo's baby gorilla strolls into the limelight
- 'Cameron's red carpet reeks of desperation'
- Karneval festivities kick off in Rhineland
- Merkel: UK must stay in EU but reform unlikely
- 'Giant marbles' could power our homes
- Second oldest church in Germany uncovered
- Germany has 'greatest inequality in eurozone'
28 February
- Expats urged to register in time for EU elections
- Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' copies sell for €47,000
- Forecasters: No sign of winter's return
- US troop withdrawals spark German job losses
- Police to press charges against 'Heil Hitler' MEP
- Retail sales rise at fastest rate for seven years
- Berlin 'deeply concerned' about Ukraine tension
- Karneval cooking to impress German friends
- Two women killed in attacks on law firms
- Cologne's controversial cardinal resigns