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

01 April
- German hostage in Yemen shown on TV
- Boy, 13, found dead on Berlin train tracks
- Ten of Germany's best traditions
- German secret service moves into new HQ
- Is this Germany's biggest burger?
- April Fool: The Local's day in gags
- 'Porn industry comes out best from this race row'
- Environment minister: Make fracking illegal
- Berlin airport will 'cost €8 billion and open in 2017'
- Asylum seeker forces plane to land in Munich
- Basic problem solving too hard for German kids
02 April
- Bayern happy with Manchester draw
- Jobless foreigner rise puts plans in doubt
- Airports hit by Lufthansa pilots' strike
- Germany's eight best April Fools' stories
- Cabinet approves national minimum wage
- Ai Weiwei art exhibition to open in Berlin
- Cemetery creates first lesbian-only burial area
- Town bans parents from calling child 'Wikileaks'
- Late night World Cup screenings get go-ahead
- Man jailed for torturing girlfriend to death
03 April
- Three killed as car ploughs into truck
- Germany wants key role in Africa security
- 'They have rights but not a three-day strike'
- Court: Doctor 'injected meds without consent'
- How important is Russia to Germany?
- VP of EU parliament charged over crash death
- Men fined for wearing East German shirts
- Red Saharan dust cloud reaches Germany
- 'I tend not to stand around in my underwear'
- Hackers steal details of 18 million email accounts
04 April
- Russia rebukes Germany over 'Hitler' remark
- Job centre must pay for dad to fly to Indonesia
- Germany fifth best place in world to be young
- Skydiver dies in record breaking attempt
- Seehofer: I slept through Merkel phone call
- German photographer killed in Afghanistan
- A Bavarian farewell tour in food
- Schumacher shows signs of waking from coma
- Berlin's squats are at your service
- Pilots, prisons, tragedy - seven days in pics
- Boy, 5, finds treasure trove hidden in pond
05 April
- Germany's outsiders stun France in Davis Cup
06 April
- Germany seeks to curb union power over strikes
- Bayern suffer first league defeat in 54 matches
- Hitler's wife 'may have had Jewish ancestry'
07 April
- ZDF pulls plug on TV show Wetten, dass...?
- NPD leader resigns over birthday cake
- The ten best German firms to work for
- VIDEO: Bionic kangaroo hops like the real thing
- CDU threatens to pull plug on early retirement
- Train staff face record level of violence
- Has your email account been hacked?
- Half of young Germans binge drink regularly
- Judge 'sold thousands of law exam answers'
- Police search for seven stolen pregnant cows
08 April
- Germany worried by eastern Ukraine flare-up
- Injured reporter flown to Germany
- Caffeine 'can help against Alzheimer's'
- 'World's oldest' message in a bottle arrives home
- New Berlin airport 'needs €1.1-billion bailout'
- Hiker spends 24 hours stuck in flooded cave
- Green light for renewable energy switch reform
- Nobby and Nela - Munich names polar bear cubs
- End anti-Roma racism: German Amnesty boss
- Clashes in Berlin as refugees tear down camp
09 April
- Germany outlaws 'Hezbollah fundraisers'
- Borussia Dortmund out of Champions League
- Minister faces PhD plagiarism allegations
- Germans reject Nato intervention in Ukraine
- Merkel denied access to own NSA file
- How drone ships could work without crews
- Prosecutors to return artworks to Gurlitt
- German inventions - 10 you use very day and didn't know it
- Lawyer paid office staff €1.60 an hour
- Germans want more German in the EU
- Munich unveils nudist bathing spots
10 April
- Bayern Munich crush Man United's hopes
- Asylum seekers up 80 percent in a year
- 'Satanists' on trial for taxi driver murder
- US and Germany clash on trade pact standards
- Germany to charge foreign drivers from 2016
- Carer took photos of the dead for WhatsApp chat
- Why did head of NSA probe quit?
- Police hunt Manchester United fans over attack
- Mailman keeps tallest flats in Germany posted
11 April
- Hitler's face printed on 5,000 coffee mugs
- Inflation hits lowest level since 2010
- Heartbleed programmer says he made a mistake
- Two killed in mountain plane crash
- School kids hospitalized after 'porno' party
- Where are the eggs, please?
- 'I'll get even with my old pal Schwarzenegger'
- Haribo loses battle of the bears to Lindt
- Merkel 'believes' in Greece after reforms
- Munich police arrest Man United fans at airport
12 April
- Ukraine crisis could unite US, EU: Schäuble
13 April
- Energy efficiency boosts German tech exports
14 April
- Schumacher shows 'small signs of progress'
- German space centre 'attacked by spies'
- Coalition argues over Saudi Arabia tank deal
- Why you should teach English in Germany
- Could London's bus-only streets work in Berlin?
- 330,000 sign up against TV licence fee
- 'The mafia has infiltrated every sector in Germany'
- Germany warns of war in Europe
- Refugee lives in a tree after camp torn down
- Germany shuts scheme for young unemployed
15 April
- Thieves clean out casinos with software
- Air Berlin cancels flights to Sharm el-Sheikh
- Woman decomposed on bathroom floor
- 'Dangerously high dust levels' hit big cities
- Elderly man taped €200,000 to his genitals
- German economy enjoying 'solid upturn'
- WWI colour photos go on display in Berlin
- Why Germany should stop arming the world
16 April
- 'Free range' chicken farmer tricks customers
- Private health insurance not worth it for workers
- Biology pupils find horse in kebab meat test
- Nine ways to celebrate Easter like a German
- Olympic stadium could be giant polling station
- Germany warns Ukraine talks must not fail
- Petition fails to remove WWII Russian tanks
- Thousands of tax evaders come forward to declare
- Upper Bavaria boasts lowest EU unemployment
- Ex-minister jailed over F1 race track scandal
17 April
- Zalando hits back after undercover report
- Bayern and Dortmund to face off for German Cup
- Child's near death sparks row over refugee homes
- Crystal meth use hits record level
- Customs find smuggled cash in every third car
- SPD: Restore 45-percent investment tax
- Study: rape convictions fall sharply
- Berlin man must call himself a mother
- Highs of 22C forecast for Easter weekend
- New app helps clients find prostitutes
18 April
- German court jails Somali pirate for 12 years
- Croatia extradites ex-top spy to Germany
19 April
- Tennis aces close in on Fed Cup final
20 April
- Germany should make use of shale gas: EU
- German ladies net Fed Cup final appearance
22 April
- Cologne secure return to Bundesliga
- Parents' house burnt as son went clubbing
- Union bosses call for later starts in World Cup
- Police damage own water cannon with eggs
- Tax income hits March record
- Who should pay for Germany’s roads?
- German rapper-turned-jihadist 'killed in Syria'
- 'Fracking won't save Germany from Putin'
- Girls find live munition in Easter bonfire
- 'If Britain goes, Europe is lost'
23 April
- Exchange student 'murderer' stays silent
- Germany's oldest woman dies aged 112
- Jobless benefits to get leaner and meaner
- Russian spies step up activity in Germany
- Swedish heroes save German mauled by shark
- Feminist's apartment advert goes viral
- German beer culture in 11 gulps
- Munich to get 'Tetris cube' hotel
- Germany sold €40 million of arms to Russia
- April wraps up with stormy week ahead
24 April
- Where are Germany's smartest towns?
- Truck kills man lying in middle of road
- Germany halts arms sales to Russia
- Turkey tourists lose call to prayer refund bid
- Minister praises Erasmus 'success story'
- Ecclestone lawyers: Bribes never happened
- Cheap flights get pricier as airlines expand
- CDU candidate forced to remove Turkish logo
- 'It's important people are confronted with cancer'
- Minister's jet grounded twice in a month
25 April
- Dortmund's Klopp rules out Man United job again
- State checks more bank accounts than ever
- Berlin's best street art - in pictures
- Mix-up meant man died metres from hospital
- Murder squad called to undertaker's car
- Meet the Fuggers - Germany's great trading family
- Easter and Ecclestone - seven days in pictures
- Eurosceptic AfD party weeds out spy
- Leaked cables show US fears over RAF terror
- Merkel mulls fresh sanctions on Russia
26 April
- German drones save Bambis from farmers
- Four Germans held hostage in Ukraine
27 April
- Retailer Zalando under fire over work conditions
- Siemens ready to talk with French Alstom
- Finance minister: Taxes could be cut
- Author Stefanie Zweig dies aged 81
28 April
- Protesters stop neo-Nazi march after 200 metres
- Court jails 'Nutella gang' for 15 years
- Court bans Muslim pupil from wearing face veil
- Germany condemns Ukraine hostage capture
- Bundesbank warns of German slowdown
- Three bodies found in fire mystery
- The jobs most likely to make you sick
- Germany: Berlusconi Holocaust claim 'absurd'
- Tag of WWI soldier returned 100 years on
- Mystery wax clumps wash up on Rügen beach
29 April
- Priest asks Pope to waive his celibacy vow
- Germans fret over Ukraine, Schröder parties
- Flood victim claims €6,000 for lost boots
- US man shoots German student, 17, dead
- Berlin's airports are 'operating at their limit'
- Scientists make rocket fuel from sunlight
- 'I du not Sie the point of the German you'
- Turkish PM: German president is just a pastor
- Germany's most bizarre EU election posters
- Can an airport be named after Rommel?
30 April
- Pep: Bayern Munich thrashing was my fault
- Who spends the most in luxury Berlin?
- Police fear for three missing Germans
- EU's eastward expansion 'created 1m German jobs'
- Groom 'kills bride' ten days before wedding
- Germany to probe exchange student death
- Germany: Hostage talks with militia 'difficult'
- Living in Germany - 10 signs you've been in Germany too long
- Bull bolts from abattoir, runs into butcher's shop
- Why do Germans celebrate April 30th?