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

01 August
- Environment Agency urges fast fracking ban
- 100 years ago, Germans celebrated war's outbreak
- Germany crowned U19 European Champions
- Lost goat halts Munich Airport trains
- Two thirds of Berlin's tourist flats now illegal
- Lightning rods further delay Berlin Airport
- 'Look at those German shanty towns!'
- Merkel's party mutinies over tax cuts
- Dead beggar 'ignored' for hours at Majorca airport
- Two die in Bremen plane crash
- German hospitals ready for Ebola patients
02 August
- 35 hurt as trains collide in southern Germany
- Germany remembers first soldiers killed in WWI
03 August
- French socialist slams Germany over EU top job
04 August
- Gauck and Hollande mark WWI anniversary
- Germany scraps major arms deal with Russia
- 'Bling Bishop' moves into luxury Bavarian flat
- Platforms cleared after Mannheim train crash
- French scramble jet after German's wayward flight
- Foreigner road toll 'breaks EU law'
- Give foreigners the vote, says SPD chief
- Muslim shooting king could be stripped of title
- Can you escape work emails on holiday?
- Police plan to slash football match presence
05 August
- Berlin start-ups seek red tape help
- Russia could sue over German arms deal
- Do more to boost growth, Hollande tells Germany
- How World War I changed Germany forever
- Guru and mum refused sick son medicine
- Ecclestone bribery case dropped for $100 million
- Labour minister calls for 'anti-stress law'
- German justice ridiculed over Ecclestone case
- German general injured in Afghanistan attack
- Discrimination watchdog attacks shooting club
06 August
- Over 100,000 foreigners get German citizenship
- Soldier arrested for World Cup killing
- Police raid homes in child abuse probe
- 'Language sets north Germans apart'
- Ecclestone: 'The judge had no other choice'
- Nine German treats to enjoy (and one to avoid)
- Germany rejects French economic criticism
- Pony-drawn wheelchair ride ends in injury
- Honest teens rewarded for handing in €12,000
- Schumacher record theft suspect hangs himself
- Husband kills wife, mother and himself
07 August
- Islam 'does not belong in German society' - poll
- Russia bans German food imports for a year
- Muslim shooting king can keep title
- Israel calls on Germany to police Gaza border
- Bayern Munich's USA tour ends in resentment
- Hamburg blog exposes bike lane blocks
- Salafist threatens US nuclear facility
- Air Berlin plane loses wheel on landing
- From punk photographer to Berghain bouncer
- Iraq conflict resounds on German streets
08 August
- Football eagle wins first round of legal fight
- Justice minister plans new data fencing law
- Merkel government enjoys mass popularity
- 'Not funny' porn photos shock shoppers
- Dealing with my German Hausmeister
- 'Why should I take my kippah off?'
- Calls grow to raise sex worker age limit
- 1 in 4 plagiarized tech goods made in Germany
- German MH17 victim among 21 identified
- Bank rejects €25m Ecclestone settlement
09 August
- Berlin seeks names of secret service agents
- Germany backs joint Gaza truce declaration
10 August
- Russia push into Ukraine 'unacceptable': Germany
- German coalition bickers over arms exports
11 August
- Rwanda tests suspected German Ebola case
- 'Give the poor free holiday vouchers'
- Cyclone fells trees and rips off roofs
- Calls grow for Germany to step up Iraq role
- Vandals cut internet to 160,000 Berlin homes
- Two Germans die on Norwegian glacier
- Abandoned Berlin theme park burned down
- What are the triggers for work stress?
- German team loses top World Cup scorer Klose
- Minister: stay clear of poison picnic plates
- Lufthansa suspends flights to Kurdish Iraq
12 August
- Police: fire in Berlin mosque was 'accident'
- Trial of 'serial Autobahn shooter' begins
- Sharp rise in EU jobless in Germany
- Sandcastles verboten on German beach
- 'Erdogan's Turkey has no place in Europe'
- Survey: Germans obsessed with games
- German student tests negative for Ebola
- Germany sends non-lethal aid to Iraqi army
- Berlin seniors battle Swedish property giant
- Four suspects arrested for theme park arson
- In Pictures: The Local's Property of the Week
13 August
- Global turmoil hits German economy
- Auto-mad Germans stuck in electric car slow lane
- Berlin Wall anniversary forgotten by many
- Merkel: we must keep talking to Putin
- Father on trial for murdering step-daughter
- Top ten reasons to learn German
- German artists admit New York flag stunt
- 'I saw them build the Wall step by step'
- Wax goalie Neuer joins Madame Tussaud's
14 August
- Man has lucky escape from sex accident
- German economy puts on the squeeze
- Deadly Danish meat sold to Germany
- Steinmeier considers weapons exports to Iraq
- Miroslav Klose: 71 goals wins us over
- Treasure hunter facing jail time over golden find
- Flock flees Church over tax and opulence shock
- Record wind power growth before curbs start
- Berlin bans Uber app, taxis rejoice
- Largest German lake spills its deepest secrets
15 August
- Merkel won't rule out weapons aid to Iraq
- Missing 3.5-tonne Lenin head thwarts expo
- Authors take up fight against Amazon
- Party tourists under fire in 'cool Berlin'
- New to international school? Tips from a pro
- Organ donation hits all-time low after scandal
- Ailing Karstadt chain sold for €1 (again)
- Broadband-for-all quest to get cash injection
- Child dies on amusement park ride
- Police mood darkens over soccer fan duties
16 August
- Merkel tells Putin to stop sending arms to Ukraine
- German secret service 'spied on Clinton': report
- Mertesacker hangs up Germany boots
- Hundreds turn out for Berlin Wall ultramarathon
17 August
- Germany spied on John Kerry: report
- EU pleads with Germany to let wages rise
- Dubai bars world's most pierced man
- Brit sets record for Berlin Wall ultramarathon
18 August
- Steinmeier hosts 'frank' Ukraine summit
- Germans rescued from drowned holiday cruise
- 'Wild Wilma' blows summer away
- Flight delays grow as refunds stand to drop
- Knowing your right to surf at work
- 'First dissident' of GDR dies at 93
- Pop-up garden springs up in Berlin
- Turkey demands 'stop spying on us'
- Naked woman removed from stranger's bed
- Warning system planned against 'ghost drivers'
19 August
- Few workers in on new visa rules
- Merkel to visit Kiev after NATO Baltic summit
- Party leader demands Lenin's head
- Wild Wilma's gusts claims two lives
- German journalists arrested in Ferguson
- Tribes, ties and a movie: A German's Afghan life
- Uber drives on in Berlin
- Malaria behind Berlin 'Ebola' scare
- BER capacity already 'too small' at 2016 launch
- Police free hedgehog, natural order restored
20 August
- Saxony schools get top marks
- Bomb shuts down A3 motorway
- German aid planes to Iraq delayed
- China orders German's execution for murders
- Energy policy falls foul of federal auditors
- 10 things to do before summer is really over
- Germany ready to send arms to Iraqi Kurds
- Quick-thinking trucker stops wrong-way driver
- Dying town centres seek the miracle cure
- Merkel targets 'shadow banks' in Lindau speech
21 August
- Families find solace and help with seniors
- Opposition calls for arms export debate
- Amazon 'should not endanger diversity'
- Nuts and bolts of being a piercing king
- Doctor arrested over medical test 'rape' photos
- 80,000 trainee jobs empty as Germans opt for uni
- More Germans seek assisted dying abroad
- Merkel tops Putin hot-line call queue
- BVB seeks cash to match Bayern
- Siemens lands €650m Norway wind power deal
22 August
- False teeth of the dead: finders keepers?
- Trial of cannibalism fetish cop to begin
- Germany sues Swiss bank over missing marks
- Heart centre accused of fiddling transplant list
- Newborn white lion cubs are pride of the circus
- He'll take my name: yes he's really sure!
- Defence chief shot down over shooting quip
- Ice bucket challenge gets dumped on Germany
- Crimea annexation unnerves Germans: Poll
- Size does matter in this case, rules judge
23 August
- Bayern kick off title defence with win
- Merkel & Obama fire warning to Russia
24 August
- France blasts Germany for 'austerity policy'
- Merkel: New sanctions against Russia possible
- Nine seconds: Bellarabi scores fastest goal
- Germany approves Algeria arms factory deal
- Isis 'releases kidnapped German'
25 August
- Man arrested over Alexanderplatz killing
- Merkel: Ukraine solution mustn't harm Russia
- Rosberg booed for Hamilton crash
- Germany crowned World Champions again
- Germans fill spare time with work
- Man gives Hitler salute at concentration camp
- Lufthansa pilots could ruin your holiday plans
- Germany sends burgers and sausages to Kurds
- Germans could pay for EU unemployed
- Elk freed from Dresden office building
- German woman killed by Tunisian police
26 August
- Germany: EU austerity drive not over yet
- Has salt water ever tasted so good?
- August snows return to Germany's highest peak
- Study shows poverty isn't the same old story
- Wowereit confirms December resignation
- German climber (60) dies in fall in Tyrol alps
- How will Berlin look in five years' time?
- Anti-stress law moves step closer in Germany
- Former Porsche execs to stand trial over VW bid
27 August
- Germany to lock out 'cheating' EU migrants
- Police find €20 million of cannabis in woods
- Ebola patient treated at Hamburg hospital
- Want to avoid driving fines? Swap seats
- Ten of the oddest things found at border control
- Has Germany learned lessons of NSU failures?
- Uber pushes expansion despite legal pitfalls
- Merkel accuses Isis of genocide
28 August
- Berlin's most expensive flat sells for €5.7 million
- Pilots' strike over, but disruption continues
- Germany sends six soldiers to Iraq
- Police suspect arsonists were behind mosque fire
- What's next for East Berlin?
- Greens boss films ice challenge with cannabis
- Berlin struggles to sell former Goebbels villa
- Germany posts weaker job figures
- Arson attack causes Berlin train chaos
- Has Merkel's Russia policy failed?
29 August
- Germany's brain drain is Europe's gain
- Animal activist fights off murder threats
- England-Germany rivals drawn in Champs League
- 'Further sanctions' could hit Russia, says Merkel
- Man narrowly escapes unwelcome drop-in
- S-Bahn arson in support of refugees, group claims
- Security fears block Germany-Israel match
- Student busted in case of misdelivered hash
- 'German bosses need to praise more'
- Court rules against child porn suspect Edathy
30 August
- Stakes rise in Oracle-SAP copyright fight
31 August
- Anti-euro party to debut in state parliament
- Berlin to open memorial to Nazis' disabled victims
- Anti-euro AfD nears 10 percent in state election