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

01 October
- Fault forces Germany to cut Eurofighters
- City starts beer for alcoholics project
- German firms top EU lobbying list
- Merkel's VIP jet set to fly soldiers home
- Nestle wins the food prize no one wants
- Berlin flights disrupted by WWII bomb find
- Refugee abuse guards 'nicknamed the SS'
- Cabinet agrees cap on city rent rises
- Victims of GDR regime get benefit boost
- Eight expat groups to save you in Germany
02 October
- Germany ranks third in world university list
- Organized crime on the rise in Germany
- Cars set on fire across Berlin overnight
- How good is Germany for the elderly?
- Rocket Internet shares disappoint on first day
- Expats in Berlin walk Wall for refugees
- Second Ebola patient to arrive in Germany
- How 12 words helped bring down the Wall
- SoundCloud faces wave of jihadi postings
- Train drivers vote in favour of strikes
03 October
- Berlin approves arms exports to Arab states
- Authors to talk politics at world's top book fair
- Doctor hospitalized for Ebola in Germany
04 October
- Unions set up shop at US Daimler plant
05 October
- German aid convoy heads to Ukraine
- Guardiola happy with ever-improving Bayern
06 October
- Kohl rushes to block embarrassing book
- Schumacher Jr. second in kart championship
- Refugee firm 'knew' about guard abuse
- External audit grounds military expansion plans
- What you can get out of a German job expo
- Grindr art project stirs Berlin LGBTQ anger
- Six million beers, 720 arrests, 48 lost kids
- VW looks to robots to replace retiring boomers
- Union plans further train strikes over pay
- German soldiers begin training Kurds
- End of the line for ADAC Postbus?
07 October
- Train drivers to strike for nine hours
- Israelis urged to enjoy the cheap life in Berlin
- Six hurt in Muslim-Yazidi mass brawl
- Industrial output collapse blamed on holidays
- Firefighters battle blaze in Munich Old Town
- How rocky is Germany's economy?
- Novelist Siegfried Lenz dies aged 88
- Schumacher's condition 'improving'
- BMW family shoots to top of German rich list
08 October
- Internet spies greatest threat to freedom: poll
- Train strike over but delays continue
- Kurds and Islamists brawl in Hamburg
- Germany unable to fly Ebola patients home
- Photos: Astronaut Gerst completes space walk
- German scientist wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
- 11 things other countries warn about Germany
- Where are the happiest places in Germany?
- Liberian Ebola patient arrives in Leipzig
09 October
- Where tax goes: fish farms and frog tunnels
- German exports plummet €5 billion in August
- 330 kg of heroin found in pickle shipment
- Bavarian farmer diapers cow over EU rules plan
- 215 countries, 26 years and one engine
- Massive police presence calms Hamburg tensions
- Leipzig marks Monday Demo anniversary
- Merkel open to drones in Ukraine
- Police lose scent of cheese heist thieves
- This man rode the Berlin U-Bahn in eight hours
10 October
- 'We were too afraid to go out that night'
- 'Reform free travel zone to fight jihadists'
- 'Liberty isn't free, we need German support'
- Petition seeks to save famous Berlin street art
- Quiz: How good is your Denglisch?
- Should police ban Kurdish marches?
- Munich man wakes up next to dead partner
- Merkel welcomes China's entire cabinet to Berlin
- 'I was at anti-Semitism rally. Now what?'
- One in three nuclear waste barrels damaged
- Munich refugees put up in Oktoberfest tents
11 October
- German aid worker freed after two-year ordeal
- Amazon's might divides Frankfurt book fair
- Germany to help Malawi probe 'Cashgate' scandal
12 October
- Li moots China creativity, innovation boost
- Poland claim historic win over Germany
- Thousands of Kurds protest against Isis
- Bad news for eurozone puts Germany in focus
13 October
- Merkel 'wants to extend Afghan mission'
- Löw: Euro qualification will not be a problem
- Google: 25,000 Germans want to be forgotten
- Attackers throw Molotov cocktails at asylum home
- Ebola 'prankster' shuts down Berlin bar
- Greens: Send German ground troops to Syria
- Hunter shoots hunter in Bavarian mishap
- Campaigners attack lax lobby rules
- Germany has 50 beds ready for Ebola cases
- How to get hired at a Berlin startup
14 October
- Union ready for more train strikes this week
- Bavarian court employs far-right magistrate
- Dirty scalpels found at university hospital
- Germany cheapest for expat home comforts
- UN worker dies of Ebola in Leipzig clinic
- Islamist heads to Syria despite electronic tag
- Should Germany start spending?
- Man in carnival mask robs Berlin bank
- Schürrle out of qualifier, Kroos goes Scottish
- 'Isis threat to Germany deserves more attention'
- Train drivers to strike on Wednesday for 14 hours
15 October
- What's killing all the North Sea seals?
- 'Naive' Germany can't overcome the Irish
- Rail boss attacks 'brazen' union over strike
- Body of Leipzig Ebola victim burnt overnight
- 'Neo-Nazi' magistrate quits Bavarian post
- Berlin robbers hand back uncool mobile phone
- 11 things Germans are afraid of...
- Refugees to live in tents at Oktoberfest site
- Swedes want €4.7 billion for nuclear shutdown
- EU’s new digital boss: 'I can use an iPhone'
16 October
- Dozens of complaints against refugee guards
- Germany pledges €85 million for Ebola fight
- Trains return to normal after 14-hour strike
- German jihadist in Syria threatens 'filthy' Merkel
- Germanwings pilots walkout for 12 hours
- Yemeni sues Germany over US drone strikes
- Crash gives pigs brief reprieve from slaughter
- Skilled migrants want to stay long-term
- The man who stopped Germany's trains
17 October
- German couple 'took child to Syria jihad'
- Merkel and Putin in late night Ukraine meet
- Tourist beaten up and robbed in Berlin
- Deutsche Bahn makes pay offer to train drivers
- Police stop slow truck and find two tigers
- Bundeswehr drones can't handle Ukraine winter
- German hostages freed in Philippines
- UKIP ‘seeks EU pact’ with German satirical party
18 October
- ID cards to be seized to stop jihadist travel
- Freed hostages back at German embassy
- Rail strike cripples Germany's train lines
- Michael Müller will be Berlin's next mayor
19 October
- Klopp slams Dortmund as slump continues
- Academic makes Twitter splash saying 'Nein'
- German dies after trying to take ravine photos
- Lufthansa pilots to strike for 35 hours
20 October
- French retread path to Berlin finance ministry
- Criminals blow Berlin Sparkasse wide open
- Foreigner toll to hit motorways only
- Buses up prices, football fans brawl, trains return
- 'There's no room but we have nowhere else to go'
- Four arrested in raids against Isis
- Single parents, common law families on rise
- 'It's only an internship if you're learning'
- Nazi-stolen painting put on display, sort of
- Steinmeier wants epidemic task force
21 October
- Merkel tells allies to pay Ukraine's gas debts
- Lufthansa strike hits 1,500 flights
- Tanker fills up gas station with wrong fuel
- Expat's family battles for answers four years on
- Tourist finds €7,500 instead of cheesecake
- Court: Germany can keep arms deals secret
- Older workers can have extra days off, court says
- Do German unions have too much power?
- Fourth time lucky for free Berlin WiFi?
22 October
- Indian schools drop German teaching
- Nazi U-boat wreck found off US coast
- 7:1! Bayern celebrate record in Rome
- Tourists stranded on cable car over Rhine
- Syria-bound US teens stopped in Frankfurt
- North braces for storms and floods
- Which high school cliche is your city?
- Satirist lives the dream on EU gravy train
- Kerry's challenge to Russia at Berlin Wall
23 October
- Man leaps with son, 5, from third-floor window
- US adds voice to chorus telling Germany to spend
- Hamburg volunteers test Ebola vaccine
- Germany lags in permits for non-EU migrants
- Clueless Merkel forgets the F-word
- Woman sues for accidental pot raid
- Greenpeace finds danger in kids' clothes
- Ludwigshafen explosion kills one, injures 26
- Now Berlin turns to tents to house refugees
- Germany has just ten Ebola beds
24 October
- Spring back in German consumers' step?
- Stay inside after blast, Ludwigshafen told
- Steinmeier challenges UN over Isis gas reports
- Ex-boss of Berlin Airport farce gets €1.2m
- Germany gets €780m EU rebate for poor growth
- Climate chief hails Bonn greenhouse gas deal
- How well do you know Germany?
- Karstadt closes six stores to stay afloat
- Expats reveal another side of Berlin Wall
25 October
- Berlin slams Italy Nazi claims court ruling
- UN climate talks shuffle to a close in Bonn
26 October
- Village banks on wind, sun and pig manure
27 October
- Far-right thugs injure 44 officers in Cologne clash
- German spies warn Isis has anti-aircraft weapons
- Refugees beaten up 'by pimps' in Hamburg
- No stress for German banks, but faith falls
- Merkel: I won't support UK on EU migration
- Ludwigshafen blast: Did a cigarette do this?
- A third of the world wants to work in Germany
- Shooter, 81, avoids jail for killing teen burglar
- One German killed, one abducted in Nigeria
- Minister wants to ban hooligan protests
28 October
- Berlin airport tech chief guilty of corruption
- What will Berlin do for Syria's refugees?
- Germany will use less energy this year
- World Cup winners lead Ballon d'Or race
- 'We can't allow a proxy war on German streets'
- Who's studying the most (and least) in Germany?
- Man kills ex-girlfriend, mother and himself
- Thief distracts staff by squirting her breast milk
- Hooligans want to march in Berlin and Hamburg
- Car phone use OK when stopped at lights
29 October
- States sign Berlin deal to fight tax evasion
- Olympic chiefs want German 2024 bid
- Bundeswehr has a black hole of €300 million
- German exports to Russia dive by a quarter
- Germany slips in world business rankings
- Munich customs find 200 dead birds in a suitcase
- Eight of the best subjects to study in Germany
- Germans are wide of the mark on immigration
- German jets scrambled to face Russian planes
- Hooligan marches 'likely to be banned'
30 October
- Police in manslaughter trial over woman's death
- 'Little Berlin' remembers fall of its wall
- Soldiers get more cash and flexi-time
- Conservatives agree on foreigner road toll
- Court gives Autobahn shooter ten years' jail
- See how Berlin has changed since Wall fell
- Kidnapped German 'rescued' in Nigeria
- Jihadist caught on German shopping trip
- This professor is Putin's favourite German
31 October
- Body scanners to come to more airports
- EU promises support for Ukraine gas deal
- Police probe pupils who made Nazi salutes
- Time running out for refugees in Berlin school
- 'I'm leaving for the West, who's coming?'
- Retail sales show biggest drop for seven years
- Will our Halloween quiz give you a fright?
- PKK: banned in Germany, allies in Iraq
- Germany's estate agents plan strike action
- Finger slicer's insurance scam fails