📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2015 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- Two Germans killed in Nigeria: foreign ministry
- ECB warns against rise of populism in Europe
- Fears mount for missing German climbers
02 January
- German firms hurting over Russia sanctions
- Six stories that will grip Germany in 2015
- Draghi says price risks rising in eurozone
- CSU wants failed asylum-seekers deported faster
- Hoff's 150kmh taxi ride to make New Year gig
- New Year...New U-Bahn price hikes
- Ex-Bayern boss freed on day release
- 'Warzone' Berlin New Year video goes viral
- Merkel to fly to London for Cameron summit
- Worries over rising costs at Stuttgart project
04 January
- Merkel ready to let Greece exit eurozone: report
- Germany-bound ship runs aground off the UK
05 January
- Wolf decapitator hunted by police
- Germany tells Greece 'we can't be blackmailed'
- Audi prototype drives itself to Las Vegas
- 3,000 WW2 bombs still under Berlin
- Finally! Berlin taxis to take plastic
- Seven hour flight becomes 40 hours of hell
- Anti-Islam demos spread to Berlin
- Queen Elizabeth II to visit Germany in June
- German inflation lowest since October 2009
06 January
- Anti-semitic attack on U-Bahn
- PhDs confiscated by Nazis to be restored
- Tour de France to return to German TV
- Police put a spoke in bike thieves' wheels
- Anti-Islam demo flops in Berlin - but not just thugs
- Greece spooks investors back to German bonds
- Bum note haunts Kaiser's concert hall
- The entrepreneur behind Berlin's latest gin
- FDP pin revival hopes on...new flag
- Police give up on kangaroo hunt
07 January
- Cameron's high hopes for Merkel London visit
- Passer-by wounded in biker shootout
- Kraftwerk kick off shows at Berlin landmark
- Lufthansa can't cut it, says Ryanair boss
- Germany must do better: schools report
- Berlin plans for possible Greek euro exit: report
- German jobless rate lowest since unification
- Germany tops asylum application table: UN
- Blackface king at FDP summit angers activists
- Pro-Russian hackers: We took down Merkel's site
- Merkel condemns 'despicable' Paris attack
08 January
- Three-year-old goes on solo train ride
- Merkel brings no electoral gift for Cameron
- German satire mag hits back with penis joke
- German factory orders slump in November
- Hurricane-force winds expected at weekend
- RIP Zippe - fugitive kangaroo found dead
- 1,000 at Berlin rally for Charlie Hebdo victims
- 57 percent of Germans feel Islam is a threat: poll
- Metropolis: Grandfather of Sci-Fi Films
- Hitler's bunker to be rebuilt
- Nurse killed up to 30 patients, court hears
09 January
- Merkel rigid on easing Russia sanctions
- Stasi documents trove released online
- As Merkel offers condolences, Pegida to don black armbands
- New Snowden doc on Germany cyber war
- Gang attacks Leipzig police station
- CDU accused of bribery to block Linke
- Spanish director to open Berlin film festival
- Merkel to attend Paris mass rally on Sunday
- German ECB member sceptical on QE
10 January
- PEGIDA expects record rally on terror fears
- Tens of thousands rally against anti-Islam group
- Wolfsburg midfielder killed in car crash
11 January
- German paper hit by Hebdo arson attack
- No peace talks without progress: Merkel
- German jihadi arrested on return from Syria
- Huge crowd mourns Hebdo victims in Berlin
12 January
- French caricaturists target Pegida marchers
- Organ donor found not quite brain dead
- Iraqi Kurds may get more German weapons
- Minister wants to get tough on terrorists
- Israelis and Palestinians both love Germany
- Germans strip off for 'No Pants Subway Ride'
- Germans rediscover love affair with beer
- 'Islam belongs to Germany': Merkel
13 January
- Talks fail to set Ukraine peace summit date
- Survey shows when Germans lie most
- 100,000 march against Pegida's record turnout
- Inside Dresden's 25,000-strong Pegida march
- Schäuble gets his balanced budget early
- Police fear copycat attacks in Germany
- World's biggest ship docks in Hamburg
- Pegida favorite 'lying press' is 'Un-word 2014'
- German axe killer kept body for three months
- Not your usual job website
- Town to house refugees in concentration camp
14 January
- Gauck tells Muslims 'we are all Germany'
- BND double agent stole list of spies' aliases
- Twin earthquakes wake up Düsseldorf
- Police shoot dead suicidal armed man
- Doctor accused of abusing 13 women
- Government to issue jihadi ID cards
- Supreme Court rules on legal highs
- More women work in east than west: Study
- Munich mechanics free cat from car's engine
- Palestinians admit attack on Wuppertal synagogue
15 January
- Police investigate jihadi cell in Wolfsburg
- Men sentenced for sharing girlfriend's sexts
- Hooligans join Cologne Pegida demo
- German hospital finds rare 'obesity mutation'
- German economy beats 2014 growth predictions
- Diesel drops below €1 in parts of Germany
- Janosch the dog gets TV licence bill
- Merkel: Germany will fight Islamist extremists
- German jihadist says Isis 'will conquer Europe'
- Family wound 14 police in revenge attack
- Europe in stats: from Spain to Sweden
- A portrait of Germany in ten statistics
16 January
- Young man's 'ninja day' sows havoc in Munich
- MP files complaint after Eritrean refugee killed
- Merkel wants Greece to stay in eurozone
- Suspected Isis terrorists arrested in Berlin
- 'Leave nothing undone' in Iran talks: Steinmeier
- The rise and spread of Pegida
- 'Anti-fascist' mob rampages in Leipzig
- Camels' bid for freedom causes traffic chaos
- Balcony smoking times can be limited: court
- Bavaria police nab serial kindergarten thief
17 January
- Pegida marches possible Islamist target: report
- Berlin urges Bosnia to get back on EU path
18 January
- ECB in Germany compromise over QE
- Isis threat stops Monday Pegida march
- German MP probed for hemp plant video
19 January
- Cigarette sales drop to lowest numbers yet
- Hooligans stopped at NSU bomb vigil
- Firefighters build record truck with beer crates
- Police union doesn't have time for petty crime
- 'Francogeddon' sends city debts soaring
- Networking the world's expats
- Berlin fashion week opens amidst 'upheaval'
- Regretful Reus ready to rescue Dortmund
- Bauhaus villa scammer gets probation for plot
20 January
- Undercover agents to get crime amnesty
- Pegida fails to mobilize beyond Dresden
- ECB plans no substitute for reform: Merkel
- Bayern accidentally snub Saudi prince at dinner
- Police raid suspected Islamists' homes
- Extra copies of Charlie Hebdo to hit Germany
- Munich launches mega trial of €2.4m thieves
- How many Germans are in the one percent?
- Breeders say Pope's 'rabbits' comment 'unfair'
- Legida expects 60,000 marchers in Leipzig
21 January
- Volkswagen bested by Toyota in car sales
- Pot patient dies after police took his supply
- Pressure mounts to allow 'Stolpersteine' in Munich
- Add free Wi-Fi in trains and S-Bahn: minister
- Pegida leader's Hitler Facebook photo emerges
- Top chef checks out discount groceries
- Boris Becker's lovechild hits the runway
- Boko Haram hostage freed in Cameroon
22 January
- Train strikes cost rail operator €150m - so far
- Immigrants bring population to over 81m
- Pegida leader steps down over Hitler photo
- Ministers agree Ukraine weapons reductions
- Legida marchers attack police and journalists
- Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee
- ECB announces €1.1tn bond buying programme
- 52 years of French-German friendship
- Meet the women fighting German tabloid sexism
- Police arrest suspect in asylum seeker murder
23 January
- Get more 'gigaliners' on roads: Minister
- Merkel offers Russia free-trade agreement
- Renzi woos Merkel amid Florentine splendour
- 'Fight harder' against corruption: activists
- Court probes abuse at Catholic boarding school
- Cities see slower house price growth
- Let's officialize Muslim community: Berlin SPD
- North Korea mistakenly outraged at Berlinale
- Merkel to Greece: 'remain part of our story'
24 January
- Berlin electronica pioneer dead at 70
- ECB bond-buying 'brings risks': Weidmann
25 January
- Germany halts arms exports to Saudis
- Anti-Muslim rallies 'hurt Germany's image'
- New anti-Islam march draws 17,000 people
- Merkel phones Putin over Ukraine violence
- Deutsche Bahn wins allies in air cartel suit
26 January
- 'Stick to the plan': Germany to Greece
- Self-driving cars to hit German Autobahn
- Parties welcome Gabriel's Pegida meeting
- Give refugees holiday homes: Berlin official
- Business makes confident start to 2015
- German kids 'growing up sitting down'
- Concentration camp 'can't take more visitors'
- 'Work I love and a rewarding family life'
- Germany remembers horror of Auschwitz
27 January
- Merkel wishes Tsipras 'strength and success'
- Dresden tolerance concert draws 22,000
- Railway union threatens strike over €2
- 'No German identity without Auschwitz'
- Handball! Neuer blows whistle on wax double
- Refugees suffer over 200 attacks in 2014
- Cocaine-cop trial stuns Bavarian town
- 'Blackfacing' is Anglicism of the Year
- Sharp-eared grandma spots phone con
- Survivors call leaders to remember Auschwitz
28 January
- Germany calls on Greece to show 'fairness'
- Gates calls world to prepare for next Ebola
- Deceased farmer's family sue animal rights group
- Consumer confidence hits 13-year high
- 'No more Middle Eastern immigrants': AfD
- Government to raise child allowance by €20
- Just where do Germans spend their money?
- Pegida spokeswoman quits group: report
- No room for scooters on the bus: Court
- Russia may declare 1990 reunification illegal
29 January
- Court grants kids right to know donor fathers
- Anti-euro AfD split over Pegida ties
- Overnight raids bust up smugglers ring
- Cologne Karneval scraps Charlie Hebdo float
- Frankfurt man loses airport job over Isis links
- Jobless numbers rise to top 3 million
- Life sentences handed out in murder-for-hire
- Poland bridles at German minimum wage
- Lower energy costs tank inflation rate
- Theodor Heuss: modern Germany's first president
30 January
- Borussia coach admits to 'downward spiral'
- Germany has thousands of uni spots open
- Prost! Beer sales hop up for first gain in 8 years
- Crises make Germany EU foreign policy leader
- U-turn on minimum wage for foreign drivers
- BND collects 220 million phone records a day
- Sudden dose of winter causes traffic chaos
- AfD braces for busy conference weekend
- German ranchers murdered in Paraguay
- Wolf spotted in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Pegida spinoff rally sees low turnout
31 January
- Merkel rules out debt reduction for Greece
- First president of reunited Germany dies