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

01 May
- Commerzbank owners reject bigger bonuses
- Berlin deleted '12,000 NSA spy requests'
- Munich quarters postponed by rain
02 May
- Andy Murray smashes through to Munich semis
- Snowden among statues unveiled in Berlin
03 May
- Merkel joins Holocaust survivors to mark Dachau liberation
04 May
- Germany braces for longest-ever rail strike
- Putin's biker gang cross border into Germany
- New case of Ebola suspected in Germany
- A third of parents OK with smacking children
- Institute to end 'monkey torture' programme
- Merkel defends BND against criticism
- €15m of cocaine found in Aldi banana boxes
- Germany falls behind neighbours in hourly pay
- Are robots about to take away 18 million jobs?
05 May
- Drivers' walkout brings fresh rail misery
- Supermarket meat needles were 'warning'
- Germans fathered by Allied soldiers speak out
- Nightclub owner bans 'aggressive' refugees
- Elderly burglar foiled after losing glasses
- Man jailed over kids' deaths in bath
- Schäuble fears Greece deal may fall through
- Germany among top ten countries for mums
- Experts: Steinmeier's Egypt visit was 'wrong'
06 May
- Man tries to pull twin switcheroo on police
- Spying scandal disrupts cosy coalition
- Crash co-pilot did 'trial run' of fatal dive
- Germany has uphill battle to fight racism
- Police grab four in raids on far-right group
- Not forever young, but a champion at 85
- Pep returns home for Champions League clash
- Tornado devastates north German town
- Daredevil pensioner in reckless road rampage
- Doctor acquitted in organ donation scandal
- Germany sees drastic rise in racist crime
- Could Europe have ‘border-less’ internet?
07 May
- De Maizière denies any wrongdoing in BND affair
- Siemens to cut 4,500 jobs worldwide
- Bayern on the brink after Barca defeat
- Italian faces charges over Blockupy violence
- Rail strikes continue after union rejects talks
- Germany slips in world tourism rankings
- Man admits fire attack on refugee home
- Hindenburg crash ends an era in air travel
- BND cuts spy data feed to NSA: reports
- Police extract 'snake' from salad bowl
- Auschwitz trial on hold as defendant falls ill
08 May
- Faulty rifle puts minister in crosshairs
- Trade surplus and industrial output slip
- Berlin Philharmonic to elect new conductor
- UK election puts Germany in the spotlight
- Germany must treat its past with care
- Bundestag thanks Allies for 70 years of peace
- German drowns taking Venice wedding photo
- German navy saves 400 Mediterranean refugees
- Putin's biker cavalcade reaches Berlin
- Athens metro shows Nazi occupation video
- VIDEO: What Germans think of the end of WW2
10 May
- NSA asked Germany ‘to spy’ on Siemens
- Merkel meets Putin for talks, snubs WWII parade
11 May
- Anti-Euro AfD grab seats in Bremen chamber
- Police arrest 125 hooligans in Nuremberg
- Erdogan pleads for German Turks' votes
- Italian tourist attacked at Berlin metro station
- Landlord 'right' to expel tenant over insults
- Rumours growing over Guardiola Bayern exit
- Israel to buy four German warships
- Ever more Germans working into retirement
- Schäuble: Euro-meet won't reach Greece deal
- Court sentences 'vigilante' to life in prison
- Germans, Americans both trust in alliance
12 May
- Berlin Phil fails to elect new chief conductor
- Vegetarian flips out at smell of meat on train
- Police seize weed growing at Berlin station
- Carpenter threatens G7 from beyond grave
- Germany, Israel celebrate 50 years of friendship
- Corpse-filled coffins found in old supermarket
- OECD warns Germany to cut down on booze
- FC Bayern's six steps to beat Barca
- Wikileaks publishes minutes of NSA inquiry
13 May
- Barca dash Bayern Champs League hopes
- Union accuses Post of threatening workers
- Greens, conservatives want weed legalized
- Economic growth fails to match hopes
- Schäuble warns UK: no special treatment
- Prowling wolf reaches outskirts of Munich
- Man comes home to thief sleeping on couch
- Germany made one in four EU asylum grants
- Student's body found after 8-year mystery
- Germany's top ten towns you've never heard of
- Woman makes bomb joke, misses flight
15 May
- Hoax bomb threat hits top reality show
- Frankfurt women lift 4th Champs League cup
- German frigate helps save 2,220 refugees
- Bundesbank swipes at ECB aid to Greek banks
- Painting from Nazi hoard returned to owner
- Church trails flock over gay couples, divorce
- How 1890s Germany led LGBT rights charge
- Men Day: forests, mass brawls and face plants
- Hacker attack targets Bundestag data
- Shopkeeper fends off robber using lollipops
16 May
- Fatalities in western Germany train crash
17 May
- Germany helped find bin Laden: report
18 May
- Show 'backbone' over US spying: SPD
- Police officer 'abused refugees' in Hanover
- Train drivers to strike from Wednesday: union
- Police shoot pensioner who wouldn't leave home
- Germany backs 'Euro-drone' to challenge US
- Drug experts plead for a better way
- Jobsharing: Are two heads better than one?
19 May
- Germany joins EU anti-trafficking mission
- Isis claims German behind suicide bombing
- Drivers' strike goes ahead after rail talks fail
- Govt turns to Dark Side to enforce bike safety
- Danish royals draw out Hamburg crowds
- Ann Sophie's high hopes for Vienna
- Biker brawl breaks out at Cologne hospital
- 'Torture' cop assaulted colleagues with gun
- Deutsche Bank mulls GB exit in case of Brexit
- Merkel and Hollande urge speedy Greece deal
- GDL union is danger to itself and others
- Leader warns AfD could become National Front
20 May
- All 150 Germanwings crash victims identified
- EU fights Germany over trucker minimum wage
- Train strike begins, end unknown
- Is the minimum wage killing off 'minijobs'?
- Comedian can be called “hate preacher”: court
- Police give forgetful senior €44k 'birthday gift'
- Bavaria crowns beer queen for key year
- Report: 1/3 of species in Germany endangered
- DB and train drivers 'working on mediation'
21 May
- Train drivers agree to end strike at 7pm
- Schäuble warns Greece and woos Britain
- Police discover Hitler's long-lost bronze horses
- Army chief calls for 'massive' funding boost
- Syrian rebels show off Nazi howitzer in video
- Police seize tiny lamb from Munich brothel
- Minimum wage threatens Germany's fave pickles
- Home-grown terrorists stand trial in Stuttgart
- Wage disparity drives up inequality in Germany
22 May
- Merkel pushes for Greece deal at Euro meet
- Top spy admits: We're 'dependent' on NSA
- Two criminals on the run after daylight escape
- Business confidence slack as growth slows
- Autobahn driver suffers drone windscreen smash
- Bayern fans bring club's earliest years to light
- Carnival of Cultures in Berlin: six top picks
- 83-year-old gets second drug dealing sentence
- Family's ten-year quest for truth about dead son
23 May
- Sotheby's sells Nazi-era art trove find
- German WWII remains exhumed in Bosnia
- German woman, 65, has quadruplets
24 May
- As it happened: Sweden wins Eurovision 2015
- Amazon 'paying local tax on sales in Germany'
25 May
- Brits abroad will get to vote in EU referendum
26 May
- Ireland vote builds gay marriage momentum
- Berlin jumps ahead on new rent control law
- Hollande and Merkel deliver blow to Cameron
- Toilet theft at interior ministry causes a stink
- German twins die fighting for Isis in Iraq
- North Germany feels pain of Russia sanctions
- Police tighten borders ahead of German G7
- 10 facts to celebrate Leipzig's 1,000th birthday
- Shocked fishermen hook a shell of a catch
27 May
- German public shop with renewed confidence
- Forbes: Merkel still world's mightiest woman
- Merkel 'deceived' public on No-Spy treaty
- Foreign investors rate Germany Europe's best
- Germany to take most in refugee quota project
- Germany's top 10 most beautiful summer swimming spots
- Cabinet revives plan to grab internet records
- Cologne's giant bomb successfully defused
28 May
- Spectre of Greece haunts G7 Dresden meeting
- Gay marriage: Germany still says 'No'
- Court rejects case against US drone strikes
- Right-wing leader suffers restaurant attack
- Slow-moving fighter jet blocks Autobahn traffic
- Industry: 'doped' growth boosting economy
- Cool caps reduce hair loss during chemo
- German SS officer 'unfit' for Italy massacre trial
- Fassbinder: New German Film's Enfant Terrible
- Germans want to keep their hands on cash
- EU investigates Germany over airport security
- Greece eclipses G7 meeting in Dresden
- Steinmeier: corruption poisons football
29 May
- At last, Germany has a new Top Model
- Taliban release German hostage in Afghanistan
- German industry: Brexit would be ‘disastrous’
- Cameron and Merkel sing from same hymn sheet
- Baby ducks shut down Autobahn traffic
- Munich headteacher: 'Atheists are stupid'
- German women have World Cup in their sights
30 May
- Belgium, Netherlands probe BND spy claims
31 May
- Klopp mulls future after Dortmund exit