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

02 August
- Migrant wounded in German police shooting
- Report: German refugee figures 'underestimated'
- German sets Florida to Cuba speedboat record
03 August
- French minister criticizes Germany over Grexit
- State leaders call for faster asylum processes
- Cows trample German to death in Swiss Alps
- Spiegel: Merkel wants fourth term in power
- Railway sunbather brings trains to a halt
- Wacken festival draws metalheads of the world
- Court orders boss to pay worker for changing
- Man promises to stop coffin naps in public
- 'Hot Boy from Germany' wins Vietnam Idol
04 August
- Merkel's office hunted journalists' sources
- Weekend heatwave to follow Tuesday showers
- Slash CO2 emissions to save oceans: scientists
- Forest tragedy as best man kills groom-to-be
- Hamburg bunker blast and fire injure 38
- Germany's top refreshing summer drinks
- Woman tries to take pony abroad in a car boot
- Berlin's tough line splits European public opinion
05 August
- Chief prosecutor sacked in media treason row
- Court jails couple over son's 'new age' treatment
- Dad who leapt from bridge with kids named
- Spy chief: neo-Nazi party inciting refugee attacks
- 'Hooligan' jailed for Cologne mass rampage
- Jihadist who fled Spain is arrested in Germany
- German kids mock Merkel with fave word
- Jihadists threaten Germany in killing video
- Nuremberg produces record 460m pencil
06 August
- Several injured in chemical plant blast
- Health insurer offers smart watch discount
- Critics hunt fresh scalps in 'treason' scandal
- Trial in Celle gives new insights into Isis terror
- TV anchor urges public to fight online racism
- Germans, Russians trust each other less and less
- Greece deal 'may not be reached this month'
- Ai Weiwei 'loves Berlin', plans long stay
- When the first stone was laid: Berlin TV tower
- Thousands flock to Cologne's gaming mecca
07 August
- Germany tries to deter Balkan asylum seekers
- Gas leak interrupts stay for Hamburg hotel guests
- South Germany may top 40C on Friday
- Lawmakers also named in treason probe
- Nudist walkers told to keep their clothes on
- US WWII pilot's remains found after 70 years
- Two-metre tall vibrators appear on Berlin streets
- Army to spend €6bn on fixing shoddy kit
- Bra stops bullet in hunting mishap miracle
10 August
- Gun attack against Berlin's Hertha BSC bus
- Air crash relatives to sue in US for big payout
- EU slackers should share refugee load: Gabriel
- Prosectors drop Netzpolitik treason probe
- Germans are ‘not how foreigners think’: report
- Germany gained €100bn from Greece crisis: study
- Technology clouds line between work and play
11 August
- Power firm revamps amid renewable energy push
- Fallen 80-ton crane blocks Autobahn traffic
- 70 years after WWII, mum and daughter reunite
- Greece bailout plan set for hard Bundestag fight
- US F-16 fighter jet crashes in north Bavaria
- Attack on referee halts football match
- Police union wants EU border controls back
- How I explained the Queen to the Germans
12 August
- German kids enjoy 'back to school' traditions
- 25 years of learning English in East Germany
- BMW may have rights to Google's new name
- Minister calls for end to childcare strikes
- Defence Minister's day off for dressage contest
- Guests drive neo-Nazi from Munich beer garden
- Berlin to have position on bailout by week's end
- How best to watch the Perseid meteor shower
- Bitter battle greets call to decriminalize sex work
- Child gets stuck in plush toy claw machine
- Mum shoots daughter over Aussie holiday plan
13 August
- Germany sceptical over Greek bailout deal
- Three tiny monkeys stolen from German zoo
- Meet some of Germany's famous lefties
- Govt 'lied' about NSA spying list: report
- Teen swimmer finds €16,000 gold bar in lake
- German army reports chemical attack in Iraq
- Bus driver's refugee welcome goes viral
- #FoodPorn in Germany may cook up legal woes
- Deutsche Bank workers accused in scam
- Tiny German backpack X-rays aid gentle giants
14 August
- Guardiola shoots for Champs League final 4
- Germany isolated as Greeks vote on bailout
- Asylum seeker names baby Angela Merkel
- Germany beats France despite slow growth
- Berlin hot on Paris' heels as tourist destination
- 'High' asylum benefits need review: minister
- Baby locks self inside car in baking heat
- Thieves 'could hack VW, Porsche, Audi cars'
- Schäuble 'confident of result' at EU Greece talks
- Passengers oust bus rider for racist slurs
- Five reasons for dare-devils to visit Germany
15 August
- Eurozone approves huge new Greek bailout
16 August
- Germany praises Greek stance shift in debt talks
- Berlin airport in fraud scandal probe
- Social Democrats 'won't give up' says Steinmeier
- Olympic champ makes drug test results public
- Merkel defends tough line on Greece
17 August
- Merkel: Migrants bigger challenge than Greece
- Germany condemns 'barbaric' Isis acts
- Augsburg confirm Baba's transfer to Chelsea
- German abducted in Kabul: reports
- One killed as storms sweep Germany
- Pickpockets hitting rail passengers: police
- Ukraine again 'explosive', Germany warns
- 'Sexist' men's parking spaces reignite anger
- Fitting in with Germans key to finding work
18 August
- German man sues over wrong photo of co-pilot
- Merkel combats doubts about IMF in Greek deal
- Thieves open 1,000 beers, don't drink any
- Experts find remains of Stone Age mass murder
- 1/3 Germans seek lovers with bulging wallets
- Germany, Sweden need help with migrants: UN
- Klum fires back at Trump's skin-deep jab
- German firm to take over 14 Greek airports
- Oktoberfest reveals official beer mug of 2015
- East Germany sees half of racist violent crime
- Kidnappers give up body of 17-year-old victim
19 August
- MPs vote through third Greek bailout package
- German teen actor killed at music fest
- Half a million ants march for rainforest protection
- Museum opens world of the Brothers Grimm
- German cities struggle with housing shortage
- Search continues for missing mum and child
- Putin 'may join future Ukraine talks': Germany
- Cologne's 10 must-see spots for culture vultures
- Refugee numbers to reach 800,000 in 2015
- Giant dinosaur tracks found near Hannover
20 August
- Asylum 'could cost Germany €10bn' in 2015
- Signal failure hobbles five Berlin S-Bahn lines
- Bundestag goes dark after hacker attack
- Four arrested over Nazi salute at refugee home
- Most Catholics support gay marriage: study
- Hand grenade found in Bavarian rail station
- ‘Architect of German unity’ dies at 93
- Prosecutors launch case against CIA double agent
- Did the Frankfurt Trials fail Auschwitz victims?
- Report: German wealth shrank by 15% in decade
- Merkel praises Brazil's drive to save rainforest
21 August
- France, Germany call EU summit on migrants
- Policeman forced to shoot own service dog
- Germany-Denmark tunnel faces more delays
- Seventeen hurt in asylum home 'riot' over Koran
- Kiel school safe after WW2 bombs defused
- Climate change to raise price of German beer
- Düsseldorf moots cannabis legalization
- Courgette stew kills pensioner in Heidelberg
- Germany sees biggest baby batch in a decade
- Traffic deaths rise in first half of 2015
- German public: we can manage more refugees
- Half of all Germans use Das Auto for sex
22 August
- Fifa hopeful Chung in new probe: report
- Police clash with far-right over refugees
23 August
- Deep-water port ready for giant ships
- Refugees Germany's 'biggest challenge'
24 August
- Merkel, Hollande discuss migrant crisis, Ukraine
- Gabriel visits Saxony after weekend of violence
- DAX index suffers plunge over Asia fears
- Bavaria fights activist assault on cow bells
- Traffic jams are price of strong economy
- German summer set to return on Wednesday
- Merkel finally condemns anti-refugee violence
- Firemen save parrot, owner from 20m perch
- Student gives up flat to live on trains
- Neo-Nazis urinate on children in Berlin train
- Is Germany's home office dream disintegrating?
25 August
- Merkel, Hollande call for unified refugee response
- Economy on song as govt boosts surplus
- 'Unique' copy of Mein Kampf up for auction
- Merkel to visit protest-hit refugee home
- Thalys train gunman was questioned in Berlin
- Police arrest teen over Berlin knife attack
- Burnt bratwurst causes Munich station panic
- Germany challenges EU to agree on refugee plan
- Honest pensioner hands in €12,000 bin find
- Bomb threat tops flood of SPD hate mail
- Four-legged Bavarian hitch-hiker gets free ride
- Retiree finds parked car after three-week search
26 August
- Knife-wielding men break into asylum home
- MPs plan new close watch on spies
- Berlin imam 'hypnotized and groped' woman
- Hamburg nuclear plant on road to demolition
- Ten ways Germany puts Britain to shame
- Merkel booed by crowd at refugee centre
- German gadget clamps down on Nutella thieves
- Cosmetics chain sparks toothpaste price war
- Lightning strikes at least twice in Cottbus
27 August
- NATO troops join in large German training exercise
- Man City snap up De Bruyne for €80 million
- Facebook to meet gov on Internet hate-mongering
- Spies 'traded Germans' data for US software'
- Merkel's office 'hid knowledge of probe'
- Berlin orchestra angers Israel with Iran concert
- Is Germany now a nation of couch potatoes?
- Merkel: Austria tragedy a ‘warning’ for Europe
- The day that 'sealed East Germany's fate'
28 August
- Bayern get lucky in Champs League draw
- Sweltering summer has climatologists sweating
- Army buys in new guns to replace defective G36
- Knut autopsy could help human disease sufferers
- German court: Ban on refugee demos must stay
- Elite cops' hazing ritual: eat ice cream off thighs
- How Brits in Germany are facing Brexit fears
- Honest senior rewarded for handing in €12,000
- Germany name squad for crunch Scotland match
- 'Berlin is kind of like the best American city'
- Neuer's 'glass palace' angers idyllic village
29 August
- Austria refugee tragedy suspects appear in court
30 August
- Mass pro-refugee rally held in Dresden
- Buzz grows over Poland Nazi treasure train
- EU countries call for migrant crisis meeting
- German media and celebs rally for refugees
31 August
- Germany's friendship vow to Afghanistan
- Dortmund reclaim top spot with Hertha win
- Berlin orchestra's Tehran concert blocked by Iran
- 'No limit to refugees Germany can take in'
- Rosberg 'overwhelmed' by birth of daughter
- German named 'arse bombing' world champ
- Refugee crisis tests EU's core ideals: Merkel
- Day in court for first Love Parade tragedy case
- Robber threatens woman with 'HIV syringe'