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

01 October
- Ex-Siemens exec pleads guilty to bribery plot
- Prosecutors: no probe of ex-VW CEO Winterkorn
- Manchester misery for German clubs in CL
- Mass violence erupts at Hamburg refugee home
- Rising racism worries Council of Europe
- German universities gain ground in world rankings
- How October 3rd became German Unity Day
- Hidden Stasi bunker for rent - just €3,000/month
- Wind power sweeps past 2014 output total
- Get more young Brits to Germany: Ambassador
- What if Germany had never been reunited?
02 October
- VW names new chairman for 'months' of recovery
- Canada travel advice warns of gangs, migrants
- Lewandowski itching for Dortmund showdown
- Snoop Dogg no-show bankrupts Munich club
- Majority of Germans worried about refugees
- How to celebrate German Unity Day nationwide
- Dortmund fans 'cross the line' in Thessaloniki
- Gay top marksman 'must name female Queen'
- Pegida founder faces hate speech charges
03 October
- Suspense mounts over Nazi gold train in Poland
- Daimler trials self-driving truck in Germany
- VW offers webpage to check on pollution scam
- Germany fetes unity with call for tolerance
04 October
- Merkel: VW scandal won't ruin Germany's image
- Oktoberfest crowds fall due to border controls
- EU and Turkey 'agree plan to ease refugee flow'
05 October
- Bayern thrash Dortmund to send rivals message
- Govt rejects claim 1.5m refugees are expected
- Thousands form 'living border' against refugees
- Ryanair bets on Munich to take on German rivals
- Cannabis coffee shops given red light in Berlin
- Is Dortmund's Klopp the next Liverpool manager?
- IN PICTURES: How Unity Day lit up Germany
- Ten German brands among world's top 100
- Butcher makes world's priciest Kobe bratwurst
- Job-seeker punished for 'Isis killing spree' threat
06 October
- Pegida ranks swell as refugee fears mount
- Klopp 'offered 3 year Liverpool deal': reports
- Four-fifths of Germans want border controls
- Can Klopp breath life back into the Liver bird?
- Hitler actor warns of threat to democracy
- Munich bomb 'can't be defused on scene'
- Johann the pig's udderly adorable new family
- Rare whale makes home in north German bay
- VW 'will need bigger cash pile to pay fines'
- Greenpeace mulls jump into brown coal biz
- Activists love-bomb NSA with 'quit spying' drone
07 October
- UK exit from EU would be 'disaster': Schäuble
- Five hurt in brawl at Hamburg refugee centre
- Football legend Gerd Müller has Alzheimers
- VW chief: recall of cars could start by January
- Hollande and Merkel to show unity to MEPs
- Could Merkel win the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Germany counts gold to calm conspiracists
- Nine tasty German food and drink idioms
- Forestry boss' mishap sparks forest fire
- EU refugee rules are 'obsolete': Merkel
08 October
- Refugees tell Germans: we won't stay forever
- 'Europe can't become a fortress': Merkel
- Horse was pregnant for 48 million years
- Deutsche Bank issues massive loss warning
- Exports set for record year despite hiccup
- Hamburg Olympics gets €11 billion price tag
- Doctor 'got drunk and set fire to own flat'
- Police raid Volkswagen offices in Wolfsburg
- Could you take care of Cologne Cathedral?
- Klopp signs 3-year Liverpool deal: reports
09 October
- Ireland stun wasteful Germany with shock win
- West must 'treat Russia properly': Juncker
- Bavaria threatens Merkel with court over refugees
- Klopp calls Liverpool deal 'dream move'
- Police hunt suspect after refugee child snatched
- Klopp meets press as new Liverpool boss
- How well does Homeland get Germany?
- Berlin school bans Wi-fi hub over porno fears
- What the Germans brought to America
- 50,000 expected at Berlin anti-TTIP demo
10 October
- 'He's back': Hitler movie hits nerve in Germany
- Big turn-out for Berlin anti-TTIP demonstration
- Germany’s far-right rises amid refugee wave
11 October
- CDU's support hit by Germany's refugee influx
- German defence minister defends claims on CV
12 October
- Germany scrape through to Euro 2016 finals
- I'm not scared of polls or my own party: Merkel
- Colleagues tip Klopp to break Liverpool hoodoo
- Ex-VW boss to give up last grip on power
- 'Women weep, young men are collapsing'
- Berlin's last 'city bear' finally put to sleep
- Public transport price hike to hit nationwide
- World's worst burglar locks himself in house
13 October
- Frustrated migrants take refugee centre to court
- Pegida: Merkel 'Europe's most dangerous woman'
- DiCaprio to make movie about VW scandal
- Navy rescues angler after 27 hours adrift in Baltic
- Germany extends border checks to halt refugees
- Fault forces Germany to stop Eurofighter orders
- Troubled VW cuts annual investment by €1 billion
- Disgraced VW CEO gets Harvard thumbs-up
- German business, public back UK EU reform plan
- Rushdie: 'free speech is a part of human nature'
- Don't give Pegida the rope to hang themselves
14 October
- Bild declares war on internet adblockers
- Majority say Germany can't 'manage' refugees
- Low-lying regions see first snow of the year
- Just 30 minutes on a refugee boat is terrifying
- Leading academics slam Hamburg Olympic bid
- Police warn parents to never post child photos
- Meryl Streep to helm Berlinale 2016 jury
- 'Dozens' of VW managers behind emissions scam
- Wacky animal phrases to goose your German
- German women fear family's impact on career
15 October
- German army set for dangerous Mali mission
- CDU base turns on Merkel over refugees
- Sluggish VW warned to clean up mess faster
- Germany spied on USA, France until late 2013
- Police answer son's plea over awful dad music
- Majority of public back Autobahn speed limit
- German MPs OK tough new asylum rules
- Why Berlin graffiti artists hacked 'racist' Homeland
- Italian cops raid VW and Lamborghini offices
16 October
- Frankfurt fair reaches out to refugees with books
- Democracy error 404: MPs pass data retention
- EU and Turkey strike deal to halt refugee flow
- US probes Deutsche Bank over Moscow deals
- Heidelberg doctors 'bent heart transplant rules'
- Delivery driver loses cool over sexy van ad
- Dortmund hosts Euro dog diving championship
- Fury as German hunter kills massive elephant
- Germany 'bought' 2006 World Cup bid: reports
- Tractor driver leads cops on 12-hour chase
17 October
- 'Fewer than 10 targeted in VW emissions scam'
- Mayoral candidate stabbed in west Germany
18 October
- Kidnapped German 'released in Afghanistan'
- Germany's Merkel in Turkey for refugee talks
- Police raid Volkswagen's French headquarters
19 October
- Pro-refugee candidate wins after knife attack
- Merkel's deal with Turkey angers left and right
- Officials 'looking into' World Cup graft claims
- Hundreds protest human trafficking in Germany
- Anger over police chief's call to build border fence
- Environment groups call for stricter pollution tests
- Germany braces for mass far-right rally
- Booming startups draw expats to Germany
- Firefighters rescue pet fish from aquarium blaze
- Germany opens probe into 3 Facebook execs
- Why scandals won't rock Germany's good image
- Thousands flood Dresden in Pegida rally
20 October
- Freezing migrants cry foul as cold bites
- Inside Pegida's bellowing and bitter Dresden rally
- DFB mull reporting ex-boss to police
- Deutsche Bank error hands client $6 billion
- Archives shed light on Nazi atrocities in Greece
- Older siblings aren't always smarter: study
- Germany's castles are in danger, warns prince
- Industry's hearty refugee welcome begins to crack
- Does it really pay to lie on your CV?
- Merkel mourns with Alps plane crash school
- Cologne gang 'stole from churches to fund Isis'
- Cat hungover after seven week boozing session
21 October
- German jihadists 'helping torture for Isis in Syria'
- Online banking hack nets over €1 million for crooks
- Bayern won't be cowed by Arsenal defeat
- German news goes 'Back to the Future' for a day
- Adidas feels heat of World Cup graft claims
- Military may fly failed asylum seekers back
- When Max and Moritz's 'gruesome' story began
- Fifa probe Beckenbauer over Russia, Qatar bids
- Berlin and Munich in top ten EU cities for startups
22 October
- Palestinians not behind Holocaust: Merkel
- Politicians in danger from far right warn police
- Cologne braces for mass 'hooligans' Sunday demo
- Schweini gets Chinese Nazi doll doppelgänger
- Newer diesel engines didn't cheat tests: VW
- Daimler defies gravity with big China sales
- Fifa questions DFB's World Cup bribery story
- Klopp's restored belief, says Liverpool star
- Police hunt neo-Nazi who urinated on children
- Chance of more QE peps Dax, troubles economists
- Berlin NGO smuggles pirate radio into Syria
23 October
- Police collar Nazis over refugee fire attack plan
- New asylum law 'to be in force by the weekend'
- Retailers plan 20-cent charge on plastic bags
- Is turning clocks back all a waste of time?
- Opel rejects claims of diesel emissions fraud
- Telekom takes aim at Amazon with China deal
- Saarland celebrates 60 years of 'yes' to Germany
- Broke Dortmund hosts new football museum
- Ex-DFB boss 'certain' of World Cup slush fund
24 October
- DFB to formally refute slush fund report
- Germany probes new case of US spying
26 October
- 1000s mobilize against far-right in Cologne
- Lahm tells Guardiola to stay as Bayern coach
- 11,000 evacuated after Kreuzberg bomb find
- Tensions high at EU, Balkans refugee summit
- Germans are Nazis, bad guys, crazies: Bond actor
- The end of the expat? Cities fight for 'Inpats'
- Hundreds of refugees disappear in Germany
- Berlin policeman stabs 'dawdling' British tourist
- German industry's mood undented by VW scandal
- Cancer warning over German bratwurst intake
- Merkel admits: refugee policy 'far from perfect'
27 October
- Germany did not buy World Cup: Beckenbauer
- Bavaria tells Merkel: stop refugee flow from Austria
- Neo-Nazis arrested after baseball bat attacks
- 'US-German relationship stronger than ever'
- Rhineland women on Turkey's most wanted list
- 1 in 5 young Germans threatened by poverty
- Crafty 'crook' makes German court see double
- VW increases German sales, despite scandal
- 28-y/o to be youngest ever Bundesliga coach
- Judge unimpressed by multiple orgasm condom
- EU roaming charges to finally end in June 2017
- Fear not, eat bratwurst, says food minister
- Bavaria claims place in top 10 tourist regions
28 October
- Diesel scandal slams VW with €3.48 billion loss
- Merkel calls coalition bosses to crisis meeting
- Bundestag president calls TTIP undemocratic
- The cop who switched from blue light to red
- Cologne stabber charged with attempted murder
- Egypt calls in Germans to fix pharaoh's beard
- Vandals steal digger for speed camera vengeance
29 October
- Pensioners get biggest ever boost for 2016
- Deutsche axes 15,000 jobs after huge loss
- Risk of refugees freezing to death: Bavarian police
- German police kill robber who stabbed two cops
- No end in sight to record low unemployment
- The real-life crime played out across 3 days of TV
- Child corpse found in abduction suspect's car
- Monkey 'gymnast' on Autobahn stumps cops
- Police join EU-wide raids on smartphone hackers
- Refugees to cost up to €16 billion: city leaders
30 October
- US air strike in Syria kills Berlin rapper Deso Dogg
- Every fifth German worried over meat intake
- Pressure on Merkel grows over refugees
- Police defuse WW2 bomb in Berlin's Kreuzberg
- Mohamed killer admits to Potsdam child murder
- Germans beat World Cup levels of beer guzzling
- The sailors who brought down the German Empire
- From the undead to sex with the dead in 5 movies
- Canny China profits from UK-Germany rivalry
31 October
- Bare breasts vs race hate in Facebook protest
- Germany limits refugee access from Austria
- Punch-up at German asylum centre injures six