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

01 December
- Germans fear terrorism if army fights in Syria
- Athletes devastated by Olympics rejection
- Berlin named Germany's best city for students
- Muslim leader calls for limit on refugee numbers
- Germany can't legislate hate out of existence
- Road deaths end after town hires 'miracle man'
- Dortmund zoo suffers second mystery death
- Hitler's words to return to German bookshops
02 December
- Auschwitz medic to face 3,681 murder counts
- Less than half of German jets ready for action
- Cheap oil and sanctions slash Russia trade by 1/3
- Mast collapses onto plane at Berlin airport
- Germany's 7 quirkiest Christmas markets
- Ban big bangers to stop terror panic: Green MP
- Merkel warns of tough limits on Afghan asylum
- 'Sexist' footballer made to referee girls' match
- Germany pushes NATO to work with Putin
03 December
- Jewish leaders give okay to 'Mein Kampf' release
- Germany's 'fast' tech scene slips behind
- A new prostitution law would harm sex workers
- 5 questions Germany must answer about Syria
- Prisoners launch hunger strike over forced labour
- What you need to know about Nikolaus: the saint who gave gifts before Santa
- Berlin startup shaking up Europe's big old banks
04 December
- Refugees to face tough new screening process
- Public for Syria mission – but fear terror at home
- Central bank upgrades German growth forecast
- Just four convictions for refugee home attacks
- German mission to Syria gets go-ahead from MPs
- 'Muslim' Advent calendar causes Facebook fury
- Why homework is a total waste of kids’ time
- Real-life fairytale villains haunt Berlin this winter
05 December
- Porsche racing to have electric car ready by 2020
- Germany deports man for fighting against Isis
06 December
- Dresden fears Pegida demos hurting tourism
- 'Saudi-funded mosques breeding extremism'
- German player refs girls' game after sexist remark
07 December
- Man attempts to open plane door mid-flight
- States slam new refugee boss for 'slow work'
- Munich police bust men with toy guns on bus
- Berlin-Egypt flight cut short by bomb threat
- Postman hoarded one tonne of letters at home
- Not-so-wild boar finds home in herd of cows
- How a German insurer helped Nazis rob Jews
- Far-right NPD gets day in Constitutional Court
08 December
- Two returning Isis jihadists sentenced to jail
- Isis uses German arms for terror: report
- Student cracks Rubik's Cube to win €1 million
- Church 'still dealing with history of abuse': bishop
- Firefighters battle spate of penis ring mishaps
- Philosophy and climate: Kant at Le Bourget
- Closing gold loophole puts squeeze on AfD
- 5 surprising facts about Hanukkah in Germany
- German lifestyle is 'burden' on environment
09 December
- Germany officially hits 1m refugee registrations
- Top lawyers probing 200 German Syria fighters
- Host refugees at Christmas: Berlin bishop
- Thief robs 43 families of Christmas duck dinner
- Germany is second-oldest country worldwide
- Merkel named TIME 'Person of the Year'
- Neo-Nazi terror suspect denies guilt for murders
- German man 'used spy app to track ex-lover'
- 6 German gifts to bring home for the holidays
10 December
- German man placed on US terror watch list
- Can Merkel keep party behind her on refugees?
- Woman killed in violent hotel room 'exorcism'
- Luftwaffe aircraft depart for Syria mission
- Berlin refugee boss resigns in disgrace
- Naked chicken thief fails to make a splash
- 25,000 litres of fake tequila goes up in flames
- Here's what Donald Trump would hate about Germany
11 December
- No charges for men who posed as 'sharia police'
- Berlin opens museums to thank refugee helpers
- Leipzig children attack refugee classmates
- 'Refugees' is German Word of the Year for 2015
- German scientists make big stride towards fusion
- 'Forgot password' resets cost VW €1 million a year
- Germany cashes in on Baltics' fear of Russia
- Syphilis making surprise comeback in Germany
- German Islamist a prime suspect in Paris attacks
- The Berlin U-Bahn is OK with you being weird
12 December
- Germany's opposition 'in Merkel's shadow'
- Beckenbauer's claims called 'absurd' by Blatter
13 December
- German police target bomb scare suspect
- Germany happy but wary after Euro 2016 draw
- Vandals attack German Facebook headquarters
14 December
- Germany to toughen rules after VW scandal
- Passengers beat taxi driver nearly to death
- Far-left marchers face court after battling cops
- German arms builders buck downward trend
- Gang robs cash truck with rocket launcher
- Merkel speech quashes fear of party dissent
- Berlin church plans 'Star Wars' Christmas service
- Cyclist spared fine over Bavarian dialect mishap
15 December
- Woman battles pharma giant over 'danger pill'
- Attacks on refugees double in a year: police
- Police grab infamous Salafist Muslim convert
- Dortmund draw most fans in global football
- German trendsetters rent out live Christmas trees
- No white Christmas for Germany: weathermen
- Bavarian boy is Europe rabbit breeding champ
- Internet giants pledge to battle online hate speech
- Video: Police gun down stray bull on busy street
16 December
- Luftwaffe takes part in first Isis attacks
- Nazi gold train doesn't exist say scientists
- Germany's most-Googled word of 2015 is...
- German birthrate jumps to quarter-century high
- Germans fear for Europe, economy, and the future
- EU won't turn back clock for you, Merkel warns UK
- 8 ways living in Germany will change you for good
- Berlin museum hopes giant T-Rex will be big hit
- New police unit to face 'Paris-like' terror attacks
17 December
- Berlin neo-Nazi charged over Auschwitz tattoo
- Star Wars fans feel Force Awaken in Germany
- PLAY: Beethoven gets Google birthday game
- Pep Guardiola 'to leave Bayern at end of season'
- Seven drinks to warm up at Christmas markets
- Berlin fare-dodging cases up 7,000 percent
- 'Very British' trains build steam in Germany
- Glorious colour photos of Germany in 1900
- German police drive over and kill pedestrian
18 December
- Disgraced ex-VW boss 'still earning millions'
- Police raid two flats in Berlin anti-terror sting
- Tomcat missing for ten years finally comes home
- Lions devour zebra in front of zoo visitors
- VIDEO: student short will bring tears to your eyes
- Hamburg plans Helmut Schmidt Airport for 2016
- Fallon's Tonight Show coming to German TV
- Hitler really did have just one ball: historian
- German spies 'rebuild ties with Syrian dictator'
- Transsexuals 'medically unfit to join Berlin police'
- Pensioners welcomed at asylum home 'restaurant'
19 December
- 'Germany pledged money to Warner for World Cup'
- German teachers want 'Mein Kampf' on syllabus
20 December
- Germany: 'Abide by refugee quotas or else'
- Ancelotti to replace Guardiola at Bayern
- 'VW to rotate staff to improve oversight': chief
- German church holds 'Star Wars' service
- Isis 'stole thousands of passports': German news
21 December
- Asylum deportations set to double in 2015
- Jealous ex behind Bayreuth triple killing
- Amazon strikes threaten Christmas deliveries
- 5 ways Germans think Christmas has got worse
- Germany must lead in innovation: experts
- Bremerhaven zoo greets baby polar bear
- Varoufakis: I’d consider voting for Merkel
- Woman sends thieves packing with one punch
- Refugees will struggle to find jobs, bank warns
22 December
- Spooks hunt refugees with Isis-faked passports
- Drone ban at German castles and palaces
- Quake makes sleepy German town tremble
- Mild, rainy Christmas ahead say weathermen
- Just 5 Nazi-stolen works found in Gurlitt art haul
- Vet's battle for chimp stranded in empty zoo
- Robot pals to teach refugee kids German
- Far-right councillor gets jail term for Nazi tattoo
- Why educated Germans avoid social media
- German firefighters 'set fires to look like heroes'
23 December
- Refugees to star at 66th Berlinale film festival
- PHOTOS: Huge cloud of CO2 floods central Mainz
- Germany hit 'for long time' by Paris attacks
- German 'welcoming culture' still strong: poll
- Police warn punters over prostitute card scam
- Ethnic German migration doubles in two years
- US planned East Berlin's 'systematic destruction'
- German cartel authority punishes booking.com
- Tour de France 2017 to start in Düsseldorf
- German thief pays price of love for sausage
24 December
- How Germans joined in with Nazi-fied Christmas
- Germany's 10 biggest stories of 2015
26 December
- Berlin family's cat returns after seven years
27 December
- German navy rescued 10,000 migrants in Med
- German Kurds protest Turkish crackdown
- German MPs angry at Nato plane mission
- Germany hires 8,500 to teach refugees German
28 December
- Bavaria demands control of own borders
- Nazi hunting legend back in focus on silver screen
- Syria strikes like Paris attacks says German MP
- Man dies after condom machine explosion
- 2015: the year Merkel became Europe's boss
- 'Kids as young as ten are considering suicide'
- Serial rapist caught after eight-year hunt
- Beaver death sparks fear over festive fireworks
29 December
- Germany gives green light to cycle Autobahns
- Germany to spend €17b on refugees in 2016
- Biker war heats up with Reeperbahn shoot-out
- Police warn mum-in-law over booze-filled sweets
- Eight reasons Germany will truly rock in 2016
- MP takes legal action on Pegida death threats
30 December
- The ten weirdest German stories of 2015
- Aldi takes flak after 'Paris' fireworks gaffe
- Two thirds of Germans expect Isis attack in 2016
- Refugee train stopped after tuberculosis scare
- Pegida hymn knocks Adele off top of charts
- Supermarket to accept Deutschmarks again
- Berlin was Germany's sunniest state in 2015
31 December
- Merkel calls for unity and openness in 2016
- Amazon donates Pegida profits to refugees
- Gynecologist faces court over intimate photos
- 'No end in sight' for Nazi crime investigators
- Germans turn to Star Wars for baby names
- Woman throws away 1000s of euros in cash