📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2016 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- Munich on New Year alert after terror threat
- Storm in Israel as Hitler book is published again
- Manhunt in Munich for New Year terror suspects
02 January
- 'Live as you did before': Munich Isis threat eases
- Berliner investigated for hoarding fireworks
03 January
- Former Ivory Coast player found dead
- France and Germany decry Saudi executions
04 January
- Bavaria knocked back on 200,000 refugee cap
- Germany shivers through sub-zero cold snap
- Berlin zoo elephant baby is actually a boy
- Man wounded in gun attack on refugee home
- Denmark begins German border passport checks
- Bomb hoaxer given away by bumpkin accent
- Cold weather hobbles 1/3 of Berlin police cars
- Joiner's testicle switch could revolutionize sex
- Germany 'may review' arms exports to Saudis
- Cover-up claim over NYE mass sexual assaults
05 January
- US sues VW for $20b. over emissions cheating
- Taliban suicide attack hits German convoy
- German jobless count falls below 2 million
- Cologne police have 'no leads' on sex attacks
- Silence on sex crimes will make racism worse
- Brussels talks set to tackle Nordic borders
- Wave of accidents hits drivers in north Germany
- Millions in gold dug up in Bavarian garden
06 January
- New Year sexual assaults in Frankfurt, police say
- 4,500 refugees living in tents over winter
- Drowned man encased wife's head in concrete
- 'Keep men at arm's length': no fix for assault
- Syrians biggest group among 1.1m refugees
- Social Democrats want right-wingers spied on
- Woman calls police to report stale pizza rolls
- Use this map to find Berlin's cheapest rent
07 January
- Cameron woos Germans with EU reform plan
- 'Modern slavery' firm must pay intern €50k
- Hunt for cause of fire that gutted Berlin train
- Police report shows their side of Cologne assaults
- Police hunting 16 over Cologne sexual assaults
- Munich New Year alert 'part of EU-wide Isis plot'
- Cologne still tense in wake of sexual assaults
- Berlin zoo elephants snack on Christmas trees
08 January
- Cologne police face fresh NYE cover-up claims
- €2.4 million Stradivarius left on train by violinist
- Angst as 'Mein Kampf' hits German bookstores
- How to deal with the Cologne sexual assaults
- Paris attacker had German sim card: police
- Two arrested over NYE sexual assaults
- At least 200 kids abused in Regensburg choir
- Artist protests naked at Cologne Cathedral
- Seniors' Xmas ragout turns out to be dog food
- Police chief suspended after mayor's final blow
09 January
- Cologne sex attackers risk deportation - Merkel
- Could Germany copy Norway gender lessons?
- Cologne awaits far-right sex attacks backlash
- Violence erupts at Cologne Pegida demo
10 January
- Cologne New Year violence cases up to 379
- Paris attacker lived in German refugee shelter
- Germany to be scolded for 'anti-Polish' remarks
- Hamburg reports spate of New Year violence
- Merkel gets tough as migrants tied to violence
11 January
- Spate of racist mob attacks shocks Cologne
- David Bowie's Berlin in pictures
- Two sperm whales wash up on German coast
- Berlin pays tribute to dearly departed Bowie
- Papers criticized for ‘racist’ Cologne covers
- Putin 'didn't mean to scare Merkel with dog'
- Most Cologne attackers 'of foreign origin'
- Refugees shouldn’t be deported for sex crimes
- 15 cool East Berlin spots to stay warm this winter
12 January
- 211 arrests after far-right rampage in Leipzig
- More migrants turned away at Austria border
- Paris attacker was held for Cologne sex assault
- 'Do-gooder' named 'worst word of the year'
- Eight Germans among Istanbul dead: reports
- 'We told you so,' Eastern Europe tells Germany
- Criminal foreigners to be more easily deported
13 January
- Criminal complaints in Cologne rise to 561
- Ten German dead in Istanbul terror attack
- Merkel ally calls for 1,000 deportations daily
- Man admits shooting 11-year-old on New Year
- Huge gulf in crime rates among migrant groups
- German war graves are being desecrated on TV
- Merkel refugee welcome 'unconstitutional': judge
- Neo-Nazis face trial over plot to bomb refugees
14 January
- 500 cops raid Berlin far-left squat after attack
- Istanbul bomb 'not aimed at German tourists'
- 'Mein Kampf' sells out as publisher rushes to print more
- Maddened local leader sends bus full of refugees to Merkel
- Germany's big surplus to cover costs of refugees
- Tourist sues Airbnb after finding hidden camera in flat
- Woman watches helplessly as old couple poison her puppy
- Woman grabs sex attacker and hands him over to police
- German live-action short takes student director to Oscars
15 January
- Experts defend slow progress on sorting Nazi-looted art haul
- Busload of refugees to be sent straight back to Bavaria
- High Court scolds Facebook for sending ‘harassing’ emails
- Watch out Germany! Chilly sub-zero weekend ahead
- Rhineland town axes Carnival over sexual assault fears
- Germans still prefer a good book to Netflix and Spotify
- Polls show most Germans fear refugee burden too great
- Bowie's old studio opens doors for fan farewell
- Town bans male refugees from pools amid complaints
16 January
- Hugo Boss smashes sales records as Europe booms
- 10 genius ways German inventors improved our lives
- 'Algeria and Morocco must take back deportees': Berlin
17 January
- 'Tax petrol more to pay for migrant crisis'
- Germany and Greece step up fight against tax evasion
- Remains of German victims of Istanbul attack flown home
- Iran deal 'historic success for diplomacy' - Germany
- German business grits teeth as Chinese economy slows
- Germany eyes expulsion hubs for North African migrants
18 January
- 10 suspects charged over Istanbul attack
- Stuttgart asked to stop driving as city faces record pollution
- Take back migrants or lose aid cash, Berlin tells North Africa
- 'Auschwitz medic' to face trial in February: court
- Bank ejects Muslim woman over full-face veil
- First suspect arrested after Cologne sexual assaults
- Right-wing marchers brutally beaten after WW2 memorial
19 January
- Far-left terrorists' last-gasp spree 'to fund their retirement'
- Luftwaffe jets grounded at night by software bug
- Germans prefer contentment to career and money
- Honest taxi driver returns €14,000 to save family holiday
- Terror suspect goes on trial over plot to bomb cycle race
- China troubles spook investors in Germany
- Police beg revellers not to dress as terrorists for Carnival
- Frankfurt court bans app's discount taxi rides
20 January
- German Jewish groups fear rising anti-Semitism
- Asylum deportations doubled in 2015
- Passengers grab man who 'shoved woman under train'
- Frustrated refugees sue Berlin over asylum backlog chaos
- German petrol prices tumble along with global oil costs
- Even police can be idiots and incendiaries
- 'Limit refugee numbers or lose public support': President
- World names Germany 'best country ever'
- New rent map shows cost of life in Munich
21 January
- German trial of Isis 'storm trooper' begins
- German brewers cheer 500th birthday of beer purity law
- Berlin U-Bahn killer had history of violence
- Germany takes refugees' valuables 'to pay for their stay'
- Police fight rumours they hide truth on refugees
- Convicted rapist escapes during brewery visit
- Man tries to buy Kalashnikov for 'Prussian police force'
- 9 pics that show Germany is a magical winter wonderland
22 January
- Merkel pushes Turkey to stem flow of migrants
- German WWI U-boat found after 100 years missing at sea
- Iconic airport may become nation's biggest asylum home
- Police 'can't keep up border controls': union
- Berlin Bowie fans etch giant memorial into ice
- First-ever German Anne Frank movie to premiere at Berlinale
- Kurdish fighters sell off German-supplied guns
- Turkey makes new vow to cut refugee numbers
23 January
- Syrian arrested in Germany over UN kidnapping
- North Africans the target of fury after Cologne assaults
24 January
- German cyclists injured in Spanish accident
- New Year assaults 'in 12 German states': report
- Germany rejects about 10 percent of migrants
25 January
- Rural Germany an 'integration laboratory' for refugees
- Ten percent of Germans own over half of country’s wealth
- Footballer axed for flashing privates at female employee
- 'Merkel should be ready to flee to South America': AfD leader
- Two skiers die in head-on collision in German Alps
- Police collar robber who threatened bank with bomb
- Merkel to open Holocaust art exhibit in Berlin
- Cop leaps from window after being caught drunk driving
- Islamists and neo-Nazis 'more prepared for violence'
- PSA: Germany dropping old-style bank details
26 January
- Europe's border: Germany's new showdown with Greece
- Young people 'care about environment but do nothing'
- VIDEO: five genius inventions Germany gave the world
- Moscow accuses Germany of hushing up Russian girl's rape
- What Britain has yet to learn from Germany
- Small German firms hope to get refugees working
- Hapless hospital gives wrong family news of death
- Finally: East Germany turns migration corner
27 January
- No hope of selling Goebbels love nest, Berlin admits
- Police raid homes of neo-Nazi website founders
- Doubt cast on reported refugee death in Berlin
- Kremlin propaganda targets Germany's refugee weak spot
- Germany tells Moscow to back off on alleged teen rape
- Shoah survivor praises Merkel for 'heroic' refugee policy
28 January
- Germany urges doubling of funds in Syrian crisis
- Volunteer made up dead Berlin refugee, police say
- Germany confiscates more from refugees than Denmark
- 2 Zika virus cases in Germany, but spread 'very, very unlikely'
- Woman seeks compensation for wetting herself on train
- Most German conservatives support gay marriage: poll
- Would Bernie Sanders be electable in Germany?
- Cologne man's teeth blown out while smoking e-cigarette
29 January
- Coalition leaders agree on tough new refugee rules
- South German refugee home attacked with hand grenade
- 40% of Germans want Merkel to resign over refugees: poll
- Senior gets €12k in damages after slipping on orange
- Girl at centre of rape row spent night by friend: police
- Germany probes former SS men over French massacre
- Germany's late 'patent king's' five greatest inventions
- Germany ‘pays African states to take asylum rejects’
- Pensioner dies after hospital machine squashes her
30 January
- German beer drinking hits 25-year low
- Germany soothes Polish gas pipeline fears
- EU official backs German migrant fuel tax idea
31 January
- Protesters clash after German grenade attack
- Police 'should threaten to shoot migrants': AFD
- 'Most refugees will return home': Merkel