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

01 March
- Germany's top court weighs up ban on neo-Nazi party
- Berlin job fair gives refugees first step towards integration
- Desperate refugees stuck in Greece call for Merkel's help
- Record numbers of baby seals born on North German islands
- Mummified German sailor found adrift in Pacific Ocean
- Munich woman hunts down lost handbag in epic car chase
- Airport hiccup leaves 100s of passengers pantless
- Germany can force refugees to stay put, EU court rules
- Havoc at Cologne airport as brazen cop crashes security
02 March
- Germany dismisses Trump's 'politics of fear'
- German men STILL paid 20 percent more than women
- Bring refugees from Greece yourself, Austria tells Merkel
- US Expats: Whoever you vote for, get out and vote!
- Germany even wins the World Cup of passports
- Right-wingers skewered over 'obligatory pork' plan
- Watchdog turns microscope on Facebook data protection
- Students travel to Spain one year after Germanwings crash
- Top Green MP steps down after drug bust
- 6 lessons Hillary Clinton can learn from Merkel's success
- US overtakes France as Germany's biggest customer
03 March
- Brits in EU: It's your future, so act now to keep Britain in
- Snooty crowd turns nasty at harpsichordist's Cologne gig
- Refugee boss warns of new asylum backlog
- Bavarian bureaucrat steals from poor to give to herself
- ‘I only scratched my head with phone’ driver convinces court
- QUIZ: How well do you know German capitals?
- Saxon police 'have a racism problem'
- Five times more strike days in 2015 than 2014
- Berlin doctor 'recruited mentally-ill man for Isis'
- Space firm seeks Germany's first female astronaut
- Germany 'would cry' if Britain leaves Europe
04 March
- Teen who stabbed cop 'may have links to Isis'
- Far-right NPD 'still in world of Nazis': former leader
- Why refugee crisis could hurt Merkel in state elections
- Cat camera catches elusive cat burglars
- Isis 'storm trooper' jailed for four years
- Kids invent robot to settle Germany's dog poo wars
- Cologne celebrates its ancient Roman heritage
06 March
- Trump a ‘threat to peace,’ says Gabriel
- France’s oldest nuclear plant 'to close this year'
07 March
- Munich's beloved car giant - BMW turns 100
- Kaiser pleads innocence in World Cup bribery scandal
- Police blame rise in drug crime on refugee crisis
- US Berliners 'feel the Bern' at global primary
- Hard right stuns with huge election gains in Frankfurt
- Black priest forced out of post by death threats and racism
- Merkel scuppers EU plan to close Balkan refugee route
- Refugee boy thought to be dead finds family 1 year later
08 March
- Merkel welcomes Turkey's plan to take back migrants
- Nine German 'Powerfrauen' you should know about
- Thin-skinned minister gets spokesman to clap him on TV
- Refugee arrivals plunged by a third in February
- Police demand anti-spitting hoods for slobbering suspects
- Israel told: pay up for hapless spies who got stuck in mud
- The controversial German street names in need of a new identity
- German sailor shot dead by pirates in the Caribbean
- Photos help police nab New Year sex assault suspects
09 March
- Voters set to punish Merkel at key 'Super Sunday' election
- Islam-critical French play is huge hit in Hamburg
- Beaver's Kardashian-sized bum lands him in trouble
- Widower sues over pornstar wife’s fatal fifth boob job
- Violent hate crime doubled in 2015 in Berlin: report
- Green energy policies bring power giant to €7 billion loss
- Firemen free Munich man's penis from 13 metal rings
- Victims of East German doping to get €10 million aid
10 March
- Turkey visa deal 'will set off new refugee wave'
- German court rules Facebook like button may break law
- Med school: top minister plagiarized her thesis
- Putin is trying to destabilize Germany, spy chiefs warn
- German unis offer 'best deal' for foreign students in Europe
- Germany teaches refugees about the birds and the bees
- How to sound just like a Berliner in ten easy steps
- Leaked Isis files on German jihadists likely genuine: police
- Paediatrician locked up for abusing kids as young as four
11 March
- Half-dressed Iraqi vet saves injured from burning plane
- The Germans who named America - and then regretted it
- Lockdown at US embassy as man calls ‘revenge for Osama’
- How Fukushima catalyzed Germany's energy revolution
- VIDEO: British pop band unite with German trash orchestra
- 'You've completely failed' angry Macedonia tells Berlin
- Berlin techno grandpa hopes to hit wildest party in USA
- No space for Allah as German unis close prayer rooms
- Merkel accused of cynicism on refugee route closure
- Refugee jumps to his death from moving train
12 March
- Paris attackers 'named' in leaked Isis files
13 March
- Merkel in for drubbing as populists eye poll surge
- 'Candour needed on pilots' mental health': crash probe
- Merkel's CDU party loses two of three regions: exit polls
- Merkel blamed as populists surge across Germany
14 March
- Goethe Institute head killed in Ivory Coast terror attack
- 21-year-old woman shot dead at wedding brawl in Hanover
- Pilot takes detour to draw secret sign in the sky
- Why German politics as we know it is crumbling
- 'It was unspeakably beautiful': Dortmund tribute to dead fan
- Careless footballer fined for leaving €75,000 behind in taxi
- Merkel admits Balkan route closure 'benefits' Germany
- Trial of ex-Nazi Auschwitz medic suspended indefinitely
- The Bavarian men who buy breasts to feel like ladies
- Germany’s last travelling circus bear seized by police
- My refugee 'brother' who lives illegally in our house
- Merkel to stick to refugee policy despite election defeat
15 March
- Pegida leader faces trial for calling refugees 'scum'
- Teen girl douses man in acid after he denied her a smoke
- Explosion under car killed convicted Berlin drug dealer
- Did German politician help smuggle stranded refugees?
- Energy firms: Merkel stole our assets with nuclear shutdown
- Five ways the Syrian conflict has changed Germany
- Farmers crack own record with 'world's biggest egg'
- Western firms tested drugs on East Germans in Cold War
- Five dark drug secrets from oh-so-proper Germany
16 March
- AfD party compares itself to Holocaust victims
- Mandatory broadcaster fees go before high court
- Berlin team shoots for moon in Google space mission
- Germany tightens rape law in wake of Cologne assaults
- German Rail records billion Euro loss after troubled year
- Merkel: EU summit 'first real chance' to solve refugee crisis
- Germany bans neo-Nazi group 'White Wolves Terror Crew'
- Berlin car bomb 'revenge for drug deal gone wrong'
- Germans surpass Brits in UN world happiness report
- Cologne police 'fail to act' as anarchy breaks out at school
17 March
- Springtime for Germany? Not by Easter, say weathermen
- Police misled public on Cologne NYE operations
- Only 600,000 refugees stayed in Germany in 2015
- Germany closes Ankara embassy 'due to terror threat'
- German 'triple agent' jailed for eight years
- Keyless system cars easy to steal, German car club finds
- German state to finally get rid of death penalty
- Drunk man dies trying to cross Autobahn on foot
- German man first to contract Lassa fever outside Africa
- Muslim witness agrees to lift veil in Munich court
18 March
- Europe 'united' in push for Turkey deal: Merkel
- Berlin refuses legal ban on shredding chicks
- Refugee swimmer eyes Rio Olympics from Berlin
- Experts warn of rising inequality in Germany
- 4-meter python discovered on south German road
- Bavarian town goes back to sleep as refugees disappear
- Former Foreign Minister dies after battle with cancer
- 7 German startups creating buzz at South by Southwest
- Police grab suspected jihadi at Frankfurt airport
- Wild boar droves refuse to let Cologne dead rest in peace
19 March
- EU and Turkey strike deal to send back migrants
- EU and Turkey strike deal to send back migrants
- Hitler's copy of 'Mein Kampf' sells for $20,655
20 March
- Anne Frank Dutch 'escape bunker' game under fire
- Grief-stricken Germanwings families plan US lawsuit
21 March
- Kosovo PM's brother sought asylum in Germany
- One German killed in deadly Spain bus crash
- Refugee reduction ‘noticeable and long-term’: Merkel party
- Munich’s Isar river ‘being killed by partying’
- Death threats levelled at AfD 'traitors'
- Record 2 million people moved to Germany in 2015
- Berlin's busiest square is hunting ground for criminals
- Unlicensed, uninsured and drunk man smashes cop car
- Hamburg left rejects call for German flags outside schools
- US Democrats in Germany back Sanders over Hillary
22 March
- Paris terrorist 'planned attacks in Germany'
- Wig thieves make away with 600 different disguises
- German airports on high alert after Brussels explosions
- Three dead after police chase in southern Germany
- Germany number 2 in EU inequality ranking
- Federal cops worked 3 million extra hours in refugee crisis
- Syrian refugees rescue neo-Nazi politician from car crash
- Farmer saved after lying stuck under tractor for 3 days
- This German barista could be the world's best latte artist
- Terrible pop star caused worst traffic chaos of 2015
- Berlin currywurst seller calms thief with leftover potato salad
- 'Strength in unity': Germany responds to Brussels terror
- Refugee spending won't affect balanced budget: Schäuble
23 March
- Honest Cologne woman gives back €48,000 found on street
- Berlin calls for Europe-wide data control to fight terrorism
- Terror suspects driving from Belgium arrested in Bavaria
- German president condemns communism on China visit
- Germans raise a glass to love in anti-Isis message
- 3 arrested in Istanbul 'planned attack on German interests'
- Bavarian brewery takes ‘Nazi beer’ off shelves after outcry
- German is first ever trans man on Euro Men's Health cover
- Two-headed rattlesnake adds bite to Rostock Zoo
- Several Germans wounded in Brussels bomb attacks
- Germany-England match to go ahead in Berlin
- 'No fear' of terrorism among Berlin train travellers
- 'Europe's defenders must share data to fight terror'
24 March
- Families mourn Germanwings crash victims in French Alps
- Extra defence spending won't be enough, soldiers warn
- German woman 'missing' after Brussels bombing
- Tighter security could mean delays at Frankfurt airport
- Consumer rights group warns of toxins in knock-off Nutella
- First suspect charged with sexual assault in Cologne
- 'Terrorists don't scare Germany's Mannschaft'
- Instagram launches Germans into top model world
- Berlin police grab Syrian 'Isis fighter'
- No thanks from neo-Nazi for refugee rescuers
- VW recalls 800,000 cars over possible footpedal problem
25 March
- Germanwings probe: No conclusions 'anytime soon'
- 'I love the way Germans eat, drink and enjoy themselves'
- Arrest in Germany over Brussels blasts: reports
27 March
- Germans left fuming by England fightback
28 March
- Two men arrested in Germany 'not tied to Brussels attacks'
- Yoga guru helps Germany's Euro 2016 bid
29 March
- 'String of mistakes' led to deadly Bavaria train crash
- WATCH: The video Turkey wants banned from Germany
- Germany 'struggling to jail Isis fighters'
- Is Germany segregating women on trains? Not quite
- '11 terror plots foiled in Germany since 2000'
- Woman calls police after finding own husband in bed
- QUIZ: How well do you know German phrases?
30 March
- Landlord must pay fine after refusing to rent to gay couple
- Merkel's approval climbs up to pre-refugee crisis levels
- SoundCloud takes on Spotify with new subscription sevice
- German IT students play XXL Tetris on university building
- Cross-border gangs blamed for jump in German break-ins
- Bavarian AfD populists call for all mosques to close
- Germany slams Turkey's call to ban satire video
31 March
- Footballers respond to racist attack with blackface photo
- Satirists offer Erdogan 'dirty deal' on mocking video
- Two killed as ship explodes in western Germany
- Electric razor mishap closes German-Swiss border
- No nanny state here: Germany a top place to let loose
- Sophie and Max: German classics top baby name list
- Berlin invests €200m to fight sex abuse in refugee camps
- Bavarian tractor driver runs amok and rams police station