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

01 May
- German justice to tackle Syrian war crimes
- Berlin cracks down on Airbnb rentals to cool market
- Germany 'to host fresh Ukraine talks'
- Germany's Schäuble attacks bonuses for crisis-hit VW
- Germany's right-wing AfD adopts anti-Islam manifesto
- German footballer killed day after club's relegation
02 May
- Israel ‘exploiting’ German friendship: govt insider
- 'More cameras than flying stones' at Berlin May Day
- Berlin airport scandal: Probe into possible poison attack
- Fare dodger on trial for trying to kill S-Bahn ticket controller
- Greenpeace: Leaked TTIP papers show 'threat' to EU
- Autobahn wurst war leads to drivers being fed over a fence
- Couple who imprisoned woman 'admit to 2nd murder'
- The 6 German words you need to know for spring
- Officials 'tried to erase rape' from Cologne NYE report
- World Jewish Congress slams YouTube over neo-Nazi videos
03 May
- Siemens settles Israel bribery case for €38m
- Blasting AfD won't win back voters, warns Merkel
- Trial begins of woman who left newborn in airport toilet
- Hundreds of hosts ignore Berlin’s Airbnb ban
- German daily blasts Erdogan in bilingual edition
- 5 reasons to drop everything and go to Stuttgart right now
- 20 years of remembering the Holocaust on German streets
- Police catch 3-year-old joyriding in mother’s car
- Police: 'house of horrors' pair tortured, killed 2 women
- Germany's first Isis war crimes trial starts in Frankfurt
- Pegida leader found guilty of inciting hatred
04 May
- Germany set to legalise medicinal cannabis
- 'Sharia police' members to face trial in Düsseldorf
- Merkel ‘filleted me and served me to Erdogan for tea’
- Tourist terror as iconic Berlin balloon thrashed by winds
- Towns hire 'rubbish scouts' to keep summer BBQs tidy
- Brexit would leave expats in 'ghastly' legal limbo for years
- ‘Innovative’ Germans finally discover Victorian drying rack
- Germany's six most beloved shopping streets
- Moving city is no excuse to quit the gym: court
05 May
- Refugee influx leads to German cricket boom
- Close shave: Hairdresser in hot water over Hitler ad
- More Germans doubtful on EU-US TTIP pact: poll
- 'Nationalism will rise unless EU borders protected': Merkel
06 May
- Frankfurt police hunt gunmen after broad-daylight shooting
- Most Germans don't have any Muslim friends
- Right-wing AfD leader verboten in Munich beer hall
- Brit in critical condition after driving on wrong side of road
- The voices who bring English movies to German ears
- Germany 'expects Turkey to stick to EU refugee deal'
- German Mother’s Day: Florists to Nazis and back again
- Algerian man cleared of New Year's sex assault in Cologne
- German spies want right to keep tabs on teens
07 May
- EU won't sacrifice food safety for US trade deal: Germany
- Margot Honecker, former East German leader's widow, dies
08 May
- Turkish fans brawl at wheelchair match in Germany
- 'Talk of party chief change nonsense': Germany's SPD
09 May
- Putin's biker buddies back in Berlin for war anniversary
- Lawyer can call politician 'product of inbreeding': court
- Giant fire casts pall over Hamburg city festival
- German middle class 'shrinking as rapidly as USA’s'
- AfD battles to use beer hall that launched Hitler's career
- Migrant arrivals in Germany fall to new low
- Driver loses hearse in central Munich - corpse and all
- Video emerges of Cologne New Year's Eve violence
- Threats over 'Erdogan burger' force restaurant to close
- Lufthansa's Euro 2016 ad takes aim at England
10 May
- Dozens saved as huge refugee home burns to ground
- Bloody knife attack shocks sleepy Bavarian town
- British expats: have your say in this historic decision
- Supermarkets fined millions in beer price fixing scandal
- Berlin had Cameron over a barrel, claim Brexit camp
- Court rejects Erdogan's challenge against Bild boss
- Berlin to beef up German military after years of cuts
- Germany 'scared' to take lead on gay rights: report
- 'No evidence' Munich attacker linked to terrorism: police
- Majority of Christian refugees suffer abuse in homes: report
- Two-thirds of Germans want Merkel out at next election
11 May
- SPD push for women to be able to see men’s salaries
- Police investigating 40 refugees for terror links
- Volkswagen: where Germany's two great passions are united
- New law could let free Wi-Fi bloom in Germany
- Cold front set to bring weather chillier than Christmas
- Munich knifeman had just left psychiatric care, say police
- Explosions heard as fire rips through Berlin supermarket
- 1,000s of gay men in Germany still live with criminal records
- Why these women say wage transparency is not enough
12 May
- First Muslim woman elected speaker of state parliament
- Sweden arrests 'terror recruiter' wanted in Germany
- Munich knife attacker sent for psychiatric care
- Will amphibious buses solve jams on Cologne's bridges?
- Dozens chained to railings in Berlin disabled protest
- Islam doesn’t belong here, say two-thirds of Germans
- Right-wing populists can use Hitler beer hall: court
- MP recites explicit Erdogan bestiality poem on live TV
- Headless Lübeck corpse turns out to be discarded sex doll
13 May
- Out means out, Germany warns Brexit camp
- Former Iranian dictator’s art collection comes to Berlin
- Berlin: Brexit could trigger new Northern Irish conflict
- Brits: don't let bumbling councils steal your vote
- German economy records strongest growth in 2 years
- Police snap parrot going at 1.5 times speed limit
- German MPs vote to block North African asylum claims
- Russia blamed for hacking attacks on Merkel and MPs
- Germany slashes late-night noise rules for Euro 2016
14 May
- Eco campaigners blockade German coal mine
- Clinton, Sanders camps trade blows at global convention
- Scandal-hit VW gives staff €3,950 bonus
- Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police
15 May
- Pig's head found outside Merkel's constituency office
- Syrian pianist plays to Germans' hearts
- German police arrest 120 in anti-coal demonstrations
16 May
- Germany puts refugees to work ... for one euro
- Sexual assaults reported at Berlin street festival
- IN PICTURES: Berlin's Carnival of Cultures
17 May
- Convicted neo-Nazi terrorist attends AfD Munich meeting
- Smoke in cockpit forces pilots into emergency landing
- Berlin mall occupied by 1,000-strong 'flashmob orchestra'
- Pensioner claims to have found hidden Nazi nukes
- Unknown attackers rip heads off 40 chickens
- Löw names Euro 2016 squad with fresh new faces
- Shy tenants take sting out of German rent controls
- Bavarians rush for non-lethal weapons licenses
18 May
- Don't read Erdogan bestiality poem in public: court to comic
- Dairy farms in crisis as milk now cheaper than water
- Munich police not amused by suicide bomb video prank
- Speak German or face jail, court tells WhatsApp
- Church fights AfD for Muslim right to build new mosque
- Fines for online hate speech can run into €1,000s
- School kids don’t have right to vegan food: Berlin court
- 'Known Salafist' allowed to work at Berlin airports
- London ‘master thief’ strikes at Germany’s fanciest store
- German astronaut to take command of space station
19 May
- Erdogan takes 'indignation' out on German diplomat
- Church tower Wi-Fi 'Godspots' to bring word from on high
- Brits: Why vote away your right to move in Europe?
- China beats Germany in readiness to help refugees
- Cyclists' 'Ride of Silence' launches bid for safer streets
- German chemical giant in talks to buy Monsanto
- German squad target for terrorists at Euro 2016: police
- Germany sticks to 'nein' on debt relief for Greece
- Police shoot man in front of Munich job centre
20 May
- Frankfurt serial killer struck up to 10 times, claim police
- 6 things about Munich that’ll stay with you forever
- German smokers now faced with pics of rotting teeth
- Top doctor blasts Lufthansa over pilots' mental health
- Two police raids on journos raise press freedom fears
- Merkel party calls to punish Erdogan over power grab
- Migrants try new route to UK through north German port
- Keep shredding millions of male chicks, court tells farms
- Ruhr nuclear plant ‘pumped radioactive waste into air’
21 May
- German prosecutors seek jail for ex-SS Auschwitz guard
- German company unveils 3-D printed motorcycle
22 May
- Bayern clinch German Cup on Guardiola farewell
- Events in Turkey 'a great concern,' says German leader
- Fiat Chrysler suspected of emissions cheating: Germany
23 May
- Merkel meets Erdogan in Istanbul as critics growl
- Tornado rips off roofs as storm batters west Germany
- The Local's ultimate guide to summer in Germany
- New father's tragic herpes warning touches 1000s online
- AfD meet with Muslim leaders breaks down in acrimony
- Berlin facts - 23 things you never knew about the German capital
- Merkel: Turkey failing to meet EU terms for visa-free travel
- Extremist violence 'exploded' in record year for refugees
24 May
- Bavaria tries to coax migrants into police force
- Here's why Munich is worth 20 times more than Berlin
- Far-right AfD turns on itself over failed Muslim meeting
- Why Greece is top of Germany's to-do list - again
- Monsanto takeover would be 'diabolical': environmentalists
- Berlin thief shows heart in surprising act of kindness
- Police arrest suspect in murder of Chinese student
- Thugs' ‘dream cop’ in court for not investigating 100 cases
- Five sure-fire ways to impress Germans with your manners
25 May
- Germany gets its way over fresh aid for Greece
- Pegida enraged by black children on chocolate bars
- Passersby spur on mob as they attack refugees
- Adidas to bring production home with robot shoe factory
- All aboard the €3,000 train ride from Berlin to London
- We'll crush German airlines, boasts Ryanair boss
- Far-right leader Petry under investigation for perjury
- 1000s of smashed beer bottles bring Autobahn to standstill
- 13 (even more) thrilling facts you must know about Berlin
26 May
- German firm fights years-long battle to crack Rubik's Cube
- Church hides refugees from state in Bavarian beauty spot
- Hero bin man saves child from 2nd storey plunge
- Plan to open Berlin airport in 2017 finally (inevitably) dead
- How your boss can still pay lower than the minimum wage
- Far-right tries to lure voters with own-brand gummy bears
- Police hunt Brits who Hitler-saluted in concentration camp
- Berlin politician crusades for health of skateboarding dog
- Raging ticket controller seizes Chinese traveler's passport
27 May
- VW bets on battery factory for electric car dominance
- Prosecutors take aim at unedited Hitler book
- Weekend promises storms, humidity - and a bit of sun
- 'I'm definitely not a paedophile': disgraced MP
- Scooter singer finally reveals how much the fish cost
- Fugitive ex-terrorists 'on huge crime spree' in north Germany
- The future belongs to these 10 German regions
- Dresden 'most woman-friendly’ city in Germany
28 May
- Merkel hails Franco-German relations after Verdun invite
29 May
- Dozens hit by lightning strike in west Germany
- German populist party in race row over Boateng remarks
- Hollande and Merkel mark centenary of Battle of Verdun
30 May
- Three dead as floods wreak havoc in southern Germany
- Battle over Boateng unmasks the racism of the AfD
- Granny, 91, walks away after falling under express train
- Confused Spaniard to blame for alarm at Cologne airport
- North and east Germany next to face fierce storms
- Puzzled cops pull pair of legs out of bin for second time
- Don't adopt Armenia genocide bill, Turkey warns Berlin
- Finally, west Germans are the ones trying to get into the east
31 May
- 100 years since Germany tried to break UK's grip on the seas
- Med rescuers share human cost of refugee crisis
- Support for Merkel govt dips below 50 percent
- Hanover teen stabbed police officer 'on orders from Isis'
- 3 asylum seekers arrested for sexual assaults at music fest
- Kraftwerk defeat makes Germany safe for DJs
- Every third child in Berlin now dependent on welfare
- Star winger axed from Germany Euros squad
- Footballer Özil’s Mecca visit was unpatriotic, say AfD
- Dalai Lama says there are 'too many' refugees in Europe
- Erdogan to Berlin: be sensible on Armenia genocide bill