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

01 December
- Germany is losing startups due to lack of spirit: report
- Number of homophobic crimes soars in 2016
- Guess who Charlie Hebdo mocks in first German edition
- Your essential guide for doing Christmas just like a German
- One in five entrepreneurs in Germany have 'foreign roots'
- Missing Hamburg cop found dead in suspected suicide
- How a German Olympian's heart gave a Brazilian new life
- What we know about the 'gay porn star turned Islamist spy'
- Rostock man 'still ate meals with dead brother' for a month
- Syrian teen kicked off Berlin tram for food, not headscarf
02 December
- German stock market to start trading in magic armour
- Germany's neighbours mull suit over 'foreigner road toll'
- 5 things we learnt reading Germany's first Charlie Hebdo
- How new German rules are holding refugee families apart
- At last: Germany passes major disabled rights reform
- Germany gains record number of Michelin-star restaurants
- Berlin 'abusing power' to stop Snowden coming to Germany
- Mystery flight path artist draws new message in sky
- Stolen Dachau 'Work will set you free' gate found: police
- Learn how to speak German like a silver screen icon
- Berlin vs Munich: whose newborn polar bear is cuter?
03 December
- Stolen Dachau camp gate found in Norway
- Merkel to chart 2017 election battle at party congress
- US tries to block Chinese purchase of Aixtron
- Nazi POW leaves estate to 'kind' Scottish village
04 December
- Afghan teen arrested over German murder-rape
- Germany arrests Marxist militant 'leader'
- VW bosses forced to pay back private jet costs
05 December
- Austrian vote a 'good omen for Europe': German minister
- These are Berlin's seven most exquisite restaurants
- Why Germany is worried by Italy's referendum result
- Rail worker jailed over train crash that killed 12
- Germany should deport sick refugees: Merkel party mate
- China criticizes US for blocking sale of German firm
- Teen's murder-rape arrest reignites refugee debate
- Germany bucks global trend, sells more weapons
- 1,000 sprinting Santas take over small German town
- Temperatures rise as sunny winter weather continues
06 December
- Introducing... The Local's new design
- Merkel's new election bid 'more difficult than any before'
- John Kerry in Berlin: 'we are going to be OK'
- Germany must pay nuclear firms compensation: high court judges
- Why the 'ugly Christmas sweater' is making waves in Deutschland
- Merkel says she is for burqa ban where legally possible
- Public broadcaster: we didn't cover up refugee rape suspect
- Germany among top European countries for education: PISA report
- Merkel re-elected as CDU party leader with big majority
- Suspect arrested for sex attacks on Chinese students in west Germany
- Five things we learned about Merkel from her conference speech
07 December
- This is how clichéd the American idea of Germany still is
- Merkel’s party wants to stop migrant kids from keeping two passports
- New Berlin justice minister wants fare-dodgers to 'clean up schools'
- 'Merkel is better than Kohl, but she’s no Adenauer'
- Three on trial for jihadist bomb attack on Sikh wedding
- These German companies have the happiest workers
- Why making Germans wear bike helmets may actually be harmful
- Merkel urges Germans to stick to facts on refugee crime
- Kardashian-shaped squirrel finally freed from Munich manhole cover
08 December
- EU to sue Germany over Volkswagen emissions scandal
- Muslim girl loses case to be exempt from co-ed swim classes
- Husband arrested for burning wife to death on street
- Chinese firm scraps German tech deal after US block
- Industrial giant ThyssenKrupp hit by 'massive cyber attack'
- These are the ten German districts with the richest residents
- Nazi camp cash counterfeiter Adolf Burger dies at 99
- These are Germany’s absolute best restaurants... and they're not where you'd think
- Opposition parties condemn German defence plan with Saudi Arabia
- Düsseldorf hopes to pull other cities onto weed legalization plan
09 December
- Germany launches €150 million aid package for returning immigrants
- Police call for witnesses after brutal Berlin U-Bahn attack
- Police detain man suspected of bombing Dresden mosque
- New threat to Merkel emerges: EU leader catches up in polls
- Two teens arrested over suspected 'Islamist motivated' attack plot
- How some Muslim refugees are converting to Christianity
- Pilot strike clips Lufthansa's wings by €100 million
- 'Robocop' filmmaker Verhoeven to head Berlin film fest jury
- Here’s where to find the fastest internet in Germany
- Immigrant children see big improvements in school results
- Man accused of sexually abusing 122 children online
10 December
- French women sue healthcare giant Bayer over contraceptive implants
11 December
- Berlin exhibition keeps dance of Pina Bausch in motion
12 December
- Cologne to have 10 times more police for New Year's Eve party
- 10 words and phrases that'll make you sound local in the Rhineland
- Daredevil YouTube star goes on trial over killing pensioner
- Berliners offer thousands of euros to find suspect in brutal U-Bahn attack
- How to unleash your anger over poor German package delivery
- Germany insists on these 8 things, even though they're rubbish
- Two paintings taken by Nazis returned to beneficiaries in Canada
- Man jailed for murdering police officer over missing train ticket
13 December
- Lufthansa plane to Frankfurt makes emergency landing after bomb threat
- Germany will soon have more refugees in work than out: report
- Conservative politicians want 'fake news' to be criminal offence
- German investors don't flinch in face of European worries
- Gulf state groups are 'supporting Salafists in Germany': report
- Merkel wants to extend Russia sanctions over Ukraine
- Mob assaults asylum seekers and chases them through streets
- Opinion: Think 'fake news' can't endanger lives in Germany? Think again
- 'Cannibal cop' convicted of killing 'willing victim' in retrial
- What it's like to be homeless during Germany's winter
14 December
- Meet the Berlin train startup taking on Deutsche Bahn
- Munich bans alcohol at night at main train station due to crime
- Watch Berlin polar bear cub's adorable first attempts to walk
- Russia calls fears of cyber attacks on German election 'nonsense'
- Seven newly released emojis that are just perfect for Germany
- Why the heck was this horse healer Googled more than David Bowie?
- Germans are much happier, more liberal than they realize: survey
- Berlin police identify U-Bahn attacker, no arrest yet
- Trial begins of mother who threw children out of 2nd floor window
- How the number of Muslims in Germany is way lower than people think
- Why advertising on The Local really paid off for this startup
15 December
- Driverless bus 'Olli' undergoes testing in Berlin
- How Cologne sexual assaults 'changed German mood completely'
- Three jailed in Germany for huge beer smuggling operation into UK
- Germany slams Greece for not fully searching for Freiburg murder suspect
- Munich court clears way for Swiss museum to get Nazi art hoard
- Germany begins controversial collective deportations to Afghanistan
- Two dead in shooting at central German doctor's practice
- Sweden to extradite 'Laser Man' killer to Germany
- Farmers stage Grimm protest against big bad wolves in Hanover
- Hamburg rape suspect should have been deported in summer
16 December
- Berlin named best city to be gay and single
- Why the Berlin U-Bahn attack video has gone viral
- 12-year-old attempted to bomb Christmas market in south Germany: prosecutors
- Yes, Bavaria just confirmed every cliché we have about it
- Lufthansa and pilots call in mediation over wage spat
- German comedy among favourites to win foreign language Oscar
- This is what Facebook moderators in Germany have to deal with
- Taliban leader tries (and fails) to get asylum in Germany
17 December
- Germany arrests Turk for spying on Kurds
- US judge 'optimistic' for deal in VW case
18 December
- Schumacher health to stay private: manager
- Thousands attend Berlin rally for Aleppo
19 December
- Berlin outraged at Christmas 'ban' at German school in Istanbul
- After techno and street art, Berlin tackles graphic novels
- Ten astounding German paintings you have to see before you die
- So far, only 34,000 refugees have found jobs in Germany
- Man arrested for kicking woman down Berlin U-Bahn stairs
- German economy in 'festive mood' as business confidence jumps
- Munich police under fire after mass arrest at tram stop
- Is globalization the real reason the AfD are so strong?
- Jogger sexually assaulted in Munich’s English Garden
- This is how likely a white Christmas is in Germany
- LIVE: Twelve dead as truck hits Berlin Christmas market in 'probable terrorist attack'
20 December
- Twelve killed in 'probable terrorist attack' at Berlin Christmas market
- Berlin Christmas market attack: What we know so far
- The day after the Berlin truck attack: As it happened
- What we know about the Berlin Christmas market attacker
- Analysis: intelligence has limits in preventing truck-borne terror
- After Berlin, Europe beefs up security at Christmas markets
- Far-right accuse Merkel of culpability for deaths in Berlin
- Police hunt for attacker after Isis claims truck rampage
21 December
- Who could be behind the Berlin truck attack?
- VW reaches $1 bn compensation deal in US
- Six celebrities you didn't know spoke German
- Police ‘confident’ they’ll catch Berlin truck attacker soon
- Germany offers €100,000 reward in hunt for truck attack suspect
- Germany weighs up more security after first 'real' attack
- Refugees, Berliners sing together against hate at attack site
- European populists use Christmas market attack to lash out at Merkel
- Germany arrests Moroccan 'linked to Paris attacks planner'
22 December
- Manhunt for truck attack suspect intensifies as anger grows
- Attack suspect Anis Amri: what we know so far
- As it happened: high probability Amri is attack perpetrator: minister
- Analysis: why the Berlin market attack piles new pressure on Merkel
- How a security scandal is brewing after the Berlin truck attack
- Germany's biggest evacuation since WWII to take place... on Christmas
- Family of truck attack suspect react with disbelief, denial
23 December
- English only? Nein, danke: German linguists sell VW shares
- Merkel hopes for 'quick arrest' of Berlin market attacker
- Two brothers arrested on suspicion of bomb plot against shopping mall
- Isis release video of Anis Amri swearing them his allegiance
- What we know about fatal shooting of Berlin attack suspect in Milan
- How the Berlin truck attack will change Germany
- Merkel orders security review after botched Amri case
24 December
- Germany hunts possible accomplices of Berlin attacker
- Tunisia arrests nephew, two others linked to Berlin suspect: Ministry
25 December
- 54,000 evacuated on Christmas after Germany finds WWII bomb
26 December
- Pope, German bishops comfort terror victims in Christmas messages
27 December
- Every visitor to Hamburg has to go precisely to these eight spots
- CCTV 'shows Berlin attacker fleeing through France'
- Germans demand honour for Polish driver after 'heroism' at truck attack
- Brothers released after 'shopping mall bomb plot' arrest
- Youths who ‘set sleeping homeless man on fire’ turn themselves in
- Germany says had to cancel show of Iran shah's art trove
28 December
- Opinion: In 2016 Germany woke up to the hard reality of the refugee influx
- Majority of Germans want country to do more in fight against Isis: survey
- How Germans are fed up with Bavaria getting all the breaks
- Germans born under these star signs were least faithful in 2016
- Police arrest 'contact man' for truck attacker in Berlin
- These are the 10 German stories that went most viral in 2016
- German architect of Euro currency dies aged 85
29 December
- 8 things that'll really annoy you when you first arrive in Germany
- Three Germans killed in Italian Riviera yacht blaze
- Germans just made the most German New Year’s resolution ever
- Police with machine guns to secure Berlin New Year fest
- German anti-terror services 'ranked Amri a low threat'
- Man drives over and kills woman ‘for kissing on zebra crossing'
- Young refugees ‘must be integrated quicker to prevent violence’
- German rail giant ramps up 'Silk Road' freight line to China
- Tunisian suspect in Berlin truck attack freed: prosecutors
30 December
- This is what 2017 has in store for Germany
- The Berlin truck attack 11 days on: what we know and still don't know
- Munich court dismisses bare-faced cheek of strip club bill
- Berlin airport boss admits: chances of 2017 opening slim to zero
- The weirdest German New Year's Eve habit you've never heard of
- 7-year-old badly injured after friend puts firework down top
- Berlin police angrily reject claim they assaulted terror suspect
31 December
- Merkel urges Germans to meet terror with freedom and openness