📰 Breaking News: News Archive for August 2018 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 August
- Volkswagen may recall 124,000 e-cars over carcinogenic metal
- US judge defers ruling on whether to hear Namibia genocide case
- Shorter fries and sunburned cows : Why the farmer's crisis matters
- Apple Pay to be launched in Germany before end of year
- Government to spend billions on internet infrastructure
- Tropical heat: Berlin suffers through warmest ever night
- Incredible satellite images show damaging effects of heatwave
- One in every four German residents now has migrant background
- Rap and Rechtschreibung: Five times rappers nailed German grammar
02 August
- Tropical storms predicted to sweep across Germany after heatwave
- Siemens eyes major revamp as energy woes sap profit
- What we could all learn from the German attitude to sickness
- Heatwave: Germany 'sold out' of cooling fans, beer bottle supplies run low
- Germany considers recruiting foreign EU nationals to boost army
- Bombs away? Elbe evaporation leads to discovery of WWII munitions
- Good news Germany: you now have less than €2,000,000,000,000 in debt
03 August
- ‘Stauffenberg was a traitor’: the comment that went too far for the AfD
- Wage rage? Average wages still considerably lower in the former East
- An American parent in Germany, or how I learned to love the power tools
- Clear majority of Germans think country has big problem with racism: poll
- Freedom of speech doesn't cover Holocaust denial, Germany's top court rules
- Why Berlin’s public transport payment system might just be more modern than London's
- Grill skills: showdown to determine the greatest German grillmeister of them all
- Draft law set to give Brits more time to gain dual citizenship
- Trial starts in case of teen accused of attempted murder of girlfriend
- New left-wing political movement to go online at weekend
04 August
- German tourist shot in head in Canada recovering, 'road rage' suspect arrested
- Germany's only Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich arrested in Majorca
05 August
- For exiled novelist, Turkey 'like 1930s Nazi Germany'
- German firms big losers in Trump's new Iranian sanctions game
06 August
- Elderly heavy metal fans sneak out of nursing home to rock out at Wacken Open Air
- Seehofer pushes Italy and Greece to take back more migrants
- Swastikas sprayed at site of Syrian child’s death cause outrage
- 'No sign of life': Germany deports asylum seeker to China by mistake
- After mini-break, heatwave to come back in full force
- Why Germany is talking about compulsory national service again
- A third of all Berliners would rather live elsewhere, survey finds
- Spanish paedophile jailed in Freiburg for 'buying' boy online
07 August
- Lower Saxony calls in ‘elf commissioner’ to tackle autobahn deaths
- Berlin plans further curbs against non-EU investors
- Final verdict handed down in one of Germany’s most shocking paedophile trials
- Police give all clear after partial evacuation of Frankfurt Airport
- Daimler halts Iran activities due to US sanctions
- Greens will replace SPD long term, says pollster
- Buchenwald memorial chief demands answers from far-right MP
- Controversial Erdogan state visit to Berlin is confirmed
08 August
- Fire next to high-speed rail track rips through houses, injuring 32
- Heatwave breaks as Hesse hit by heavy storms and flooding
- EU must open markets to 'all African goods', says Development Minister
- Germany will fight for Iran deal, says Foreign Minister Maas
- Crossed wires: why church tax is causing extra stress for expat tax payers
- Ryanair to scrap 250 flights over German pilot strike Friday
- Germany reaches agreement with Spain over returning migrants
- Here's how Berlin plans to radically overhaul its public transport system
- Investor turning Nazi indoctrination camp into luxury flats goes bust
09 August
- German drug maker claims US state illegally obtained its product for execution
- Call for law change as number of children abroad receiving benefits rises
- Frankfurt airport grinds to a halt as storms hit Germany
- 'The teacher shortage is the worst it has ever been'
- WATCH: 'Hair-brained' zig-zag bike lane opens in Berlin
- Germany lifts ban on Nazi symbols in computer games
- The very strangest surnames in the German telephone book
10 August
- Trains cancelled as storm 'Nadine' ravages Germany
- What you need to know about the Ryanair strike
- Here’s what to know about train disruptions after storm ‘Nadine’
- Ex-Tour de France winner Ullrich held in Frankfurt over prostitute assault
- Member’s Quiz: how well do you really know Berlin?
- Former AfD activist to face legal action over exposé book
11 August
- Cancellations and compensation: what rights do Ryanair passengers have?
- Germany's shamed cycling champion Ullrich admitted to psychiatric hospital
- US judge rejects German drug maker's efforts to halt execution
- Monsanto's German owners call weed killer 'non-cancerous' after jury orders big payout
12 August
- Spain and Germany seek EU aid for Morocco over migrants
13 August
- Alleged bin Laden bodyguard blacklisted for re-entry, claims newspaper report
- Bayer stock plummets after Monsanto ruling
- Runaway ram causes autobahn chaos
- Merkel to meet Putin on Saturday for talks on Ukraine and Syria
14 August
- New section of Berlin Wall discovered by accident in inner-city park
- Give rejected asylum seekers chance to work, Merkel ally says
- Bullet fired from hunting rifle kills man on Bavarian road
- Ten baby boa constrictors found in Frankfurt kindergarten
- German economy bounces back from slow start to year
- Are refugees to blame for a rise in anti-Semitism… or are they being scapegoated?
15 August
- German tourist wounded in Canada shooting returning home
- Bridge collapse “cannot be ruled out” in Germany, says expert
- Berlin mountain climber falls 200 metres to death in Austrian Alps
- Among Berlin’s hard-up artists, gender pay gap is ‘hidden scandal’: study
- Heatwave set for last hurrah on Thursday
- ‘Diverse’: cabinet agrees to third gender on birth certificate
- Green party seek to cement C02 reduction in constitution
- Booming and bursting: How is tourism impacting Germany's Baltic coast?
16 August
- World Cup star will take on key role if Germany win bid to host Euro 2024
- Concern over state of Berlin's bridges after figures show more than 40 have defects
- Germany's winemakers cope with climate change by breeding new grapes
- Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher not moving to Spanish island, family says
- Court says bin Laden's suspected bodyguard Sami A. must be returned to Germany
- Özil "out of order" to make racism accusations, says Kroos
- Swimming deaths connected to lack of school training and distracted parents
17 August
- Parking at top German airports costs more than flying: study
- German plane makes emergency landing following bomb threat
- Update: 16 injured after Flixbus travelling from Stockholm to Berlin tips over in crash
- Grandma's Kitchen bans children so restaurant-goers can eat in peace
- Desperate search underway for Canadian hiker missing in southern Germany
- What you need to know about Chancellor Merkel's meeting with President Putin
- Germany says migrant-return agreement reached with Greece
18 August
- Macron and Merkel 'concerned' ahead of battle for Syrian rebel holdout
19 August
- Putin calls on Europe to help pay for Syria reconstruction
- German FA boss wishes he gave Özil more support over 'racist attacks'
20 August
- Jewish leader attacks AfD over Holocaust remembrance
- What it’s like to share a name with the world’s most notorious dictator
- Imprisoned German journalist allowed to leave Turkey, but trial continues
- Asylum granted legally in over 99 percent of cases, review finds
- Construction of mega-bridge in Moselle valley nears completion
- German trade surplus still largest in the world
- 'Hell on Earth was a German creation,' says Foreign Minister on visit to Auschwitz
21 August
- Thousands more refugees are in jobs... because they’ve learned German
- Riot police called in after angry nerds storm tiny Bavarian village
- Former Nazi camp guard deported to Germany from US
- 'First taste of autumn' as cold front hits Germany at the weekend
- How I found Yugoslavia again in a peaceful south German town
- Ditching coal energy: ecological necessity or economic nightmare?
22 August
- German actress accuses Harvey Weinstein of rape
- Majority support law change to allow rejected asylum seekers to stay: survey
- Remembering the celebrated satirist 'who taught Germans how to laugh'
- Broadcaster can’t be forced to apologize for ‘Polish death camps’ gaffe, high court rules
- Chechen terror suspect arrested in Berlin
- Foreign Minister sets out plan for resetting relations with Washington
- Farmers to get €170 million in state aid after drought ruins harvest
- A top court just made it harder for landlords to make you paint your flat before you leave
- Who can end Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga dominance?
23 August
- Merkel seeks to have German head the European Commission
- Police and Pegida: the scandal brewing over press freedom in Saxony
- What are Berlin's most affordable co-working spaces?
- Volkswagen to offer all-electric car-sharing from 2019 in Berlin
- No-deal Brexit could see Brits in EU lose access to UK bank accounts
- The man making sure Berlin commuters can watch cat videos on their way to work
24 August
- Hundreds evacuated near Berlin as forest fire threatens villages
- Video game swastikas stir unease in Germany
- Germany halts deportation of Chinese Muslims over human rights concerns
- Attacks on police, fire fighters show increase in Germany
25 August
- Firefighters stop spread of forest fire raging near Berlin
26 August
- Wolfsburg captain fights homophobia with rainbow armband
- WWII bomb defused in Ludwigshafen after 18,500 evacuated
27 August
- Cafe, memorial and even more rubble: Back to the future for Berlin’s ‘Devil’s Mountain’?
- No, Germany is not implementing compulsory community service for refugees
- Berlin’s final Zug Der Liebe soured by allegations of sexual harassment, stabbings and firework attacks
- Berlin 'considers' banning foreign buyers to counter house price rises
- When should the media report on murders by refugees?
- Hooligans ‘attack migrants’ in Chemnitz after stabbing at city festival
28 August
- Second day of unrest in Chemnitz after deadly knife attack
- 'Hate in the streets' has no place in Germany, says Merkel
- Chemnitz killers did not act out of self-defence: investigators
- A night in the hotel that used to house some of Germany's most wanted outlaws
- Tributes paid after body of Canadian hiker missing in Bavarian Alps found
- Pedestrian activists demand licence plates for 'dangerous' German cyclists
29 August
- Interactive Russian film project to rebuild Berlin Wall in city centre
- Germany to return human remains from Namibian genocide
- World Cup fever to packed-out parks: Why Germany's scorching summer is one to remember
- Coalition aims to get back to business after unsettled summer of disputes
- New suspicion of police cooperation with far-right: Chemnitz arrest warrant leaked
- Escaped three-metre anaconda shuts down swimming lake near Düsseldorf
- Golden statue of Erodgan set up by artists in Wiesbaden removed after friction
- Löw says 'no racism' at German FA as he cuts players for France clash
- Trial starts of two gynaecologists who ‘advertise’ abortion services
30 August
- Migrant beaten in racist attack in northeast German city
- Merkel arrives in Senegal on Africa tour aimed at stemming illegal migration
- 7 events not to miss throughout Germany in September
- Police prepare for more Chemnitz protests as details emerge of knife attacker's criminal past
31 August
- Everything that changes in Germany in September 2018
- ‘Please stop calling east Germans racists. Sit down and listen to them’
- Families Minister becomes first government official to visit site of Chemnitz stabbing
- EU aims to scrap turning the clocks back for winter
- Breaking up with Berlin: why expats fall out of love with the German capital
- 'We aren't all Nazis': Chemnitz on edge after anti-migrant violence
- 10 year sentence given to man who bombed Dresden mosque