Two children died in the southern German town of Lustadt over the weekend when they apparently dropped a hair dryer into the bathtub where they were playing, broadcaster <i>SĂĽdwestfunk</i> reported on Monday.
State prosecutors are investigating Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma for allegedly making secret recordings of emergency task force meetings after the deadly collapse of the city’s historical archive, authorities announced on Thursday.
Cologne mayor Fritz Schramma has started disciplinary proceedings against the head of the city building department in hopes of clarifying how the city’s archive collapsed earlier this month, killing two and endangering thousands of historic documents.
Construction managers and city officials saw measurements that clearly showed Cologne’s Historic Archive was sinking into the excavation work below it weeks before the building collapsed, it has been revealed.
Two weeks after the dramatic collapse of Cologne's historical archive left two people dead, a city official has admitted to building code violations in the area.
Rescue workers have retrieved the body of a second victim from the rubble of Cologne’s historic archive more than a week after the building collapsed.
Rescue workers continued their search overnight for a young man who was buried last week when Cologne’s historical archive collapsed, authorities said on Monday.
Three days after the dramatic collapse of Cologne’s historical archive, the search for two missing men has beeen hampered because rescue workers can’t stabilise the site, authorities said on Friday.
<b>Rescue workers have managed to clear and secure much of the accident site of the Cologne archive collapse, allowing search efforts for two missing people to begin sooner than expected, authorities said on Thursday.</b>
Two people feared trapped in the rubble of Cologne's historic archives and adjacent buildings are almost certainly dead, officials in the western German city said on Wednesday.
Cologne’s Mayor Fritz Schramma on Wednesday called into question further construction of a metro line after the dramatic collapse of the city’s historical archive left two people missing and a gaping hole where half a block of buildings once stood.
A mother and her three children are dead after their Moers apartment caught fire early on Wednesday morning, police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said.
German authorities closed several motorways in the state of Bavaria on Tuesday after heavy snow increased the danger of avalanches, auto club ADAC reported.
A father and his three-year-old son have been found after falling through thin ice and drowning, police in the German state of Brandenburg said on Monday.
An intoxicated driver has been arrested for putting his dead passenger in the driver seat after driving too fast and killing him in an accident, daily <i>Hamburger Abendblatt</i> reported on Tuesday.
A squat house in Erfurt, associated with the kidnapping of talking TV bread loaf <i>Bernd das Brot</i>, burned down on Wednesday night, police reported.
The driver of a semi-truck on the A3 motorway near WĂĽrzburg amazed rescue workers on Wednesday after smashing through a concrete guardrail to jump a six-metre gap onto a partially demolished bridge over the Main River.
A 23-year-old man launched his car off a steep slope into the roof of a Limbach-Oberfrohna church in a high-speed accident that left the driver seriously injured, police in the state of Saxony reported on Monday.
A Mönchengladbach man was stuck with his feet in the air for hours after diving into a paper recycling container to retrieve his keys, police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported on Monday.
Extremely icy streets caused hundreds traffic accidents, several severe injuries and even seven deaths across Germany during rush hour traffic, police reported on Monday.
