Seven German soldiers were badly injured on Wednesday night when a car drove into them while they were marching down a country road. It is the second accident to affect the area in a week.
UPDATE: Meteorologists issued widespread weather warnings for Germany on Tuesday, as temperatures plummeted and streets froze over. North eastern regions are particularly badly hit.
At least 24 people including a pregnant woman and driver were injured on Friday morning in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, when two trams crashed into each other at a station.
UPDATE The World War II bomb which exploded western Germany on Friday afternoon, killing one and injuring 13 people was probably a British aerial mine, experts said on Monday.
Deaths on Germany's roads are expected to be lower than ever in 2013, initial figures on Thursday suggested. A total of 3,300 people died in traffic accidents - 10 percent fewer than in 2012.
An accident off the coast of Italy this weekend in which hundreds of African refugees died has prompted President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz to call on Germany to take in more people in need.
Details emerged on Thursday as an investigation was launched into the worst mining accident in Germany since 1989. Three men died in a mine in central Germany on Tuesday afternoon after deadly gas escaped into a mine shaft.
A 10-year-old boy survived a car crash which killed his mother, grandmother and grandfather near Gotha in central Germany on Thursday night. He was seriously injured, police said.
A nightclub in northern Germany controversially held a “Lilliputian Action” evening, in which guests were invited to catch a dwarf hired to run around the dance floor.
Nine people died in two car crashes in Germany on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. In one accident four teenagers were killed while the other was so bad that police could not tell how many bodies were in the wreck.
Berlin's foreign diplomats are giving police a headache with their bad driving. In four months they racked up nearly 5,000 traffic violations, getting off scot-free thanks to diplomatic immunity.
The number of swimming deaths in Germany this summer has nearly doubled on last year. Figures released on Wednesday show 250 people died in the country's waters over the summer months.
A German woman who paramedics thought had died in a car crash is being treated in hospital - after a morgue employee noticed she was still breathing hours after the accident.
Twelve Germans, including seven children, were rescued off Iceland overnight after their sailboat took on water in bad weather and later sank, the coastguard said on Friday.
A 55-year-old German man had a very lucky escape on Sunday night, after being run over by a train. He was even in a fit enough state to get up and shout at the driver.
