German police are investigating after a five-year-old girl was killed and her three-year-old sister seriously injured when a car being followed by police smashed into a launderette where they were with their mother.
German police are warning parents of a deadly new trend among young people – taking photos on rail tracks. There is, it was reported on Monday, a growing number of teens risking their lives for a good shot.
Firemen were still battling a raging inferno on a former military training ground in Brandenburg on Monday, two days after it's thought buried explosives began spontaneously combusting in the heat.
Around 20 people were hurt on Wednesday morning, at least one very seriously, when a regional commuter train hit a car on a rail crossing, came off the rails and then turned over, landing in a garden in southern Germany.
After three people died in Germany's Baltic waters this week, police are warning bathers not to underestimate the power of the sea. The body of a young man was also pulled from a lake in Berlin on Thursday.
German police officers who on Wednesday shot and then drove at a dog running loose on a motorway have become the target of online death threats. “Bruce” the dog, remains at large.
Motorway experts on Thursday warned Germans to drive safely, as sweltering heat has caused roads to buckle up to half a metre into the air - and already resulted in one fatality.
Cyclists who suffer head injuries in a collision but are not wearing helmets are at least partly to blame – even if the crash itself was not their fault, a German court has ruled.
A German soldier training for his imminent deployment to Afghanistan was killed over the weekend during training manoeuvres after he was crushed by an amoured vehicle.
A 15-year-old boy died on Saturday at the popular “Tropical Islands” swimming and entertainment centre outside of Berlin, the <i>Bild</i> newspaper reported.
After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg's harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month.
A poisonous cloud containing a potentially cancer-causing chemical was accidentally released over Frankfurt on Tuesday, with residents of two districts warned to stay indoors throughout the afternoon.
Thirty-nine people were injured, eight seriously, when lightning struck an outdoor festival in northern Germany on Thursday. Many people were thrown through the air, while others suffered burns.
Lufthansa on Wednesday said it was investigating how one of its planes was flown across the Atlantic with a damaged rear end - without any of the staff realizing.
A 24-year-old man in southern Germany lost control of his car on Monday night, flying through the air and eventually crashing through the side of a barn. He survived the spectacular crash with serious injuries.
The fire brigade pulled 34 people from a burning apartment building near Cologne on Wednesday night just moments before they would have died a fiery death.
One of Stuttgart's landmarks, the television tower, has been closed to visitors and will not be reopened to the public because of concerns it would take an hour to evacuate in the case of a fire.
Snow and ice in Bavaria caused a motorway huge pile-up overnight, leaving 10 people injured and traffic jams for those travelling towards Munich on the A94.
German police this week tried to flag down a large truck swerving between lanes on the autobahn only to find the driver was unconscious. Miraculously, the vehicle sped ten kilometres before stopping without hurting anyone.
Two police helicopters collided near Berlin's Olympic stadium on Thursday morning during riot training drills against football hooligans. Initial reports suggest one person has died and four are seriously injured.
An intoxicated man has escaped relatively unscathed after tumbling onto the tracks at the Leuchtenbergring S-Bahn train station in Munich, police said on Sunday.
Around 20 people were hurt, six seriously, when at least 100 vehicles were involved in a huge pile-up amid horrendous weather in central Germany on Tuesday.
Politicians and diplomats joined friends and neighbours in southern Germany to mourn seven children and their mother who died in a house fire on Sunday. Police suspect the cause to be a faulty wood oven.
