UPDATE: Three Islamic terror suspects were arrested at Frankfurt Airport on Saturday. The three men, who are all German nationals, are believed to have been trained by al-Shabaab in Somalia.
A controlled detonation of a 500-kg bomb from the Second World War left a 20-metre-wide crater in the middle of one of Germany's busiest traffic corridors on Tuesday night.
The delay-hobbled Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) will already be overburdened when - or if - it opens in 2016 as passenger volume exceeds initial forecasts, it was reported on Tuesday.
Too few lightning rods and an undersized emergency generator have prevented part of Berlin's new airport from opening. Safety inspectors refused to sign off on the airport's north pier, thwarting progress on the massively delayed construction project.
The man responsible for designing the fire safety system at Berlin’s new airport - the main reason for the continuing delays to the calamitous €5 billion project - has admitted he was not a qualified engineer.
Thousands of secret planning documents for Berlin's catastrophic BER airport project were found dumped in skips on Monday night - kilometres away from the building site.
Hopes of saving Berlin’s new international airport have fallen on the shoulders of a Siemens engineer. Jörg Marks was named technical director of the disastrous project on Wednesday and said completing the €5-billion airport was “technologically feasible”.
The technical director of Berlin’s hopelessly delayed new international airport was fired on Wednesday amid a probe into corruption allegations against him.
Two years ago today Europe’s biggest infrastructure project was supposed to open. This weekend I could be flying home through it - a still shiny terminal costing €4 billion hailed as a symbol of reunified Germany.
The boss of Berlin’s long-delayed new airport said on Monday he couldn’t rule out further cases of corruption in the massively over budget project which is engulfed in a bribery scandal.
Berlin's disastrous airport project was hit with another scandal on Wednesday after its technical director was suspended pending an investigation into alleged corruption.
Berliners celebrated a rare victory against developers on Monday, after a referendum on Sunday voted to scrap building on the capital's former airport-turned-park, the Tempelhofer Feld.
City authorities have voted to name Stuttgart's airport after former mayor Manfred Rommel, prompting fears foreigners might confuse the name with his father, the famous Third Reich general.
The endless delays to Berlin’s new airport are being fully felt at the capital’s two existing flight hubs, both of which are bursting at the seams - and things could get worse.
Budget airlines are expanding their range of routes from Germany but ticket prices are climbing along with them, a report from the German Aeronautics Centre (DLR) revealed on Thursday.
Further delays and soaring costs have hit Berlin’s disastrous attempt to build a new international airport. Costs are now estimated at €8 billion with a completion date of 2017, according to reports.
UPDATE: Germany's airports, including its largest, Frankfurt, will be affected by public sector strikes on Thursday. The country's biggest airline, Lufthansa, will see 600 flights cancelled.
Charges will be pressed against a vice president of the European Parliament who allegedly called two customs officials Nazis and shouted “Heil Hitler” at Frankfurt Airport.
Bavarian authorities gave the green light on Wednesday for a much-disputed third runway to be built at Munich airport, rejecting the results of a city referendum.
Berlin’s old Schönefeld airport is likely to remain open as a destination for budget airlines despite a multi-billion airport being built next to it, as the new international hub is too small.
It sounds like a delicious farce - Hartmut Mehdorn, boss of Berlin's delayed international airport is facing compensation claims issued by Air Berlin - filed when the CEO of the airline was... Hartmut Mehdorn.
