Levels of blood reserves in German hospitals are falling to critically low levels due to the coronavirus crisis, impeding efforts of the Red Cross to find donors.
A further person has been arrested in connection with a blood doping network based in the German city of Erfurt, the state prosecutor in Munich confirmed on Wednesday.
Police in central Germany on Monday arrested an armed man covered in blood who had been running naked down a main road. He is believed to be a Polish citizen.
An unidentified man thought to have attacked three people with a knife was run down on a motorway in western Germany on Monday. One of his victims is fighting for his life, the others are seriously hurt.
UPDATE: A young family was killed after a fire ravaged a building in Duisburg early on Monday morning. They died of smoke inhalation, police said on Tuesday. The blaze broke out in a takeaway below residential apartments overnight.
A police murder squad was called to a parked car in a town in western Germany this week after blood was reportedly seen dripping from it. A body was found in the vehicle, but the driver was just doing his job.
Police were searching for witnesses on Wednesday morning following a mysterious road accident in which a 25-year-old man was killed as he lay in the middle of the road.
A German skydiver died trying to break a group skydiving record in the United States on Thursday. Her parachute failed to open properly on the 5,500-metre drop.
A court in Hannover jailed a man for life on Wednesday for torturing his girlfriend to death over six hours. He filmed the abuse on his mobile phone in what the judge called the worst case he had ever seen.
A young German father threw his three children out of a second-floor window before jumping out himself on Tuesday, in what police believe was a bid to get his girlfriend back. Their ten-month-old son was left fighting for his life.
A teenage student died while “train surfing” in Berlin on Tuesday night. He was thrown from the roof of the train onto the tracks as the S-Bahn went into a tunnel.
A long-suffering wife was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday after killing her abusive husband with an axe, cutting him into pieces and burying him in her garden.
UPDATE: A long-serving politician was shot dead on Monday night in his garage in central Germany, police said. The main suspect is a former colleague, who killed himself in front of officers hours later.
A double murderer and rapist, who killed and ate one of his victim’s cats with mashed potato, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday by a court in southern Germany.
German authorities have identified a dead baby found in a bin 25 years ago through its mother who killed two of her other children, police said on Wednesday.
A Berlin teacher was burnt to death on Sunday in a block of flats, allegedly by her boyfriend. Neighbours witnessed the woman running through the apartment covered in two-metre high flames before she died in the stairwell.
A schoolboy narrowly survived being stabbed in the chest, allegedly by a fellow 12-year-old pupil in a playground, police in North Rhine-Westphalia said on Friday.
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.
<b>UPDATE:</b> A tiger killed a zookeeper in front of onlooking visitors on Thursday afternoon. Ten-year-old Rasputin snuck up on the man during feeding time at a zoo in western Germany.
