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.
A hydroelectric plant worker in central Germany made a gruesome discovery when he opened a bag hanging on a rake which contained 20 dead snakes. Seven live snakes, including pythons were also found on a train.
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.
<b>UPDATE:</b> A man who killed two people and injured five others in a shooting on Tuesday went on the rampage following an argument about utility bills.
A Munich court has sentenced a police officer to 10 months in prison for punching a young woman in the face while in custody, breaking her nose and eye socket.
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.
The number of deaths seen in the German Alps may be have fallen to an all-time-low in 2012, but a mountaineering group warned on Friday that walkers are pushing their limits. The number of SOS calls has tripled over the past decade.
A man has died after being attacked by a neo-Nazi in one of two violent attacks on foreigners in Germany over the past few days. The second incident involved members of the Bundeswehr throwing fireworks at a home for refugees.
A would-be mayor of Frankfurt disgraced himself by throwing a high-ranking city official over a piano he was using to disrupt a prestigious award ceremony in the city hall.
The US state of Arizona ordered at the last minute the retrial of a German woman who was due to be released after spending decades on death row, despite there being no reliable evidence linking her to the crime.
Germany called for an independent inquiry into the killing of 42 loyalists of Egypt's ousted president Monday, saying it feared political violence in the country could continue to spiral.
A group of seven- and eight-year-olds watched in disbelief at the weekend as an argument between their parents over their football game spiralled out of hand - escalating into a full-blown punch-up between 15 adults.
German police have defended an officer's decision to shoot a naked man brandishing a knife in central Berlin on Friday morning. He died of his injuries. The shot, which hit him in the chest was, they said, legitimate self-defence.
Germany on Friday called an escalation in political violence in Egypt which has already claimed three lives a "moment of truth" for its fledgling democracy and urged Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to implement reforms.
German doctors are calling for gay men to be allowed to donate blood. Currently a Europe-wide ban prevents them from doing so, but the German Health Minister said he would welcome a relaxation of the rules.
German scientists are conducting experiments to trace the behaviour and movement of crowds in a bid to prevent catastrophes, such as that seen at the 2010 Love Parade when 21 people were trampled to death in a stampede.
A court on Monday declared a mistrial in the highly publicised case of six men accused of beating a 20-year-old to death in central Berlin after a lay judge heckled an eye witness and reportedly discussed the proceedings with a newspaper.
German lawyers have said they will demand millions of euros in damages from the mother of a boy who killed himself and 14 people and injured a further 14 in a school shooting in 2009, for what they say was a breach of duty on her part.
German state prosecutors filed on Wednesday charges against a policeman who punched a woman in the face, breaking her nose and eye socket while she was at a Munich police station in January.
Top Japanese chef Miki Nozawa has died after apparently being attacked by two German men who were unhappy with the fried noodles from his restaurant on the North Sea island of Sylt.
The trial of a group of young men suspected of beating to death 20-year-old Jonny K. began in Berlin this week. His older sister's tireless campaigning for a safer capital in the wake of his death makes her our German of the Week.
As in any big, mixed European city, conflict is part of the fabric of Berlin. Yet often enough the police are not the right people to call, which is when the city's "Peacemaker" comes in. Jessica Ware tracked him down for a chat.
