Three German tourists and their Filipino tour guide were crushed to death when one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud and a hail of rocks on Tuesday, authorities said.
The authorities in the northern German city of Kiel on Wednesday hoped to determine the origin of a bag of human bones discovered on the side of the road.
Half a year after a 20-year-old man was brutally beaten to death in central Berlin, the last of six main suspects was arrested on Monday after returning to Germany from Turkey.
The amount of violence on Berlin's public transport in 2012 may have dropped by nearly a fifth from the year previously, but experts called on Friday for even better staffing of vehicles and stations.
The number of far-right violent attacks rose again last year, it emerged on Sunday. German ministers warned against downplaying the threat from neo-Nazis, yet would not support a ban on the far-right NPD party.
A Munich woman who could not afford to bury her mother spent eight months sleeping next to her decomposing corpse, which she kept on a sofa bed in her bedroom, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
A German-born woman, who has been on death row in the United States for more than 20 years, has had her conviction overturned by a San Francisco Court of Appeals.
Nearly five months after a 20-year-old man was brutally beaten to death in central Berlin, prosecutors have charged some of his attackers with manslaughter. But two have fled abroad.
A 15-year-old German boy who became embroiled in a tense armed stand-off with police after taking guns into his school has been sentenced to four and a half years in youth custody.
Munich police are being investigated for use of excessive force after an officer punched a handcuffed 23-year-old woman in the face while she was in police custody, wrote the <i>SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung</i> over the weekend.
German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer said more warning signs were needed on the nation's motorways after a series of fatal crashes resulting from drivers travelling in the wrong direction.
German police who last year solved a murder case from 43 years ago, using modern DNA analysis found that the culprit died of natural causes - just months after giving them the crucial evidence.
The father of the teen responsible for the Winnenden school massacre is suing the clinic that treated his son before he murdered 15 people in the southwestern German town in 2009.
Two suspects were arrested after a German woman of Turkish origin suffered serious burns in an acid attack in western Germany, police said in a statement late on Sunday.
In the wake of the Newtown school shooting tragedy in the United States, German politicians are calling for tighter weapons laws in Germany, including banning all guns from private homes.
Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed deep shock and sadness on Saturday at news of Friday's primary school shooting in Newtown in Connecticut in the USA, in which 20 children and six adults were shot to death by a gunman.
A Bavarian man who tried to kill his wife by putting rat poison in her wine - because she was too old to have more children and did not want him to do so with another woman - has been jailed for 12 years.
A 22-year-old German man was stabbed to death in Dublin, Ireland, and another was seriously injured after an argument with Irish teenagers escalated outside a party over the weekend.
A German doctor convicted of killing his step-daughter after being kidnapped and forcibly brought to France, begins an appeal on Tuesday that will hinge on if French law can tolerate the vigilante action which led to his trial.
German police have arrested a man after he allegedly set his pregnant wife on fire in a cafe in Dortmund. Both the woman and her unborn baby survived, but the attacker faces attempted murder charges.
A row at the Libyan embassy in Berlin on Tuesday escalated into a fight in which seven men were injured, one seriously. The cause may have been army veterans' demands for unpaid salary.
German police were on Sunday still baffled by the Friday night factory shooting spree in the western town of Hilden. An employee shot and injured four co-workers - two apparently targeted specifically - before shooting himself dead.
The mother of a British man beaten to death outside a Frankfurt nightclub says she is now trying to put the pieces of her life back together after taking more than 90 flights between the UK and Germany to attend the trial of his killers.
A man who murdered his lover and their child to hide the affair from his partner will spend the rest of his life in prison, a German court ruled on Monday.
