'Car sniper' sentenced to 9 and a half years' jail
A man who shot at random passing cars in western Germany has been sentenced to nine and a half years' jail after being convicted of 14 counts of attempted murder.
Man drugs girlfriend to keep playing videogames
A court fined a 23-year-old man in North Rhine-Westphalia after he admitted to giving his girlfriend a sedative so that he could keep playing video games with a friend.
Auschwitz 'cook' faces murder complicity charge
German prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged a 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz with complicity to murder.
High court strengthens gay adoption rights
Germany took another step towards equal rights for gay couples on Tuesday, after the country's highest court ruled those in a civil partnership have the right to adopt their partner's adopted children.
British woman dead after German doctor botches operation
An elderly British woman died after a German surgeon working as a locum botched an operation on her hip, severing an artery, British media reported on Wednesday.