Dead workers in Germany have a right to any annual leave which they've failed to claim at the time of their death, Europe’s top court ruled on Thursday.
A four-month old baby died from starvation and thirst in western Germany while her mother took drugs and partied for days over Halloween in MĂĽnster, a court heard on Tuesday.
A homeless man who attacked two wealthy Berlin families and kidnapped a millionaire appeared before court on Monday. Known as the “Masked man of Storkow”, he evaded police capture for two years.
Two Satanists went on trial in Tübingen, southern Germany, on Thursday for allegedly murdering a taxi driver by a cemetery out of satanic “bloodlust”. One reportedly believed he was a character from the Harry Potter books.
A German court sentenced on Monday a 46-year-old man to eight years in prison under youth criminal laws. He was 19 when he murdered a girl on her way to school.
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.
A German court on Tuesday sentenced to 14 years in jail a former Rwandan town mayor for ordering a massacre of hundreds of people in a church during the 1994 genocide.
A trainee pilot tried to crash a plane carrying both himself and his instructor in a suicide attempt after beating his trainer around the head with a rock, a court in eastern Germany heard on Monday.
A German con artist was jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of fraud and rape. He posed as both the factitious Prince von Hohenlohe, owner of a goldmine and friend of President Barack Obama.
A pensioner was fined by a court on Monday when a seedling given to her by a neighbour grew into a huge cannabis bush. It was over two metres high before police came knocking on her door in eastern Germany.
UPDATE: Two murder suspects were killed on Friday morning while on trial at a Frankfurt court, police said. The men were allegedly killed by a man whose brother was murdered by them seven years ago.
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.
An American tourist who bit off a man's bottom lip during a fight at Munich’s Oktoberfest was given a suspended sentence by a German court on Monday.
A German court jailed a mother on Thursday for 14 years for killing three of her children - a young daughter and twin babies - in a forest before a failed suicide attempt.
UPDATE: A murder suspect who escaped from a court in north west Germany on Thursday morning by complaining of diarrhea has been caught. He squeezed through the window of the court's toilet sparking a police manhunt.
An unemployed man who found his work placements demeaning was jailed for 13 years on Friday for attacking a job centre employee with a hammer in Leipzig.
