Anti-war group attacks actor Schweiger's home
Inglourious Basterds star Til Schweiger - one of Germany's best-known actors - has seen his girlfriend's car set on fire and paint thrown at his house in an attack claimed by people who said his latest film glorified the German army in Afghanistan.
Six-year sentence for paedophile priest
A Catholic priest found guilty of over 250 charges of sexual abuse towards young boys has been sentenced to six years in prison, a German court announced on Thursday.
Neo-Nazi robbers linked to kebab shop killings
German detectives investigating the neo-Nazi bomb-making bank robbers thought to have killed a policewoman, have found a gun used in a series of nine notorious snack shop killings in the suspects’ blown-up flat.
Dead neo-Nazi robbers linked to cop-killer case
German authorities say they are confident they have solved the 2007 murder of a police woman after her pistol was found near the bodies of two neo-Nazi bank robbers. Their accomplice turned herself in on Tuesday.
Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandal
The church official who initially said it was his fault that a paedophile priest was given succour in Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese has broken ranks, alleging he was bullied into taking responsibility to protect the pontiff.