Throughout the nineties and noughties the electro music fest Love Parade epitomized the ramshackle, liberated lifestyle that originated in Berlin and swept across Germany. But a disaster on July 24th 2010 put an end to this ideal in the most traumatic of circumstances.
Police on Wednesday morning reported that 27 people had sustained injuries when a hotel ship collided with a motorway bridge on the Rhine river near Duisburg the evening prior.
A young mother from Duisburg was feeding her two children a fish fillet sold by fishmonger Nordsee, when she discovered a translucent worm in the flesh, the Rheinische Post reported on Friday.
Citizens in the west German city of Duisburg didn’t just vote in the federal election on Sunday, they also voted in a referendum on the building of a designer outlet meant be the largest in Germany.
A 15-year-old girl from Duisburg who had been deported to Nepal with her parents two months ago was greeted with tears and smiles as she finally returned to Germany.
A Nepalese teenager, who was born in Germany, was told in the middle of class at her high school that she would be deported in late May. Now she has been allowed to come back to the country.
A tense police operation lasting three hours ended on Thursday when officers stormed a bank and found a clerk bound inside. But there was no sign of the thieves.
A German court on Tuesday threw out criminal charges stemming from a catastrophic stampede at a Love Parade techno street party in 2010 that killed 21 people and injured hundreds.
A firefighter who worked during a deadly crowd crush at Germany's 2010 Love Parade and says he was left traumatized by the disaster will not receive compensation, Duisburg regional court announced on Monday.
July 2015 marked five years since one of the worst tragedies in modern German history. But this week, those affected by the 2010 Duisburg Love Parade disaster will at last see the case come to court.
A man in western Germany had a lucky escape after he cleaned the inside of his car with a highly flammable product and then lit a cigarette, causing an explosion.
German police arrested on Wednesday morning a truck driver who crashed into a bus stop, injuring five children, including two schoolgirls seriously, and spilling gravel from the vehicle all over the road.
Concern is rising and complaints multiplying about hundreds of Roma living in a dilapidated apartment block in Duisburg, rented out at seemingly high prices by a red light slumlord, it was reported on Thursday.
The city of Duisburg came to a standstill on Tuesday night when the city was evacuated in order to safely detonate a half-tonne World War II bomb. Thousands of residents spent over seven hours in emergency shelters.
The mayor of the city where the Love Parade stampede killed 21 people a year and a half ago has been voted out of office in a rare example of German recall democracy.
Three mafia members connected to a notorious shooting in Duisburg have been released from prison in Italy due to a technicality and a fourth man has escaped while receiving treatment at a hospital, according to reports.
Nearly 80,000 signatures have been collected to force a special election to recall Duisburg Mayor Adolf Sauerland, who has clung to office since the deadly Love Parade disaster in 2010.
