Engine problem forces holiday jet to stop in Belgrade
More than 180 airline passengers and crew had an unplanned stopover in Belgrade on their way from Düsseldorf to Antalya, Turkey on Saturday after problems with an engine forced an emergency landing.
Lovesick Düsseldorf peacock does €2,900 in damage to car
The escapades of a Düsseldorf farmer's lovesick peacock will cost him €2,900 in damages after the creature mistook a neighbour's car for a competing suitor and attacked it in a fit of rage, the county court ruled on Tuesday.
Boy stands trial for flooding arena with beer
A German teenager will stand trial on Monday for causing €100,000 in damage after he flooded a Düsseldorf arena with beer.
Man killed, woman injured in Düsseldorf street shoot out
A man was killed and a woman injured during a street shoot out on Tuesday morning in Düsseldorf, police in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia reported.
German pensioner caught in cocaine caper
A 71-year-old German pensioner has been charged by prosecutors in Düsseldorf for attempting to smuggle massive amounts of cocaine into the Rhineland.
Weed plantation found at Neuss drug clinic
Around 100 huge cannabis plants have been dug up and removed from the grounds of an addiction clinic in Neuss, near Düsseldorf.
Man sleeping in Düsseldorf station locker for 9 years faces jail
A drug-addicted homeless man who slept for nine years in a luggage locker at Düsseldorf's main train station could face jail after Deutsche Bahn took him to court for repeated trespassing.