Two people have died of the novel coronavirus in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, officials said Monday, the country's first casualties of the outbreak.
A German food bank on Tuesday said it will reopen its doors to new migrant clients, some three months after its decision to stop giving free meals to foreigners sparked nationwide outrage.
A charitable food bank in the western town of Essen announced on Sunday that it will once again accept non-German clients after it restricted its services to foreigners in January.
Ed Sheeran wanted to perform at an airport near Essen, but a certain animal had other ideas: the rare Skylark. The rare bird lives nearby and would have had to be resettled. Then there was a protest. Ultimately, the birds were victorious.
Last week a food charity in Essen took the controversial decision to stop taking any new foreign clients. The move, said to be aimed at helping German Omas, has unleashed a heated debate about racism and poverty.
The police said on Monday they were searching for vandals who sprayed the word "Nazis" on the building and vans of a charitable food bank that has stopped accepting new migrant clients.
A German court on Monday fined three people for failing to help an old man lying unconscious on the floor of a bank, instead walking around and even stepping over him.
Police said on Monday they have released a second suspect detained over an alleged Isis terror plot against a major shopping mall, citing lack of evidence.
German police said on Sunday they had released one of two men held over a terror attack threat that led authorities to shut down a major shopping mall in the central city of Essen.
UPDATE: Security sources have told German media that a "very concrete" terror attack threat that shut down an Essen shopping centre on Saturday seems to be linked to an Isis fighter from Germany.
After four people ignored an 82-year-old man who had collapsed and would later die in a bank in Essen, Germans have been forced to ask if their society has become too egotistical.
There was no way of predicting a bomb attack on a Sikh temple despite two suspects being known to police, North Rhine-Westphalia authorities said on Wednesday.
Police said on Thursday that two teenagers they have arrested in connection with a bomb attack on a Sikh temple in the western German city of Essen are linked to the Islamic fundamentalist scene there.
"Seat reserved for Germans only": A provocative experiment on a bus in Essen has examined how members of the public react to racial discrimination. A worthwhile study of racism in German society or pointless confrontation?
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Essen will distribute the German Constitution in response to Salafists' plans to give out free copies of the Koran in the city on Saturday. But Muslim residents say they're creating a false opposition.
Following the shock move last week do unpeg the Swiss Franc (CHF) from the Euro, estimates suggest that debt in German municipalities has gone up by €2 billion, it was reported on Monday.
A German art dealer went on trial Tuesday accused of defrauding one of the country's richest families of tens of
millions in the sales of paintings and vintage cars.
