Social media giant Facebook announced on Sunday that it would introduce new measures to combat fake news in Germany, as Europe's largest economy and most populous nation enters an election year.
Eight young men in western Germany were arrested in a school yard on Monday after drawing fake guns on a teacher and claiming to be from terrorist group Isis.
A man who performed cosmetic surgery on more than 50 different patients using fake medical certificates was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Monday.
A man who fooled a hospital in Hamelin into believing he was a psychotherapist and allowing him to work from their premises has been arrested. Police also found illegal weaponry when they searched his house.