A motorway in central Germany had to be closed in the early hours of Wednesday morning while firemen rescued a flock of ducks waddling around on the road. The birds had escaped from a crashed lorry.
A couple's marriage got off to a rocky start when a man left his new wife at a petrol station on their honeymoon in central Germany for five hours. He drove off and only realized she was not with him two hours and 200 kilometres later.
Nine people died in two car crashes in Germany on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. In one accident four teenagers were killed while the other was so bad that police could not tell how many bodies were in the wreck.
A German politician has withdrawn her candidacy for next month's general election after an essay she wrote in favour of legalizing paedophilia was unearthed as part of an investigation.
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Around 75 train ticket machines have been blown up across Germany over the last few months. The Frankfurt region has been particularly badly hit with the latest explosion rocking a station on Wednesday.
Police in the German state of Hesse on Thursday warned ticket vending machines for railway operator Deutsche Bahn might explode, after they found someone had been filling them with gas and trying to set them alight, possibly to get the money from inside.
A 15-year-old boy died on Saturday at the popular “Tropical Islands” swimming and entertainment centre outside of Berlin, the <i>Bild</i> newspaper reported.
Germany's newest airport saw its first regular flight grounded after the entire cabin crew of a Croatian Airlines flight fell mysteriously ill. The company said on Friday it suspected they were faking in protest against staff cuts.
Millions of Germans are famously fond of the chocolate spread Nutella - but police said it was probably professional thieves rather than a desperate dieter who stole five tonnes of the breakfast staple at the weekend.
A German court is taking on four extra officials to help deal with a flood of law suits against Condor holiday airline which now make up two-thirds of their work.
A German teacher has been suspended and moved to a different school after students discovered he had starred as a “luscious lad” in two porn films easily accessible on the internet.
A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys.
Fire fighters have found the bodies of two women killed in a house fire on Monday morning. Two young girls are missing, presumed dead – but German police said the building was so dangerous they cannot be retrieved.
A 67-year-old German jeweller was spared prison on Wednesday despite killing a teenager who held up her shop. A regional court ruled that shooting the intruder in the back of the head was self-defence.
One of the biggest events in the art world's calendar, <i>documenta 13</i>, kicked off on Saturday and is expected to attract more than 750,000 visitors to the western German town of Kassel over its 100-day run.
Diggers moved in to begin the demolition of an illegally-built castle in the German state of Hesse on Wednesday morning, crushing the dreams of the beekeeper who built it.
A German bin man who developed chronic knee pain from jumping out of rubbish collection trucks was told by a court his work-related injury was comparable to those suffered by top athletes.
Firefighters in central Germany rushed to what they thought was a man about to jump off a church tower only to find a statue which is now causing a row in the art world.
Employees at Aldi Süd secretly filmed female customers – especially those wearing short skirts and revealing tops – and swapped the videos among themselves, according to allegations published in <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
Police are questioning a woman after the bodies of three babies were found in cooler boxes stored in the cellar and a garage at her home in western Germany.
