Two chimpanzees who survived a fire which killed 30 monkeys on New Year's Eve at the Krefeld zoo are doing well under medical care, reported the zoo on Monday.
A mother and her two daughters have turned themselves in to police over a blaze which killed dozens of monkeys at a zoo
in Germany on New Year's Eve, police confirmed Thursday.
Flames from flying New Year's Eve lanterns
might have sparked a blaze that killed dozens of monkeys at a zoo in
northwestern Germany, management and security services said Wednesday.
Fire ripped through the monkey house at Krefeld zoo in northwestern Germany on New Year's Eve killing dozens of animals, including orangutans, chimpanzees and marmosets, management said on Wednesday.
A 63-year-old man in Germany had a very Merry Christmas indeed after an honest finder returned the backpack he had forgotten under a tree -- filled with presents and €16,000 in cash.
A man was seriously injured after setting himself on fire in North Rhine-Westphalia as a protest against Turkey's detention
of militant Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, police said.
In the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Krefeld, a recent archaeological dig revealed thousands of ancient relics. These finds tell the story of the region’s turbulent Roman history.
A German entrepreneur is offering a sniffer-dog service to parents who suspect their children are taking drugs. The canines-on-call can be hired for €95 a time, and are willing to undertake discreet or overt searches.
As German police released two men suspected of stabbing a sheep and several ponies, animal owners in two towns are on high alert – even sleeping alongside their stock to make sure no more are killed.
A man who was so irritated by the croaking of his neighbour’s frogs that he shot two of them was fined €1,500 by a German court on Thursday, for illegal possession of firearms.
Two naked women caused a stir in the city of Krefeld with a public display of passionate sex, making obscene gestures to the police called by shocked passers-by.
Emergency services were working flat out on Saturday to restore order to southwest Germany after storms with hailstones the size of tennis balls injured people, killed zoo animals, and stopped traffic.
