A couple of friends who went for a quiet spot of fishing on Lake Seeburg in Lower Saxony on Monday got the fright of their life when they pulled up their net to find an artillery shell inside.
State prosecutors are investigating at least one man, a veteran of fighting with Isis in western Iraq, for planning attacks in Germany as part of a 50-strong cell of jihadist sympathisers.
A three-year-old child went on an involuntary train journey across northern Germany on Wednesday after she was separated from her father and sister on the platform.
Almost 100 people were involved in a fight between Yazidi Kurds and Muslims in Celle, Lower Saxony, on Monday night, with six hurt. Elsewhere in Germany, hundreds of Kurds took to the streets to protest against the Islamic State (Isis).
Storms in June which ripped through parts of western and central Germany caused €650 million worth of damage, according to estimates released on Wednesday.
Thousands of German law students could be stripped of their legal qualifications after it emerged a judge may have been selling exam answers. He was arrested in Italy after fleeing the country.
Two Karneval-goers were left seriously injured after a car rammed into their group on Monday in western Germany. They were going door-to-door in fancy dress costumes collecting charity donations when the vehicle hit them.
A thief has returned a stolen wallet with the money still inside to a pensioner six years after taking it. He sent the money back to the man with a letter of apology saying he had now become a Christian.
A young girl spent hours vainly calling for help while up to her chest in mud with her Shetland pony after she tried to rescue the animal when it got stuck in a swamp near a German river.
The mystery of a supposedly ancient mummy found in a German attic by a ten-year-old boy has been solved – it is made from plastic but the skull is real.
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.
Adolf Hitler will finally lose his honorary citizen's title in Goslar, Germany, the latest town to remove the honour from the former Nazi leader almost 70 years after World War II ended, officials said Wednesday.
Experts say a mummy that a ten-year-old boy found in his grandfather's attic is probably about 2,000 years old. Criminal investigators have been examining the body since the boy found it in his granddad's house a month ago.
Twenty-five office employees were hospitalised on Tuesday after eating bread rolls scattered with rat poison. Staff thought they had been left a present when the box containing the bread appeared on the company's doorstep.
British troops will leave Germany a year earlier than planned to end a legacy of World War II by 2019, UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced late on Tuesday.
A Kurdish woman whose deportation to Turkey in 2005 was denounced by many as inhumane returned to Germany on Sunday to be reunited with her husband and two daughters, whom she had not seen for eight years.
Hundreds of farms in Lower Saxony have been banned from selling milk in the latest food scandal to hit Germany, after authorities discovered thousands of cows had been given carcinogenic animal feed.
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Prosecutors are investigating around 200 German egg farmers suspected of falsely labelling their produce as organic or free-range, in what has been described as fraud on a massive scale.
After being stopped this week for drunk driving, the state justice minister of Lower Saxony said on Thursday the incident was embarrassing, but it would not affect his political career.
