German prosecutors on Thursday demanded life in jail for a male nurse considered the country's worst peacetime serial killer for murdering around 100 hospital patients.
German nurse Niels Högel, already serving a prison sentence over the deaths of six patients in his care, went on
trial from Tuesday for allegedly killing 100 people. Here's what you need to know about this extraordinary criminal case.
A nurse allegedly murdered three patients in a hospital's intensive care unit using lethal doses of drugs because he was bored, a court heard on Thursday.
Police suspect a deliberately-started fire which killed a family-of-three in their foreclosed home in north-west Germany on Wednesday night was suicide.
Models in the northern city of Oldenburg have literally been making cow eyes at the judges at the annual German Holstein Show - all the competitors are bovines. Loh Nastygirl won the two-day trial.
Get The Local flavour of Germany with our series where insiders offer a personal take on their hometown. This week, Rachel Ramsay shares her tips about Oldenburg.
A Lower Saxony court has sentenced a man to life in prison for throwing a chunk of wood from a motorway bridge, killing a mother of two who was riding in a car below.
A case involving a chunk of wood thrown from a motorway bridge in Lower Saxony has been solved after a drug addict confessed to killing a woman in a passing car two months ago.
German police investigating the death of a woman that occurred after someone threw a wooden block from a motorway bridge are considering forcing 1,200 teens in the area to take a DNA test, regional daily <i>Nordwest Zeitung</i> reported on Friday.