Student protests prod officials toward education reforms
The massive student protests across Germany this week appear to have prodded officials to undertake educational reforms, including changes to bachelor's programmes and financial aid.
Hunger strikers in Berlin want Iranian prisoners freed
Some 60 people began a three-day hunger strike in Berlin on Friday to demand the release of political prisoners in Iran, a month after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Chinese consulate attacked in Munich
As unrest in China continues after bloody weekend riots in the Xinjiang region, police in Munich are investigating an arson attack on the Chinese consulate in Munich early on Tuesday morning.
Would-be airport squatters held back by huge police presence
More than 100 people were arrested in Berlin on Saturday while trying to storm and squat the disused Tempelhof airport.
2,000 anti-nuclear protestors target Büchel airforce base
Around 2,000 people demonstrated against what they fear are American nuclear weapons stored at the airforce base in Büchel in the German state Rhineland-Palatinate at the weekend.
Protestors released after German army induction ceremony scuffle
Seven German demonstrators who were arrested in Berlin on Sunday during the first-ever swearing in ceremony for new Bundeswehr recruits in front of the Reichstag parliament building have been released, police said on Monday.
German smokers protest ban in Berlin
Several hundred smokers, cafe and pub owners puffed their way through the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin to the city hall on Saturday to protest against the smoking ban.