Many people head to the water to cool down during Germany’s hot spells. However, swimming in lakes and pools can be dangerous, as a series of deaths across the country show.
Austrian troops airlifted a group of German students stranded at a snowbound ski resort on Friday, as emergency services scrambled to clear record snowfall across large parts of the country.
A fire in an ICE train on the Frankfurt-Cologne high-speed railway line has triggered a major rescue operation and led to the closure of one of the most important arteries in German rail traffic.
The bodies of two men who went missing while taking a dip in the Elbe river have been found. Their disappearance at the weekend sparked a large scale search.
In Hamburg a man got into a 'hole' lot of trouble on Tuesday after he became stuck upside down while attempting to retrieve his keys from a storm drain.
Six men were rescued by a German cruise liner in the South Pacific on Saturday after leaping into the sea from their sinking Tongan fishing boat, New Zealand rescue authorities said.
The north German state of Schleswig-Holstein is introducing new heavy-duty ambulances designed to transport more generously-proportioned patients in emergencies.
A young boy had a miraculous escape in western Germany on Wednesday when a bin man happened to see him hanging from the window ledge and managed to catch him just in time.
Fire fighters in Lower Saxony had a double rescue mission on their hands this week, when a pet parrot got stuck in a tree – and then so did his owner.
Over 50 German rescue specialists are heading to one of the worst affected parts of Nepal to perform a search and rescue mission for people trapped by Saturday's earthquake.
Six people, including a family and two American tourists, were left dangling 40 metres in the air over the Rhine for hours late on Tuesday after Cologne's cable car came to a halt.
Explorer Johann Westhauser, who was rescued from Germany's deepest cave less than two weeks ago, may soon be discharged from hospital, his doctor said on Tuesday.
UPDATE: Injured cave explorer Johann Westhauser has been moved to a clinic in Murnau in Upper Bavaria following his dramatic rescue that ended his 11-day ordeal in caverns deep in the Bavarian Alps.
