A team rescuing injured researcher Johann Westhauser from Germany's deepest cave are moving faster than expected and could be out by the end of the week.
UPDATE: An injured explorer trapped one kilometre underground in Germany’s deepest cave is in a better condition than initially thought, mountain rescuers said on Tuesday morning. He could be out by the end of the week.
Rescuers are racing against time in the Bavarian Alps after after a man was seriously injured around 1,000 metres below ground by a rock fall in Germany's deepest cave on Sunday.
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.
Two barges are expected to be exploded and sunk on Saturday in the area of Stendal in Sachsen Anhalt, as authorities battle to get flood waters under control.
The search for a 10-year-old girl believed to be trapped under a mudslide on an island off the north eastern coast of Germany was formally ended on Sunday.
The German emergency relief agency, the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW), has ended its search-and-rescue operation in Japan following Friday's earthquake and tsunami. A spokesman said there is almost no chance of finding more survivors.
A mountain biker from the small town of Schwiegershausen in Lower Saxony, who lay injured in woods for four nights, was found alive by police on Saturday.
Germany's national bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, has shown signs of irritation that the European Central Bank (ECB) has chosen to buy the state bonds of highly indebted eurozone countries.
Four German hikers have been found alive in the Austrian mountains after getting lost for three days at high altitude, police in the Tyrol region reported on Tuesday morning.
German tourist Julia Jahn from Bavaria kept telling herself she was too young to die as she struggled for five hours to keep her head above water after her kayak became trapped in a New Zealand river.
