A report by prosecutors investigating the Love Parade tragedy â in which 21 participants were killed in a mass stampede in Duisburg last year â says the event should never have been approved by authorities at all due to poor security arrangements.
An 85-year-old woman in the western city of Duisburg rescued a young girl on Friday, after a man tried to pull the child into the bushes. She was able to save the seven-year-old, but not without suffering a broken arm and multiple scrapes.
Nearly a year after 21 people were killed in a crowd crush at Germany's Love Parade music festival, the mayor of the host city Duisburg has apologised to victims and families, and acknowledged some blame for the tragedy.
Scientists hope robotic suits to be tested at a Bochum University clinic will enable paraplegics to regain the ability to walk, according to a Friday news report.
Two German teenagers set themselves on fire in an apparent suicide bid which left one of them dead and the other seriously hurt, prosecutors in North Rhine-Westphalia said Thursday.
The Love Parade disaster in which 21 people were killed and hundreds injured in Duisburg last July was partly the result of serious police mistakes, media reported Monday.
Nuri Sahin, the young midfielder who helped steer Borussia Dortmund to the Bundesliga title this year, has been signed on a six-year contract to Real Madrid for an estimated âŹ10 million transfer fee.
Prosecutors on Thursday said they were investigating an anti-Semitic leaflet which was found on the website of a regional Ruhr Valley chapter of Germany's socialist party The Left.
A Bielefeld man faced criminal charges in a court on Wednesday for violently castrating his 17-year-old daughterâs much older boyfriend. He could be jailed for at least three years.
Champions League quarter-finalists Schalke 04 sacked coach Felix Magath on Wednesday in an acrimonious split following a crisis meeting of the Ruhr Valley club's board.
<b>The long wait at the many unnecessary traffic lights in Germany may soon be over. Communities nationwide are exploring the use of alternative traffic control systems, such as roundabouts and zebra stripes, to resolve the traffic light's growing issues of expense and safety.</b>
An outbreak of spring fever has lead to a spurt of lusty behaviour in the Ruhr Valley, leading police to throw some metaphorical buckets on cold water on matters that got out of hand.
German football club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) has started a unique new pilot project to ârehabilitateâ young hooligans by offering them the chance to do community service and regain their right to enter the stadium as fans.
Organisers of the Love Parade in Duisburg have posted surveillance camera footage of the tragedy that killed 21 people on the internet in an effort to vindicate themselves â but the move has sparked a fresh war of words with the police.
State-owned Russian oil group Rosneft is set to buy stakes in four German refineries, one of the biggest such acquisitions of assets in Western Europe, a press report said Friday.
A 35-year-old man in North Rhine-Westphalia has lived for the past several years unaware a bullet became lodged in his head one drunken New Year's Eve, police told The Local on Tuesday.
Duisburgâs embattled Mayor Adolf Sauerland is planning to have himself voted out by the city council â rather than resigning â over the Love Parade tragedy that left 21 people dead.
Nineteen people have now been confirmed dead after a massive crush developed in the entrance tunnel to the main party at the Love Parade in Duisburg on Saturday, authorities said.
Around two million people were estimated to have shown up to a stretch of the A40 autobahn in the Ruhr area on Sunday for the âStill Lifeâ festival which promised to replace speeding cars with a huge range of cultural events.
It seem every summer their are reports on crocodile sightings in Germany, but this year police in the Ruhr Valley city of Bochum are taking them a bit more seriously.
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents <b>Jimmy Andrew</b> from Pulse Fitness. <b>Michael Woodhead</b> catches up with the Scottish entrepreneur behind a growing health empire.
People stopping by a Ruhr Valley corner shop for cigs or a beer can now also pick up a design object thanks to a new project aiming to bring high design to the masses, as part of the region's year as a European culture capital.
