It has been 25 years in the making, but on Wednesday the rail line that is set to mark a new era for travel between Germany's capital and its economic powerhouse went live.
In a stunt police have described as "incomprehensible idiocy," a drunk young man from Munich lay down on the tracks in front of a fast-moving train and let it ride over him.
Police were called in to deal with a fight on a high-speed train travelling to Berlin on Monday. The cause of the strife? A pair of particularly pungent feet.
Around 500 football fans were packed into an S-Bahn service to the Allianz Arena in Munich on Wednesday evening when the train broke down, causing panic.
A man attacked passengers travelling on a regional train with a knife and an axe on Monday evening, leaving five people injured, two critically. The attacker, a 17-year-old Afghan, was killed by police as he tried to flee the scene.
Terror group Isis have released a video which apparently shows the teenager who attacked passengers with an axe on a train in Bavaria on Monday making threats.
Ticket controllers on Munich and Frankfurt local train systems are facing new accusations of exploitation of tourists who do not understand the payment rules.
When a 20-year-old in western Germany noticed he’d left his luggage on the train he took swift action - jumping onto the coupling at the back as the locomotive rolled out of the station.
The death toll from a German train crash rose to 12 on Wednesday, a day after a rail dispatcher was arrested, accused of having been distracted by a mobile phone game shortly before the accident.
A man has been taken to hospital in Munich with serious injuries after he was rolled over by several trains following a drunken plunge off a station platform.
A 17-year-old refugee from Egypt leapt to his death from a train outside Munich on Friday morning after police found him carrying an Austrian deportation order.
No evidence supports the existence of a Nazi "gold train" loaded with treasures and buried in Poland at the end of World War II, researchers said Tuesday.
Ever wondered whether you can ride your horse on the tube? Grate cheese? Do the splits? We know we have. But happily, the Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) has made a video to answer all these burning questions - and more.
