A top German court on Tuesday
approved the construction of the world's longest combined rail and road tunnel
that is expected to slash journey times from northern Germany to Denmark.
A jewellery shop owner opened up on Monday to find that thieves had tunnelled into his store from the basement of the shopping complex and made off with his diamond display.
A pensioner nearly found himself in over his head in Munich on Friday after the ground opened up under his feet, revealing a six-metre shaft beneath the streets thought to belong to an old brewery.
Eurostar is to extend its high speed rail service to link Frankfurt and Cologne via the Channel Tunnel to London within the next five years, according to a British newspaper report on Monday.
The head of German rail firm Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday that transport was on the cusp of a new age, after the first German train sped between France and Britain through the Channel Tunnel.