Germany

Germany

German police looking for 'Tunisian man', local media reports

Identity documents found in the driver's seat of the truck which ploughed into a Christmas market on Monday evening indicate an Anis A, according to Der Spiegel magazine.

21/12/2016

Germany

German president visits Berlin attack casualties in hospital

Joachim Gauck spent time with victims due to undergo operations and described the lorry attack on a Christmas market as 'an assault on our way of life'.

21/12/2016

Germany

Germans talk of 'unity in the face of terror'

The colours of the German flag were used to light up the Brandenburg Gate in honour of the victims of Monday’s deadly truck attack.

21/12/2016

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly truck attack in Berlin

20/12/2016

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for Berlin Christmas market attack

ISIL says it carried out fatal lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market.

20/12/2016

Germany

Terror attacks this year in Germany

Bastille Day is a national holiday in France and a time to celebrate.

20/12/2016

Germany

Europe pays tribute to those killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack

A sombre-looking Angela Merkel joined the Mayor of Berlin, and Germany’s foreign and interior ministers at the scene of the deadly truck attack on the Christmas market in the…

20/12/2016

Germany

Messages for the victims of Berlin flood social media

After a truck ploughed into a crowd outside a christmas market in Berlin yesterday, tributes have been flooding in on social media showing solidarity with the German…

20/12/2016

Germany

Suspect in Berlin lorry attack 'denies involvement' - German interior minister

The German authorities say it is not clear whether the man arrested after Monday's attack on a Christmas market is the perpetrator.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin market attack: ISIL claims responsibility, prosecutors release main suspect, perpetrator potentially still at large

German police say "unclear" arrested Pakistani man drove Berlin Christmas market truck, warn armed terrorist suspect still at large, call for "vigilance".

20/12/2016

Germany

This is a very difficult day, Chancellor Merkel addresses Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a moment of reckoning after the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin lorry attack: one of the dead 'had been shot'

A regional interior minister has reportedly said a Polish national found dead in the lorry used in the Christmas market attack had been shot.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin attack: what happened

Just after 8pm local time, when the Christmas market would have been packed with tourists and locals, a lorry ploughed into the crowd.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin: police say 'truck deliberately targeted crowds' in deadly crash

Hours after a lorry ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, German police are now saying it was a deliberate act and possibly an act of terror.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin: "Truck simply drove over people" says witness

By midnight there was still a heavy police presence on streets across the German capital.

20/12/2016

Germany

Berlin truck crash: 'early indications point to attack' - German Interior Minister

Thomas de Maiziere says it is too early to speculate over the cause of the Berlin truck crash, but early indications point to an attack.

20/12/2016

Germany

What we know about Christmas market attack in Berlin

What we know At around 8pm CET on Monday, December 19, a lorry ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in a deliberate attack.

19/12/2016

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Skyscraper Santa surprises Berlin kids

Santa made an impromptu appearance at the Kollhoff Tower on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

19/12/2016

Germany

'Casual kicker': Berlin metro attack suspect detained by police

Authorities in Berlin say they have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in an underground station in the German capital.

17/12/2016

Germany

Boy, 12, 'tried to bomb' German Christmas market, City Hall

A 12-year-old boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen, German prosecutors have said.

16/12/2016

Germany

12 year-old boy 'attempts nail bombing' in Ludwigshafen Christmas market, City Hall

A 12 year old German-Iraqi boy in Ludwigshafen, Germany attempts a double nail-bomb attack

16/12/2016

Germany

Immigrant who lied about age suspected of rape and murder

An immigrant accused of raping and murdering a German student is the same man who was convicted of a separate attack in Greece.

14/12/2016

Cinema

Looking for the meaning of life with the help of Toni Erdmann

'Toni Erdmann' - a fierce critique of financial capitalism and the world of contemporary work - was a big winner at this year's European Film Awards.

13/12/2016

Germany

Police close on man who kicked woman down Berlin subway stairs

German police are questioning a man who is believed to have been part of a group filmed attacking a woman in a Berlin subway station.

12/12/2016

Germany

Watch: horrific attack on the Berlin metro

Shocking footage has emerged of the moment a thug kicked a woman in the back as she walked down the stairs in a metro station in Berlin.

11/12/2016

Economy

German exports struggle on slow factory output

German exports rebounded by less than expected in October, according to latest official figures.

09/12/2016