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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…

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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.

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".

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Germany

Berlin: "Truck simply drove over people" says witness

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

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.

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.

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Skyscraper Santa surprises Berlin kids

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

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.

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.

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

Afghanistan

First group of Afghans deported from Germany under new deal

Nearly 40 Afghan men have arrived in Kabul on a flight from Frankfurt after being deported from Germany.

World News

2016, literally: the words that have defined this year

The year 2016 is days away from ending and with it, many people throughout the world hope next year will bring less uncertainty and conflict

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.

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.

France

360 video: The car that was made for Hitler

Adolf Hitler’s parade car is a Mercedes Benz 770k.

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.