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Warm temperatures cause early hay fever

National: 10 Jan 12
Warm temperatures are causing everything from runny noses to conditions ripe for avalanches. But Germany could face a bit of a cold snap within the next week as rain and snow batters much of the country. READ »

WWII bombs defused after huge evacuation

National: 4 Dec 11
Explosive experts said they succeeded in defusing an enormous British World War II bomb and another, smaller American one nearby, after nearly half the people of Koblenz evacuated the city for the operation on Sunday. READ »

Stuck raccoon causes train delays

Society: 17 Oct 11
A raccoon stuck in a railway switch point shut down the intercity train lines between the central German towns of Göttingen and Kassel on Sunday. READ »

Doctors go on series of two-hour strikes

Society: 26 Sep 11
Hundreds of doctors at German university medical clinics began a series of two-hour strikes on Monday that will continue until Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s negotiations with the wage commission of the federal states (TdL) in Berlin. READ »

Website lets parishioners to rate their priests

Society: 4 Aug 11
Germany, like many countries, has struggled with declining church attendance. But could Church visits be boosted if it was easier for parishioners to swap notes on who has the most talented pastor or priest? READ »

Inmates start hunger strike for internet, pay TV and conjugal visits

Society: 2 Aug 11
Five prisoners in Lower Saxony deemed too dangerous to release even though they have served their sentences are on a hunger strike for better conditions including internet access, pay TV and conjugal visits. READ »

Bodenfelde child-killer gets life sentence

Society: 27 Jun 11
The 26-year-old man who killed two teenagers and cannibalized their bodies in Bodenfelde in Lower Saxony was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, with additional preventive detention that means he is likely never to be released. READ »

Greens still split on nuke exit plan ahead of vote

Politics: 24 Jun 11
As the Greens gathers for a special conference to decide on whether to support the government’s nuclear power exit strategy, the party's leadership said it would be contingent on the introduction of tighter safety standards. READ »

Police probe Ikea bombing blackmail

National: 17 Jun 11
As Ikea increases security at its stores across Europe following an explosion in its Dresden branch, police in Germany are examining a letter claiming responsibility and threatening further attacks if ransom money is not paid. READ »

Towns face shrinking budgets if census reveals smaller populations

Society: 19 May 11
University towns across Germany could face reduced budgets as a result of the census currently being conducted – as it is likely to reveal their populations are smaller than previously assumed. READ »

Court says Bodenfelde murder suspect admitted to cannibal acts

National: 9 Apr 11
Just days before the trial opens against the man charged with the murders of two teenagers in Lower Saxony in November, the court in Göttingen has revealed that the killer reportedly bit one of his victims. READ »

Train drivers on strike

National: 31 Mar 11
Regional train commuters across Germany may need to find alternative transport after drivers from 21 private rail operators went on a two-day strike Thursday morning. READ »

Social worker steals from orphans in his care

Society: 19 Mar 11
An employee of the child welfare agency in Göttingen allegedly stole more then €400,000 from orphans and other young people he was assigned to over a five-year period. He used the money to support a lavish lifestyle. READ »

Bundesrat passes Hartz IV welfare reforms

National: 25 Feb 11
After months of political wrangling, Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday finally approved an increase of €5 to Hartz IV welfare benefits. But a separate court decision said those on the dole should expect payment for TVs. READ »

German tourist dies of swine flu in Austria

National: 6 Jan 11
A German tourist infected with swine flu died on New Year's Day in the Austrian town of Saalbach near Salzburg, a health official said Wednesday. READ »

Swine flu kills two

National: 3 Jan 11
Two people have died from swine flu in the German state of Lower Saxony, state officials announced on Monday. READ »

Motorists warned of delays and danger

National: 23 Dec 10
Motorists should expect clogged roads and long traffic jams on Thursday as hordes of people go on holiday, compounding the effects of recent bad weather, the ADAC motor club has warned. READ »

Police investigate double teen killing

Society: 22 Nov 10
Police are investigating the apparent murder of two teenagers whose bodies were found on Sunday next to a stream in Lower Saxony. READ »

Mario Gomez tells gay footballers to come out

Sport: 10 Nov 10
German national footballer Mario Gomez on Wednesday encouraged fellow players to come out of the closet if they are gay – something no active professional has yet done publicly. READ »

Ladies love men with rhythm, study finds

Science & Technology: 8 Sep 10
Looking to get lucky on the dance floor? German scientists have found men who dance vigorously with a fast-moving right knee and large, varied movements of their neck and torso are more attractive to women. READ »

Landslide clogs traffic in Göttingen

Society: 24 Aug 10
There was traffic chaos on the motorways around Göttingen in the state of Lower Saxony following closures forced by a landslide, officials said. READ »

German privacy gets tangled in Google's web

Science & Technology: 13 Aug 10
Google's plans to launch its "Street View" program in Germany have sparked outrage among politicians and data protection experts. But how upset are average citizens? And is their privacy truly threatened? David Wroe reports. READ »

Archaeologists expect Roman weapons, find live WWII grenades

National: 12 Aug 10
Archaeologists made a startling discovery while recently excavating an ancient Roman battlefield in Lower Saxony: Instead of spears and arrowheads, they uncovered live explosives left over from the Second World War. READ »

World War II bomb found near major Hamburg bridge

National: 6 Aug 10
A 250-kilogramme World War II-era bomb was discovered at a recycling centre close to an important cable-stayed bridge in Hamburg on Friday, forcing authorities to evacuate the area for recovery efforts. READ »

Mountain biker missing for four days found alive

Society: 26 Jun 10
A mountain biker from the small town of Schwiegershausen in Lower Saxony, who lay injured in woods for four nights, was found alive by police on Saturday. READ »

Thousands of WWII bombs found on sunken German ship

National: 3 Jun 10
Russian authorities have found a sunken German ship in the Baltic Sea with more than 10,000 World War II-era munitions aboard, an emergency official said on Thursday. READ »

Three killed in WWII bomb explosion

National: 2 Jun 10
Three members of a bomb squad have been killed and two seriously injured when a World War II bomb they were trying to defuse exploded in Göttingen, police said on Wednesday. READ »

East German message in a bottle sender meets boy finder

Society: 26 Apr 10
An eastern German man who sent message in a bottle past the Iron Curtain decades ago has met with the young boy who recently found the missive floating in a canal near Göttingen. READ »

Boy finds East German message in a bottle

Society: 11 Mar 10
A young boy near Göttingen this week discovered a decades-old message in a bottle sent by someone looking for a pen pal from what was once communist East Germany. READ »

Third man confesses in Jesuit sex abuse scandal

National: 3 Feb 10
A scandal over sexual abuse by Jesuit priests in Germany in the 1970s and 80s snowballed Wednesday as a third teacher confessed, more victims came forward and further schools were implicated. READ »

Jesuit school sex abuse scandal spreads through Germany

National: 2 Feb 10
The scope of a child sex abuse scandal that was uncovered at an elite Berlin Catholic school last week has spread to other parts of Germany and beyond, the provincial superior for the country’s Jesuit order Stefan Dartmann has revealed. READ »

Muslim inventor set to take orthopaedic prayer rugs worldwide

Society: 11 Dec 09
Ritual prayer for Muslims with knee problems can be painful, but an entrepreneur in Germany has patented a revolutionary solution to facilitate the centuries-old tradition – orthopaedic prayer rugs. READ »

Missing medieval church tower cross goes unnoticed for days

Society: 3 Nov 09
Thieves have stolen the valuable crest of a medieval church steeple in Göttingen – though no one noticed for up to nine days, police in Lower Saxony reported on Tuesday. READ »

'Book reverend' saves a million scrapped East German books

National: 30 Oct 09
For nearly 20 years, Reverend Martin Weskott has been saving books printed in the former East Germany from the rubbish heap of history. READ »

Giving German hoop dreams a helping hand

Sport: 7 Oct 09
Germany’s professional basketball league might be popular, but it isn’t very German. David Hein looks at a new rule intended to nurture homegrown talent at the expense of American interlopers. READ »

Half of Germans back compulsory vote amid falling turnout

Politics: 26 Sep 09
Nearly half of Germans favour the introduction of compulsory voting to lift the participation rate as the country heads into an election that could draw the lowest turnout on record, according to a new poll. READ »

State elections may shock CDU

Politics: 29 Aug 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives will likely take a hit in three state polls Sunday, but she still looks set to cruise to victory in next month's general election. READ »

Man’s welfare benefits reduced due to street magazine sales

Society: 1 Apr 09
Göttingen’s social welfare bureau has reduced a man’s welfare benefits due to meagre profit from sales of the German street magazine Tagessatz, the Göttinger Tageblatt reported on Wednesday. READ »

Man loses unemployment benefits due to begging 'income'

Society: 27 Mar 09
A decision to deny a man his unemployment benefits for panhandling has caused an uproar in Göttingen, where the Lower Saxony state welfare office called for an investigation on Friday. READ »

Two Harz beat as one

Travel: 23 Jan 09
People flock to the mountainous Harz region year round to climb the highest peak in northern Germany the Brocken. Campbell Jefferys explores spectacular countryside once split by the Iron Curtain. READ »

Ancient Roman battlefield excavated in Lower Saxony

Science & Technology: 11 Dec 08
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman battlefield from the third century near Göttingen that will rewrite history, Lower Saxony's department for preservation of historical monuments said on Thursday. READ »

Jewish life hailed 70 years after Kristallnacht

National: 9 Nov 08
Germany marked Sunday the 70th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, a prelude to the Holocaust, with solemn ceremonies throughout the country and celebrations of the rebirth of Jewish life. READ »

Germany remembers 'Kristallnacht' pogrom

National: 9 Nov 08
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish leaders are paying tribute to the victims of the Nazis' Kristallnacht pogrom on the 70th anniversary of the event at a ceremony in Berlin's largest synagogue on Sunday. READ »

Isotope shortage could impact cancer therapy in Germany

National: 5 Sep 08
A shortage of special radioactive isotopes in Europe could threaten to halt critical cancer therapy for patients at German hospitals. READ »

German phone sex addict busted for €7,000 hotel bill

Society: 13 Aug 08
Police in the German state of Lower Saxony said on Wednesday they had arrested a man who racked up more than €7,000 in phone sex bills while staying at a hotel in Göttingen. READ »

German 'Black Widow' murderer jailed for life

Society: 3 Jul 08
After a four and a half month trial, the woman known to Germany as the "Black Widow" was handed a life sentence for her role in the murder of four elderly men on Thursday. READ »

Göttingen school evacuated after chemistry accident

National: 2 Jun 08
A chemistry class accident in a school in Göttingen in Lower Saxony sent 13 students and a teacher to the hospital with chemical burns and forced officials to evacuate the building on Monday. READ »

German zoo investigated for killing tiger cubs

Society: 23 May 08
Prosecutors are investigating whether the Magdeburg Zoo's decision to kill three tiger cubs because they were not pure-blooded violated animal welfare laws. READ »

What's on in Germany: May 15 - 21

Lifestyle: 15 May 08
This Week's Highlights: Young artists strut their stuff in Berlin, Dortmund, and Frankfurt, while heavyweights Nick Cave and Einstürzende Neubauten take the stage. READ »

Scented text messages patented in Germany

Science & Technology: 30 Apr 08
Two German companies have patented technology for sending scented text messages on mobile phones. READ »

Germany hit by widespread strikes

National: 4 Mar 08
Widespread public sector strikes hit 11 of Germany’s 16 states on Tuesday, as garbage collectors, nurses, and bus drivers all walked off the job as a warning to government employers. READ »

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