News Archive for March 2012
Here you can find articles published in March 2012. Return to full archive here-
01 March
- Millionaires choose to live in Düsseldorf
- What's on in Germany: March 1 – 7
- Germany's sexiest men
- Löw 'annoyed' with Germany's defeat
- Merkel bows under pressure to up bailout
- China boom helps Audi profits soar
- Many German Muslims 'refuse to integrate'
- Star footballer's house fire 'likely arson'
- Deutsche Bank reject €800 million settlement
- Petrol prices hit all time high in February
- Half of urban playgrounds 'unsafe'
- Duisburg lawyers fight dog poop with flags
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02 March
- Tiny chameleon could be big for conservation
- Euro law 'threatens' volunteer fire fighters
- Ground workers strike at Berlin's Tegel airport
- At least four dead in light aircraft crash
- Bank gives €200 million to man by mistake
- Costa captain 'caused 2010 German accident'
- Exodus deprives state of voting district
- 'Budget' rail company takes on Deutsche Bahn
- US soldiers 'ripped off' by airport phones
- Unions call nationwide strikes on Monday
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05 March
- Major IT fair to highlight new internet wizardry
- Wave of public service strikes begins
- 106 conjurers break magic record
- Belarusian leader scorns German FM for being gay
- Ties with Russia 'more necessary than ever'
- Fifth of anonymous babies lost forever
- Berlin tourists warned of rise in theft
- Berlin confident of pushing through EU budget pact
- Public health insurers score record profits
- Germany: most unfair society in Europe
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06 March
- Pensioner opens fire at local doctor's practice
- German children killed in WWII remembered
- Government party loses another PhD
- Nuke shutdown costs energy giant €1 billion
- Kidnapped German tourists could be free
- Porsche managers charged with credit fraud
- Football fans coordinate brutal bus attack
- Scientists unveil incredible shrinking car
- Neo-Nazi clothes brand opens 'Brevik' shop
- Unions call more public sector staff to strike
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07 March
- Adidas strikes gold going into Olympic year
- Attacks on police double in five years
- Finance minister wants soldiers taxed
- Record profits for media colossus Axel Springer
- Murder charge upgraded in expat socialite case
- Wife kills husband while at the wheel
- Schröder backs up old friend Putin
- Winter finally loosens its grip on Germany
- Bayern Munich fume at 'gossip journalism'
- British army may park tanks on the Rhine
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08 March
- Scientists voyage to tsunami epicentre
- Postman prime suspect in parcel pilfering plot
- Podolski 'signs with Arsenal for €13 million'
- Tech fair hitches a lift in face of transport strike
- What's on in Germany: March 8 - 14
- Severed finger points to cack-handed criminal
- Women's minister rules out top job gender quota
- ‘Brevik’ shop renamed following protests
- Politicians rain on Wulff's farewell torch parade
- Greens propose €10 mobile phone deposit
- German industry rebounds into 2012
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09 March
- Drunk cyclists face bike ban in university town
- Vuvuzelas mar Wulff's farewell ceremony
- Munich court stops 'Mein Kampf' reprint
- Spaniards, Greeks, cut off from German benefits
- Court: Hotels can ban neo-Nazis
- Bild newspaper banishes boobs to inside page
- Air France starts dogfight with Lufthansa
- Do topless photos belong up front in newspapers?
- Tech fair offers dazzling glimpses of the future
- Greece gets billions after debts written down
- Germans refuse to discuss Syria mission
- 10 March
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12 March
- Merkel questions Afghan pull-out timetable
- Police nab suspected rhino horn robbers
- Daimler ‘altering own Wikipedia page’
- Speed trap turned into bird house
- German schools 'either unfair or no good'
- Germany's eleven sexiest women
- Commuter leaves 13-kilometre oil leak
- 'Scared' German tourists 'avoiding Greece'
- Anxious Germans skip lunch to stay at work
- More than half of parents hit their kids - sons most
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13 March
- Wolves 'dine on deer, shun sheep'
- Germans each chuck out 82 kilos of food a year
- Football legend takes own life to beat cancer
- Bayer loses patent in India test case
- NPD leader admits using Nazi terrorist as driver
- Online music platform Spotify hits Germany
- Smoking ban 'has cut heart attacks'
- German playboy's Bardot art to go on sale
- Most kids' food products ‘too sweet and fatty’
- Carmakers fill boots after record year
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14 March
- Top German execs earning more than ever
- Basel brushed aside 7-0 by barnstorming Bayern
- Prostitute cons john out of €40,000
- One in four earns less than €9.15 an hour
- Prince: Germany should reinstate monarchy
- Helmut Schmidt voted 'best role model'
- TV talent show sparks anger with kids' version
- Should Germany bring back the royal family?
- Spring turns more friendly towards weekend
- Biggest German state heads for early election
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15 March
- Schlecker tells staff who will lose jobs, starts sale
- Authorities threaten to deport baby
- Gauck to be made president on Sunday
- What's on in Germany: March 15 – 21
- Cameraman steps on budding bunny star
- Most fugitive neo-Nazis 'hiding out in the west'
- Biggest state election 'critical for Merkel'
- China biggest foreign investor in Germany
- Chancellor rejects personal Twitter invite
- Hells Angels hired hash plant horticulturalists
- SPD head 'sorry for Israel apartheid comment'
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16 March
- Scientist seeks deposits for elephant sperm bank
- Merkel wants her finance minister in euro top job
- Corruption 'will cost Germany €250 billion'
- Lift mechanic crushed after wrong decision
- Millionaire couple 'kept girl like Cinderella'
- Forget sex: dirty dishes cause most couple fights
- Priceless posters stolen by Nazis returned
- Fat cat pay packets raise German hackles
- Jihadist songs loved by US airmen's killer banned
- Stupid stunt causes bomb scare chaos
- 17 March
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19 March
- Political focus turns to tiny state election
- Internet's share of economy on the rise
- German music industry goes more native
- Warm weather sparks early hay fever
- Gauck 'cannot meet all expectations'
- 'Look, smell, taste' before chucking out food
- C-sections 'twice as frequent as necessary'
- Drink deposit decade shows mixed results
- Bank robber jailed for heist 20 years ago
- 20,000 walk out in public sector strike
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20 March
- Deutsche Börse disputes NYSE merger veto
- East German payments 'no longer needed'
- Most fertilizers 'contain too much uranium'
- Crumbling Cologne cathedral drops stones
- Germany's top myths and legends
- BMW and Guggenheim scared off Berlin project
- Politician's 'sandwich dash' sparks online jokes
- Pensioners will be allowed to earn more
- Kaiserslauten's Kuntz kicks out Kurz
- German house of horror: bodies dissolved in acid
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21 March
- Celebrity support for Chinese Nobel dissident
- Petrol firms 'sneak profits into price rises'
- Deutsche Bank reduces 'hunger trade'
- Court: young workers deserve more holidays
- Damien Hirst row leaves holes in art magazine
- Dog owners face written and practical tests
- Nazi death camp guard's body en route to USA
- Globe-trotting gnome grades gravity
- Euro rescue bumps up German budget deficit
- 'Tofu is gay meat' slogan causes outrage
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22 March
- Bayern and Dortmund in German cup final
- Minister: we need some neo-Nazi informants
- Megaupload boss asked for butler while on bail
- What's on in Germany: March 22 – 28
- Ex-Chancellor's wife mounts political stage
- Unemployment to keep falling in 2012
- Biological fathers denied right to paternity
- Germans will all face organ donor question
- Germans warned of Toulouse-style terror
- Broke west German towns eye savings banks
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23 March
- Police arrest Brit over rhino horn theft
- Germany set to ban extreme right party
- The German who 'bought a Greek island'
- Doherty's drunken car smash costs him €30,000
- New president: dare to have more Europe
- Germany sits on 'terror' data collection law
- US airlines fight 'cash-grab' ticket tax
- Giant wasp 'discovered in Berlin museum'
- Germany cools on finance industry tax idea
- Football underwear explosives attacker jailed
- 24 March
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25 March
- Bayern hot on Dortmund's heels
- Thousands gather at airports to protest noise
- Report: Berlin to accept bailout fund boost
- Old metal pipe causes bomb scare in Stuttgart
- Westerwelle calls for stop to Iran smuggling
- Hells Angels attack pizza man after car chase
- Merkel ally suffers massive state defeat
- Voters deal Merkel surprise victory
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26 March
- Zebra crossings scene of fifth of road accidents
- Merkel: We need a strong Britain in EU
- Twitter nests in Berlin
- Cop shoots at cop in slapstick robbery
- Five walk away from helicopter crash
- Commuters, parents hit by public sector strikes
- Football legend blasts Sky TV 'Muppet Show'
- Early summer weather ends at weekend
- Fewer drugs deaths but more crystal meth
- Police seek murderer of 11-year-old girl
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27 March
- Compensation for abused East German kids
- Merkel brushes off Sarko election snub
- Strikers shut down German airports
- Drunk Spanish cop held on German cyclist death
- No compensation for condiment catastrophe
- Court: skin colour good reason for cop ID check
- Blood-sucking mite kills a third of German bees
- Germans in more danger of poverty than Czechs
- Thieves cut off dentist's finger in robbery
- Nigeria arrests five over kidnapped German
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28 March
- German footballers to visit Auschwitz
- Millions of women face poverty in old age
- Police make arrest in child car park murder
- Italian PM: Germany to blame for EU debt
- Sex toy survey: Germans come first
- Victim slams court's racial spot-check ruling
- Should cops target black people for ID checks?
- Fuming fans show team where goal is
- Women push politician to take parental leave
- Fake fancy phone buyer set for compensation
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29 March
- Pirate Party hacks Merkel's website
- Schlecker workers face immediate sack
- German job market stays buoyant
- Parents patrol school after sex attack in toilet
- British mother faces bouncers 'who killed son'
- What's on in Germany: March 29 – April 4
- Drama on ice as Germans fight for medal
- Teacher sues pupil for burst paper bag trauma
- German kids no longer want to go 'choo choo!'
- Mass DNA test in hunt for woman's killer
- Study: same package, same price, less food
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30 March
- Germany's April Fools' Day Gold
- Chunnel charges hit Frankfurt-London link
- 'No' to help for Schlecker staff turns political
- Government tackles holiday petrol price hikes
- Study: Deutsch delays dementia
- Police back to square one in child murder case
- Abu Dhabi closes German think tank
- French cat hitches ride to Munich
- Police track phone to find child abuse suspect
- Leftie cakes too much for Joschka Fischer
- 31 March