News Archive for April 2012
Here you can find articles published in April 2012. Return to full archive here- 01 April
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02 April
- Pirates set sail for national election treasure
- Tattoo convention leaves a mark on Frankfurt
- Megaupload boss 'records music album'
- Merkel's party revolts over childcare subsidy
- Merkel hails 'democratic election' in Burma
- Condom campaign lists ways of 'wanting it'
- Coffee giant in hot water over African grounds
- Lights go out at leading German solar firm
- Store detective jumps on car to save leather jacket
- Daughter implicated in murder of parents
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03 April
- Chemical blast claims second victim
- Firm books out luxury island hotel till 2023
- Janitor steals 25 tonnes of stationery
- Avon's face cream ladies get German proposal
- Germany tells Bosnia: take EU, NATO plunge
- Cool cafés in customer download dilemma
- Serial car arsonist jailed for seven years
- Merkel: no rush for EU fiscal pact Czech signing
- Journo's sex video blackmail case returns
- Luftwaffe scrambled in 'stolen' plane scare
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04 April
- Doctors regain right to decide on suicide aid
- Bayern sail through to European semi-finals
- 'Child killer' told cops he was paedophile
- Giant cargo ships head to Hamburg after river vote
- German military to get US-style Veterans' Day
- How Germans are turning to dumpsters for dinner
- Frankfurt airport night flight ban confirmed
- Swiss bank ‘bans advisers from Germany’
- Günter Grass slates Israel in new poem
- Bonking bankers get horny in the high-rise
- US woman's Hamburg killer ruled insane
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05 April
- 'Phone box kidnapper' sent to mental hospital
- What's on in Germany: April 4 - 11
- Should Germany have a Veterans' Day?
- Miner killed in poisonous gas leak
- German bunny-based phrases for Easter
- Rainy, cold Easter ahead
- Parents get road rage as holiday jams loom
- Tax dodgers will face higher charges
- Berlin gunman kills one, leaves two injured
- Merkel's motor up for grabs on Ebay
- Schröder calls for Agenda 2030 reforms
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10 April
- Healthcare to produce 70,000 jobs in 2012
- Pirates take wind out of Greens' sails
- 'Right motive but wrong tone' Grass splits critics
- Grandpa forgets girl locked in car boot
- Free public transport in Leipzig to combat cars
- Bee rustlers cause a buzz after two stings
- Minister calls for crazed cyclists crack-down
- Would you park your car for a free bus ride?
- Investment firm 'buys 22,000 German flats'
- Victims' groups slam prisoner 'time out' plans
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11 April
- Students offer sex 'to improve grades'
- 'A Koran in every home' project makes waves
- Mega move to new Berlin airport begins
- Siemens gets Athens contract after bribery fine
- Elderly Germans 'cause more trouble than Turks'
- Basic jobless support cut nearly a million times
- Global challenge to make canteen food art
- Iran cuts oil exports to Germany
- Retiring man admits he 'did nothing for 14 years'
- Tourists evacuated from beaches in tsunami scare
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12 April
- Dortmund stay cool after 1-0 victory over Bayern
- Merkel, Obama: more UN action needed in Syria
- Teen boob job wannabes 'will have to wait'
- Germans find jobs, set up fewer new firms
- Jail for incest man justified - court
- Woman wrongly jailed for murder faces €32,000 bill
- Germany caught in Eurovision crossfire
- What's on in Germany: April 12 - 18
- US comedian tells tales from the Mosque
- Woman wants 'too much sex' - man calls cops
- Rewe pulls 'deceptive' bio-bags from shops
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13 April
- Yvonne the runaway cow to be a moo-vie star
- Train hits digger, kills three, injures 13
- Rossmann must 'beware of saturated market'
- Protesters drop golden turd by Athens embassy
- Germany slams Ukraine for political crackdown
- Scientists find runes on ancient comb
- Trier's 'Jesus tunic' ready for half a million pilgrims
- Soldiers threaten actor over anti-war film
- Germans back voluntary quotas for women
- Anti-Nazi hacktivists vow to continue cyberwar
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16 April
- First Bundesliga win in six games for Gladbach
- Hitler film writer scripts Kampusch movie
- Parties move to muzzle rebel MPs
- Vegan sex shop offers responsible romping
- Kurds try to hijack Rhine pleasure boat
- Cops 'can't fit in' fancy new patrol cars
- American tattooist admits Berlin axe killing
- Chilly sunshine and showers continue
- British Mini workers in tea break row with BMW
- German ship 'carrying guns for Assad' stopped
- Cops follow dogfight organiser's tracks
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17 April
- Grass hospitalised with heart scare
- Siemens losing puff on off-shore wind parks
- Man who killed two nieces jailed for life
- Murder suspect posts 'did you see me?' advert
- 'Drug squirrel' fear ahead of Dutch dope ban
- 'No Bild in my house' idea gathers strength
- No-name job letters 'help women and migrants'
- Pet death grief 'does not count' - court
- Sky wins new bid for Bundesliga rights
- Breivik: I was created like German neo-Nazi killers
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18 April
- Poll: Sexiest Germans are Hamburgers
- European final in sight as Bayern beat Madrid
- Extended Somalia pirate plan creates waves
- Booty spot to be stripped to stop al fresco sex
- US solar panel firm leaves gloomy Germany
- Driving age could be lowered to 16
- Volkswagen set to invest €14 bln in China
- Rare 'century plant' blooms in Bavaria
- American love affair with Germany deepens
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19 April
- Learning to teach Berlin's Holocaust lessons
- Government advisor stripped of doctorate
- Real's boots on other feet after Bayern clash
- Women slam 'their' minister for new book
- What's on in Germany: April 19 – 25
- German words - great ones you just don't find in English
- German sex tax men tackle prostitutes
- German woman: I was Breivik's lover
- What fuels the American-German love-in?
- German research centres face huge back-tax bill
- Minister slams Salafism at Islam conference
- Chemical plant explosion brakes car makers
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20 April
- Germany, France begin fight to close borders
- Doctors must pay for 'stolen sperm' babies
- Kurdish protesters take over another boat
- Long school days 'hinder new sports stars'
- German economy retains confidence in crisis
- Scientists warn blackbird virus could return
- Ministry caught in Muslim study leak lie
- Polar bears: lying about their age
- Court: YouTube liable for copyright breaches
- East Germany world's most Godless area
- 21 April
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23 April
- Chinese PM opens Hannover trade fair
- Half of German firms 'victims of spying'
- Hooligans break Leverkusen player's nose
- Pirate regrets 'growing as fast as Nazis' comment
- SPD hails 'huge success' for centre-left in France
- April showers set to stay despite warm weather
- First wolf in Rhineland for 120 years shot dead
- Fat cats advise each other to lay off the cream
- Fears for three missing Germans on Lake Garda
- Woman poisons elderly neighbours' yoghurt
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24 April
- Foreign students quit Germany in droves
- Scientists unveil 'self-changing tyres'
- Taxi drivers protest new Berlin airport fees
- Pay-out for rapists kept in prison too long
- Merck pharma closes Swiss HQ, cuts 580 jobs
- Iberia Express budget airline aims for Germany
- Speculation: Merkel set to provoke early election
- Family puts kids in charge for a month
- 'Cupboard killer' victim ignored for ten months
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25 April
- Jews welcome first post-war 'Mein Kampf'
- 71-year-old: I shot wolf of the century
- Old age care homes tying up thousands illegally
- Politician invites 5,000 to Facebook party
- Phishing victims' losses are own fault - court
- Weapons check gives German ship all-clear
- How would children run your family?
- Merkel: eurozone needs growth as well as cuts
- What's on in Germany: April 26 – May 2
- New social network links ex-terrorists and victims
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26 April
- Germans ‘stealing our jobs’: Swiss politician
- Rare fighter plane wreck lifted from seabed
- Three dead babies found in cooler boxes
- Germany pressures Ukraine on Tymoshenko
- Bayern reach Champions League final on penalties
- Telekom: 100,000 WLAN connections unsafe
- New gun register a decade after massacre
- Schlecker offers laid-off workers €500
- American tattooist axe killer jailed for ten years
- Funniest mistakes Germans make in English
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27 April
- Tan-happy Germans double skin cancer risk
- Lufthansa plans new budget airline
- Three dead after car hits tree and rips apart
- Pop titan and prince sue over sarky adverts
- Australian found dead in Dresden cemetery
- Merkel sends stern warning to Hollande
- Germany's engineers to strike over pay
- Controversial shoot-'em-up scoops top prize
- Struggling Neckermann cuts half its jobs
- Artist banned from strangling puppies
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28 April
- Fewer girls born near German nuke waste site
- Top Social Democrat calls for Ukraine boycott
- Weekend weather to wow sun worshippers
- Pre-coffee kids fuel German bubble tea boom
- Klinsmann: German experience will help US
- Pirates face 200 motions at party conference
- Berlin, Cologne fight to stay in Bundesliga
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30 April
- Pirates try to clear name of 'Nazi' slurs
- Police catch serial burglar - by his earprints
- Man held after trying to pay taxi with cannabis
- Germans shopping more but growth still weak
- Party plans Mohammed cartoons 'election tactic'
- Taking a hike is officially good for health
- Calls for Ukraine Euro 2012 boycott grow louder
- High-tech water cannon ready for Berlin May Day
- Star striker Podolski takes aim for Arsenal
- Google cars 'meant to collect internet info'