News Archive for May 2012
Here you can find articles published in May 2012. Return to full archive here- 01 May
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02 May
- 'German hooligans look up to the English'
- Finance Minister gets boost for euro top job
- May Day passes (relatively) smoothly
- Biker sues BMW for 20-month erection
- Unemployment steady as Sundays are sacrificed
- Salafist Muslims arrested as protest turns ugly
- Should soccer be used as a political football?
- Germany's Rupert Murdoch turns 100
- 'Petrol police' set to fight pump price hikes
- German hits nuke power station with smoke bomb
- What's on in Germany: May 3 - 9
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03 May
- Saxon scientists make 'printable speaker'
- Merkel: Last-minute decision on Euro 2012
- Dairy farmers sour after Aldi slashes milk prices
- Lufthansa cuts 3,500 jobs to reduce costs
- Bavaria lures city-folk with farm work holidays
- Ikea 'also used Cuban prison labour'
- Foreign students 'should learn German'
- Wet weekend won't stop warming trend
- Do robot lawyers dream of electric briefs?
- Rude biker gave speed cameras the finger
- EPT – the Grand Final in Monaco
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04 May
- World Press Photo 2012 winners reach Hamburg
- Funniest mistakes the English make in German
- Merkel 'will compromise' if Hollande wins France
- Students find rare Roman temple on practice dig
- Man keeps interest from €200 million bank error
- Third of Germans want total Euro 2012 boycott
- Germany in grip of 'sexual evolution'
- East German prison labour claims spread
- 'Is it my looks?' Parent parrots kick out Nelson
- Oktoberfest boss attacks boozing and music
- 05 May
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06 May
- Cologne relegated, Berlin saved - for now
- Deutsche Bahn plans car-sharing network
- Report finds security holes at German airports
- Reflecting on Hindenburg disaster 75 years on
- Tymoshenko's daughter to make pleas in Berlin
- 100 arrests as Muslims clash with far-right
- Merkel loses power in state election
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07 May
- Merkel makes nice to new French president
- 'Take Me To Your Umlauts!' in English
- 'Strongest German town' in bus-pulling double
- Police hunt sex offender who 'walked out of clinic'
- Danes are kingmakers after German state vote
- 'European axis has to be readjusted'
- Opel to stop Astra production in Germany
- Discount giant Aldi 'took government subsidies'
- German Catholic school in rectal pill rights row
- Berlin escaped May Day pipe-bomb bloodbath
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08 May
- One man's mission to swim length of Rhine
- First German minister boycotts Euro 2012
- Captain 'in wrong gear' before ship crash
- Cat trapped in bathroom wall for four days
- Fury as new Berlin airport opening delayed
- Man grabbed woman 'for leather skirt, not body'
- Tunick tells Munich: 'Get your kit off!'
- Merkel to Hollande: 'The eurozone looks to us'
- Sixt takes aim at new transport trends
- Fugitive neo-Nazi arrested after shooting
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09 May
- Germany faces inflated Nato drone bill
- Cop suspended for radical Islamist beliefs
- Driver hits group waiting for metro - kills one
- 'They're my dinner,' says lizard smuggler
- 'Greece out of euro' calls multiply in Germany
- Killer neo-Nazis seen at play in holiday snaps
- Germany 'best EU state for migrant job hunters'
- Facebook party flop spares politician's wallet
- Judge: Commerzbank must pay bonuses
- Germany gives rights to tiny babies who die
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10 May
- Foreigners can't change name 'just to integrate'
- Opposition: 'EU should ratify pact on same day'
- Thieving postman: 'I'm a gambling addict'
- Merkel braces for biggest state election
- What's on in Germany: May 10 - 16
- German drops Mayan skull, endangers mankind
- Rare Nazi report details deportation horror
- Temperatures rise, rain to keep falling
- Ten essential German etiquette tips
- Statue scares public, angers art buffs
- Finance Minister OKs three percent inflation
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11 May
- Cops set up kebab shop to hunt killers
- Hollande to see Merkel within hours of oath
- German celebs fire at Pirates over copyright
- Clash of the titans in domestic cup final
- Women feel sexy after Sekt, beer bad for blokes
- Fire brigade hoses red panda out of tree
- Berlin airport boss is PhD in 'building efficiency'
- Political violence hit record levels last year
- Swimmer wee 'killing off fish' in popular lake
- Opposition blocks €6.1 billion tax cut
- Umbrella stab victim dies of mercury poisoning
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14 May
- Munich must beat Chelsea to save pride
- Germans arrest Sea Shepherd founder
- Hollande's party attacks Merkel ahead of meeting
- Teenage hackers 'tried to change school grades'
- State election hails rise of 'Merkel in Red'
- Baader-Meinhof member speaks to deny murder
- Eurostar plans speedy London to Frankfurt link
- Apple rumours bear sweet fruit for Loewe
- German bloodhound gang hunts poachers
- Burglar flees, scared stiff by mummified corpse
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15 May
- UN climate change talks begin, opinion splits
- Wedding-gift thief filled flat with presents
- 'Made in Germany' goods help dodge recession
- Red-faced politician stuck in ceremony digger
- Smart pedal tells driver when to ease off gas
- German investor confidence tumbles
- Merkel awaits crunch first meet with Hollande
- Court: Bin man's knee injury like athlete's
- Retracing the tracks of a Cold War institution
- 'Send him to hell': rapper in hiding after Fatwa
- Hollande arrives in Berlin after lightning strike
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16 May
- Merkel, Hollande: let's keep eurozone together
- Left-wingers: we torched EU taskmaster's car
- Football hooligans ruin Düsseldorf's victory
- Suck-outs and failed bluffs
- Forex trading – how to make sure your money is secure
- Freelancers fight forced pension plan
- Teenager 'wore horror mask to kill pensioner'
- 'Blockupy' protests paralyse Frankfurt
- Greeks and Spanish flee to Germany in job hunt
- Merkel gives self and ministers pay rise
- Holiday weather offers little to celebrate
- Merkel fires minister after election disaster
- 17 May
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18 May
- EU agrees on growth and austerity mix ahead of G8
- 'You can't bring that axe on a plane' politician told
- Merkel ally: 'Eurozone could handle Greek exit'
- What's on in Germany: May 17 - 23
- Some sex abusers 'should work in church'
- Ten greatest German Hollywood villains
- Three die in fireball car crash
- Merkel's flash of steel excites and dismays
- Women's football misses major viewing goals
- First singer of Britten's 'War Requiem' dies
- German beach bums: naked, wet and friendly
- 19 May
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21 May
- NATO gives OK to European missile shield
- Islamist urges 'death for far-right party members'
- Drunken golfer practices in central Cologne
- German doctor dies on Everest clean-up
- Central Bank: there is no 'Plan B' for Greece
- Ex-banker: German euro rescue is Holocaust guilt
- Bruno 'The Orca' takes on mammoth swim
- Can euro rescue absolve Holocaust guilt?
- Germans tip-top for generosity on holiday
- Leipzig sets up rapid-reaction library force
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22 May
- Germans open monster telescope on Tenerife
- Hertha appeal against relegation ruling
- Schweini apologises to president for snub
- Doctors cash-in on patient referrals
- One in four low-earners works 50-hour week
- Consumers to vote for biggest food ad fib
- Berlin put on 'cranky crow alert'
- Woman fined for blowing whistle into phone
- Police hunt armed pupil, school evacuated
- Cops chase thief onto Cologne Cathedral
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23 May
- Armed teen arrested after stand-off with police
- Schoolboy cracks age-old maths problem
- German playboy's Bardot art fetches $56 million
- Merkel struggling to coax supporters to CDU
- Study: net replacing drugs as youth habit
- Exec 'made fortune selling stolen Lego'
- Streetside taken down after privacy complaints
- City 'sold empty houses without finding owners'
- Most Germans view Israel as 'aggressive'
- Bavaria threatens Merkel over energy policy
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24 May
- Merkel resists pressure to relax austerity
- Man must sell antique coins to repay benefits
- Tenants must fund energy saving renovation
- What's on in Germany: May 24 - 30
- Germans 'fail to balance work and home life'
- Rats rampant in Hamelin, break fountain
- German Schadenfreude as Brits get the Hump
- BMW 'stopped Swiss buying its cars abroad'
- Station sex shop celebrates Sunday sales
- Half of killed women are victims of 'their man'
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25 May
- Central bank: Germans richer than ever
- Merkel: Hard work, not eurobonds, will fix euro
- Man kills girlfriend's Pekingese with cleaver
- Whitsun weekend offers sunshine and traffic jams
- Merkel's coalition partner back in business
- New organ donor law will ask everyone
- Germany develops plan for eurozone growth
- Police hunt for missing man in concrete floor
- Lloyds TSB International increases Euro fixed-term savings rate
- Kebab seller gets 3,333 years to pay off tax bill
- 'Homeless billionaire' to rescue drugstore chain
- Special Olympics deliver pure gold in Munich
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29 May
- Couple's house blown away by gas explosion
- Hells Angel: cop raid damaged my terrace
- Bundeswehr 'needs wealthy southerners too'
- German fliers ignore carbon off-set schemes
- Germans - 'hardest working, most admired'
- Germany expels Syrian envoy over massacre
- One in nine German children 'missing basics'
- Dad faces poaching charge for fake fishing
- Expanding electric grid to cost €20 billion
- Gauck talks of 'special' relationship with Israel
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30 May
- Wannabe serial killer attacked men 'for kicks'
- Neo-Nazi supporter suspects released
- Berlin bans Hells Angels, raid details leaked
- Online retailer: If the shoe fits, please keep it
- Tracking tags mooted for football hooligans
- Hospitals 'operating too often to make a profit'
- Newly discovered frog turns fingers yellow
- Germany - no talk of military action in Syria
- I've been to the future and it really aches
- Bayern's Alaba brushes off English insult
- What's on in Germany: May 31 – June 6
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31 May
- Doggie bags, smaller servings to cut waste
- Merkel talks Syria, euro crisis with Obama
- Wooden plane crashes, burns, kills four
- Unemployment down but 'cracks showing'
- Irish 'mad at Merkel' as they vote on Fiscal Pact
- Women catching up men in smoking deaths
- Obituary mix-up gave man's mum heart attack
- Jail for dad who killed daughters in car fireball
- Kidnapped German killed in raid to save him
- Holocaust contrition 'too much for new generation'