News Archive for October 2012
Here you can find articles published in October 2012. Return to full archive here-
01 October
- Grass calls Israel nuke whistle-blower a hero
- Five German doctors die in China bus fireball
- Germany drops probe into SS Italian massacre
- Steinbrück promises 'fun election with jokes'
- VW: Golf special offer not bad for prices
- Aldi 'set to double UK stores'
- Estate agent finds house hash plantation
- Munich organ donor check reveals suspicions
- Canadian Oktoberfest man dies in tram smash
- Refugees in Bavaria have to sleep in tents
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02 October
- Man drowned lover and child to hide affair
- 'Ex-Stasi agent' heads aluminium giant Rusal
- Commerzbank boss sees wages soar despite debts
- Steinbrück drops jobs but won't publish income
- 'The UK makes things too, it's not just finance'
- Thieves steal mummified liar's hand from church
- German European equine victory hopes dashed
- Court: internet users must pay TV fee
- Frankfurt airport extends to take super-jumbos
- Ballack ends a career 'beyond his dreams'
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04 October
- 2-2 draw for Schalke against Montpellier
- 200 live tarantulas found in suitcase
- Police stop kitchen knife assailant
- Sexual assault 'on the rise at Oktoberfest'
- Cyclist hit with €900 fine for 'lesbo cop' insult
- Top bank fires traders aiding tax dodgers
- Customs: Your violin back? That'll be $1.5mln
- What's on in Germany: October 4 - 10
- 'Calm down,' Germany tells Turkey after attacks
- Hamburg: we have only 29 prostitutes
- German states weigh congestion tax
- Schumi calls it a day
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05 October
- German gets diploma - 40 years after enrolling
- Swiss want to tax loot from stolen CDs
- Bavarian kids 'smartest in Germany'
- Transparency demands Steinbrück's income info
- Aldi recalls salmon salad after salmonella scare
- Merkel's party 'at most popular for four years'
- Police nab 'Oktoberfest rapist' seven years later
- Welcome to the wet, windy weekend
- Teacher banned from sending kids shopping
- More Germans working second jobs
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08 October
- Dortmund draw against Hannover, stay fourth
- Greece boosts police force for Merkel visit
- Youtube launching niche German channels
- Steinbrück urges tougher income disclosure rules
- Woman, 23, killed in canyoning accident
- Exports post surprise plus in August
- Horse carriage crash at fairytale castle
- Germs found in organic supermarket greens
- More passed-out drunks at Oktoberfest 2012
- Probe launched into filmed police attack
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09 October
- Businessman flees after kidnapping
- German whaling activist arrested in Japan
- 500 richest Germans top Swiss GDP
- Boy, 14, sells mother's jewels for brothel visit
- Eco-power 'will raise energy bills in 2013'
- Firemen go topless for new hardware
- Drunk pensioner caught after wheelchair chase
- Fury in Athens as Merkel comes to town
- Norovirus kids get book tokens in recompense
- Talks collapse in BAE-EADS mega-merger
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10 October
- Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 highlights kids' books
- Doctors go on strike - despite new deal
- Education minister faces plagiarism accusations
- Shots fired into classrooms from window
- Greek press welcomes Merkel despite protests
- Man sues dominatrix for hitting him too hard
- Cabinet agrees new circumcision bill
- Ryanair to expand in Germany
- Lutherans angered by Pussy Riot honour
- Court okays contentious Berlin motorway
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11 October
- Germany 'blocks giant aerospace merger'
- Gauck remembers Czech massacre victims
- Film shines light on neo-Nazi music scene
- Arnie at the book fair
- 'We're all doomed!' say top economic think tanks
- Eastern Germany gets new wall to hide drinkers
- What's on in Germany: October 11 – 17
- EU to VW: Don't worry about CO2 rules
- New weapon against forced marriage goes live
- Busker bashes passenger with trumpet
- 169 officers guard a single prisoner
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12 October
- Germany: Slashing debt is the only way
- Refugee protest march pitches up in Berlin
- Berlin blasted for ruined EADS-BAE merger
- 10,500 evacuated in Potsdam bomb scare
- Foreign minister going to Turkey 'to ease tensions'
- Germany hails EU Nobel Peace Prize win
- Minister 'puts brakes' on German energy switch
- Yet another dreary weekend on the way
- Top 10 German words in English
- Sensitive data disappears in medical mystery
- 13 October
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15 October
- Captain Ballack yearns for swan song
- Germany honours dissident Chinese author
- Education Minister: I didn't copy my thesis
- Electricity bills to increase by €60 a year
- Man dies after gang beat him up in Berlin
- US takeover likely for Douglas perfume chain
- TV host gropes woman in on-air 'prank'
- 'Turkey right to stop Syrian arms planes'
- Tiny TV channel hits new heights on space jump
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16 October
- Police find girl's body after hay barn fire
- Thousands evacuated in chemical accident alert
- Germany will take Syrian refugees but not alone
- 'Make German museums free to bring them to life'
- Firms run by women 'less likely to go broke'
- Consumer watchdog shows overdraft rip off
- Long-term jobless 'lazy and picky' say Germans
- Scientist stumbles on spider stretching 33cm
- 1,200 chemical accident evacuees sent home
- Finance Minister pushes for EU fiscal union
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17 October
- Alcoholism 'costs about 20 years of life'
- Germany wastes huge lead to draw Sweden 4-4
- Police offer €15,000 for deadly attack tips
- 'A victory grotesquely given away'
- Housing becomes more expensive nationwide
- Security agent 'warned KKK' of phone tap
- Germany slashes 2013 growth prognosis
- Sunny skies bring brief relief from cold snap
- Kidnapped teen escapes four-night rape ordeal
- Car thieves steal van full of bodies
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18 October
- Politician: protesters old, stinky, with messy hair
- Booze ban for Nuremberg station
- German 'sect leader' held in Caribbean shoot-out
- What's on in Germany: October 18 - 24
- World first as Twitter blocks neo-Nazi account
- Woman fined for clearing bottles near playground
- Rotten meat at butcher shops simply the wurst
- Court: Woman can wear headscarf at work
- Steinbrück attacks Merkel over euro crisis
- More German men getting plastic surgery
- EU braces for German-French clash on banks
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19 October
- Scientists decry insurer's extreme weather claims
- Bayern's Boateng eager to brush off Sweden draw
- Negative outlook remains for German banks
- Online shop Zalando bags record investment
- Berlin airport debacle in committee spotlight
- Skilled immigrants opt for Britain over Germany
- Festival of Lights dazzles until Sunday
- Salafist jailed for stabbing police officers
- Hamburg court jails ten Somali pirates
- 'Polite police' fear Germany a 'land of yobs'
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22 October
- Merkel to unveil Roma memorial this week
- Stuttgart elects Green Party mayor
- Berlin's English Theatre fights closure threat
- Allianz chief warns of real estate bubble
- Siemens lets the sun go down on solar power
- 'Slow suicide' of murder suspect prevents trial
- Germany: Irish bank debt 'special circumstance'
- Greek PM set to visit Bavaria over bail-out
- Schumacher: I'll leave Switzerland over taxes
- President: we need a culture of togetherness
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23 October
- Police call for action after Dortmund football riots
- Traffic police plan huge blitz for speeders
- Train station thieves take entire cash machine
- Woman crowned 'car parking champion'
- Advertisers spend more online than on TV
- UK: Germany alienates by pushing EU too hard
- Germany 'should shell out for Swiss study'
- Construction firm banned from Switzerland
- Factory fire firm offers less than €1,500 a death
- Stolen van - and 12 bodies - found in Poland
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24 October
- Snow, sleet and fog signal start of winter
- Young Germans 'not getting enough sleep'
- Germany's overseas gold 'not monitored properly'
- Bavaria takes first step to scrap student fees
- Business confidence falls for sixth month
- German gender gap 'widens despite talk'
- 'Relatives of patient' attack hospital professor
- Clothing firm increases fire compensation offer
- Knut the polar bear back at Berlin Zoo - in bronze
- ECB head: bond buying won't cause inflation
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25 October
- Dortmund on top after 2-1 win over Real
- Raids in three states crack sex-trafficking ring
- A rare breed - the male kindergarten teacher
- A third of trains 'may be cancelled' this winter
- Do men need quotas and a rights movement?
- Bavarian bank to Bernie: Give us $400 million back
- More transparency on MPs' extra income
- Minister to EU: stem tide of Balkan asylum seekers
- What's on in Germany: October 25 – 31
- Women stage topless protest in Ikea
- Study: half of overtime worked unpaid
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26 October
- Germany bans Swiss-made flu vaccine
- Peeping sweep appears in court in fake beard
- Beating victim's mum: I didn't get justice
- Scandal as MP sparks up joint on TV
- Consumer confidence hits five-year high
- States refuse to shell out for WWII bomb disposal
- German FM: Be more like the hard-working Irish
- Multiple resignations rock Pirate Party ship
- Kindergarten worker 'forced kids to eat vomit'
- Berlin schools 'racially segregating' children
- 27 October
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29 October
- Leverkusen end jinx to snap Bayern streak
- Stuntman left ablaze as fire extinguishers fail
- Bertelsmann opens new chapter for Penguin
- Memorial for beating victim after first arrest
- Hurricane Sandy grounds German-US flights
- Neo-Nazi victims to be paid over €800,000
- Family of four dies in double autobahn crash
- Young Germans 'happy to be bourgeois'
- President moves 'ugly' portraits of predecessors
- Top-brand coats 'contain harmful chemicals'
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30 October
- Money laundering reports up by 17 percent
- Poor boar injures four in Berlin
- SPD candidate earned €1.25 million on the side
- German Turks 'send a billion euros to Turkey'
- Police: sorry for racial profiling on ID checks
- Police take refugees' blankets despite cold
- Greece chases 'corrupt' Siemens executives
- German unemployment rises steadily
- John sues after painful male dominatrix mix-up
- November 'the most crisis-prone month'
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31 October
- Glass more than half-full in Berlin buy-back
- Police arrest French terror suspect in Munich
- 'Learn German!' Turkish PM urges German Turks
- Eastern states in the black - with western cash
- O2 plans to sell location data raise concern
- Doctor hid 700 guns and stash of ammunition
- Berlin SPD floats 'fast-food trash tax'
- Police hunt man after woman horribly mutilated
- Protesters greet Turkish PM in Berlin
- Poker player loses vital hand against tax man