The boss of one of Germany's best-known breweries died in an avalanche in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Monday morning while taking part in a heli-ski expedition.
An avalanche has killed two French and two German snowboarders in the Caucasus mountains of northern Georgia, police in the former Soviet republic said on Saturday.
A five-year-old boy seriously injured a mother and her young son after starting his parents' car at a kindergarten in central Germany and driving into them.
UPDATE: Investigators are probing the cause of a plane crash which killed four people on Sunday when the small aircraft came down in fog in western Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared publicly on crutches on Tuesday for the first time since it emerged she had fractured her pelvis in a ski accident, to join children for carol singing.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was in a car crash on Sunday when an 82-year-old driver hit her limousine. The chancellor was in the vehicle at the time but avoided injury.
UPDATE: A 46-year-old woman was killed and her mother was among seven people injured when a crane fell onto a discount supermarket, causing parts of the building to collapse near Frankfurt on Wednesday.
A German cyclist was killed in a freak accident in France on Monday when a bull, bred for fighting, managed to escape from its enclosure and charged at the tourist as he rode past, goring him in his chest.
A gondola and a vaporetto waterbus collided Saturday on Venice's Grand Canal, killing a 50-year-old German tourist and badly injuring his young daughter, local media reported.
German scientists are conducting experiments to trace the behaviour and movement of crowds in a bid to prevent catastrophes, such as that seen at the 2010 Love Parade when 21 people were trampled to death in a stampede.
After a long winter most Germans are happy to be sporting sun hats, rather than scarves, to guard against the elements. But for a 2-year-old Bavarian, summer accessorising went awry when she got stuck in a parasol.
German authorities told more than 1,000 people in northern Germany that they could go home on Tuesday, after being evacuated a day earlier due to a chemical accident in a Kraft Food factory.
At least nine people are reported to have been injured in an accident involving two horse-drawn carriages at one of Bavaria's favourite tourist spots - Neuschwanstein castle.
Police near Berlin were called to the kind of traffic accident more familiar to their Scandinavian colleagues on Saturday when a truck hit and killed a moose.
Four young children died in a house fire in western Germany early on Friday morning. Firemen did manage to rescue two adults presumed to be the parents and a baby, all of whom are said to have been injured.
Quick-witted locals living near the small German town of Coesfeld saved three young people whose car smashed into their courtyard entrance and caught fire.
A 64-year-old man was killed and four people left injured after a driver lost control of his car and ploughed into a group of people waiting at a metro stop on Tuesday evening in Hannover, Lower Saxony, police announced.
