The body of Tanja Gräff, who went missing in 2008 at the age of 21 in one of the most puzzling crimes of recent years, was found by forestry workers on the outskirts of Trier on Monday.
A 17-year-old Afghan youth stabbed to death a fellow student of the same age and nationality in a German high school classroom on Tuesday, police said.
A pensioner got a shock when he found out from his health insurance that his wife was dead, even though she was very much alive when he received the letter.
Cryonics, the frozen suspension of bodies for their eventual reanimation, has inspired movies for decades. While still scorned by many scientists, a Bavarian gerontologist has prepared his own frozen preservation after a lifetime of studying aging in humans.
In 2010 an Irish computer engineer was found dead in his apartment in Baden-Württemberg. Four years on, his family are still pressing the German justice system for answers. They feel badly let down by police who they say have refused to examine evidence of foul play.
UPDATE: Police in Hamburg found the bodies of two dead babies hidden in a train station locker on Thursday morning. One suspect is in psychiatric care.
A man is believed to have killed his wife, mother and then himself, police said on Wednesday. The bodies of the three people were found in south-west Germany in the morning.
A father died and five of his friends were injured on Tuesday night in western Germany when a digger fell on top of them during a cold water challenge.
A ten-year-old girl and her 21-year-old brother were killed overnight in a road accident on the A1 motorway in Upper Austria, caused by a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road.
UPDATE: A US student and an eight-year-old boy are among at least 18 swimmers to have died since Friday as bathers try to cool off in a heatwave which has brought highs of 36C to Germany.
A sales agent who chopped up a bank clerk and cooked his head after killing him in a bizarre sex game was jailed for less than four years by a Berlin court on Thursday.
