UPDATE: German authorities confirmed on Thursday the man who knifed three people before being killed on a motorway in western Germany on Monday was Enda McLaughlin, an Irishman recently released from prison in Cork.
A Berlin burial company is taking legal action against a grieving American mother after she refused to pay them for sending a damaged urn, which was meant to contain her son’s ashes, from Germany to the US. The urn arrived broken and almost empty of ashes.
German eventer Benjamin Winter died on Saturday after suffering head injuries in a three-day eventing competition in Luhmühlen south of Hamburg, organizers announced. He was 25.
Dead workers in Germany have a right to any annual leave which they've failed to claim at the time of their death, Europe’s top court ruled on Thursday.
UPDATE: At least six people died in western Germany on Monday night and Tuesday morning as storms ripped through the region. Emergency services have been called to 5,000 incidents and the bad weather is now heading to other parts of the country.
A father, mother and son were killed in a crash in Bavaria on Thursday night when their car was hit from behind by a Mercedes. The family’s surviving son is in a serious condition.
A four-month old baby died from starvation and thirst in western Germany while her mother took drugs and partied for days over Halloween in Münster, a court heard on Tuesday.
UPDATE: A man fell to his death from the balcony of a Berlin tower block on Monday night after the bodies of his partner and her child were found in his flat. He had reportedly been living with the bodies in the apartment for three days.
A German skydiver died trying to break a group skydiving record in the United States on Thursday. Her parachute failed to open properly on the 5,500-metre drop.
Germany's first burial area for lesbians will open on Sunday in Berlin. One of the founders told The Local that the leafy resting spot is for homosexual women to be buried as they lived – with those of the same sex.
Two men and two women died on Sunday evening when their car crashed into a canal in western Germany. The 74-year-old driver is believed to have had a heart attack before the accident.
German police have launched an investigation after finding 67 urns in an abandoned house. A former undertaker was reportedly asked by families to bury their loved ones at sea, but hoarded the remains instead.
A Berlin lawyer was inundated with phone calls from worried friends and colleagues after a local paper published his death notice. He was still very much alive, kicking - and furious.
Germany has long accepted that 137 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall, but new research emerged on Friday that a young father drowned in the river Spree, unnoticed for 40 years.
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 Munich woman who could not afford to bury her mother spent eight months sleeping next to her decomposing corpse, which she kept on a sofa bed in her bedroom, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Families of victims of a deadly air strike in Afghanistan that killed more than 90 people in 2009 have filed a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Germany, a lawyer said Friday.
