Parents are being urged to monitor their children's internet usage after a 12-year-old Swiss boy was allegedly abused by a German man he first met online.
A female German aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in August has been released and is in good health, said German development organisation GIZ on Saturday.
Police confirmed on Tuesday that the 17-year-old daughter of a Saxon businessman was found dead near Meißen after being kidnapped and held for ransom last week.
UPDATE: American-German journalist Michael Scott Moore was released on Tuesday from more than two-and-a-half years in the captivity of pirates in Somalia. His release came the day a German family was confirmed dead, five years after being captured in Yemen.
Gunmen on motorcycles kidnapped a German national on Wednesday in north-east Nigeria, police said, in the latest assault in the region repeatedly assailed by Boko Haram.
The incredible tale of a father who arranged a kidnapping in order to bring his daughter's killer to justice in France avoided prison time on Tuesday for the abduction. The father took matters into his own hands after Germany refused to extradite the suspect.
The German government has called on Egypt to help find a German journalist who has disappeared - feared kidnapped - in Cairo after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists.
Two German citizens kidnapped in eastern Lebanon were freed on Saturday, hours after their abduction, but police arrested them on drug trafficking charges, the official National News Agency
reported.
Two of three members of a German aid group who have been missing for two months in Syria, and were reported as kidnapped by their NGO, have been found, Berlin said Friday.
German authorities are expected to extradite to France a man accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl from her home in southern France. The investigation will also now include allegations of rape.
A man with a long history of sexual violence was arrested in northern Germany after a teenage girl he had kidnapped and repeatedly raped managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Police in the Maria Bögerl kidnap and murder case are increasingly under pressure for their inability to identify the kidnapper or answer questions over why they failed to find her body, and how the money handover went wrong.
Police have come to within arm’s length of Germany’s most wanted criminal, Thomas Wolf , but he is still on the run, having ditched a car and escaped on a bicycle with no saddle.
Police in southern Germany say they rescued a small child from the clutches of kidnappers who had planned to blackmail the family for several million euros in ransom money.
A suspected swindler wanted by the French authorities was kidnapped in Germany by victims who then left him out for the police - tied up on the side of a road - investigators confirmed this weekend.
