Oldenburg
Prosecutors seek life in jail for German serial killer nurse
German prosecutors on Thursday demanded life in jail for a male nurse considered the country's worst peacetime serial killer for murdering around 100 hospital patients.
Germany's 'killer nurse' tells families of over 100 victims 'sorry'
A German former hospital nurse who has admitted to killing more than 100 patients in his care apologised Thursday to victims' grieving relatives.
Update: What you need to know about the German killer nurse case
German nurse Niels Högel, already serving a prison sentence over the deaths of six patients in his care, went on trial from Tuesday for allegedly killing 100 people. Here's what you need to know about this extraordinary criminal case.
Nurse killed up to 30 patients, court hears
A court-appointed expert said Thursday that a German former nurse admitted killing up to 30 patients at a hospital where he worked.
Nurse 'killed patients because he was bored'
A nurse allegedly murdered three patients in a hospital's intensive care unit using lethal doses of drugs because he was bored, a court heard on Thursday.
Police: 'Family house fire was suicide'
Police suspect a deliberately-started fire which killed a family-of-three in their foreclosed home in north-west Germany on Wednesday night was suicide.
Udderly charming: cow beauty contest
Models in the northern city of Oldenburg have literally been making cow eyes at the judges at the annual German Holstein Show - all the competitors are bovines. Loh Nastygirl won the two-day trial.
'I'd furnish Oldenburg with more hills'
Get The Local flavour of Germany with our series where insiders offer a personal take on their hometown. This week, Rachel Ramsay shares her tips about Oldenburg.
Bridge murder suspect sentenced to life
A Lower Saxony court has sentenced a man to life in prison for throwing a chunk of wood from a motorway bridge, killing a mother of two who was riding in a car below.
Drug addict confesses to deadly Autobahn attack
A case involving a chunk of wood thrown from a motorway bridge in Lower Saxony has been solved after a drug addict confessed to killing a woman in a passing car two months ago.