After an explosion at an apartment building in the western city of Wuppertal on Saturday left five people with serious injuries, investigators are still unclear as to what caused it.
A five-year old was standing with his parents and two younger siblings at Wuppertal's main train station on Thursday when a stranger suddenly grabbed him, jumping onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train.
A German court on Monday ruled that a group of Islamists did not break the law in forming "sharia police" street patrols and telling people to stop drinking, gambling and listening to music.
A group of German radical Islamists will face
trial for forming "sharia police" street patrols that told people to stop drinking, gambling and listening to music, a court said Tuesday.
German authorities will not to press charges
against nine men who preached radical Islamist views in the street while wearing jackets marked "sharia police", a court ruled on Thursday.
The G7 summit saw Bavaria put out a huge police operation to protect world leaders. But it resulted in a rather unusual operation afterwards - tracking down a police officer in the name of love.
Hooligans, Salafists, Pegida and left-wing counter-demonstrators all descended on the west German town of Wuppertal on Saturday in the first time the groups have all held simultaneous events.
Fire services searched a school premises in Wuppertal and 25 children were taken to hospital on Tuesday after a teacher reported a “chemical smell” – but it later turned out to be a harmless stink bomb.
Salafists who caused outrage by mounting patrols in western Germany as "Shariah Police" have ditched their vests and changed their name, but pledged to continue to take action. It comes as political leaders were accused of creating a "safe zone" for Islamists.
Police arrested a second suspect on Wednesday in connection with an attempted arson attack in which Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in western Germany. Another man who said he was Palestinian has denied involvement.
Emergency services rescued 76 passengers from a cable car who were left dangling in the air for hours on Thursday night when Germany’s oldest suspension railway broke down.
Two German women have created a different take on clichéd pinup calendars featuring scantily-clad models draped over hotrods - and groovy cars accompanied by men in their underpants is apparently selling like hotcakes.
A nasty case of herpes has hit polar bears at a German zoo, leaving one dead and another fighting for its life. The virus was first found in zebras, leaving scientists scratching their heads over how it was spread.
A huge party in the western town of Wuppertal organized anonymously via Facebook resulted in a riot on Friday night, leaving 16 people injured and three charged with public order offences.
Thousands of culture fans from across the country took to the streets in Wuppertal at the weekend to demonstrate their support for the Schauspielhaus theatre there which is threatened with closure.
German cities complain they are bearing the brunt of deep tax cuts by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government and nowhere is feeling the pain more sharply than the rust-belt town of Wuppertal.
