The ex-boss of scandal-hit payments firm Wirecard has been arrested in Germany. Markus Braun resigned last Friday after auditor EY refused to sign off the firm’s 2019 accounts over a missing €1.9bn (£1.7bn). The money […]
A 43-year-old German prisoner who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Police believe he was in the area where the […]
Germany’s highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay compensation to a motorist who had bought one of its diesel minivans fitted with emissions-cheating software. The ruling sets a benchmark for about 60,000 other […]
At least a dozen supercomputers across Europe have shut down after cyber-attacks tried to take control of them. A pan-European supercomputing group says they seem to have tried to use the machines to mine cryptocurrency. […]
All of Germany’s states have announced plans to make face masks compulsory to combat the spread of coronavirus. Bremen became the final federal region to back the measures, with its senate set to confirm the […]
A man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track. The stretch of track affected was just before a bridge outside Frankfurt. A train […]
A US judge has ordered the deportation of a former Nazi camp guard to Germany, where as a citizen he is still getting a pension for his “wartime service”. Immigration judge Rebecca Holt said Friedrich […]
Eight people were killed in two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau, police say. Several other people were also injured after a gunman opened fire at 22:00 local time (21:00 […]
Some 38,000 students in Germany have been asked to queue in person for a new email password, after their university was hit by a cyber-attack. The students at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen have been […]
Burglars have stolen communist-era medals and jewellery from the Stasi Museum in Berlin, housed in the former secret police headquarters. The break-in happened just six days after diamonds worth millions of euros were stolen from the […]
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