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After a railway employee suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell from a moving regional train, the Karlsruhe District Court has rejected an arrest warrant against the 36-year-old suspect. The court cited doubts about the sequence of events after reviewing surveillance footage.
Germany's Bundesrat has approved a law aimed at preventing abusive paternity acknowledgments, particularly those involving foreign children.
Travelers with Deutsche Bahn must prepare for new disruptions due to extensive construction work in the Rhine-Main region.
After several suspected far-right attacks in Cottbus, the Christopher Street Day (CSD) on Saturday will take place under heightened security measures. Police will accompany the demonstration to send a signal against right-wing extremism.
Munich breweries are allowed to pump millennia-old deep groundwater for their beer – the city's emergency drinking water reserve. The city also permits them to use the precious water for lemonade and rinsing.
After a botched riverbed cleaning in autumn and months of dispute, surfing on Munich's famous Eisbachwelle at the Haus der Kunst is now permitted again under certain conditions. An amended general decree by Mayor Dominik Krause (Greens) came into force on Friday.
The Bundestag is set to vote today on the savings package aimed at stabilizing health insurance contributions. The Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Berlin warns of fewer doctors and longer waiting times.
The Bundestag has passed a law change expanding liability for e-scooter rental companies. Victims will now find it easier to claim compensation.
The dilapidated Rheinstraßenbrücke in Darmstadt is set to be replaced by a new bridge in 2030. According to the FAZ, the city has received approval from the Hessian Ministry of Transport for a revised design.
The reform of the Bavarian Child Education and Care Act (BayKiBig) threatens the existence of many large daycare centers. Childminders fear for their future because an important subsidy is being cut.
The Starnberg city council has voted overwhelmingly in a non-public session to rename the local gymnasium after the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.
Munich plans to use camera-equipped vehicles, known as scancars, to catch illegal parkers. The cars will scan license plates and automatically report violations.
The Federal Constitutional Court has dismissed emergency motions filed by the Greens and the Left Party against the planned adoption of the health reform. As Tagesschau reports, the Bundestag can now pass the law as planned on Friday.
A 50-year-old man lightly injured three police officers at Munich Central Station on Wednesday. According to federal police, he attacked the officers when they tried to enforce a ban on his presence.
A family of restaurateurs from Aschheim is planning a campsite at Heimstettener See. It would be the first such facility in the Munich district.
Munich's Michelin-starred restaurant Tantris is paying tribute to its most famous chef with a special menu. Eckart Witzigmann recently celebrated his 85th birthday.
The planned increase in the Bafög housing allowance for students living away from their parents has been postponed by six months. Union and SPD education policy experts announced that the rise from 380 to 440 euros will now take effect in the summer semester of 2027.
The Zweibrücken Regional Court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to ten years in prison for beating a train attendant to death during a ticket inspection in February. The verdict is not yet final.
A 32-year-old Chinese doctor was sentenced to five years in prison by the Berlin Regional Court for aiding and abetting rape. He had given advice in a chat group on sedating women.
Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner did not make any phone calls on the morning of January 3, when thousands of households were without power, contrary to his earlier statements, the Senate Chancellery has confirmed.
In the trial over the IS terrorist attack in Munich, the psychiatric expert has found no signs that Farhad N. is not criminally responsible, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Bavarian Environment Minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) has publicly accused Economy Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) of breaking agreements on the EU Methane Regulation. Schneider made the accusation during a government question time in the Bundestag.
Several people were injured in an amok incident at the Welfen-Gymnasium in Schongau, Upper Bavaria. The suspected perpetrator has been arrested.
Several people were injured in an attack at a high school in Schongau, Bavaria. Police have arrested a suspect.
Germany's federal police ombudsman, Uli Grötsch (SPD), reports a sharp increase in complaints. According to the German Press Agency, the number of submissions rose by 58 percent compared to the same period last year.
The town of Unterhaching in Bavaria has canceled the traditional fireworks display at its annual festival to protect a family of swans nesting on the local Ortsparksee lake.
A Berlin court is set to deliver its verdict today in the trial of a doctor accused of killing 15 seriously ill patients. Meanwhile, lawmakers are debating a reform to expand police digital surveillance powers.
The local council election in the Swabian town of Bachhagel has been declared invalid because the Burghagel voters' association chose its candidates by a show of hands instead of a secret ballot. The Dillingen district office has ordered a new election.
Athletes of the Munich-based KARS club, Illia Hladiichuk and Filipp Slabchenko, who have joined the German national kickboxing team, paid an official visit to the Bavarian Landtag and met with the Vice President of the Parliament, Markus Rinderspacher, and member of the sports committee, Christiane Feichtmeier, MdL.
After a days-long major fire in a storage hall in Neumünster, the Kiel public prosecutor's office has initiated criminal proceedings against the tenant for negligent arson, as reported by NDR.
In the first five months of the year, 1,630 railway employees and 4,672 federal police officers were threatened or attacked, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in response to a query by Left Party MP Dietmar Bartsch.
Bavaria has become the first German state to send five of its own small satellites into orbit. Markus Söder (CSU) called it a historic step for the Free State, as Bavarian Broadcasting reports.
The German government has secured long-term funding for the recovery of World War II munitions in the North and Baltic Seas. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will benefit from this measure.
Thousands of people are protesting the planned closure of the maternity ward at Alexianer St. Josefs Hospital in Potsdam. According to dpa, around 50 employees will have to find new jobs.
The Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV) is planning further expansion: by 2028, the districts of Oberallgäu and the city of Kempten could join the network, as MVV CEO Bernd Rosenbusch announced at the floating press conference on Lake Starnberg on Monday.
A 28-year-old man allegedly sexually harassed a woman and two girls at the Michaelibad in Munich. The suspect was arrested at the scene.
The CSU in Bogenhausen has invited residents to a confidential discussion about the future of the Nazareth Church, after the evangelical church considered selling or leasing the building to an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation. The pastor accuses the CSU of a 'subtly xenophobic undertone'.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Christian Würtz, the 55-year-old auxiliary bishop of Freiburg, as the new Bishop of Eichstätt, making him the youngest Catholic diocesan bishop in Germany.
After temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius in the Pullach elementary school, the Greens in the municipal council are calling for immediate measures such as fans and mobile air conditioning units, as reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
German breweries are producing record amounts of non-alcoholic beer in 2025, driven by a shift in consumer habits toward alcohol-free beverages, according to Deutsche Welle.