The new airport in Berlin will cost an extra billion euros to build. The management has informed the regulators about this, reports the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. The airport must finally be ready by 2020.
The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and his Turkish counterpart Cavusoglu have assured each other Saturday that they will do everything to tighten the ties between Berlin and Ankara. The relations had been acidified in recent years by a series of collisions.
The 45-year-old man from Malta who at the end of last year made a false bombshell that cleared the international train between Amsterdam and Berlin, remains stuck. His pre-trial detention has been extended by two weeks, the Public Prosecution Service reports Wednesday.
After only 26 days, the polar bear pup died in the zoo in Berlin. On New Year's Day the caretakers of the Berliner Tierpark were still happy when they saw the young drinking with mother Tonja. On Tuesday, however, they saw the lifeless animal through the surveillance cameras.
The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu wants to visit his German colleague this month. And he expects a 'much better year 2018.' External relations of the Turkish government, under the leadership of the increasingly authoritarian president Erdogan, have suffered considerable damage during the past year, including relations with Germany and the Netherlands.
In Berlin, several women were victims of sexual abuse at festivities around the Brandenburg Gate. According to the police, these were isolated incidents. Seven people have been arrested for ten cases of sexual abuse. In Cologne, nine women reported because of sexual assault.
Severe smoke development caused disruption on a train station in Berlin on Sunday. The emergency services got at least fifteen people from a platform that was under the smoke. One person was injured, the fire service reported.
The German police federation DPolG is critical of the safety zone that is specially designed for women at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during the New Year's Eve. Chairman Rainer Wendt said on Saturday that the measure gives the impression that there are both safe and unsafe zones during the New Year's Festival in Berlin.
Women who feel unsafe or have been harassed during the New Year's Eve can go to a special safe zone. Sunday is the year of exuberance celebrated in Berlin, it is the largest Sylvester party in Germany and is held around the Brandenburg Gate.
Four detainees managed to escape on Thursday in Berlin by making a hole in the wall of the prison. They then climbed over a fence with barbed wire and disappeared without a trace.
The German Opera in Berlin can reopen on Thursday after it was hit by heavy water damage on Christmas Eve. This was caused by a failure in the sprinkler system.
The stage of the German Opera in Berlin has suffered considerable water damage due to a broken sprinkler system. The lighting and parts of the computer network are also out of operation due to the abundant water.
A motorist entered the office of the SPD in Berlin on Christmas Eve. The driver was slightly injured and had to go to the hospital for further treatment.
On Wednesday, the German police arrested a 29-year-old man who planned to carry out an attack on the Christmas market in Karlsruhe with a vehicle. The man has ties with the Islamic State Islamic State (IS). That reported German media.
A 78-year-old man who wanted to sit down in the Berlin subway on Monday afternoon but could not find a seat, decided to enforce it by showing a firearm. He demanded that a 25-year-old woman stand up for him.
A 9-year-old boy thought he had found the ideal hiding place when he was playing hide-and-seek with his younger brother in his grandfather's home in Berlin on Friday. He crawled into an unused vault, but when he was in it, the door suddenly flew into the lock.
The police and the security services had seen perpetrator Anis Amri of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin as a terror suspect since November 2015.
A year after the terrorist attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Germany is preparing for a loaded commemoration. Coming Tuesday, the Gedächtniskirche will reflect on the 12 deaths and 56 injured on that fatal December 19, 2016.
Eighty days after the German parliamentary elections, the leaders of CDU, CSU and SPD started the run that should lead to a new coalition government. On Wednesday evening in Berlin, it was a scintillating conversation between Chancellor Angela Merkel, her Christian-Democratic colleague Horst Seehofer and Social Democrat Martin Schulz. Beforehand it had already been agreed that nothing should be brought out about the course.
Angela Merkel wants to keep pace in the discussions between CDU / CSU and SPD about the formation of a large coalition. The German Chancellor is of the opinion that the international challenges facing the new cabinet are therefore asking for it. The meeting must really begin on Wednesday.
The police in Berlin found a large amount of ammunition near the Christmas market at Schloss Charlottenburg. A man found the bag with approximately two hundred bullets by accident in a parking garage, the daily newspaper Bild reported. He then warned the police.
The German party SPD keeps open the possibility to negotiate a new coalition with the CDU / CSU combination. A motion to stop this from the young Social Democrats did not win a majority Thursday at the party congress in Berlin.
The police in Austria arrested a 25-year-old man who wanted to commit an attack on a Christmas market. According to Austrian media, he wanted to enter a market with a truck as happened at the end of last year in the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin.
The victims of the terrorist attack last year at the Christmas market in Berlin have so far received 1.6 million euros.
Ambulance workers in Berlin did not know what they saw when they came down on a report on Thursday evening. In a taxi a man was found who had just lost a hand.
The Christmas market in Potsdam in Germany was partly cleared Friday after the discovery of a suspicious suitcase or package. This happened after an employee of a pharmacist had alarmed the police.
After eight hours of meeting under the leadership of party leader Martin Schulz, the SPD showed willingness to talk about resolving the German governmental crisis. This came about after the liberal FDP broke off the negotiations about the formation of a coalition with CDU / CSU and the Greens.
Despite the danger of busy roads and hunters, things are going well with the wolf in Germany. The population continues to grow. It is certain that there are now sixty packs living, thirteen more than last year.
Constanze Manziarly was the regular cook of Adolf Hitler, but did not experience it as a privileged position. 'You encounter unexpected difficulties, which I can not write about. I am constantly standing with one leg in the grave and that is not an exaggeration ', she wrote in a letter.
After the end of the envisaged 'Jamaica coalition', a political crisis broke out in Berlin on Monday. The stable Germany- with a flourishing economy in the middle of Europe and with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the head- faces uncertain times.
