Berlin

`Brave bystander` led Berlin police to Xmas market suspect: Report

The suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck rampage was arrested with the help of a witness who followed the man after he fled the scene on foot, a German newspaper reported Tuesday.

Dec 20, 2016, 16:46 PM IST

Hollande says `high level of terror threat` to France

President Francois Hollande said Tuesday France was under a "high-level of threat" from terror attack following the carnage at a Berlin Christmas market.

Dec 20, 2016, 16:36 PM IST

Berlin Christmas market carnage was `terrorist act` likely by asylum seeker: Angela Merkel

Media reports said the suspect had arrived in Germany from Afghanistan or Pakistan earlier this year seeking asylum.

Dec 20, 2016, 16:32 PM IST

German Christmas market suspect is 23-year-old Pakistani migrant: Report

A speeding lorry cut a bloody swathe through a Berlin Christmas market on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding 48 others. According to a report on Tuesday, the suspected driver of the truck was a 23-year-old from Pakistan named Naved B.

Dec 20, 2016, 15:47 PM IST

Police storm Berlin's former airport used as refugee home: Report

On Monday evening, a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others.

Dec 20, 2016, 13:05 PM IST

Berlin Police assumes lorry crash a `probable terrorist attack`

Berlin`s police force said Tuesday it was treating the deadly crash of a lorry into a Christmas market crowd as "a probable terrorist attack".

Dec 20, 2016, 12:03 PM IST

At least 12 dead as truck ploughs into crowd at Berlin Christmas market

A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others in what Germany`s interior minister said looked like an attack.

Dec 20, 2016, 07:02 AM IST

At least nine dead, several injured as lorry ploughs into Berlin Xmas market: Police

Several people were killed and up to 50 injured when a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening, the Berliner Morgenpost reported.

Dec 20, 2016, 01:49 AM IST

12-year-old plans 2 terrorist attacks in Germany

A 12-year-old boy attempted twice to launch terrorist attacks in the western German city of Ludwigshafen this and last month, a local prosecutor confirmed on Friday.

Dec 17, 2016, 09:14 AM IST

German court upholds former Auschwitz guard's conviction on accessory to murder charges

The decision to uphold Oskar Groening's conviction sets an important precedent for German prosecutors' efforts to pursue others who allegedly served at Nazi death camps.

Nov 28, 2016, 16:43 PM IST

After Donald Trump victory, Barack Obama and Angela Merkel stress benefits of EU-US trade deal

German and U.S. employers, workers, consumers and farmers would definitely benefit from the free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Nov 16, 2016, 21:41 PM IST

Bronze Age city discovered in northern Iraq

Archaeologists have uncovered a large Bronze Age city in northern Iraq which was established in about 3000 BC and flourished for more than 1200 years.

Nov 07, 2016, 13:46 PM IST

Turkey`s Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Germany of `harbouring terrorists`

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Germany of being one of the worst countries in the world for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand

Nov 03, 2016, 19:37 PM IST

Kremlin expects `no breakthrough` on Ukraine at Berlin talks

The conflicts in Ukraine and Syria have seen Moscow`s relations with the West plunge to their post-Cold War nadir. 

Oct 19, 2016, 16:47 PM IST

Refugee who planned airport attack radicalised in Germany not Syria: Report

Jaber Albakr committed suicide in prison in Leipzig on Wednesday after two fellow Syrians had handed him over to police.

Oct 14, 2016, 19:05 PM IST

Merkel admits mistakes as anti-migrant party surges in Berlin

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Monday that there would be no repeat of last year`s "chaotic" border opening to refugees, after a stinging loss for her party in Berlin elections.

Sep 19, 2016, 23:13 PM IST

Merkel party takes hit in Berlin vote, anti-migrant AfD gains

Merkel's Christian Democratic Union won just 18 percent -- its worst post-war result in the city, before or after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. 

Sep 18, 2016, 23:34 PM IST

Shah Rukh Khan indulges in a Table Tennis match on sets of 'The Ring'! Check out how he performed

Shah Rukh Khan relives good old days on the sets of 'The Ring'! 

Sep 18, 2016, 12:10 PM IST

Angela Merkel wants Germany to get refugees into workforce faster

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Germany needed "viable solutions" to integrate refugees into the workforce faster after she met with blue-chip companies, which have hired fewer than 100 refugees since around a million arrived in the country last year.

Sep 15, 2016, 09:21 AM IST