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What US Officials Are Learning From German Prisons

Some states test European-style rehabilitation to address crisis in US prisons

(Newser) - A group of US prison officials from North Dakota, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma recently traveled to Germany, touring facilities that, at first glance, might look more like a university campus than a prison. As the New York Times recounts, the inmates wore regular clothes, cooked their own meals, and even...

Olympic Gold Medalist Dies in Climbing Accident

German athlete Laura Dahlmeier, 31, was caught in a rockfall on Pakistan's Laila Peak

(Newser) - German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain peak in northern Pakistan following a climbing accident , and efforts are underway to retrieve her body, a local government spokesman said Wednesday. Dahlmeier, an Olympic gold medalist, was climbing Laila Peak in the Karakoram mountain range on Monday when she...

Fatalities Reported After Train Derails in Germany

At least two carriages derailed in a forested area Sunday evening

(Newser) - A regional passenger train derailed in southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least three people and seriously injuring others, authorities said. Federal and local police said the cause of the crash near Riedlingen, roughly 100 west of Munich, remains under investigation. Photos from the scene showed parts of the train...

Vandals Attack 'a Piece of Childhood'
Vandals Attack
'a Piece of Childhood'
Jul 26, 2025 12:35 PM CDT

Vandals Attack 'a Piece of Childhood'

Cartoon mouse stars in German TV show

(Newser) - Vandals set fire to a mouse statue that's a TV star and mascot for children's programming at German broadcaster WDR, the television station said Saturday. The cartoon mouse, known only as Die Maus, is the eponymous star of Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Show with the Mouse)...

Cat, Owner Reunited 5 Years After Cat Vanished

The owner had moved to Germany shortly after cat went missing in Michigan

(Newser) - When a Michigan family rescued a stray cat, they probably weren't expecting the feline's owner to be located—in Germany. And yet that's what happened after the Oceana County Animal Friends took in the kitty and got it checked for a microchip, WZZM-13 reports. The rescue organization...

UK, Germany Agree to Tighten Defense Ties
UK, Germany Sign
Defense Treaty
Jul 17, 2025 6:30 PM CDT

UK, Germany Sign Defense Treaty

Starmer had signed a nuclear arms agreement with France last week

(Newser) - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a landmark treaty on Thursday that pledges to tighten defense ties, as European nations try to protect Ukraine, and themselves, from an aggressive Russia in the face of wavering support from President Trump's internally focused administration. Merz said...

Tarantula Find Leaves Customs Officers 'Speechless'

1.5K young tarantulas were hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes shipped to Germany

(Newser) - Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young tarantulas found inside plastic containers that had been hidden in chocolate spongecake boxes shipped to an airport in western Germany. Customs officials found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had...

German Doctor Accused in 15 Murders Goes on Trial

He is accused of killing patients, and sometimes setting fires to cover his tracks

(Newser) - A high-profile trial got underway in Germany today of a doctor who prosecutors say had a "lust for murder," reports CBS News . The 40-year-old doctor identified in the media only as Johannes M. is accused of killing 15 patients during home visits from 2021 to 2024, per AFP...

Poland Boosts Border Controls, Citing 'Illegal Migration'

The move is for all of Europe, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk

(Newser) - Poland reinstated border controls on Monday with Germany and Lithuania, following similar German restrictions imposed earlier this year aimed at discouraging asylum-seekers. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose government recently survived a confidence vote in parliament, announced the restrictions last week, per the AP . Pressure has been mounting after far-right...

Madeleine McCann Suspect Could Walk Free Early

After fine was paid, Christian Brueckner to now complete sentence on Sept. 17

(Newser) - An outstanding fine against the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal has been paid off, German prosecutors said Monday, meaning he could be released from prison in a separate case in mid-September instead of January 2026. Prosecutors in Braunschweig confirmed that an unpaid...

D-Day 'Was Not a Pleasant Day for You'

President meets with German leader Merz in the Oval Office

(Newser) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Oval Office meeting with President Trump may have been overshadowed by Trump's friction with Elon Musk , but it nonetheless made headlines. Merz encouraged Trump to play a strong role in getting Russia to end its war against Ukraine, and he reminded the president that...

Europeans Are Buying More EVs, but They're Not Teslas

Sales have dropped sharply in France, Germany, and UK, but Norway is an outlier

(Newser) - Tesla's slipping sales in Europe continued in May, with data showing a sharp decline in Germany—Europe's largest car market—for the fifth straight month. Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority reported that registrations of new Tesla vehicles were down more than a third compared to May...

German City Sees Its Largest Evacuation Since WWII

More than 20K were made to leave Cologne city center so authorities can defuse unexploded bombs

(Newser) - More than 20,000 residents were being evacuated from part of Cologne's city center on Wednesday as specialists prepared to defuse three unexploded US bombs from World War II that were unearthed earlier this week. Even 80 years after the end of the war, unexploded bombs dropped during wartime...

Hospital Fire in Germany Kills 3, Injures More Than 50
3 Patients Die in Hospital Fire
Jun 1, 2025 3:31 PM CDT

3 Patients Die in Hospital Fire

Police detain 72-year-old in Hamburg

(Newser) - A fire at a large hospital in Hamburg that began in a unit for the elderly killed at least three patients and injured more than 50 people, German authorities said Sunday. The fire department said at least two of the people hurt at Marien Hospital were in critical condition, the...

4 Ex-VW Execs Involved in 'Dieselgate' Hear Their Fates

Convicted of fraud in emissions cheating scandal, 2 men get prison, 2 get suspended sentences

(Newser) - Four former Volkswagen executives were found guilty of fraud in a court in Braunschweig, Germany, on Monday, a decade after the company's emissions-cheating scandal was exposed. Jens Hadler, once head of diesel engine development at VW, received the longest sentence—four and a half years in prison, per...

18 Hurt After Knife Attack at German Train Station

Suspect is in custody after ambush during Friday evening rush hour

(Newser) - Eighteen people were injured in a knife attack at the main railway station in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday evening, according to police. The suspect, a 39-year-old German woman, was arrested at the scene and remains in custody, per the BBC . The attack occurred during rush hour, around 6pm local...

For Germany's Military, It's a First Since WWII

Nation stations a permanent brigade in a foreign nation, Lithuania

(Newser) - Germany has launched its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II— stationing an armored brigade in Lithuania to help strengthen NATO's eastern defenses against Russia, reports the Guardian .
  • "This is a historic day," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said during a Thursday ceremony with German
...

Raid on Neo-Nazi Group Nets Arrests of 14- to 18-Year-Olds

Young people started the organization suspected in political violence

(Newser) - Police in Germany arrested five teenagers in a raid Wednesday against a neo-Nazi group officials say has organized attacks against migrants and wants to topple the nation's form of government. The male suspects, ages 14 to 18, were taken into custody in three states in eastern and central Germany,...

Tuesday Is for the Bees
On Tuesday, the Bees
Get Their Day
May 20, 2025 10:05 AM CDT

On Tuesday, the Bees Get Their Day

On 'World Bee Day,' the bees remained busy—and oblivious to threats that endanger their survival

(Newser) - On the eighth annual "World Bee Day," around 400,000 bees in urban rooftop hives in Cologne, Germany, were busy at work making honey. They seemed oblivious to the threats that endanger their survival. Scientists and bee experts hope Tuesday's World Bee Day can raise awareness, reports...

Germany Arrests a 'King,' Bans the 'Kingdom of Germany'

It saw the far-right group as a threat to the country's democratic order

(Newser) - A self-declared "king" was arrested Tuesday in Germany, which also banned the associated "Kingdom of Germany." It's a far-right group established by Peter Fitzek in 2012 that the government believes is 1,000-members strong and that it viewed as a threat to the country's...

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