Officials found 1.2 million euros (1.3 million dollars) in luggage at Dusseldorf Airport, the customs office said on Friday. Police are investigating whether the money is connected with drug trade, since most of the money was in small notes, dpa (...)
Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel will have mixed emotions when his star striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang captains hosts Gabon to success at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Aubameyang's Bundesliga-leading 16 goals are one reason why Gabon are rated (...)
Two horses being walked by their owner were
frightened by the explosion of heavy-duty firecrackers and ran onto a
nearby autobahn in western Germany, colliding with a passing car, a police spokesman reported Monday, according to dpa.
The driver of (...)
German police on Friday reported confiscating 49 kilograms of cocaine hidden in banana crates, a haul that would have had a street market value of about 4 million to 5 million euros (4.2 million to 5.3 million dollars).
The discovery was made in a (...)
Six residents of a refugee shelter in the German city of Dusseldorf were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of deliberately starting a fire which completely destroyed the building, authorities said, according to dpa.
Investigators said that the men (...)
One person was killed and 14 injured in a serious
New Year highway accident near Cologne in the western German
state of North-Rhine Westfalia, dpa cited police as reporting Friday.
The accident took the life of a 51-year-old woman, left 11 (...)
Tyson Fury of Britain is the new heavyweight world
champion after defeating long-reigning Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko
in a unanimous decision Saturday night in Dusseldorf, according to dpa.
Fury, 27, won the titles of the three most important (...)
A Germanwings passenger plane at the Cologne-Bonn international airport was evacuated shortly before it was due to
takeoff for Milan on Sunday after police received a bomb threat
against the flight, the airline said, according to dpa.
The Airbus (...)
Both people on board a Lear jet that crashed after colliding with a German military fighter are believed to be dead, a police spokesman said Tuesday as a criminal investigation was opened against two air force pilots.
The 50- and 43-year-old men on (...)
Hijjah 17, 1431, Nov 23, 2010, SPA -- Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), a leading player in the global plastics industry, unveiled a pioneering concept in low-density polyethylene and linear-low-density polyethylene (LD/LLDPE) films at the (...)
A German municipal archives was flooded with up to 10,000 litres of water today, with officials blaming the
disaster on a woman who pressed the wrong button on a control panel, according to dpa.
The city of Dusseldorf said 150 metres of shelving (...)
The former German leader of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) was sentenced Friday to three years and nine
months in prison on criminal charges, according to dpa.
The Dusseldorf court found the man, identified as Huseyin A.,
guilty of being (...)
The tally of people who have fallen sick from
an outbreak of swine flu in a school for Japanese children in
Dusseldorf rose Saturday to 74, dpa cited city health officials as saying today.
They said seven new cases all involved either siblings (...)
E.ON, one of Germany's biggest energy
companies, said Thursday it had bought one quarter of the one of the
world's greatest natural gas fields, at Yuzhno Russkoye in Russia, DPA reported.
The deal, which follows years of tortuous negotiations, (...)
Germany's IKB Industriebank AG, which has one
of the nation's prominent casualties of the subprime crisis, reported
Thursday a lower-than-expected loss as a tax benefit helped the
group's earnings, according to dpa.
The Dusseldorf-based bank, (...)
Two major product-testing and certification
companies in Germany, TUV Rheinland and TUV Sued, said Wednesday they
would seek approval from regulators for their merger plans, according to dpa.
With offices or laboratories in 60 nations, including (...)
Amid the crowds in fancy-dress celebrating
carnival in Germany, one man dressed as a monk in a cassock and cowl
held up a bank, police said Friday, according to dpa.
A swathe of cities in the west of Germany are partying non-stop or
holding (...)
People dressed as clowns sang and danced in the
streets on Sunday as the carnival season got off to a blustery start
in Germany, reported dpa.
In cities along the Rhine river, tens of thousands braved gusty
winds to turn out in fancy dress as (...)
The chief executive of German public bank
WestLB and another board member were dismissed Thursday in a major
management shake-up, supervisory board chairman Rolf Gerlach said, according to dpa.
CEO Thomas Fischer lost his job along with Matthijs (...)
The supervisory board of WestLB, one of
Germany's biggest state-owned banks, may sack all seven of its top
managers in punishment for keeping silent about stock-trading
blunders, banking sources said Wednesday, according to dpa.
A mass sacking (...)
Part of Dusseldorf Airport, one of Germany's
busiest hubs, was closed for two hours Saturday as bomb-disposal
teams took apart an abandoned bag which had raised suspicions when
wires and a battery-powered torch were detected inside, DPA (...)
Japanese corporations doing business in Europe
are conscious that sites in eastern Europe offer lower operating
costs than Germany, where many are currently based, a conference
in the German city of Dusseldorf was told Friday, according to (...)
THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF THE WORLD CUP
FOR GERMANY WILL PROBABLY BE LESS THAT IT WAS FOR JAPAN - CO-HOST OF
THE TOURNAMENT WITH SOUTH KOREA FOUR YEARS AGO, A FORMER FOOTBALL
MANAGER SAID FRIDAY, DPA REPORTED.
RAINER CALMUND, WHO USED TO MANAGE (...)
Germany's leading armoured-truck company, Heros, has collapsed amid the arrest Monday of four senior executives for allegedly helping themselves to some of the cash which it transports and counts for banks and shops, DPA reported.
Prosecutors and (...)
German refuse-processing company Remondis said Friday it had won a contract with Hitachi Europe to collect household electronic waste under new European Union recycling rules, dpa reported.
From next March, its business unit Remondis (...)