Новости за 17.03.2016

A small trial in a Munich court took on national significance when a Muslim woman appeared before the judge with her face covered by a niqab - raising questions about religious dress in a courtroom.

An undertaker now being treated in Frankfurt has become the first person ever to contract Lassa fever outside of Africa.

When two drunk men tried to cross over the motorway by foot looking for a place with liquor, one of them was hit by a car and died.

The central state of Hesse is overhauling their constitution, making sure to get rid of one thing in particular that no other state has: the death penalty.

The German Automotive Club (ADAC) tested 24 different cars with the new Keyless Go technology for safety. The result: all of the cars could be stolen with one easy trick.

A Munich court Thursday sentenced a former German intelligence agent to eight years in jail for spying for both the CIA and the Russian secret service, German media reported.

German diplomatic missions and a school in Turkey were closed on Thursday after receiving a terror threat, the Foreign Ministry announced, less than a week after a suicide car bomb attack in the Turkish capital.

Last year only around around 600,000 refugees stayed in Germany, around half the number that the media have previously reported, new government figures show.

Police have conceded that only 80 police officers were present at Cologne train station during mass assaults on New Year’s Eve - not the 140 they originally stated.

Germans will have to wait a bit longer to have a proper spring fling this year, the weather service said on Wednesday.