Several people have been injured in an explosion at a facility belonging to chemical firm BASF in south-western Germany, the company said.

Five people were killed and dozens injured in separate fireworks accidents across Europe as people celebrated the New Year, authorities have said.

A fire has destroyed a camel farm in the Black Forest region of south-western Germany, killing 86 animals and causing up to €2m in damage.

A Turkish man has asked police to protect him from his sex-crazed wife.

A tanker loaded with sulphuric acid has capsized on the Rhine in Germany and rescuers are trying to find two missing crew members.

Shetland ponies, goats, sheep and a lama were among 26 animals to perish overnight in a fire at the Karlsruhe zoo in south-western Germany.

Police have identified two of the victims of a shooting in south-western Germany as the attacker’s five-year-old son and her ex-husband.

A woman opened fire in a hospital in Germany’s Black Forest today, killing at least one person and wounding several others, before fatally shooting herself, German officials said.

Irish airspace, with the exception of a block off the south coast, will continue to operate without restrictions, according to the Irish Aviation Authority.

Three people drowned after flash floods hit south-western Germany, police said today.

Three children were killed in Germany after they were hit by a train on their way home from a friend’s house, authorities said today.

Six Italian men were found fatally shot in the western German city of Duisburg early today, police said.

Six young men were found fatally shot in the western German city of Duisburg early today, police said.

Jill Carroll, the US journalist held hostage for 82 days in Iraq, left Germany today, travelling aboard a packed airliner headed to Boston.

Four people were killed today when a rescue helicopter crashed in south-western Germany.

German and French anti-nuclear demonstrators slowed a trainload of radioactive waste on its way from a French reprocessing plant to a disputed dump in northern Germany, chaining themselves to the track on both sides of the border.

Scientists have discovered rare evidence of a brain tumour in a fossilised skull dating back to the Stone Age, a German university said today.

A teenage gunman has released two of the four youngsters he took hostage today at a school in south-western Germany, police said.

Protesters trying to obstruct a nuclear waste shipment have chained themselves to a rail bridge over a river in Germany.