A Berlin court has denied a mother access to her dead daughter’s Facebook data, ruling that German privacy laws outweigh her parental rights.

Sixteen neo-Nazis were arrested during a demonstration supporting the jailed lead singer of a banned skinhead rock group, Berlin police said today.

A German court today acquitted a jailed aide of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal of murder in a deadly series of bombings in France in the early 1980s.

Charges against a man who taught his dog to perform a Nazi-style salute have been dropped.

Figure skating star Katarina Witt stepped up her resistance to the release of her East German secret police file today, as the government agency that controls the files confirmed she was ‘‘significantly supported’’ by the Stasi.