The psychological profile of a teenager who went on a shooting spree at his former school and killed 15 people began to take shape, as German investigators described a withdrawn young man from an intact family who broke off psychiatric treatment for depression.

The German teenager who shot dead 15 people in a school massacre boasted about what he was going to do the night before in an internet chatroom, police said today.

Three suspected Islamic terrorists were arrested for plotting “massive” bomb attacks on Frankfurt’s international airport and the Ramstein US Air Base, German authorities said today.

Hundreds of US-led troops have launched an offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, while a bomb attack near the capital killed three German nationals, officials said today.

A purported Taliban spokesman said the hard-line militia today shot and killed two German hostages because Germany’s government did not announce that its troops would leave Afghanistan.

Germany’s supreme court today ruled that a law allowing the government to order hijacked airliners to be shot down as a last resort in the event of a terror attack violates the nation’s constitution.

GERMANY opened its long-delayed Holocaust memorial yesterday - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of six million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Germany opened its long-delayed national Holocaust memorial today - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

An 88-year-old woman medical professor has been charged with murdering a mentally ill patient in 1941, which came during a Nazi drive to kill institutional patients, a German prosecutor said today.