Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, and a senior Bavarian politician have criticised Greece’s role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since the Second World War.

German authorities have banned flights over the annual Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich after a series of terror threats aimed at Germany.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany yesterday, injuring eight pupils and a teacher before police shot and arrested him, authorities said.

An 18-year-old pupil armed with an axe and knives attacked his school with petrol bombs in Germany today wounding nine classmates before he was shot and arrested.

European leaders celebrate the end of border controls along a line stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic today as many of the European Union’s newest members join the EU’s passport-free zone.

Music channel MTV responded today to criticism in Germany of its parody cartoon Popetown by saying it will broadcast only one episode for now and will consider public reaction before deciding whether to air more.