Pope Benedict XVI today made an emotional visit to the cathedral where he became a priest, ending a six-day trip during which he warned his secular, socially liberal homeland not to let faith in reason and technology make it forget God.

POPE Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in front of 70,000 people yesterday as part of a sentimental return to his homeland.

German-born Pope Benedict XVI begins an emotional, six-day homecoming to his birthplace and the city where he served as a priest and bishop today.

POPE Benedict XVI had a “friendly” meeting with one of his fiercest critics — dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, the Vatican said yesterday.

Two gunmen, believed to be schoolboys, opened fire wildly inside a German school today, killing 18 people, including two teachers and a policeman.

A sacked German who killed two people in a reprisal attack on his former employer near Munich today, is thought to have blown himself up.

A young man who had just been sacked returned to the company near Munich today and shot dead two former work colleagues.

A gunman who has killed at least one person in a German shop has now opened fire in a school.