An autopsy has confirmed that a 22-year-old Syrian man who was believed to have been plotting a bombing attack killed himself in his jail cell in Leipzig, German authorities say.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack was checked by a trainee guard 15 minutes before he was found dead in a German jail cell, authorities say.

A Syrian man arrested in Germany over a suspected Islamic extremist bomb plot has killed himself in a prison cell in Leipzig, according to Saxony's state Justice Ministry.

A 22-year-old Syrian man arrested over a suspected Islamic extremist bomb plot has killed himself in a prison cell in Leipzig, according to Saxony's state justice ministry

Update (1.27pm): A Syrian man arrested on suspicion of planning a bomb attack in eastern Germany is believed to have contacts in the so-called 'Islamic State' (IS) group, according to police.

Three people have been arrested after German police found several hundred grams of explosives in an apartment they raided in connection with a Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

A mosque and an international congress centre were attacked in two explosions in the city of Dresden, but nobody was injured, German police said.

Violent far-right protests outside a refugee shelter in Germany have been condemned by the country’s government.

German authorities have conducted raids across the country, seizing explosives and arresting four people accused of founding a right-wing extremist group to attack mosques and housing for asylum seekers.

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

A German policeman has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the internet who apparently fantasised about being killed and eaten.

A raging flood wave that inundated parts of Prague is now heading north towards Germany, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people and leading to concerns about the safety of chemical plants.

Germany has dispatched thousands of soldiers to help cities and towns cope with flooding from the rain-soaked Danube and other southern rivers, a day after the Bavarian city of Passau saw its worst flooding since 1501.

Whether popularised by the ancient Egyptians, St Boniface, or Dickens, it’s not festive until the tree’s up, says John Daly

The number of children who have fallen ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after eating food from school cafeterias and daycare centres has risen from about 4,500 to 8,400, German health authorities said today.

Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan expects the German Bundesbank to eventually row in behind ECB plans, unveiled yesterday, to make unlimited purchases of short-term bonds of stressed eurozone member states.

An earless baby bunny had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman.

An east German regional train struck a car and derailed today, injuring more than 20 people, officials said.

A total of 25 people have been injured – 11 of them seriously – after a bus accident on a motorway in the eastern German state of Saxony.

IRELAND has had a tough time over the last few weeks with the IMF, EMU, snow, black ice and a severe budget.

A girl of six has died after a tree crushed a car during a rare tornado that ripped through eastern Germany.

A girl of six has died after a tree crushed a car during a rare tornado that ripped through eastern Germany.

Thousands of neo-Nazis and their opponents massed today in the eastern German city of Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of the Second World War

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives were yesterday licking their wounds after strong setbacks in state polls raised doubts about their favoured coalition’s chances of winning a looming general election.

The Allied firebombing of Dresden killed no more than 25,000 people – far fewer than scholars’ previous estimates running as high as 135,000 – a German commission has found.

A vase given to Adolf Hitler has been turned over to US investigators rounding up a collection of Nazi artefacts stolen from a Utah storage unit.

RECEIVERS have been appointed to a Dublin-listed investment fund hit by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.

Three young swans found dead in a pond in eastern France are being tested for bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry announced today, ordering special containment measures in the area.

SHOULD the bombing of Dresden be considered a war crime? Maybe — but none of the 27 EU Justice Ministers were asking when they toured the city this week.

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

A TRIO of students will be confirmed as rabbis today, the first such ordination in Germany since the Nazi regime began the slaughter of six million European Jews more than 60 years ago.

An upbeat start to trading across the Atlantic drove the FTSE 100 Index to a positive finish today.

Czech officials have declared a state of emergency in seven flood-hit regions while rivers continued to rise in neighbouring European countries today, forcing evacuations in some areas.

LARGE swathes of central Europe were on flood alert last night as the death toll from swollen rivers rose and more people were evacuated from their homes.

A court has jailed a man who has fathered four children with his sister for incest on Thursday in a case that has sparked calls for Germany to follow other countries in axing its incest laws.

German authorities today issued a flood alert for Dresden, where melting snow was swelling the Elbe River three years after its waters devastated the city’s cultural treasures.

British transport group Arriva today said it was entering the German bus market with the acquisition of one of the country’s largest privately owned bus companies.