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Disposal of four WWII bombs in Göttingen soothes memories of 2010 tragedy

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:33:24 +0100

Some 8,000 residents of the city of Göttingen have been able to return home after a bomb disposal unit defused four WWII bombs discovered during building work.

LATEST: Dozens infected with coronavirus at parties in German city

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:39:45 +0200

After private parties held over the long weekend, at least 68 people in Göttingen have tested positive for coronavirus.

Germany set to deport two terror suspects born on its soil

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:02:22 +0100

Germany said on Tuesday it will deport two men arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack, despite the fact that while their parents are foreigners, they were both born in the country.

Two German-born Islamists to be deported despite not committing crime

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:09:54 +0100

Two men arrested in Göttingen earlier this month over suspicions that they were plotting an "imminent" terror attack are no longer under investigation due to insufficient evidence, but they will still be deported.

Two arrested in Göttingen suspected of 'imminent terror plot'

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:56:38 +0100

Police in the Lower Saxon university town of Göttingen arrested two men suspected of plotting a terror attack, officials reported on Thursday.

Right-wing leader suffers restaurant attack

Thu, 28 May 2015 12:56:34 +0200

Frauke Petry, co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), was attacked by masked assailants while eating in a restaurant on Wednesday evening.

Doctor acquitted in organ donation scandal

Wed, 06 May 2015 17:53:59 +0200

A court in Göttingen acquitted a doctor on Wednesday of charges of attempted manslaughter after he had manipulated patients' data to push them up the organ transplant list.

Paws for relief as hospital welcomes dogs

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:55:38 +0100

Hospital wards are normally off-limits for dogs - rules on hygiene forbid them from visiting sick owners. But one hospital in Lower Saxony is encouraging a rather different attitude.

Nobel Prize winner Südhof yearns for home

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:12:00 +0200

German scientist Thomas Südhof won the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week. Thirty years after he left for the US, the Stanford professor who says he would love to return to Germany is our German of the week.

Green leader linked to pro-paedo manifesto

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:06:00 +0200

Less than a week until the general election and Germany's Green Party leader faces part of his past he thought forgotten. The politician put his name to an election manifesto in 1981 pushing for paedophilia to be legalized.

Town gardeners wage war on rogue hemp

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:33:00 +0200

Gardeners in Göttingen, central Germany, have had to rip up hemp plants from the city's flower beds after a pro-cannabis group planted the seeds. The distinctive leaves do not, head of town planning said, look good alongside marigolds.

Organ donor law starts as interest flatlines

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:04:00 +0100

New rules to encourage people to donate their organs take effect on Thursday, yet interest has been stagnant since the start of the year – and two scandals surrounding the corrupt allocation of donated organs will not have helped.

Munich organ donor check reveals suspicions

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0200

An investigation into people waiting for donated livers being pushed up the waiting list has been launched at a Munich clinic following scandals in two other German hospitals.

Organ transplant scandal suspicions 'date to 1990s'

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:48:00 +0200

The donor organ waiting list scandal unfolding in a German hospital, where it seem doctors changed medical records to push patients up the lists, could date back nearly 20 years, it emerged on Monday.

Doctor 'cheated' to get patients on organ list

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:51:00 +0200

A leading German doctor is under investigation for allegedly changing medical records to make people appear sicker than they were – bumping them to the top of organ transplant lists ahead of desperately ill people.

Foreigners can't change name 'just to integrate'

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:32:00 +0200

Foreigners who want to change their names to Germanic ones have been told by a court that wanting to fit in is not a good enough reason to choose new monikers.

Landslide clogs traffic in Göttingen

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:56:00 +0200

There was traffic chaos on the motorways around Göttingen in the state of Lower Saxony following closures forced by a landslide, officials said.

'Book reverend' saves a million scrapped East German books

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:01:00 +0100

For nearly 20 years, Reverend Martin Weskott has been saving books printed in the former East Germany from the rubbish heap of history.

German phone sex addict busted for €7,000 hotel bill

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:10:00 +0200

Police in the German state of Lower Saxony said on Wednesday they had arrested a man who racked up more than €7,000 in phone sex bills while staying at a hotel in Göttingen.