https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The group of teens found dead at the weekend by a concerned father were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170131/six-teens-found-dead-after-party-had-carbon-monoxide-poisoning Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:45:53 +0100 six-teens-found-dead-after-party-had-carbon-monoxide-poisoning Spies should have the right to keep communications data relating to minors aged under 16, a senior member of Germany's domestic intelligence service has said. https://www.thelocal.de/20160506/german-spies-call-for-right-to-keep-tabs-on-teens Fri, 06 May 2016 18:42:58 +0200 german-spies-call-for-right-to-keep-tabs-on-teens A German couple are being investigated for allegedly repeatedly chaining their 13-year-old to the floor when they went shopping. He apparently kept leaving the house to meet his friends who his parents did not approve of. https://www.thelocal.de/20140204/couple-chained-teen-to-floor Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:20:00 +0100 couple-chained-teen-to-floor Police have launched a murder investigation after a 14-year-old girl was found stabbed to death in woods outside Berlin. The prime suspect is her older boyfriend who she met in an online chatroom. https://www.thelocal.de/20131120/man-kills-girl-he-met-online-in-forest Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:08:00 +0100 man-kills-girl-he-met-online-in-forest Germany has agreed to provide vocational training and jobs for young Spaniards starved of opportunities in their crisis-hit home country. https://www.thelocal.de/20130522/49837 Wed, 22 May 2013 08:44:00 +0200 49837 More than half of German 15 to 20-year-olds save regularly and almost all of those who took out a loan in 2012 paid it back without a hitch, a study released on Tuesday revealed. https://www.thelocal.de/20130417/49173 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:36:00 +0200 49173 German youngsters are as keen on reading as ever, but are turning away from books aimed specifically at young adults, figures from the annual Leipzig book fair on Friday suggested. https://www.thelocal.de/20130315/48557 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:19:00 +0100 48557 A 15-year-old German boy who became embroiled in a tense armed stand-off with police after taking guns into his school has been sentenced to four and a half years in youth custody. https://www.thelocal.de/20130221/48097 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:09:00 +0100 48097 Hamburg's citizens can now vote from the age of 16, with their first chance to make a political mark due in nine months - a state referendum on whether to buy back the electricity network from a private company. https://www.thelocal.de/20130214/47967 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:08:00 +0100 47967 Police officers who forced teenage students to strip, some of them completely naked, in the hunt for a stolen €5 at a school in Munich are now being investigated themselves after pupils and their parents complained. https://www.thelocal.de/20121203/46529 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:54:00 +0100 46529 A pair of hungry German teens found themselves in hospital on Sunday, after an early morning trip to McDonald's ended in running from the police and jumping through the display window of a car dealership. https://www.thelocal.de/20121127/46409 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:57:00 +0100 46409 A third of poorer Germans do not think hard work will get them anywhere, while over half of the younger poor said they would never be able to climb the social ladder, a new survey shows. https://www.thelocal.de/20121127/46403 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:09:00 +0100 46403 "YOLO," short for "you only live once" has been voted the most popular new German youth expression of the year, the second time in four years that a word derived from English has won. https://www.thelocal.de/20121126/46389 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:44:00 +0100 46389 Young Germans are plagued by a lack of sleep, racking up an average of under seven hours per night during the week, a recent study showed. https://www.thelocal.de/20121024/45737 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:17:00 +0200 45737 A man with a long history of sexual violence was arrested in northern Germany after a teenage girl he had kidnapped and repeatedly raped managed to escape and raise the alarm. https://www.thelocal.de/20121017/45621 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:08:00 +0200 45621 Germans are more annoyed by old people and teenagers in their area than their Turkish neighbours a new study shows – contradicting the image of communities consumed by ethnic strife. https://www.thelocal.de/20120411/41871 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:30:00 +0200 41871 The number of teenage smokers in Germany has been halved in the past decade, with less than 12 percent of 12 to 17-year-olds lit up regularly in 2011 according to governmental research published on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120210/40655 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:42:00 +0100 40655 One of Germany’s most famous opera houses, Dresden’s Semperoper, gave teenagers front row seats to the premiere of its new production of Alban Berg’s “Lulu” – which centres on a murderous prostitute. https://www.thelocal.de/20120206/40567 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:00 +0100 40567 Roughly one in five Germans believes they’ve been discriminated against because of their age – with the nation's youths feeling harder done by than its pensioners. https://www.thelocal.de/20120123/40287 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:49:00 +0100 40287 A judge has handed down prison sentences of between four and six years to four young men charged with attempting to kill a man at a Berlin metro station earlier this year. https://www.thelocal.de/20111221/39651 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:17:00 +0100 39651