UPDATE: Former Nazi concentration camp secretary, 96, caught after escape bid

A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who fled hours before the opening of her trial in Germany has been found, a court said Thursday in a dramatic start to the proceedings.

German finance and justice ministries searched in fraud investigation

German court rules anti-coal eviction in Hambach Forest illegal

Ikea ran ‘elaborate illegal spying system’ on its French employees, court rules

Protests in France calling for trial of Sarah Halimi killer

France opens manslaughter probe into Italian cruise firm over Covid deaths

Google signs deal with French newspapers over paying for content

French army officers convicted after recruit died during initial ritual

Ex-French president Sarkozy in spotlight over former wife’s job

French court launches investigation into justice minister over ‘settling scores’

French interior minister summoned by judge in ongoing rape investigation

Anger simmers in Demjanjuk’s home village

Rapper fined over ‘nauseating’ misogynist lyrics

Privacy challenge to data-storage law reaches constitutional court

Ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk probed for fatal 1947 car crash

Hopp blackmailer jailed for nearly four years

Former Nazi SS hit man admits to Dutch murders

Man faces court for blackmail of SAP founder

Banned footie fan takes complaint to top court

Germany criticised for Nazi trial double standards

High court deems Berlin shop hours unconstitutional

Stretcher-bound Nazi guard Demjanjuk tried

Demjanjuk faces court in last big Nazi trial

Man gets life after court rejects appeal for sister’s ‘honour killing’

Religious couple fined for home schooling their children

Court rules ‘reunification tax’ unconstitutional

Teen girl gets five years for failed firebomb attack on school

Bonn bank manager plays Robin Hood for overdrawn customers

Berlin to send observers to 9/11 trials

Hospital pays damages for removing woman’s healthy breast

German-born criminal to be deported to Turkey

Ryanair sued for allegedly buzzing German granny

German spy on trial for passing secrets to gay lover

90-year-old charged for Nazi massacre

High court upholds incitement clause used against neo-Nazis

Informant goes on trial for neo-Nazi radio station

‘Veil martyr’ family pursues court officials

Berlin court rules hostel at North Korean embassy must close

Asylum seeker sentenced to jail for random attacks in Amberg

‘Unfit for trial’: German court ends case against former Nazi camp guard, 95

Spain suspends judicial reform plan that upset Brussels

Courts throughout Germany shut down after receiving bomb threats

ANALYSIS: How Spain’s judicial reform plan is raising a red flag in Brussels

Even death doesn’t cause holiday leave in Germany to expire, court rules

German sadistic killer couple jailed in ‘House of Horrors’ trial

German woman sues airport security for missing flight to Mallorca

Pressure grows on criticized Swedish lay judge to step down

Swedish assault case thrown out because man ‘seemed to come from a good family’

NRW to push for business court cases in English: report

Police search French health minister’s home in probe over Covid-19 handling

Accidental pregnancy leads to payout

Confidence in judiciary sinks to new low in Spain

‘Speeding’ emergency doctor can drive again

No room for scooters on the bus: Court

Court grants kids right to know donor fathers

Deceased farmer’s family sue animal rights group

Balcony smoking times can be limited: court

Mum faces jail over late payment of €1,400 fine

Judges slam Spain’s crumbling courts

Deutsche Bahn sues airlines for ‘price fixing’

Man sues Munich for towing golden Ferrari

Car phone use OK when stopped at lights

Shooter, 81, avoids jail for killing teen burglar

Woman sues for accidental pot raid

Job centre must pay for dad to fly to Indonesia

Merkel jet gatecrasher: I don’t remember anything

Estranged offspring must fund parental care

Pharmacist eye-drop error blinds babies

Poorly pug sparks court dog fight

Jobless EU citizens can claim benefits – court

‘Forest Boy’ faces work after court fraud hearing

Court: circumcision too risky for six-year-old

Sex offenders win thousands in pay-outs

Businessman sentenced to death for drug deal

Judge orders lawyer to remove headscarf

Court rejects Brit bishop Holocaust denial appeal

Man spikes wife’s Capri Sun drink for more sex

Court hears Brit bishop’s Holocaust appeal

Court orders France to lift Mercedes ban

Will France lift Mercedes ban?

Lifelong friendship ruined by broken toilet

Jail for police officer who punched woman in face

Neo-Nazi victims get their day in court

US: freed death row German to be re-tried

NSU trial deadline set for end of 2014

Politician: Call Snowden to Germany as witness

Court jails Russian spy couple

German court scrutinizes ECB’s bond buying

Banker transfers millions by napping on keyboard

ECB official: German court could sink euro

State: school shooting killer mother must pay

Two accused in neo-Nazi trial ‘will talk’

No child support if dad is anonymous sperm donor

German court cuts off Google’s auto-complete

F1’s Ecclestone ‘faces German bribery charges’

Berlin judge declares Jonny K murder mistrial

Arrested ‘Auschwitz guard’: I was just a cook

Bare-headed cyclists at ‘some fault’ for injuries

Can the law go easy on pickpocket pensioners?

Neo-Nazi NPD party ‘weak and in tatters’

Turkish media ensured access to neo-Nazi trial

Provincial judges hurt Germany’s image abroad

Bank Austria ordered to pay East German cash

Westerwelle slams media limits for neo-Nazi trial

Sect doctor could face jail for Chile abuse

Search for Nazi death camp guards widens

Turkish paper appeals to top court over trial

Turkish media fail to get seats at neo-Nazi trial

Mother jailed for killing her five newborns

Afghans seek damages for Kunduz air strike

Job centre goes to court over 15 cents

German-born woman freed from death row

Friend reportedly helped neo-Nazi on the run

Couple face jail over 14-month hotel bill

Turkish envoy shut out of neo-Nazi murder trial

Sperm donations flowing despite paternity ruling

Court rejects airline strike compensation plea

Top court deals blow to neo-Nazi party

Germany fines Google for privacy violations

Massive far-right network aided neo-Nazi gang

Court delays neo-Nazi murder trial for press

Probe into Porsche stock manipulation widens

Bid to ban neo-Nazi party flounders as FDP baulks

Woman wins right to sperm donor dad’s name

Doc convicted for porn star’s deadly boob job

Video artist feels the Techno Viking’s wrath

Al-Qaeda members jailed

Court rules internet access a basic right

Terrorist fears undo planned Berlin flight path

Jail term for neo-Nazi protestor sparks outcry

Man sues teflon oven tray firm over dead parrots

GEMA demands YouTube pay €1.6 mln in damages

Court eases lockdown on neo-Nazi terrorist

Teacher wins snowball fight injury legal battle

Fastest postie charged for being too quick

Father of school shooter sues son’s clinic

Court: Cuckolds can take back gifts to wives

‘Only a neo-Nazi ban will force the police to act’

Doh! Court must choose between two Duff Beers

Legless Dachau court killer faces life in prison

US court halts AP split from DAPD news agency

Doctor appeals French teen killing over kidnap

Woman ordered to learn German after 30 years

Germany to extradite ‘girl in boot’ kidnap suspect

Green official was ‘pimp as well as fraudster’

Parents not liable if kids download illegally

Bosses can demand sick note from day one

Mayor convicted of faking arson attack

Changes to custody law spark controversy

Plea bargains ‘could warp German justice’

John sues after painful male dominatrix mix-up

Peeping sweep appears in court in fake beard

Construction firm banned from Switzerland

Beating victim’s mum: I didn’t get justice

Hamburg court jails ten Somali pirates

Cyclist hit with €900 fine for ‘lesbo cop’ insult

Germany charges two alleged Russian spies

OPEC 1975 terror attack suspect on trial

Court: Post must deliver neo-Nazi junk mail

Court sides with Porsche against investors

Dad, 88, fined for hitting son, 65, with broom

Holidaymaker sues after TV ‘monster’ joke

Court: Jeweller shot teen in ‘self-defence’

Bus driver ‘made €200,000’ on fake tickets

Man ‘held for years over paranoia that was right’

‘Buy your own wine,’ court tells divorcee

Most expensive ‘A-hole’ costs man €60,000

Anti-Islam group targets mosques and leftists

Woman must pay €40 for electrician’s 40-metre trip

Prosecutors probe voyeur gynaecologist

Court: speedy student must pay fees

Neo-Nazi acquitted after driving into leftists

Court gives investors glimmer of hope

Daughter sues mum over Facebook humiliation

Pope blocks magazine over ‘leaks’ stain picture

Divorce lawyer launches chainsaw massacre ad

University sues student who ‘studied too fast’

‘Go home and lie’, court tells lesbian Iranian

Germany fined for firework-flinging fans

Top Hells Angel gets four years in jail

Energy firms want billions for nuke exit

Son jailed for three years for ‘mercy-killing’ mum

Top court will rule on euro rescue next week

No widow’s pension for suicide pact survivor

Obituary mix-up gave man’s mum heart attack

Station sex shop celebrates Sunday sales

Woman fined for blowing whistle into phone

Woman burned father in Easter bonfire

Pay-out for rapists kept in prison too long

Court: YouTube liable for copyright breaches

German woman: I was Breivik’s lover

Pet death grief ‘does not count’ – court

Woman wrongly jailed for murder faces €32,000 bill

Jail for incest man justified – court

Heidi Klum and Seal file divorce papers

‘Phone box kidnapper’ sent to mental hospital

US woman’s Hamburg killer ruled insane

Serial car arsonist jailed for seven years

Cool cafés in customer download dilemma

British mother faces bouncers ‘who killed son’

Fake fancy phone buyer set for compensation

Victim slams court’s racial spot-check ruling

Court: skin colour good reason for cop ID check

American tattooist admits Berlin axe killing

Biological fathers denied right to paternity

Millionaire couple ‘kept girl like Cinderella’

Prostitute cons john out of €40,000

Court: Hotels can ban neo-Nazis

Murder charge upgraded in expat socialite case

Court rules rapid euro crisis group illegal

Holocaust denial ‘pub talk’ legal – sometimes

Court throws out Holocaust-denial case

Defrocked, defrauded: man cons abusive bishop

Hamburg’s smoking ban goes up in smoke

Judge to confiscate Facebook account

Teen girl discovers ‘swinging’ parents online

Court caps Jewish ghetto pension claims

Germans jailed in UK for owning terrorist material

Politician slammed for remarks on Sharia courts

Hamburg sues over pricey, late concert hall

Man can keep €84,600 after tax office error

Sadist pimp ‘hurt women with his metal genitals’

Bailiffs chase football legend Lothar Matthäus

Judges call for rethink on court security

Man who shot prosecutor only faced mild sentence

Jihadist killer deserves life say prosecutors

Former Deutsche Bank CEO settles fraud case

Zschäpe lawyers may seek her release

Supermodel Auermann fined for tax evasion

Incest family was village’s ‘open secret’

States agree on plan to ban neo-Nazi party

Slave girl told: ‘We’ll cut off your head if you run’

Doctor ordered 11-year-old girl for sex

Man claims 34 years of incest was consensual

Former chief judge backs exploring NPD ban

Pope sued for not wearing seat belt

EU sues Germany over VW protection law

Voyeur gynaecologist sued for intimate photos

Central memorial agreed for neo-Nazi victims

Deutsche Bank halts Kirch court case after raids on execs

US terror charges for man held in Germany

Mistaken fathers can find out who’s the daddy

Apple faces ban on iPhone and iPad sales

Court stops fast-track bailout fund committee

Soldier gets probation for deadly gun accident

US airman: I saw hate in Frankfurt shooter’s eyes

Most young criminals re-offend after jail

Neo-Nazi boss to appeal to top court for hotel ban

Ecclestone’s F1 banker blackmail claim bolstered

Man jailed for seven years for having sex with daughters

Nearly three years jail for brutal metro attacker

Frankfurt shooter deep into jihad: prosecutors

Apple wins key iPad patent case against Samsung

Euro bailouts legal but MPs need more say

Sex offender dies after self-immolation in front of court

Frankfurt man confesses to killing US airmen

Google apologizes to Hamburg police for bad link

Teen confesses to brutal metro beating

High court considers fees to scare off frivolous appeals

Spymaster’s widow loses pension battle

Interior Ministry to probe ban of far-right NPD

Child murderer awarded damages for police threat

Honour killings not rising

Train driver sues parents of suicide victim

Thais refuse to pay guarantee on prince’s seized jet

Court releases Thai prince’s impounded jet

Justice minster rejects outing sex offenders as post-jail regime still unclear

Doctor fined for killing UK patient keeps licence

Holocaust denial verdict against UK bishop upheld

Prosecutors drop demand for Demjanjuk to return to jail

Islamist charged for US airmen killings

Nine ageing Germans sentenced over Nazi massacres in Italy

Exec at children’s TV station Kika jailed for embezzling millions

Top court hears challenge to EU bailouts

Insurance may have to pay if accident driver is drunk enough

Lady Gaga computer hackers convicted

Ban upheld on anti-abortion activists approaching pregnancy centre visitors

Police doctor acquitted over forced vomiting death

Music site Simfy lodges competition complaint against Apple over iCloud

Weatherman Kachelmann acquitted of rape

Court rules ‘kiss my ass’ insulting

German judge appointed to oversee Mladic trial

Nazi guard Demjanjuk convicted but set free

Bayer faces US lawsuit over YAZ contraceptive

Demjanjuk ‘Nazi guard’ trial verdict this week

Terror cell member jailed

State won’t let welfare recipients bet on sport

Court orders overhaul of preventive detention

US sues Deutsche Bank for mortgage fraud

Surrogate children have no right to German passport, court rules

Demjanjuk’s SS identity card was forged, his lawyer says

Nuclear suspension faces court challenge by RWE

Dog owner guilty of three-year-old’s brutal death by pit bull pack

Father in court for castrating daughter’s older boyfriend

Kidnapped doctor put on trial for murder in France

‘Nazi guard’ Demjanjuk faces six years in jail

Deutsche Bank to pay investing compensation

Incest trucker confesses

‘Win your own funeral’ contest legal, court rules

Prosecutors demand 14.5 years for ‘German Fritzl’

Lady Gaga hackers charged with spying and copyright infringement

Neo-Nazis face court for online radio content

Sacked diplomat blames anti-German British bias

Hells Angel jailed over police shooting

Teen in court for holding two boys as ‘slaves’

Demjanjuk threatens hunger strike at trial

Neo-Nazis and leftists clash at assault trial

Failure to buckle-up on planes grounds for removal

Incest trucker admits abusing daughter

‘German Fritzl’ put on trial for incest

Man accused of having eight children with step-daughter

Aachen jailbreak convicts imprisoned for life

Court ruling could mean equal adoption rights for gay couples

Third Reich job comparison grounds for termination, court rules

Rwandan genocide trial opens in Frankfurt

Libyan spies jailed

Court orders workers to wear bras

Retrial for asylum-seeker death in Dessau jail begins

Policeman claims trauma from porn email

European court bolsters fathers’ rights

Rwandan Hutu rebels indicted for war crimes

Court rules against pet visitation rights

Family of ‘veil martyr’ files case against Dresden judges

Teenagers jailed for ’20 cent’ beating death

Judge removed from bench for sparing speeders

Holocaust-denying bishop to drop lawyer with neo-Nazi ties

SAP hit with record fine for copyright infringement

Father jailed for starving daughter to death

Court spares pony Rolling Stones tattoo

Judge refuses to prosecute speeders

Third most-wanted Nazi war criminal dies ahead of trial

Woman who hid dead babies in freezer jailed

US soldier found guilty of fellow soldier’s death in Germany

Kachelmann won’t work as TV weatherman after trial

Winnenden case ‘lay judge’ sacked after drunken police abuse

Continental fined for deadly Concorde crash

TV licence fee collector fined for Nazi salute

Former Bild reporter fined for sex tape coercion

Swiss schoolboys jailed over Munich assaults

Rapist admits 1,000 sex offences, gets 10 years

Sharia law being used in Germany in Muslims’ domestic disputes

Becker trial to review Baader-Meinhof killing

Man admits stabbing former teacher over poor marks

Böhse Onkelz singer jailed for hit-and-run accident on drugs

Becker didn’t kill Buback, former RAF members say

Rape suspect confesses to 1,000 sex offences

Böhse Onkelz singer on trial for drugged-up hit-and-run

Reunification ‘solidarity tax’ stays for now, high court rules

Avoid getting tripped up by German family law

Winnenden shooter’s father faces court

Barfing Oktoberfest drunks face taxi cleanup fees

Woman sues Raab for mocking her prisoner camp description

Trial against weatherman Kachelmann postponed

Defendant incriminates Deutsche Telekom boss in illegal search

Court rules sacking man for charging e-scooter unlawful

Man fired for charging scooter with employer’s electricity

Kachelmann trial delayed again

Man found guilty of bashing Israeli teen

No Angels singer not jailed for spreading HIV

French teen sentenced for desecrating German WWI graves

Prosecutors seek suspended sentence for No Angels singer

Teens jailed in Munich S-Bahn murder trial

Court rules no automatic dismissal for civil servants with child porn

Ex-lover says No Angels singer admitted to HIV

Gay couples gain equal inheritance tax standing

Demonstrators allowed to protest neo-Nazi march

Cities consider ban on ‘beer bike’ tours

No Angels singer admits to sex while HIV positive

Thor Steinar loses case against clothing brand mocking neo-Nazis

Drunk, homeless man convicted for ‘Hitler salute’

In the name of the father

Parking tattletale faces fine after making 15,000 citations

Custody rights for unwed fathers strengthened

Poo smears, swastikas breach inmate rights

Weatherman Kachelmann released from jail

Home offices should be tax-deductible, court rules

Germany ready to take on ageing Nazi hitman

Rwandan man arrested on genocide charge

Court allows surveillance of leftist politicians

Court rejects teacher’s suit against student for ‘rabbit terrorism’

Brunner died of heart failure, not injuries admits prosecutor

Witness says S-Bahn murder victim hit first

IKB bank boss convicted for accounting cover-up

Policeman wins a week’s holiday for time spent donning uniform

Munich S-Bahn murder trial starts

Green light given to gene testing IVF embryos

Police search for missing judge

Karadzic: Germany withholding proof of Bosnian weapons trade

Love before the law: child custody set for overhaul

Court rules euthanasia with patient consent ok

Viernheim bomber handed 12 years in prison

Court convicts Magdeburg Zoo workers for killing tiger cubs

Court rules Germany must recognise foreign gay marriages

Supermarket cashier wrongly fired for taking deposit slips

Trial over Aachen jailbreak begins

Teacher sues Bayer for birth defects

Court agrees to German trial for Somali pirates

Archbishop investigated for abetting sex abuse

Former MP Tauss sentenced for child porn

Prosecutors file rape charges against weatherman Kachelmann

Ballack lawyer targets Boateng

Tauss leaves Pirate Party after child pornography conviction

Former MP Tauss faces court on child porn charges

Far-right leader sues over hotel ban

Court rules against extra welfare payment for disabled kids

HRE investors outraged as ‘fat cat’ banker sues

No homicide charge for father of Winnenden killer

Arms dealer Schreiber jailed for eight years

Teen sentenced to 8 1/2 years in custody for Kassandra attack

Pensioner jailed for attempted Jehovah’s Witness massacre

Holocaust-denying bishop Williamson sentenced to fine

Court rules against ‘Ossi’ discrimination case

Demjanjuk speaks, calling trial ‘torture’

Woman sues over ‘Ossi’ discrimination

Former Red Army Faction member Becker indicted

Two men charged for Iran missile parts exports

German CIA rendition victim sentenced to jail for assault

20 Trier diocese priests accused of sex abuse

Former SS hit man given life sentence

Ministry calls lawyers’ demands for Kunduz bombing victims unrealistic

Prince Ernst August fined €200,000 for slap attack

Litigious woman fails to prove atom-smasher will end world

Pope’s brother oblivious to choir sexual abuse

German high court gets youngest leader ever

Sauerland cell Islamists jailed for anti-US plot

Court rules anti-terror data storage illegal

Westerwelle attacks ‘socialist’ welfare debate

Leading Germany’s kids down a dead-end street

Hartz IV welfare benefits ruled unconstitutional

UK coroner calls German doctor ‘incompetent’ for lethal overdose

French court examines deadly Concorde crash

Politicians renew calls for NPD ban

Court rules excessive toilet time no grounds for docked pay

‘Mailbox bomber’ gets life in jail after nearly killing 12-year-old

Trial of CDU slush fund figure Schreiber begins

Court orders retrial of Bad Reichenhall ice rink disaster

Courts hear business cases in English

High court orders retrial in asylum-seeker death

Teen boy charged with attempted murder for Kassandra attack

Kosovar cousins jailed for vicious Munich U-Bahn beating

Murderer of Egyptian ‘veil martyr’ gets life

Court summons Holocaust-denying British Bishop Williamson

Mother of eight jailed for smothering baby boy in cellar

High court begins case on controversial child welfare benefits

Prosecutors pursue charges against Holocaust denying Catholic bishop

Southern cities revoke driving privileges from brawling youths

Trial of suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk to begin in November

Cap Anamur boss acquitted of illegal immigration charges

Michelle’s killer gets nine-and-a-half years

Dieter Bohlen officially ruled an artist by Kassel court

High court upholds Bavaria’s porous smoking ban

Federal prosecutors to probe deadly NATO air strike in Afghanistan

‘Veil martyr’ trial delayed by defendant tantrum

Holocaust denier Williamson to battle fine of up to €12,000

Egyptian stab victim’s husband describes attack

High court backs equal rights for gay marriages

Nazi guard Demjanjuk fails to stop trial

German doctor kidnapped and dumped before French courthouse

Most criminals avoiding jail in Germany

Rapper fined for threatening to beat disabled woman with her crutches

Berlin court rules in favour of Muslim prayer in school

Court rules against spammers

Court says drivers responsible for dodging Oktoberfest drunks

Germany rehabilitates Third Reich wartime ‘traitors’

Court allows suspected terrorist to name son ‘Jihad’

Life sought for killer of Egyptian ‘veil martyr’

Frankfurt airport expansion approved

Scientist gets 10 years in jail for S&M murder

Michelle’s murderer confesses as trial begins

Court rules Nazi slogans are legal if not in German

90-year-old jailed for Nazi war crimes

Brutal child rapist surrenders to police

High court case against gay marriage withdrawn

Berlin to quash noise complaints caused by children

Swedish princess gets hefty libel payment from German press

Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk to stand trial

Key CDU scandal figure Schreiber likely to return to Germany

Muslims pray for murdered Egyptian woman

Germany’s new hatred

Knut to stay at Berlin Zoo

Doctors say ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk fit for trial

Siemens fined $100 mln in fraud scandal

Accused Nazi killer Demjanjuk’s medical results set for release

Zypries demands constitutional amendment for gay rights

Teacher loses case against online rankings website for students

Hamburg bank must repay customer’s Lehman loss

Judge backs police breaking up concerts pre-emptively

Nanny sentenced to five years for shaking toddler to death

Facebook loses legal fight against StudiVZ

More parents lose custody rights

Prince Ernst August of Hannover denies assault charges

Neo-Nazi fined €1,200 for putting swastika flag on a coffin

Court upholds health care reform

Sauerland Cell terrorists ready to confess

Student acquitted for shoe toss at China’s PM

Shoe-throwing German student goes on trial in Cambridge

Berlin passes new anti-terrorism laws

Knut custody battle fails before Berlin court

‘He was a part of the team at the Sobibor’

Demjanjuk deemed fit enough for prison