Police Officer Germany

A gunman opened fire at German police before he was shot dead dead by officers Thursday near Munich's Nazi-era documentation centre and the Israeli consulate, the Bavarian state interior minister said.

A knife-wielding man attacked and wounded several people on Friday at an anti-Islam rally in the market square in the city of Mannheim in southwest Germany. A 29-year-old police officer died on Sunday after being stabbed repeatedly.

Two police officers and several firefighters were injured in an explosion at an apartment building in the western German town of Ratingen on Thursday, said the state interior ministry.

Hundreds of North Rhine-Westphalia police officers got stuck in thick mud while trying to remove the protesters from the village.

German investigators said Wednesday they had launched a manhunt for suspects who made off with 6.5 million euros ($7.6 million) in cash after breaking into a customs office.

German police on Sunday shot dead a knife-wielding Turkish man who sought to attack officers in the city of Gelsenkirchen.

Police in Germany's southern state of Bavaria are investigating two officers suspected of performing the illegal Hitler salute.

To become a police officer in Germany, you need a desire to uphold the law, an appropriate training score - and, at least in some places, a certain minimum height.

Police said they shot Sunday at a man "rampaging" at Berlin Cathedral and armed officers cordoned off the entrances to the landmark in the heart of the German capital.

German authorities searched 62 brothels, offices and homes in several federal states and arrested seven people on Wednesday in a crackdown on suspected human trafficking in connection with a Thai prostitution ring, prosecutors said.

A man in Germany claims Amazon's digital assistant Alexa threw a "party" in his empty flat in the middle of the night, forcing police officers to break in and investigate after complaints from his neighbours.

When police officers were called to break up a fight in Germany's Darmstadt, they probably weren't expecting to find what they found - a drunk 19-year-old with "a significant bulge in his trousers." To make matters even more awkward, the teen proceeded to pull out a snake - yes, an actual reptile - from his pants.

An unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered in Frankfurt on Wednesday. The recovery of the bomb will now lead to the evacuation f some 70,000 people this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said.

German police say a Muslim convert attacked officers with a box cutter while shouting "Allahu akbar" after they were called to her apartment in the western city of Essen.

A teenage girl stands trial from Thursday in Germany for stabbing a police officer, an assault allegedly "ordered" by the ISIS organisation but which was not claimed by the jihadist group.

A gunman opened fire at German police before he was shot dead dead by officers Thursday near Munich's Nazi-era documentation centre and the Israeli consulate, the Bavarian state interior minister said.

A knife-wielding man attacked and wounded several people on Friday at an anti-Islam rally in the market square in the city of Mannheim in southwest Germany. A 29-year-old police officer died on Sunday after being stabbed repeatedly.

Two police officers and several firefighters were injured in an explosion at an apartment building in the western German town of Ratingen on Thursday, said the state interior ministry.

Hundreds of North Rhine-Westphalia police officers got stuck in thick mud while trying to remove the protesters from the village.

German investigators said Wednesday they had launched a manhunt for suspects who made off with 6.5 million euros ($7.6 million) in cash after breaking into a customs office.

German police on Sunday shot dead a knife-wielding Turkish man who sought to attack officers in the city of Gelsenkirchen.

Police in Germany's southern state of Bavaria are investigating two officers suspected of performing the illegal Hitler salute.

To become a police officer in Germany, you need a desire to uphold the law, an appropriate training score - and, at least in some places, a certain minimum height.

Police said they shot Sunday at a man "rampaging" at Berlin Cathedral and armed officers cordoned off the entrances to the landmark in the heart of the German capital.

German authorities searched 62 brothels, offices and homes in several federal states and arrested seven people on Wednesday in a crackdown on suspected human trafficking in connection with a Thai prostitution ring, prosecutors said.

A man in Germany claims Amazon's digital assistant Alexa threw a "party" in his empty flat in the middle of the night, forcing police officers to break in and investigate after complaints from his neighbours.

When police officers were called to break up a fight in Germany's Darmstadt, they probably weren't expecting to find what they found - a drunk 19-year-old with "a significant bulge in his trousers." To make matters even more awkward, the teen proceeded to pull out a snake - yes, an actual reptile - from his pants.

An unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered in Frankfurt on Wednesday. The recovery of the bomb will now lead to the evacuation f some 70,000 people this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said.

German police say a Muslim convert attacked officers with a box cutter while shouting "Allahu akbar" after they were called to her apartment in the western city of Essen.

A teenage girl stands trial from Thursday in Germany for stabbing a police officer, an assault allegedly "ordered" by the ISIS organisation but which was not claimed by the jihadist group.