Thieves used the quiet Christmas period to drill into a German bank vault in Gelsenkirchen, stealing millions in cash and valuables from thousands of deposit boxes.

Robbers used a large drill to break into a German savings bank's vault room and steal cash, gold and jewelry worth some 30 million euros ($35 million), police said Tuesday. The heist in the western city of Gelsenkirchen saw the thieves break into more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes, they said.

Police cars, fire engines, and ambulances are seen at Wittenbergplatz in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, following an earlier emergency response at a nearby supermarket. Nearby on Buelowstraße,

Police patrolling Germany's borders detected 6,889 attempted unauthorized entries in October, Germany's Federal Police said in a press release on Friday. The figure is very similar to the number of people stopped in September. From March to August, the ...

A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Germany as Police feared another terror attack on the country’s famous Christmas markets. It’s the second plot smashed by anti-terrorism officers who held five men at the weekend planning an attack on a Christmas market.

BERLIN, Germany — German police on Wednesday arrested five teenagers accused of involvement with a right-wing extremist group calling itself “Last Defense Wave” that allegedly aimed to destabilize the country's democratic system by carrying out ...

German police had been repeatedly warned that a Saudi doctor who is suspected of ploughing a car into crowds at a Magdeburg Christmas market posed a terror threat ...

German police are investigating allegations of beatings and abuse at a Belarusian prison, after a former guard appeared to have settled in a provincial German town.