Police in Berlin have arrested a 17-year-old suspect in a fireworks explosion over the New Year's holiday that left a child ...

Firefighters and other emergency services personnel were targeted by the fireworks during festivities overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday, authorities said. In the capital Berlin, firefighters ...

Police patrol the streets of the German capital, Berlin, as people set off fireworks to celebrate the New Year. Across the country police say at least five people have died in accidents linked to ...

Berlin: Almost 1.5 million Germans backed a police union push Monday to ban fireworks on New Year's Eve after the latest celebrations were again marred by deaths, injuries and arrests. Critics have ...

Jan. 1 (UPI) --A largely peaceful New Year's Eve turned chaotic as fireworks killed five in several incidents across Germany, where hundreds also were arrested for rioting in Berlin and other cities.

Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said in a ...

“The severity of the injuries [this year] is unusual,” a spokesperson for the UKB hospital in Berlin, where small children were brought in for serious injuries from fireworks, told local media ...

Ebrahim Noroozi/AP The aftermath of New Year’s Eve in Berlin, where many fireworks set off by people across Germany Credit: AFP/Tobaias Schwarz Meanwhile, Simone Borris, the mayor of Magdeburg ...

Five people have been killed across Germany in accidents involving fireworks as riots in Berlin led to over 400 arrests in a night of chaos celebrating the start of the new year. One of those ...

The tradition of setting off fireworks in public places to celebrate the new year took a violent turn this year as emergency officials became targets. In Berlin alone, 30 police officers and one ...

Germany's New Year's celebrations saw a busy night for emergency services, with four fatalities linked to explosions and numerous injuries from illegal fireworks. Berlin police reported 320 ...

New Year's Eve in Germany is all about fireworks. Here are The Local's suggestions for where to watch them across the country, from Berlin and Hamburg to Cologne, Munich and elsewhere. Germans ...