The Islamic State group on Tuesday released a video purportedly showing the Afghan refugee who slashed people on a German train saying he would carry out the attack and threatening "infidel" countries.
A woman on trial in one of Germany's worst infanticide cases, involving eight dead babies, confessed on Tuesday to killing several of them but said she could not remember how many.
At least four people have been killed in floods in the southern German state of Bavaria and thousands of households were cut off from electricity, officials said on Thursday.
Two commuter trains crashed head-on in southern Germany, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100, in one of the country's deadliest rail accidents in years.
