BERLIN NEWS, PICTURES AND VIDEOS FROM THE GERMAN CAPITAL

Berlin Christmas market attacker was a 'cyberspace Casanova' who flirted with 140 women online and asked to marry woman via Facebook who was on 'the same wavelength' as him

09/03/17 12:24

08/03/17 21:16

Berlin's top prosecutor will examine documents released by WikiLeaks and launch an investigation if it sees concrete indications of wrongdoing, a spokesman said.

07/03/17 11:48

Animal lovers have been left distraught after an adorable polar bear cub in one of Berlin's zoos died at just four-months-old. Fritz died after suffering from liver inflammation.

06/03/17 22:58

Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to calm an escalating row with Turkey, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labelled a German ban on rallies by his ministers 'Nazi practices'.

04/03/17 19:15

The 31-year-old was bundled up in layers and appeared focused as she made her way to her next destination.

03/03/17 22:21

Robert Craft, 59, a former warrant officer in the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, is accused at Bulford Military Court of a string of charges relating to an incident in Berlin in early 1976.

03/03/17 12:16

Berlin's interior minister Andrea Geisel ([pictured) said Berlin is looking into the legal possibilities of the exemption after nearby Brandenburg opted for the scheme which offers protection to witnesses.

01/03/17 15:19

Striking images from the final days of the Second World War in 1945 show cheering Russian fighters in the German capital and tanks rumbling through the streets.

18/02/17 15:59

He's regarded as one of the nicest actors in the world. And so it's little surprise Hugh Jackman, 48, took time out from the launch of his new film Logan on Friday to take selfies with fans.

17/02/17 07:19

Actress Trudie Styler has been walking down red carpets for decades. But you would not be able to tell the activist was 63 years old due to her youthful glow and trim figure.

16/02/17 20:29

Sienna Miller was stealing every inch of the spotlight on Tuesday night, as she premiered The Lost City Of Z with slick Robert and co-star Charlie Hunnam during Berlin International Film Festival.

16/02/17 07:33

The stunning actress, 51, showed off her ample assets as she slipped into a very revealing white embellished gown, which she wore alongside a seriously bedazzled tiara.

14/02/17 20:04

The 35-year-old beauty looked remarkably fresh faced after having enjoyed dinner with the Twilight actor and their co-star Charlie Hunnam on Monday evening.

13/02/17 22:33

Kristin Scott Thomas, 56, arrived beaming for the flick's premiere at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival on Monday.

13/02/17 16:30

The model/actress, 51, arrived in style at the annual event, which celebrates the best products on the market.

13/02/17 11:20

Luca Scata, who shot dead Anis Amri in Milan days after the Berlin attack has been photographed wearing a union flag t-shirt while giving a Nazi salute.

13/02/17 03:53

Olivia Jones, real name Oliver Knobel, posed for photos with Chancellor Angela Merkel and brought a touch of glamour to the occasion in Berlin.

11/02/17 04:43

They went public with their romance in June 2015.

10/02/17 23:33

Anjela Nedyalkova, 25, stole the spotlight at the Trainspotting 2 photocall during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin on Friday

10/02/17 22:29

Arriving at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at the city's Grand Hyatt Hotel, the two stars cosied up to each other and shared some bonhomie.

10/02/17 15:49

Suki Waterhouse looked undeniably chic as she stepped out alongside Lottie Moss at the Bulgari event at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on Thursday.

09/02/17 23:45

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 39, made a sartorial statement in a clingy dress as she arrived at the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany on Thursday.

09/02/17 22:01

German supermodel Toni Garrn looked sensational as she posed for the cameras on the red carpet of the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin.

08/02/17 09:15

The vast majority of left-wing protesters arrested on suspicion of politically-fuelled offences in Berlin are young men who live with their parents, a new report found.

02/02/17 02:24

The model - offspring of Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger - brought some flawless glamour to the event, celebrating her striking campaign with the German car company, at the launch in Berlin.

20/01/17 16:50

Tags In The City calculated the most popular hashtag used within 300 metres of each station in London, Berlin, New York and Paris. They provide fascinating insight into the local and tourist habits.

19/01/17 22:44

During the Cold War the West attempted an audacious project: a vast underground tunnel beneath the divided German city of Berlin that could be used to spy on the occupying Soviets.

19/01/17 21:43

Artist Shahak Shapira has called his page Yolocaust, combining the words Holocaust and the hashtag shorthand for 'you only live once' to highlight the inappropriateness of some people's posed pictures.

17/01/17 17:06

Georgiy Borzov sent the picture of his wife Anna to their daughter Valeriya, 22, as the couple were drinking mulled wine at the yuletide gathering in the German capital.

16/01/17 08:22

Philip Hammond told a German newspaper that Britain would not lie down if the EU restricted our access in the European market - and it went off like a bomb in Berlin, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

16/01/17 04:46

The Tunisian-born terrorist was arrested several times for drug offences in his hometown as a child and had been dealing narcotics to fund himself as he plotted the massacre on behalf of ISIS.

10/01/17 22:40

CCTV footage from the Berlin underground in Germany shows the suspected Arab or North African man wearing an Adidas T-shirt and carrying a bottle of beer.

09/01/17 23:22

Justice minister Heiko Maas is going to discuss the issue with police chiefs as it emerged officials estimate Germany has 600 highly dangerous potential terrorists in the country after the Berlin attack.

06/01/17 09:08

Bilal A., 26, dined with lorry hijacker Amri, 24, the night before he ploughed the stolen HGV into a crowd in Berlin, killing 12 and wounding 48. He was arrested in Berlin this week.

05/01/17 23:32

The Berlin Christmas market attacker, Anis Amri (pictured), had 14 different identities in Germany, according to investigators.

05/01/17 11:20

The wreck of the lorry, which was used by the ISIS fanatic to slaughter 12 revellers and injure 48 others in Berlin, could be offered to the House of History in Bonn.

04/01/17 21:59

CCTV footage has shown the Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri travelling through Amsterdam and Brussels just days after the attack.

04/01/17 18:46

The Syrian, identified only as Shaas al-Mohammad, 19, allegedly fought with ISIS in his war-torn homeland for two years before arriving in Germany as a refugee in August 2015.

04/01/17 18:35

A Tunisian man, aged 26, suspected of aiding Amri on his Isis-backed murder mission was seized on the grounds that 'he knew of the attack plans and possibly helped Anis Amri'.

04/01/17 17:42

Italian police have confirmed that the weapon Anis Amri used in a shootout with police, during which he was shot dead, was the same as that used to kill Polish driver Lukasz Urban.

31/12/16 23:36

Grieving Polish truckers have paid a fitting tribute to their colleague who was murdered in the Berlin Christmas market attack. Lukasz Urban, 37, was the first victim of the attack on December 19.

30/12/16 20:00

Hundreds of mourners bid farewell to Lukasz Urban, 37, in Baine near Szczecin in Poland who was the first victim of the attack that killed a total of 12 people in the German capital on December 19.

28/12/16 15:15

A confidential coroner's report revealed that Lukasz Urban died up to three-and-a-half hours before terrorist Anis Amri ploughed into the middle of a large crowd.

27/12/16 13:26

Six Syrian men and one Lybian, aged 15 to 21, are suspected of torching the victim at Schönleinstraße station (pictured) in the German city and police have opened an attempted murder investigation.

26/12/16 18:54

Demonstrators demanding peace in Syria have begun a 1,800-mile march from Berlin to Aleppo. The activists, who will walk all the way to the Syrian city, set off from a refugee camp this morning.

26/12/16 17:48

Daila Elyakim was killed and her husband is in hospital when Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri drove a stolen truck into Berlin's Christmas market on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 48.

26/12/16 15:26

Relatives carried Fabrizia di Lorenzo's coffin during the service at Sulmona Cathedral, in Italy today in the presence of President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and Interior Minister Marco Minnit.

26/12/16 13:43

Lukasz Urban, whose lorry was hijacked by ISIS fanatic Anis Amri, scrapped with the terrorist moments before he ploughed into a Christmas market, killing 12 in Berlin, Germany.

26/12/16 12:23

Concrete barriers are also expected to be used to protect the tens of thousands of revellers due in central London’s Trafalgar Square to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks.

26/12/16 10:23

Hundreds of protesters in the capital city of Tunis (pictured) chanted 'no to freedom for terrorist groups' while others held placards saying 'lock the door to terrorism' and 'no tolerance, no return'.

25/12/16 12:41

The survey also showed that 68 per cent wanted a rethink on Germany's immigration policy after Tunisian and ISIS fanatic Anis Amri (pictured) drove a 35-tonne lorry into shoppers on Monday.

25/12/16 10:02

Security was heightened at church services in major cities across the world this evening in a bid to prevent an incident similar to the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

24/12/16 17:12

Anis Amri was apparently able to travel unhindered for around 1,000 miles through at least three countries as he slipped from Germany into France and then into Italy after his killing spree.

24/12/16 17:12

Under-pressure police have assigned hundreds of officers to work on the case over the festive period to determine whether Anis Amri acted alone.

24/12/16 17:11

Reports in Italy state that Luca Scatà, 29, has gone into hiding for his own safety. Police officers have been warned of possible retaliatory attacks after truck terrorist Anis Amri was shot dead in Milan.

24/12/16 16:11

The Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri has been shot dead after a gunfight with police in Milan in the early hours of this morning, Italian security officials have said.

24/12/16 15:15

A Christmas market which was the scene of a brutal terrorist attack on Monday is a sea of colour today, as a makeshift memorial pays tribute to those who died.

24/12/16 08:53

Luca Scatà, who works in Milan, approached Anis Amri outside Sesto San Giovanni station in the northern Italian city while on patrol with colleague Christian Movio.

24/12/16 00:11

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded a 2.5-point boost to 15.5 percent compared to last week and Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats lost 1.5 points dropping to 31.5 percent.

24/12/16 00:04

President-elect Donald Trump tweeted about the Berlin Christmas market attack Friday afternoon, calling it a 'purely religious threat' and asking when the U.S. and other nations would fight back.

23/12/16 23:40

The ISIS terrorist's 22 caliber pistol, pictured, was photographed next to his body where he was shot dead after a shoot out in Milan at 3am today.

23/12/16 21:48

It is believed Anis Amri was converted from a hellraiser to an ISIS extremist while sleeping rough after his release from prison in Palermo - on the island of Sicily.

23/12/16 19:45

Reports in Germany claim that Till Steffen prevented law enforcers in Hamburg from releasing pictures of Anis Amri, despite him being the most wanted man in the world after Monday's terror attack.

23/12/16 17:05

Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, 24, appears to have travelled unhindered through at least three countries before being gunned down in northern Italy today.

23/12/16 16:08

Terror suspect Anis Amri is believed to have spent four years in Italian prison after he and other Tunisian migrants set ablaze to a migrant centre on the island of Lampedusa (pictured).

23/12/16 15:10

The arrests, in Berlin's Moabit neighbourhood, came as it was revealed attack suspect Anis Amri was allegedly captured on CCTV at the mosque just eight hours after the Christmas market atrocity.

23/12/16 08:58

Lutz Bachmann, who fronts Germany's far-right PEGIDA group, tweeted on Monday night that he had 'internal police information' about the nationality of the lorry driver who murdered 12 revellers in Berlin.

23/12/16 08:40

Pictured for the first time, this is the interior of the mosque where Anis Amri was allegedly seen just eight hours after driving a 25-ton lorry into a crowd at a Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring 56.

23/12/16 02:24

The family of Berlin terror suspect Anis Amri, who still live in the small Tunisian town of Oueslatia, appeared outside their home where they tearfully called for him to turn himself in.

23/12/16 02:02

The footage, captured on the dashcam of a nearby motorist, shows the 25-tonne truck speeding towards the crowds browsing stalls for festive gifts.

23/12/16 01:59

Stalls on Breitscheidplatz square opened again today three days after the 25-tonne lorry was used as a weapon to murder 12 and injure 48 more.

23/12/16 01:48

Elite commandos hunting for Anis Amri, 24, blew up the front door, threw in stun grenades and witnesses reported gunfire - hours after four of his associates were arrested in Dortmund, pictured.

23/12/16 00:54

Tataouine is the hometown of Anis Amri, 24, who is the prime suspect in the Berlin massacre which left 12 people dead and 48 others injured after a truck ploughed through a Christmas market.

22/12/16 21:45

Dave Duncan, of Otley, West Yorkshire, said he was shocked by what happened to 37-year-old Lukasz Urban and decide to raise money from 'the truckers of the UK and beyond'.

22/12/16 21:38

The Prime Minister said people should not be frightened by Monday night's terror attack in Berlin, when 12 people were killed and 48 injured by a lorry being driven into a Christmas market.

22/12/16 19:04

Anis Amri, 24, also left fingerprints on the door and his wallet under the driver's seat in the hijacked truck before it sent people flying like pins in Breitscheidplatz on Monday night.

22/12/16 17:57

Brexit figurehead Arron Banks made the controversial remark as populists across Europe rounded on the German chancellor over her open-doors immigration policy.

22/12/16 16:14

Dalia Elyakim, from Herzliya, Israel, was with her husband Rami as the truck rampaged through wooden stalls at the market in Berlin on Monday night in an attack that claimed 12 lives.

22/12/16 15:39

'You know my plans,' Trump said of his longstanding campaign promise to implement 'extreme vetting' of some immigrants. 'All along, I've been proven to be right, 100 per cent correct.'

22/12/16 09:23

Hugh Theodore Bronson, pictured, the deputy leader of the Alternative For Deutschland party said that German deportation law was ignored because the authorities were afraid of offending Muslims.

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