A court in Aachen, western Germany, has sentenced Fernando P., a 61-year-old school janitor, to 8 years and 6 months in prison for drugging and raping his wife over several years, and for filming and distributing videos of the assaults online. The sentencing, delivered on Friday, December 19, 2025, marks…
A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI infringed German copyright law by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models. The court determined that both the memorization of lyrics within the language models and their reproduction in the AI chatbot’s outputs constitute copyright violations. The case was brought…
Munich Airport suspended all flights on Friday evening, October 3, 2025, after further unconfirmed drone sightings — the second major disruption in just 24 hours. Around 6,500 passengers were affected when operations stopped at 21:30 local time, following Thursday’s grounding of at least 17 flights for the same reason. The…
The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany, remained closed on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, following a police operation linked to explosives found in a residential building in the city’s north. Authorities confirmed the festival grounds would stay shut until at least 5:00 pm local time (1500 GMT). According to Munich…
