Duisburg

Christie's auction house will next week launch the sale of hundreds of jewels that belonged to Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, whose German businessman husband made his fortune under the Nazis.

Three Bulgarian girls drowned in the Rhine near the German city of Duisburg. The incident happened on June 16, local media report. According to the initial information, the children are 13, 14 and 17 years old.

They entered the water last Wednesday night. A search mission began immediately.

Claims that Bulgarian and Romanian 'economic refugees' are abusing the German child welfare system by claiming benefits for children who live outside the country have attracted criticism from the Romanian Foreign Ministry.

Soren Link, the mayor of the western German city of Duisburg, accused the Berlin government of "sleeping through the problem".

Dozens were injured in a crash between two subway trains in the German city of Duisburg.

The incident happened at Auf dem Dam. At least 35 people have been injured, with two of them in a very bad condition. The causes of the incident are not clear.

The Duisburg Casino was built to tap into the underserved gambling market in Germany. Germany has almost as many casinos as Denmark, but several times as many residents as its neighbour. The Duisberg Casino is one of around seventy casinos in Germany, but it is one of the most popular in the country.

When the Duisburg Casino Opened

A court in Germany has sentenced a 53-year-old Turkish citizen to three years in jail on charges of "membership of a foreign terror organization" after ruling that he carried out outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) activities in eight different German cities for over a year. 

By Rainer Buergin & Patrick Donahue

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that European nations looking to throw Ukraine a financial lifeline could use Greece’s bailout as a blueprint.