An explosion rocked the city of Ansbach in the German state of Bavaria early Monday morning, killing the suspected bomber and injuring 12 others, the BBC reports.

Officials say the 18-year-old German-Iranian man who killed nine people in Munich on Friday before turning the gun on himself was “obsessed” with shooting rampages and apparently spent a year planning his attack, The Guardian reports.

A shooting at Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany, has left at least six people dead and many others injured, according to various reports.

On Monday, police shot and killed a 17-year-old Afghan migrant armed with an axe and knife after he attacked train passengers in southern Germany, the Associated Press reports. Four people are said to be in serious condition, but the total number of injured is not yet clear.

Update, 12:44 pm: The German government has reportedly stated that the weapon used by the previously reported gunman may not have been real.

There are “too many” refugees in Europe, the Dalai Lama told Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. The spiritual leader of Tibet, a famous refugee who fled China into India after the Tibetan uprising in 1959, packaged some oddly xenophobic tones between his sympathies.

Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service has been spying on Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office for years, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.

They came to Germany in search of better lives. But they left Germany in search of better food.

A fire—the result of suspected arson—tore through a former hotel in eastern Germany on Sunday, causing possibly irreparable damage, the Associated Press reports. Police said onlookers cheered as the building, which was in the midst of being converted to a home for refugees, burned.

Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from…

At least 10 people were killed and 15 more were wounded this morning in an attack on Sultanahmet, the historic central district of Istanbul, Turkey. According to Turkish officials, a Syrian suicide bomber who may have been affiliated with ISIS or Kurdish separatists was behind the attack.

With Mein Kampf back on German bookshelves for the first time in 70 years, Germans are buying up the murderous manifesto faster than even online retailers can churn it out. In less than a week of being back in its native tongue, Mein Kampf is already sold out in Germany.

On New Year’s Eve, in Cologne, Germany, hundreds of young men took part in what appeared to be an organized campaign of sexual harassment against about 90 women around the Cologne Cathedral. According to Reuters, on Tuesday, authorities described the events as “a new dimension in crime.”

On Friday, Reuters reports, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been trying to consolidate power since becoming prime minister in 2003, offered the Third Reich as an example of a good, effective, well-run government.

A copyright fight is brewing in Europe this week as the deadline after which two key WWII-era texts will fall within the public domain steadily approaches. In Europe, a book becomes public domain 70 years after the author’s death, on the first day of January. This Friday, January 1st, both Anne Frank’s Diary of a…

A group of 15-20 people wearing black clothes and hoods attacked the building housing Facebook’s offices in Hamburg, Germany, police said in a statement Saturday. Reuters reports that the vandals smashed glass, threw paint, and sprayed “Facebook dislike” on a wall. A Facebook spokesman said no one was injured.

German lawmakers voted today to aid France in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Per the AP, Germany will engage in a “broad noncombat mission” by sending reconnaissance jets and a frigate to support French operations.

On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to resettle 20,000 people currently living in refugee camps in Syria, Turkey and Jordan over the next five years, the BBC reports.

After a series of policy reversals by Hungary’s xenophobic government, on Saturday, refugees in that country from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan were able to cross the Hungarian border with Austria and continue on to Germany, the Associated Press reports.

Less than a day after a truck containing 71 decomposing bodies was found outside Vienna, police stopped a small van carrying 26 refugees in northern Austria, including three small children who were hospitalized with severe dehydration, the New York Times reports.http://gawker.com/someone-left-a…