New Year's fireworks accidents kill five in Germany

Germans celebrate New Year's Eve with a particularly intense usage of fireworks, which spurs a recurrent debate about outlawing the most powerful devices, given the high number of injuries each year, as well as the pollution and noise they cause. Thirty law enforcement officers were injured, including one seriously wounded by an illegally manufactured firework, said police spokesman Florian Nath. Some 400 people were detained in the capital Berlin overnight, police said, adding that contrary to previous years...