Trains halted across Germany with glitch

A problem with a communications system forced Germany’s railway network to halt all trains late Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded across the country.

Trains were held at stations and would-be travelers stood in long lines at information desks as they tried to figure out how to get to their destinations.

The main national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said shortly before 1 a.m. — nearly 2 1/2 hours after it first reported the outage — that the problem had been resolved and service was resum ...