A car bomb exploded at the Ministry of Labor in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Smoke clouds can be seen above the city. The ministry would also have been shot and witnesses report a...
The French government deployed special units of the army on Saturday to prevent protests of the Yellow Hesjes from getting out of hand by rioters and looters. For that, the…
The death toll as a result of the tropical whirlwind Idai that struck southeastern Africa in recent days has risen to more than 150. There are also still dozens of missing, made...
The plane of Ethiopian Airlines that crashed last week had an unusually high speed after it got off the ground at Addis Ababa airport. Not long after departure...
Eighty people were injured in Japan on Saturday by a collision between a ferry and a large animal, presumably a whale. Thirteen people were seriously injured, the Coast Guard said to...
The capsule Crew Dragon of the company of businessman Elon Musk was successfully linked to the international space station ISS on Sunday. Saturday the capsule with a rocket from the company SpaceX...
KLM canceled two flights because of the closure of the airspace over Pakistan. According to the airline, this number can rise as the closing of the airspace above the...
A particularly impressive photo from Iceland also surprised NASA. On the image it looks as if a dragon is spreading its majestic wings over Iceland.
There are hardly traffic jams in the evening rush hour despite the many warnings from the ANWB, weather agencies and KNMI. In the south and east there was a lot of snow, but in the rest of the...
Grilled ducks and geese hang on hooks above the counter, the beaks troubled down. Sausages, hams and thick rags of belly fat stare at the Chinese who massively buy party at...
Above the Italian Alps, a tourist plane and a helicopter collided. As a result, according to Italian media, at least four people were killed and two injured.
The clouds seem to be gathering above the head of the two-year-old 'little boy' Julen. Literally and figuratively, because in the meantime he is already six days in the pit in Totalán and still is...
An American departure from NATO remains like a thundercloud above the alliance. President Trump proposed several times last year that his country should leave NATO.
In several places in France there have been confrontations between the 'gilets jaunes' (yellow vests) and the police. Along the Seine in Paris, agents were firing, who were pelted with projectiles,...
China has built an antenna five times the size of the city of New York. It took thirteen years to build the antenna, which can emit extremely low-frequency radio waves.
Inhabitants of New York saw an unusually bright blue light above the city sky on Thursday night. This was caused by an explosion and subsequent fire in a transformer station in the...
The number of deaths from plane crashes has risen dramatically this year. Although the number of serious civil aviation accidents remained at almost the same level as the previous year at 45,...
The Surinamese politician Ronnie Brunswijk has spread money from a helicopter over the village of Moengo Tapoe. Residents of the village quickly ran out of money, as can be seen on video images.
A 33-year-old German snowboarder was killed by an avalanche in the Austrian ski resort of Obergurgl on Tuesday. She was buried outside the prepared piste by a 400 meter...
After the sudden eruption of Mount Etna on Monday, it is still uneasy around the mountain. There are hundreds of light and some heavier earthquakes registered around the mountain in Sicily.
Flying drones above Gatwick have caused total chaos at the airport. More than a hundred thousand travelers had been duped. The flights at Gatwick and other British airports are...
Just south of the Egyptian capital Cairo is the nearly 4,500-year-old tomb of a priest. The tomb is 'exceptionally well preserved' and is therefore already a unique...
The volcano Soputan on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi erupted Sunday morning. Above the volcano an ash cloud of almost three kilometers high was created, the authorities report.
A waste installation that flew into Rome last night caused a gigantic cloud of smoke above the city. The waste facility is located on Via Salaria, not far from the center of Rome.
The problems with the government plane of Chancellor Merkel are not caused by sabotage. There is no indication that there was a malicious intent in the technical malfunction, according to a spokesman for the German Air Force.
In his hometown of Bussum, the typographer Gerard Unger died on Friday. His brother-in-law reported this to the ANP. Unger is best known for its design of the blue ANWB signage signs along and above the roads. Also the signposts in the Amsterdam metro and the tourist signposts in Rome are out of his hand.
The number of missing people after the deadliest and most devastating forest fires in California's history has risen to 630. At least 63 people were killed by the fires that broke out a week ago north of San Francisco.
A passenger who complained that he wanted to sit in the airplane at the window was served by a smart stewardess.
A convict sentenced to death indicated that he would rather die by using an electric chair than a lethal injection. The execution of the man from the American state of Tennessee is expected to take place on Thursday evening around 7:00 PM local time.
Because of the suicide attack in the center of the Tunisian capital Tunis, at least twenty people were injured. It concerns fifteen agents and five passers-by, says a spokesman for the security services. Most of them suffered minor injuries.
