The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has returned to the atmosphere in the night from Sunday to Monday at 2:15 am (Dutch time). According to Chinese space authorities, the drifting space station was for the most part destroyed when it sank through the atmosphere over the Southern Pacific Ocean.
A two-engine aircraft crashed on the grass strip next Saturday on the French A47 motorway near Saint-Chamond.
Two pilots from different commercial airlines have, separately from each other, passed a UFO (unidentified flying object) to the air traffic control. They saw 'something' fly far above them during a flight over the desert in Arizone at the end of February, but what...?
Facebook will inform six important committees in the House of Representatives and the Senate, including those of justice, about the use of customer data at the Executive Board on Wednesday. Worldwide, the pressure on the social media company has been stepped up to explain what may have gone wrong in terms of privacy. American parliamentarians, as well as their EU colleagues, called senior manager Mark Zuckerberg to account.
The Turkish forces guarantee citizens who want to leave the besieged Syrian city Afrin a safe retreat. On Friday they said they had pamphlets strewn above the stronghold of the Kurdish militia YPG.
A US senator has asked United Airlines for clarification after the death of a puppy. The dog died in an airplane after a stewardess had ordered the carrier bag with the French bulldog in the baggage compartment above the seats to stop.
Royal Dutch Shell, according to energy experts, is threatening to lose the exploitation of the large gas supply for the Australian coast from the Japanese Inpex.
A ten-month-old puppy did not survive a flight with United Airlines. The creature had to be stowed away from a flight attendant in the cargo area above the heads of the passengers. The frightened dog squeaked a large part of the flight, but when the owner opened the lid of the rack after landing, she found the dead four-footer Papacito.
The Republicans in the Committee of Inquiry of the House of Representatives state that they have found no evidence that Russia has intervened in the election campaign of US President Donald Trump. The committee has completed the hearings of the investigation into the alleged conspiracy.
Most people would think twice before they would come close to a spider that is bigger than a male hand, which makes a whistling sound and has great poisonous teeth. But when a group of Australians saw such a huge spider dangling from a branch above a flood, they decided to save the animal.
It is the hottest winter ever measured at the North Pole and scientists are therefore very concerned about it. The experts have never seen anything like this. 'This situation is just crazy.'
A 44-year-old German woman owes her life to her dog. She fell in Paderborn (North Rhine-Westphalia) on Wednesday afternoon in the now freezing river Alme, but got help from her four-legged friend.
A hefty Chinese taxation affects the market of football transfers with top players. This also seems to be a temporary stop on the departure of expensive players from European competitions to China.
Wreckage pieces of a Sunday crashed Iranian plane have finally been traced in the inaccessible and snowy Zagros Mountains in southern Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been vigorously accused of Iran at the annual International Safety Conference in Munich. The country is 'the biggest threat to our world', Netanyahu said, holding a piece of a drone.
In the abusive scandal around the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's envoy, heard the first testimony of an abuse victim.
Some European defense projects involving the Dutch research organization TNO can count on financial support from the European Defense Fund. The largest research project called Ocean2020 revolves around unmanned submarines and drones that monitor the situation at sea and can take action in the event of a threat.
Packed Bavarian beer halls, heavy stuff and of course trees with bretzels on wooden tables. In addition, a crowd of cheerfully drunken Germans, fat men in Lederhose, blond women in Dirndl, plus a political leader who publicly ridicules the competition. For example, an average Ash Wednesday runs with our eastern neighbors.
A Virgin Atlantic plane made a 'love flight' on Valentine's Day. The device rose specially to draw a heart.
The end is approaching for the first space station in China. Heavenly Palace 1, as the building is called, will perish in the atmosphere in a few weeks. The European space agency ESA estimates that it will take place between 25 March and 17 April.
Steve Wynn resigned as director of casino company Wynn Resorts that he founded.
We have not yet succeeded in launching a new SpaceX rocket with a red Tesla Roadster. The game breaker is the strong wind high in the sky above Cape Canaveral's space base in Florida.
Bizarre images because of the natural violence in Indonesia. Due to the heavy rainfall, a complete hill was washed away at Warung Menteng, but to everyone's dismay the railway between Bogor and Sukabumi was spared. The track now floats over a length of tens of meters as a sort of pergola above the ground.
The Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria then blew himself up with a grenade. That is what the Russian Ministry of Defense says, according to news agency TASS, that the major was surrounded by insurgents after his landing.
After an incident at a carnival parade in the German town of Eppingen near Heilbronn where a badly wounded person fell, the police are looking for two people dressed as witches. The police suspect them of severe abuse and negligence in providing help.
The Belgian lawsuit against terror suspect Salah Abdeslam started in Brussels with great interest. The 28-year-old Frenchman immediately made clear no questions to answer.
ExxonMobil, the largest oil producer in the US, states that it will produce all its stocks of fossil fuels such as crude oil and gas. The competitor of Shell will look ahead to halfway through this century.
A fourth Merkel cabinet has been a bit closer since today. The negotiating parties- conservatives and social democrats- reached an important compromise in the family reunification for refugees, which for the time being is up to a thousand people per month. Only the left SPD members can now throw a spanner in the works with a veto.
Donald Savastano was lucky when he won a million dollars with a scratch card in early January. But his happiness was of a very short duration.
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