An American satellite was launched on Thursday to investigate the edge of the atmosphere, the outer shell of the earth. There, more than a hundred kilometers above our heads, the atmosphere slowly merges into the infinity of the universe.
The euro is gaining momentum against the dollar to above $ 1.25, the highest level since December 2014 after positive comments from ECB president Mario Draghi on economic development in the eurozone and the expectation that inflation will pick up in the long term.
Liberia prohibits the circumcision of women for a year. That is a big step because about half of the women in the country are familiar with these practices. Yet protesters who are fighting against it are not happy. They urge the new president George Weah to have a permanent law that is complied with and that applies to everyone.
The high water level in the Seine interferes with part of the train traffic in Paris. The government has decided to close a number of stations on the popular RER C line on Wednesday. These include the stops Saint-Michel / Notre-Dame and Musée d'Orsay.
South Korea stops crypto buying via anonymous bank accounts. With this, the country wants to embrace coins like bitcoin, but above all limit the money laundering of criminals.
The British armed forces are too small and insufficiently equipped to deal with any danger from the Russians. That danger can emerge faster than we think, according to the British army general Nick Carter.
Saudi Arabia argues for the longer limitation of oil production by members of OPEC oil cartel.
In the US Senate, at the end of the deadline, too few members voted to keep the money supply for public spending open in the coming period.
Brent oil has exceeded $ 70 per barrel on Monday. Oil-producing countries within the cartel OPEC are seeking further restrictions on production while demand is increasing.
A car has drilled into a dental practice in Santa Ana, California, California. In itself not strange, but the car rammed the first floor of the practice...
The most important Russian human rights organization Memorial is afraid of the future of their activist Ojoeb Titijev. This was recently arrested in Chechnya. He is formally in pre-trial detention for possession of drugs.
Dark clouds get together above Paul Manafort, the former campaign leader of President Donald Trump. He was indicted by a court in New York for fraud by a Russian company, after the company had borrowed nearly $ 19 million from Manafort to invest in a Ukrainian media company.
Unique images from the Sahara. In the desert in north-western Algeria, the sand dunes have disappeared under a layer of snow. According to local media, it is the third time in forty years that there is snow.
Natural disasters have cost insurers a new record of claims for damages. That is a precursor for what will come next in the coming years, according to the German reinsurer Munich Re.
By a fire in a shop and homes in the Bronx district in New York, 23 people were injured Tuesday, seven of whom were a firefighter. The fire arose in a furniture store and then spread over the above houses.
The offer is exclusively in bitcoin: for 400 of these digital coins you can buy the 'pristine' beach paradise Bloody Bay on Union Island in the Caribbean.
The most bizarre domestic violence case of my career, sheriff Rick Staly calls it. An American man has set up a booby staircase to electrocute his wife through the door.
Meteor 2017 YZ4 is shaving past the earth today. The asteroid with a diameter of seven and fifteen meters sucks around us at five o'clock this afternoon with a speed of 34,000 kilometers.
Many drinks, meeting places in Brussels and Strasbourg often far away from family and above average many beautiful young women. The temptations in the European Parliament are great for many male MEPs. For a long time abuses were cleared, but the spirit is out of the bottle. After #metoo another wind is blowing.
NORAD is normally responsible for the defense of North American airspace against missile attacks, but today and tomorrow this American air force unit has a- perhaps even more important- task in: following Santa.
A Russian stewardess has fallen from the plane during the preparations for the start at an airport in Moscow. She had slipped and collapsed when she wanted to close the back door, airline Utair said according to the news agency Tass.
Beijing has accused the United States on Tuesday of isolating and being selfish. That was a reaction to the security strategy that Trump presented on Monday. In it he called China and Russia as competitors that challenge the power of the United States.
Six men were sentenced to death in India for the murder of a man who, according to the perpetrators, was married above his status. The 22-year-old man was slaughtered last year by a group of attackers in Udumalpet in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Vladimir Putin participates in the Russian presidential elections in March as an independent politician. He confirmed this Thursday in a TV program where he answers questions from citizens every year.
The regime in Pyongyang does benefit from the strong increase in bitcoin. The communist country itself has begun generating the digital currency. That's what Lee Dong-geun, director of a South Korean government agency for internet security, said on Tuesday.
The American state of California is deploying more than a thousand firefighters to fight the wildfires that flared up a few days ago. The fire threatens more than 12,000 houses.
Corruption among Bulgarian civil servants causes extremely long waiting times at the Turkish-Bulgarian border, according to two MEPs, including Kati Piri (PvdA). They call on the Bulgarian government after ten years of EU membership to tackle corruption 'at last seriously'.
On social media a real manhunt arose on a man who would have been on the train about the fact that he is deceiving his girlfriend. Especially on Twitter has been a message for days of a girl who calls herself Emily.
The Venezuelan airline Avior Airlines is no longer allowed to fly in European airspace. The company has been put on the list of unsafe companies, the European Commission announced.
Under the famous Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem, pressure is currently being drilled and scooped. Under the hill a new burial site will be constructed where 22,000 to 24,000 dead can be buried. Jerusalem has no place for the dead above ground.
