Profit shot for Warren Buffett
August 4, 2018 21:45'Super investor' Warren Buffett has significantly increased profits from its Berkshire Hathaway fund by 67% over the past quarter.
'Super investor' Warren Buffett has significantly increased profits from its Berkshire Hathaway fund by 67% over the past quarter.
The heat has certainly claimed three lives in Spain in recent days. In Barcelona, passers-by found a man in the street in whom the blood ran out of his mouth. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. It turned out that the man was overcome by the heat.
In the 90s there were two characters who always tried to outsmart each other: Crash Bandicoot and Spyro The Dragon. Crash the pouchbag and Spyro the purple dragon try again to stick out above each other, because Spyro wants to come flaming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this year. His age-old rival Crash Bandicoot, on the other hand, is a few steps ahead of him.
The Israeli anti-aircraft has shot a Syrian fighter plane from above the Golan Heights. The army reports that it has 'intercepted' a device from the Russian manufacturer Soechoj that Israel's airspace had invaded 2 kilometers.
The Belgian air traffic control Belgocontrol has reopened the airspace above the country. Air traffic has started gradually since 5.30 pm, Belgocontrol reports. Due to a technical problem, the airspace was closed shortly after 16.00.
The Belgian air traffic control Belgocontrol has closed the airspace above the country. The reason for this is a technical problem.
Some 37 kilometers from the Belgian coast, a group of about 25 dolphins has been seen by employees of the Belgian Museum of Natural Sciences, who flew in an airplane above sea for inspection work. It is a group of tumblers.
An intense heat wave in Japan has cost the lives of at least fourteen people in recent days. Thousands of people had to be treated in hospitals after they became unwell due to high temperatures, reports Japanese media. The mercury rose to above 39 degrees in some places on Monday.
At least eight migrants, including six children, were stuck in Libya in a container. Another ninety other people who have been removed from the container are in critical condition. They have been transferred to a hospital, local authorities say.
In recreational lake Berkendonk in Helmond, the poisonous and potentially carcinogenic substance PFOA was found during measurements by the water board. PFOA is known as the more dangerous precursor of GenX. The substance was found during follow-up research into the Helmond company Custom Powders that GenX and PFOA processed for the acclaimed Dordrecht company Chemours.
A huge iceberg has been driven to a small coastal village in Greenland. The authorities fear that a tsunami could hit the town of Innaarsuit if the collapse collapses.
Protestors against US President Trump's policy have fired a big balloon on Friday in London to introduce a baby version of the American president. The baby Trump hangs above the square in front of the parliament with permission from the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
More than five thousand years after his death, it became clear what was the last meal of Ötzi the IJsman, the famous frozen mummy found in the Alps. Ötzi ate fat meat, grain and fern shortly before his death.
A homeless man from the United States mistreated a fellow countryman from another state with scissors while the victim was on vacation in Miami. Strange detail: the perpetrator has no arms.
WhatsApp now shows it when someone has forwarded a message from someone else. Cursor is 'forwarded' above the message. The feature is in the latest version of WhatsApp.
In the event of attacks or major natural disasters, YouTube will now also publish written news reports. That news comes from reliable websites such as The New York Times or CNN. With this new feature, YouTube wants to counter the spread of fake news.
What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
Enthusiastic, lively, sporty. Little by little the information of the Thai grandsons who were rescued in the last few days drips inside. Three boys were celebrating their birthday, another had asthma, yet another promised to help his parents 'better in future'. Everyone has his own story.
Rescue workers have rediscovered bodies from the water in the vicinity of the Thai island of Phuket on Saturday, where a boat with Chinese tourists capsized and sank earlier this week. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the death toll has now risen to 42. Fourteen of 105 passengers are still missing.
Imports of certain steel products into the EU will be restricted by mid-July. Steel producers are looking for other markets, especially in the EU, as they have to pay 25 percent import duties on their steel products to the United States.
A programmer in Israel is suspected of trying to sell sensitive cyber technology. The man asked on the so-called dark web, the hidden part of the internet, converted more than 42 million euros for the stolen data, the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced.
Another six people died from the ongoing heat in the Canadian city of Montreal. The thermometer has been indicating temperatures above 33 degrees for days. The number of victims is therefore twelve. The weather services issued a heat alarm for Montreal. Also for a large part of Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick warnings were given for the heat.
Run with a heavy book bag on your back. School corridors are extremely suitable for this, but teachers are not always happy with it. The solution? Optical illusion! The American teacher and author of the book 'Undoing the Damage: Repairing a Broken School District' posted a photo of a freshly painted school walk on Twitter.
The Thai Seals do everything they can to get the Thai soccer team, which has been missing since a Saturday in a cave complex in the north of the country, alive above ground. Rescue workers are drilling a deep shaft to free the players and the coach. The rescue operation is difficult because the caves have been flooded by heavy rainfall.
Activists of the environmentalist Greenpeace who oppose the use of coal have painted the road surface of a prominent square in Berlin as a protest. The roundabout around the Siegesäule (Victory Column), to the west of the Bundestag, has been treated with 3500 liters of yellow paint which, according to Greenpeace, is washable and environmentally friendly.
A 32-year-old woman came to the doctor with complaints. She had a moving bump in her face for weeks. First under eye, then above her eyelid and then in her lip. What turned out? It was a living parasite, which can be up to 30cm long.
It was a bizarre spectacle, earlier this month in a luxury hotel in Saudi Jedda. During a fashion show no models walked on the catwalk, but drones were used to fly the expensive dresses through the hall.
Primary school students have lost sight of a cake that they have sent into space. The transmitter that should have kept the position of the baking is no longer traceable.
If the appearance is not deceiving, Merkels `Willkommenskultur 'ends today with the' open borders'. Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs) wants to close the Bavarian border for refugees who have already applied for asylum in another EU country.
The chance of getting sick seems to be the greatest in an airplane where everyone is sitting on top of each other. Recent research has shown that the chances of a cold, for example, increase considerably when you step on board.