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A Muslim who refused to shake hands with a job interview received 3800 euros in damages.

Jeremy Meeks owes his career as a model to the prison photo that the police issued from him after a complaint for gun possession and the adversity of his arrest. He soon got the nickname of 'best-known criminal in the world', but now internet users have set their sights on someone else; a woman this time.

Brazilian student Danielle Breene will publicly auction her virginity.

A 46-year-old woman who won 148 million pounds (now 165 million euros) in the Euromillions lottery, is separated after a year and is now married to a convicted swindler.

Are you on holiday in Turkey, or do you live there and notice something of the rapid depreciation of the Lira?

The enormous loss of value of the Turkish lira now also has consequences for foreigners in Turkey. Several money exchange offices in the country have closed their doors today, local media reports and people traveling in the country.

He jumped in 1971 with a parachute and $ 200,000 ransom of 3000 meters from a commercial plane and became one of the greatest legends of crime history. The real identity of the mysterious Master Paper 'D.B. Cooper 'has never been established. A fanatical researcher now claims that he has the conclusive evidence of who is hiding behind the biggest hijacking mystery ever.

Are you flying with Ryanair and threatening to fall into the water?

It will be black Saturday again! The ANWB expects top pressure on the French and Italian motorways, both to the north and to the south.

Anyone who wants to steal a pot of that wonderful beach sand on holiday in Sardinia will get the lid on the nose from the Italian authorities. In order to protect the nature of the island, the fines for this crime have been increased to 3000 euros.

A man who rented his vacation apartment with three beds through Airbnb, was shocked when a Bible study group of 25 appeared that did not want to leave.

The British government is considering banning the eating of dog meat after reports that this practice also occurs there.

The former British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson also refuses to take a word back from his qualification 'letterbox' for women who wear a burqa or niqab.

After a short period of absence, the superhero Spider-Man is back again. The superhero not only gains ground in various cinema films that he appears in, but also in the game area, the hero winds up our living rooms.

The primaries in four American states seem to be dramatic for President Trump and his Republican party. The interim election for a Congressman in the important state of Ohio was 'too close to call' this morning, a blow to the Republicans because Ohio has been in their hands for more than 30 years.

The British government is going to ask the Kremlin for the extradition of two Russians suspected of carrying out the attack on double spy Skripal, his daughter Julia and two innocent passersby with the nerve poison novitsjok. That reports the magazine The Guardian.

Hot, hotter, hottest. Spain puffs itself, after a relatively fresh spring, now through a heat wave, with extremely high temperatures at various places. In 37 provinces today 'alerta naranja / rojo', code orange / red for temperatures that can vary between 38 and 45 degrees. There have even been deaths. Do Dutch tourists have to worry?

Facebook wants to remind users how much time they spend on social media. The company therefore introduces new functions that keep track of how long people are on Facebook and Instagram. This should ensure that people deal more consciously with their time on social media, so the company motivates the measure. Instagram is the property of Facebook.

At Samsung they keep working through during the summer. Today the Korean technology giant introduced two new tablets: the Galaxy Tab A 10.5 for the whole family and the productivity-oriented Galaxy Tab S4.

A speech by former US President Bill Clinton during the AIDS2018 AIDS conference in Amsterdam was disrupted Friday by a group of demonstrators. They shouted that the next AIDS conference in 2020 should not be held in the United States.

Cricket legend Imran Khan yesterday declared himself the winner of the Pakistani parliamentary elections, to the great anger of Nawaz Sharif, his direct opponent who is currently imprisoned for corruption.

The 19-month breakdown of the acquisition of NXP by its American counterpart Qualcomm, is not a disaster for the Dutch chipmaker. It is well positioned to continue independently and receives a $ 2 billion penny fee from Qualcomm, now that the $ 44 billion deal will not go ahead. The Americans needed NXP harder than the other way around.

With 11 million euros, the Dutch Postcode Lottery has successfully brought one of the most violent epidemics of HIV in the world- in the far Swaziland- to a halt.

Teenagers are the most worrying group of victims of the AIDS epidemic worldwide. Every hour thirty young people aged fifteen to eighteen become infected with HIV, two-thirds of them are girls. They are the hardest to suffer. This is stated in a new UNICEF report, which was presented at the international conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday.

After an hour-long closure due to heat damage, the Hanover airport is open again. Shortly after six, the first planes landed. The first aircraft that left was a KLM aircraft that departed at 6.31 am with destination Amsterdam, according to a spokeswoman for the airport in Hanover.

At Foreign Affairs is still nothing known of Dutch who in the wildfire area in Greece have been in trouble.

Fans of the world-famous chocolate bar Toblerone take a breath of fresh air. The manufacturer of the bar has decided to produce Toblerone in the United Kingdom again in original format- to the relief of almost the entire nation.

A very special delivery. The pregnant Falon Griffin has her daughter in the world brought to the toilet of the American fast food chain Chick-Fil-A. On the occasion of the bizarre delivery, the new-born girl received a beautiful gift: a lifetime of free food and a job for when she is 16 years old.

It is a heart-warming story. Cats Bolt and Keel were dumped as Kittens in a bunch behind a trash can. Now they travel around the world with their new owners. The adventures of the duo and their owners are recorded on their Instagram page.

The American Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) warns against the rapid reduction of funding for the fight against HIV / AIDS. According to the organization, the money that is available worldwide for the past six years has dropped by 3 billion dollars (converted 2.6 billion euros) to 9 billion.