Finally something to be cheerful about for the 'Grumpy Cat'. After a lawsuit against an American coffee shop about the use of his image, the spooky cat gets a compensation of 710,000 dollars (572,000 euros).
For the price of a small apartment in Amsterdam you can buy an entire island off the coast of Scotland.
The approaching premiere of a controversial Bollywood film leads to riots in India. The police have acted against rioters in several places.
Not China's shadow banks, Brexit or North Korea, but the United States labor market is the most pronounced risk for financial markets.
A man from the American state of New Hampshire has been detained for biting a police dog, reports the police from the town of Boscawen.
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.
Andrew Fisher managed to fly around the world in record time with scheduled flights. On Tuesday he landed at Shanghai Pudong, where he left 52 hours and 34 minutes ago. The old record stood at 55 hours and 47 minutes.
The chance that you can not tell a cruise holiday is 1 in 100,000. That states the American newspaper NY Daily News. For comparison: the chance that you win the jackpot in the Staatsloterij is 1 in 4 million.
The American regulator for book controls at companies is very embarrassed. Three employees are prosecuted by the prosecutor for stealing and leaking information intended for KPMG accountant in the US.
Tuesday afternoon the nominations for the Oscars will be announced. The organization has tightened up the protocols with the dramatic 'enveloppegate' in the memory.
The Netherlands is among the world leaders in countries that are good at educating, retaining and attracting talent. The Scandinavian countries score even better from the European countries.
Eurocommercial Properties takes over the Woluwe shopping center in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe. This involves an investment of a total of 468 million euros. The transaction, which has been exclusively negotiated since October, is expected to be completed at the end of next month.
MEP Paul Tang (PvdA) wants to symbolically return the Dutch letterbox company from Bono to the U2 singer next week in Ireland.
The Dutch translation of the revealing book by Michael Wolff about Trump, Fire and Fury, is on Saturday in the bookstore.
The 96-year-old bookkeeper of Auschwitz has to go into the cell for four years. Oskar Gröning, who counted and managed the stolen money and the belongings of deported Jews, wanted the Federal Republic's pardon after his conviction. But justice in Lüneburg rejected his request yesterday- because of the mass murder of three hundred thousand people. Gröning hoped that he would not have to go into jail because of his high age and poor health.
The chance of a political, economic and even direct military confrontation between the various superpowers in the world has risen considerably, according to the World Economic Forum in a report a week before the 70 government leaders- including the American president Trump- in Davos, Switzerland. meet.
Social media in the US exploded on Tuesday night about a giant fireball that raged through the night sky, across six US states and Canada. The thing exploded over Michigan.
That the withholding of a sneeze is not a good idea has been known for some time. But how serious the health consequences can be, a 34-year-old man from the British Leicester proves.
France wants to limit the bitcoin trade. The coin, like other crypto coins, is under stricter supervision.
The 65-year-old Johannes De Wapenaere, who considers himself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, should soon appear before the Belgian judge. The man was guilty of assault and fraud. He himself is convinced that he has magical powers and can deliver people from their suffering.
After Trump took the anger of the world with his alleged statements about 'shithole countries', the American president now gets a biscuit of his own dough. Trump hotels are taken through the mud at the Yelp rating site and flooded with shithole reviews.
Accountant PwC is banned for two years on the Indian financial market. The office missed a $ 1.7 billion fraud case. PwC is not allowed to carry out book checks of listed companies during those years.
The mother of the boy who is central to the racism riot around fashion chain H \u0026 amp; M, thinks all the fuss about her son's sweater is exaggerated. 'Continue with your life', according to the woman.
His name is not so popular. Because when it is pronounced it is usually when a situation does not go as hoped. Edward E. Murphy was the creator of perhaps the world's best-known law: Murphy's Law. The American aerospace engineer would have become 100 years today.
The only openly gay prince of India opens his palace to gays, lesbians, transgenders and other Indians who are discriminated against because of their sexual preference in India. In India, sex between people of the same sex is still officially banned.
Traditionally, December and January are the months of the annual overviews. Also porn sites xHamster and Pornhub come with a ranking. The sites focused on the viewing behavior of men and women and made a striking observation: in 2017, female-friendly films were the most popular.
The announced divestment of the American branch by the French cable and telecom company Altice received a positive reception from investors on Tuesday. However, the concerns about his high debt burden are far from over.
Dutch people who celebrate their winter sports in the north-west of Italy and the south of Switzerland have to take into account a good deal of snow for the next 48 hours. In some places in the Alps can fall three to four meters.
From our editorial office abroad
The Chinese government intervenes with the bitcon. Power consumption for production of the wanted currency has been restricted. The Chinese central bank calls the intervention necessary. The enormous power consumption for bitcoin production would disturb the energy consumption in regions in the country.
