After an eight-year investigation, astronomers conclude that there are many more heavy stars than previously assumed. The astronomers, including two scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), publish their results in the journal Science.
The 45-year-old man from Malta who at the end of last year made a false bombshell that cleared the international train between Amsterdam and Berlin, remains stuck. His pre-trial detention has been extended by two weeks, the Public Prosecution Service reports Wednesday.
Madeline Anello-Kitzmiller, the topless 'glitter girl' that went viral on Tuesday when she did not pick it up when a snipe hit her at a festival in her breasts, has now also verbally beaten back. 'My breasts are not sex toys, they are not an invitation.'
Network manager Tennet has spent nearly a billion euros in Germany in 2017 on shutting down power plants and shutting down wind farms. This prevented a surplus of renewable electricity from causing problems on Tennet's part of the German high-voltage grid.
The owner of the Playboy empire is openly alluding to the fact that the magazine of the same name is still disappearing this year.
Icelandic men and women doing the same job must also have the same wage for this from this year onwards. The island state in the Atlantic Ocean is the first country in the world with such a rule.
Makati City, the financial center of the Philippines, is the selfie-city of the world. At least, according to the American weekly magazine Time, which combined 400,000 selfies on Instagram with geographic coordinates. In the top 100, Amsterdam is on place 28 and Utrecht on place 70.
Message service Whatsapp suffers from New Year's Eve with a malfunction and that is a problem for many people. Who wants to send family and friends New Year's wishes via an 'app' has to wait and see if that message arrives on time.
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Members of extreme right-wing groups invest massively in crypto coins as bitcoin, because their regular bank accounts are frozen. In this way they know how to circumvent government control and earn money for extreme actions in the future.
Everyone knows it: you are queuing up at the counter, but the line next to you seems to go much faster. That is why you transfer to the other cash register. The result: you are waiting even longer than if you had just stopped.
The Bulgarian clairvoyant Baba Vanga, who died in 1996 at the age of 85, predicted that 2018 will be the year in which China becomes the new superpower and that next year a 'new energy' will be discovered on the planet Venus.
According to two independent researchers, the NIOD research institute wrongly concluded that a watercolor that was given earlier this year was 'almost certainly' painted by Adolf Hitler. The poets Bart FM Droog and Jaap van den Born state on the basis of their own research that the institute 'ignored all alarm bells' and 'unsound and half-hearted' research.
The Russian armed forces trained on an attack on the West during the military exercise Zapad 2017 earlier this year. The exercise included the Baltic states and air strikes were carried out on targets in, among others, Germany and possibly also the Netherlands.
The holidays are experiencing an increase in jewelery sales, but diamond producers are struggling with ever stronger competition- of machines.
An American professor has aroused the anger of many Americans as her research on the song 'Jingle Bells' roams the internet. The song would be the first to be sung by white singers who turned their faces dark.
Between 25 August and 24 September, more than 6700 members of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar were possibly murdered, including 730 children. The aid organization MSF-Holland estimates this on the basis of discussions with numerous refugees in Bangladesh.
China seems to take seriously into account an American attack on North Korea. In the deepest secrecy, Beijing is building a number of refugee camps on the border with the empire of dictator Kim Jong-un, as is now being leaked.
US President Donald Trump has suffered a defeat with the loss of his protégé, former judge Roy Moore, in the elections in the southern state of Alabama. Thanks to an unexpectedly high turnout of black voters, the profits went to the Democrat Doug Jones, with which the majority of Republicans in the Senate are only one seat.
Is the elongated, red-colored object of 400 meters long and 40 meters that was spotted in October by astronomers a space probe that was built by extraterrestrials? Or is it an ordinary piece of space rock? A group of scientists hopes to receive an answer to that question.
Asteroid 2017 VL2- the size of a whale- has missed the earth 'except for one' last month. She flew 'only' at just 115,000 kilometers from the earth. That is not even a third of the distance between the moon and earth. Worst of all is that space agency NASA did not know what was going on.
A new trend in make-up country. Christmas eyebrows take over Instagram at a furious pace. Glitters, stars, lights and balls. Nothing is to crazy.
Thousands of men, women and children are stuck on the Greek islands while winter is coming again. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding the relief effort. The organization calls on European and Greek governments to immediately allow refugees to move to the mainland.
The plan of US President Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state and to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem within four years has been received almost everywhere in the world.
Michael I was once Europe's youngest king. In 1927 he was installed as the sovereign of Romania as a 5-year-old, because his father preferred his mistress rather than his country. Michael's rule did not last long: the advisors of the prince of the child were in a permanent state of quarrel with each other, so after three years Father Carol II rescinded his decision and took the crown back from his son.
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Do you feel good and healthy after exercise? That is not entirely right. Because while you loose with weights, on the treadmill or with a rubber ball, invisible and pathogenic bacteria multiply at high speed...
For the first time in thirty years, AIDS prevention has gone a long way. According to a new report from the Aidsfonds, this has to do with 'increasing conservatism' in the world, which prevents people living with or vulnerable to HIV, such as homosexual men and sex workers.
Amnesty International calls on Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to conduct a criminal investigation into the role of Shell in crimes committed by the Nigerian government against the Ogoni community in the 1990s.
