Archaeologists have found a huge black sarcophagus near the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria. The discovery of a dense coffin is rare, because tombs from ancient Egypt have been plundered.
The rescue operation to liberate the twelve Thai footballers and their trainer from a flooded cave has begun. Eighteen divers have been sent into the cave to save the boys. This was communicated to the manager of the operation at a press conference.
Football crazy Mexicans eat the last bits of frustration away about the loss four years ago against the Dutch national team at the World Championship in Brazil.
The French president Macron has surprisingly come up with a house and techno party in his official residence, the Elysée.
Three dogs were taken from a sweltering car in Bruges on Saturday night. The dogs had been in the vehicle for 5.5 hours. A Bernese Mountain Dog had already died from dehydration when the animal was taken out of the car. A dog of the same breed was still alive, but collapsed shortly thereafter.
An American 'trophy hunter' goes viral on social media after she places photos of a giraffe shot on social media, accompanied by commentary that makes nature conservation fierce.
A federal jury in Boston considers an elderly ex-Mafia boss of the Cosa Nostra in New England guilty of the murder of a nightclub owner in 1993. The body was buried in Rhode Island and discovered only two years ago.
A bicycle thief in the German city of Kassel has found a very remarkable way to get a bicycle. The thief has cut down a tree to steal a mountain bike.
It is no longer possible to book a ride with Uber directly via Google Maps. The option has disappeared, the website Android Police discovered. It is not known whether the change has been made by Google or Uber and what the reason is. It is still possible to book with an intermediate step, via the Uber app.
The seed of the American mathematics professor Ari Nagel is not welcome in Israel. The American has dozens of offspring in dozens of women in his homeland and is known there as 'The Sperminator'.
Tourists in the normally idyllic Corfu see their holidays ruined by a pervasive stench. The reason: the island is largely hidden under a layer of waste. And that starts to smell bad.
The French customs has rolled up an illegal online marketplace on the so-called darknet. The forum, known as the Black Hand, offered forbidden products and services for sale for more than two years. This is reported by the French Ministry of Budget.
The book stalls on the Seine are just as close to the city of light as the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame. The 'bouquinistes' have a hard time because they are getting less and less read, but they see nothing in the proposal to get their green cabinets on the Unesco World Heritage List.
The Turkish resort of Samsun on the Black Sea has devised a very special way to advertise for itself. The town has invited a bunch of stunning young Russian female bloggers who have millions of followers on social media.
The Hawaiian volcano Kilauea is still spitting fire. On Wednesday morning a new eruption was signaled at the top. The villages in the area can expect an ash rain again according to the authorities. Lava runs up to 50 meters into the air from gorges on the eastern slope.
Sponsorship Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes has raised 11,230,804.79 euros so far. That is more than a million more than last year. The race, in which cyclists, runners and handbikers conquer Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez in the French Alps one to six times, raises money for research into cancer.
The plane that disappeared from the radar in Kenya on Tuesday crashed. None of the ten occupants, including two crew members, survived the disaster. That made airline Fly-SAX known after a rescue team found the plane.
Around 4500 participants will participate in the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes on Thursday. Under the motto 'Giving up is not an option' they climb the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez, the famous \u0026 # x27; Dutch \u0026 # x27; mountain from the Tour de France. With this they want to raise money for research into the cure of cancer.
A poisonous path threatens the animal world on the island of Madagascar. According to German researchers, of the 77 species that eat frogs, there is only one file against the poison in the black scar path.
The director of the Guatemalan Institute of Volcanology assumes that the energy of the erupted Volcán de Fuego will decrease further, but the danger for local residents has not gone away. 'In general, he is still more active than usual. Very hot gases can still be emitted ', warned Eddy Sánchez.
A 'vegan command' in the center of the northern French Lille Monday during the day a restaurant short and small beaten. Following the newspaper La Voix du Nord, there were two or three masked perpetrators who were completely dressed in black.
The heroes of the fire brigade in the Chinese city of Anhui have managed to save over twenty young dogs and cats from a burning pet store. Animals that were unconscious are still alive through resuscitation and the administration of oxygen.
The 2-year-old Iraqi Kurdish girl who died two weeks ago in Belgium because of a supposedly lost police bullet was buried Wednesday in Brussels. The hearse was escorted during the trip to the cemetery by a silent march of hundreds of people dressed in white. Many of them wore a white rose.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok has in the UN Security Council sought the confrontation with the Russians he blames 'to spread disinformation' and 'to distort reality' about the shooting of the MH17 in the airspace of Ukraine.
An American drove 28 kilometers on Thursday after a collision with a gun. Only when he stopped at a gas station did he discover the 'flying game'.
The price of a barrel of crude oil (Brent) drops to well below $ 80 a barrel on Friday after the highest level since the end of 2014 has been tapped in the past week.
The Chinese authorities imposed a fine on a company that declared Taiwan as 'country of origin' on packaging material. The Japanese Muji has to pay 200,000 yuan (more than 26,000 euros).
A Japanese climber died on Monday at his eighth attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The 36-year-old Nobukazu Kuriki is the second man to leave this climbing season on the dreaded mountain.
Nationalist extremists have verbally and physically attacked the mayor of the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Giannis Boutaris. He was slightly injured. 'What I've experienced is a nightmare', said Boutaris against Greek media Sunday.
In the air disaster in Cuba, at least twenty priests from a Protestant church were killed. The company had attended a theological service in Havana and was on the way back to the eastern Cuban province of Holguin, reports AP.
