'Do not worry about international criticism', Mohammed bin Salman told his military commanders this summer, referring to the fuss about the massacres that Saudi Arabia is provoking in Yemen. 'We want to leave an indelible impression on generations of Yemenis. We want their children, women and even the men to tremble with fear when the name Saudi Arabia falls. '
In addition to being able to count on public holidays every year, you can also count on a new Call of Duty being issued. This year the game only comes a few weeks earlier than you are used to, namely October 12.
A tough climb up the mountain, many tourists do not feel like it during their holiday. They then choose a comfortable ride by donkey. The Greek minister of Rural Development and Food intervenes after animal rights organizations have called in earlier. Overweight people may no longer be transported by the animals.
A large natural fire broke out in a national park on the coast of Portugal. The newspaper Jornal de NotÃcias reports that more than five hundred firefighters fight the conflagration spreading over the natural park of Sintra-Cascais, west of the capital Lisbon. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are evacuated as a precaution.
A white cop in Chicago has been found guilty of murder because of the shooting of a black teenager in 2014. He can go to jail for up to twenty years, reports The Washington Post.
On Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, enormous dust storms have been seen. Until now they had only been observed on the earth and on Mars.
'When I go out, the girls are around me, pleading to take them to Europe. I refuse. I am afraid to die, 'says 42-year-old Patience, who smuggled Nigerian girls to Europe for almost twenty years.
The leaders of North and South Korea visit a volcano on the Chinese border on Thursday. The active volcano is called the Paektu Mountain and is revered by many Koreans as a spiritual source of the country.
There is probably no Chinese who does not know the face of the actress Fan Bingbing. Where the Americans have actresses like Sarah Lawrence or Anne Hathaway, the Chinese have Fan.
South Korean president Moon Jae-in was welcomed at the airport at Pyongyang by Kim Jong-un. The North Korean dictator was waiting for Moon when he stepped off the plane. The women of the two leaders were present.
It will not be easy for restaurants to come with an original menu. So it is sometimes a matter of taking risks to offer something unique. But then you also have to deal with negative reactions...
Hundreds of mountain goats are evicted from Olympic National Park in Washington state because they pose a threat to visitors to the park. The goats have become so addicted to the salt in human urine and smell of sweat that they aggressively approach unsuspecting walkers.
It's Friday again, so you might want to get a greasy bite after a drink at work. A visitor to the KFC in Australia probably should not think about it anymore. He found a breaded and slimy chicken heart between his crispy chicken pieces.
A French art school has apologized for the manipulation of a class photo with which American students had to be lured. In the photo, white students were colored in black.
Princess Beatrix and Princess Mabel attended Thursday the funeral ceremony of former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Kofi Annan. Also the Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, the current UN boss Antonio Guterres and the Heads of State of Ivory Coast, Liberia, Namibia and Niger were present at the ceremony in the Ghanaian capital Accra.
The police in Norway found the kayak of the missing Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis. The canoe was in the area where other things of his have been discovered before. What these are, the police do not want to say yet. According to good friend Ancilla van de Leest, there would be identity papers from Kamphuis.
A Russian hacker who has been tried in the United States has known that there is guilt. Peter Levashov would have led the infamous Kelihos botnet. That is a network of tens of thousands of hijacked computers that were linked together.
The summer is not over yet and the new bikini trends are already running on the catwalk. On day five of the New York Fashion Week, a designer from Miami sent his models just wrapped in a few pieces of shiny tape on the catwalk.
An Australian couple that was looking for a boat, has tapped a former New Zealand warship. The 44 meter long colossus, according to broadcaster ABC, is now anchored in the home of the new owners, Paul and Wilma Adams.
A thirty-year-old policewoman in Dallas was arrested for manslaughter, after she accidentally shot her neighbor. The white agent Amber Guyger paid her deposit and was released almost immediately on Sunday evening, local media reported.
In case of protests by nationalists against immigration in Chemnitz in the east of Germany, a Jewish restaurant was attacked nearly two weeks ago. The newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday that on 27 August, ten neo-Nazis, stones, bottles and a well-worn steel pipe were tossed to the restaurant.
The police in the Canadian capital Ottawa have raised the alarm about a big black bear. A block of houses has been set up in the northern district of Byward Market, near the parliament building in the center.
He can no longer recognize the faces of his friends and can no longer read them. The 9-year-old Archie Mapson has become blind after looking in the beam of a laser pen for a few seconds. Doctors said that the English boy suffered serious eye damage: 'as if a bullet went through his eye'.
A 24-year-old man tried to smuggle his partner into the suitcase without being seen to the Turkish. The woman was folded in half in the black object, but was discovered by border guards because her friend pulled heavy luggage with great difficulty.
The American-born sportswear giant Nike has taken the anger of a part of the American population. Nike's decision to give American Football player Colin Kaepernick an important role in a new advertising campaign is being tormented and denounced on social media.
A machine gun made from Lego has brought the police into action in the German Ludwigshafen. Local residents had seen someone with the 'weapon' in a home.
A 21-year-old Samantha has recovered her missing dog three weeks after a heavy car accident in which she lost her mother. The four-legged friend was thrown out of the vehicle and was left without trace for more than twenty days. Images of the reunion between the two are a real tear-jerker. A heart warming moment for owner and dog.
A former policeman in Texas has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for killing an unarmed black teenager.
Belgium reacts shocked to a video showing that a black 15-year-old boy is being attacked by a white man and two white women. After an altercation, the boy is pushed onto the track, after which a fight occurs.
A Texas lawyer found a white policeman guilty of murdering a black teenager in a car in a suburb of Dallas in 2017. The incident sparked off the discussion in the US about racist police brutality last year.
