The Dutch have so far donated more than 860,000 euros via giro 7244 for assistance to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by hurricane Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
The passengers on flight BA3271 from London to Düsseldorf took a moment when the commander of the aircraft welcomed them to Edinburgh after a short flight.
A painting in the Wadsworth Atheneum museum in the American city of Hartford appears to have been painted by Vincent van Gogh. It is about 'Vase with poppies' from 1886. It was already...
Agents were pelted with stones on Saturday night in the German city of Frankfurt when they stopped a flash mob that got out of hand. Three agents were hit and one hit in the…
A car bomb exploded at the Ministry of Labor in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Smoke clouds can be seen above the city. The ministry would also have been shot and witnesses report a...
The city council of the Zambian city of Ndola prohibits the Natural Power SX energy drink because it can cause fatal erections. This is evident from laboratory tests, local media report.
Students from a secondary school in the German city of Rottenburg are no longer allowed to enter the school building in their comfortable sweatpants. 'You just wear it in your spare time,' said the director.
The Persian New Year started in the Afghan capital Kabul with a series of explosions and at least six deaths. About 23 people were injured, said a spokesman for the Ministry of...
While in Mozambique there are three days of national mourning, survivors are absorbing the damage of the deadly cyclone Idai and subsequent floods.
Kazakhstan has renamed the capital Astana as Nursultan. The city was given a new name as a tribute to former President Nursultan Nazerbayev, who suddenly resigned after 30 years in power. To be…
The pilots of the fateful Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Lion Air consulted another manual in the run-up to the crash. They wanted to know why their plane kept going down, but it worked...
The authorities in Christchurch have released six bodies from victims of the attacks on mosques in the News Zealand city. Fifty people died as a result of the violence.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her support for the people in Utrecht following the shooting in the city, in which three people were killed and five injured.
While the city is still in deep mourning about the dozens of deaths that occurred during the terrorist attack last Friday, the first heroic stories come out about how they tried…
Guitarist and creator of the surf rock Dick Dale died at the age of 81. The bass player of his band Sam Bolle has confirmed that.
The first investigations into the black boxes of the crashed Ethiopian Boeing 737 MAX show that there are 'clear similarities' with the accident of the identical aircraft of Lion Air,...
There is a 'clear agreement' between the recent plane crash in Ethiopia and the crash with a Lion Air aircraft in Indonesia last October. That's what the Ethiopian transport minister says...
The death toll from the sudden floods caused by heavy rainfall on the Indonesian island of Papua New Guinea has risen to 58. In addition, dozens of people are missing on Sunday. Also…
At least 42 people died on Sunday in the Indonesian part of the island of Papua due to a sudden flood. The local rescue authorities report this. There are also 21 people...
The Australian town of Cardwell has held a funeral for a saltwater crocodile. More than fifty locals attended the farewell ceremony of the 4.5 meter long and 80 year old...
Most people don't drink alcohol for a month to get rid of some pounds faster, but a man from the American city of Cincinnati takes a different approach. He only decided...
A whirlwind in southern Africa has caused around 20 deaths and enormous damage. In Mozambique on the southeast coast of the continent, the whirlwind Idai went Friday with…
Hamas has sharpened the Israeli election battle by firing two rockets at Tel Aviv, the city where the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in two months. Prime Minister Netanyahu…
Eight years of war in Syria have cost the lives of 370,000 people, including 112,000 civilians. That is the estimate of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that a network of...
The Israeli army has confirmed that it has carried out a counter-attack on 'terrorist targets' in the Gaza Strip, after two missiles from Gaza to Tel Aviv...
The Israeli army says that two rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv. Explosions could be heard in the area, but as far as is known there is no damage or…
A British former soldier is being prosecuted for murder in connection with his performance during Bloody Sunday, the bloody riots in the northern Irish city of Londonderry in late January 1972. The…
In Mexico City, almost 11,000 people literally went to the streets after the offices of the Spanish bank BBVA had to be evacuated due to a bomb alert.
Rescue workers have found eight bodies in a collapsed building in the Nigerian city of Lagos. Also 37 people were taken alive from under the rubble, reports the emergency service...
