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Thousands of women and girls in Nigeria have been raped by members of the government army. This is reported by Amnesty International in the report They betrayed us.

A mother who brought her teenage daughter to Pakistan to marry her with an elderly man has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years' imprisonment. She is the first person convicted in England for marrying off a girl. That has been banned in the UK since 2014.

Tony from Slough, a stone's throw from Windsor, is very enthusiastic about Prince Harry's wedding choice. 'She is the fresh air that this country needs,' he says in a nearly overwhelming voice. 'I can not tell you how enthusiastic I am about this marriage.'

The World Health Organization (WHO) has 'strong indications' that the outbreak of ebola in Congo 'can be brought under control.' The organization does not see the new outbreak of the deadly virus as an international emergency at the moment. From Sunday, emergency services will vaccinate people in risk areas with an experimental vaccine.

An American woman who found a newborn along the side of a walking path in 1998, is reunited after 20 years the man to whom the child has degenerated.

Two Egyptian brothers who were arrested in France for a terrorist plan wanted to use explosives and possibly the poison ricin. That means is not very effective to sow death and destruction, experts say. Perhaps the terrorists had themselves brought to an idea by Netflix.

Employees of an animal shelter in the US state of Nebraska have carried out a special rescue campaign last week: six young squirrels were tied up with their tails and the animals had to be disassembled in order to move on.

China has for the first time brought a rocket from a commercial company into orbit around the earth. The Beijing based company OneSpace Technology developed the Chongqing Liangjiang Star, reports Chinese state media.

The mortal remains of the 10-year-old American girl Lindsey Baum was found after more than nine hundred kilometers from where she disappeared.

An unabashed action by a man in Leeds causes a stir in the United Kingdom. Sitting close to a woman and starting to masturbate, the woman hoped for an appropriate response from the bus driver.

Fishermen in Suriname can sail out of the sea without fear again. This promised Minister of Defense Ronni Benschop Friday to the fishermen. Benschop did not want to tell us what measures were taken to reduce safety at sea.

The Indonesian authorities have ordered people who live near the Merapi volcano to leave their homes because a dangerous eruption has to be taken into account. The almost 3000 meters high mountain on the densely populated island of Java emits ash and steam. The airport of Yogyakarta is closed as a precaution.

A man who stole a unique painting from a London pub has regretted it. The portrait of a dog in a Victorian suit was returned after the owner of the pub shared the images of the theft.

A violent quarrel in a car is a 22-year-old woman fatal in Germany. The quarrel arose on the A2 motorway at the town of Porta Westfalica in the east of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

US President Donald Trump welcomed Thursday the three Americans released by North Korea. The president, along with his wife Melania, boarded the plane that brought the three to the American air base Andrews at Washington.

A man who was filming when he shot a woman was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States. 20-year-old Anthony Gelia kicked the door of a house two years ago and opened fire, reports American media.

One wedding is not the other: a woman is five days after her arm was bitten by a crocodile in the marriage boat stepped. Bride Zanele Ndlovu (27), in spite of the great tragedy, continued 'just' and married an engaged wedding with her fiancée Jamie Fox (25), writes Daily Mirror.

Israel can better confront Iran later than later, if that is necessary. That said the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who according to the newspaper Haaretz at the same time stressed not to be on escalation.

The Greek authorities have rolled up a criminal organization that would have sold medication to treat cancer abroad. The police arrested 21 suspects, including doctors and nurses.

Of the thirteen miners who were trapped in a mine in South Africa after a collapse, four died.

In case of an accident with a bus that was dumped from a cliff in the south of Chile, at least two employees of the Chilean army were killed.

A 36-year-old Haarlemmer saved an elderly tourist from the water behind the Central Station in Amsterdam. The man from Haarlem saw the 86-year-old tourist take pictures on Wednesday afternoon. When he suddenly heard a splash he did not hesitate for a moment and followed the old man.

Donald Trump in 2015 would have dictated a doctor what he had to write down in his doctor's statement. That is what his former private physician Harold Bornstein told CNN. The statement said that 'if Trump were to become he would be the healthiest American president ever'.

The 'Swedish meatballs' from Ikea, among others, appear to come from Turkey.

The prison sentence of Bill Cosby could just be better than one would think: he gets a special treatment in prison, reports TMZ. There are reasons for this.

The Belgian nuclear power station Doel 1 has been shut down this week due to a leak in the nuclear part. The reactor was switched off unexpectedly on Monday. This was necessary for maintenance work at the height of the cooling water, which was then still the explanation. Now operator Engie Electrabel has confirmed to TV East that it was a leak.

The assumed poison gas attack in Syria was staged by a PR machine disguised as an aid organization. Russia wants to convey that message to the world on Thursday afternoon. The country says it has brought several 'dead' and 'wounded' from the videos to the Netherlands to testify.

Two Bavarian members of the AfD have stepped out of the right-wing populist party because they were discredited by a photo on which they bring the Hitler salute. Markus Schirling and Frank Salloch announced that they are leaving the party of their own free will.

A man who received a 241-year prison sentence for a robbery he committed at the age of sixteen, has caught a bone at the American Supreme Court. The court refused to accept the cassation according to American media.

The 25-year-old man who massaged a bloodbath Monday in Toronto in Toronto by driving a van on pedestrians, says nothing about the reason for his horrible act. That turned out to be Tuesday when the man was brought in.