At an auction in New York Sunday, a painting by Pablo Picasso and one by Claude Monet went under the hammer for each $ 30 million (26.5 million euros). A total of 61 works were offered, but not for each painting a buyer was found.
A wealthy Chinese has a lot of money left for one pigeon. The animal named 'New Lightning' yielded 376,000 euros at an online auction. From Belgium, the record copy is brought to China by a special company. There the animal will be used to breed.
After a disaster in a coal mine in eastern China, which took the lives of 21 workers, the owner-occupied energy company has dismissed the entire management team. In addition to the director and his deputy, the chief engineer was also dispatched. That has been announced by Xinhua news agency.
The Queensland police have arrested a 50-year-old woman suspected of having put needles and pins in strawberries. For weeks, research has preceded this with national cooperation from various Australian government departments. The suspected perpetrator is likely to be brought before the judge in Brisbane on Monday. Because the investigation has not yet been completed, the public prosecutor did not want to say anything about her.
The very old Brit who lay on the roof of his house in Bigbury-on-Sea for three days died in the hospital. That is what the police have announced.
The 46-year-old suspect of the attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue, in which eleven people were shot, was brought before the judge on Monday. He took notice of the indictments for the most part in silence.
At least seventeen people were killed in a bus accident in Pakistan. The vehicle hit the north of the country off the road and landed in a ravine, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports.
The suspicious packages that an arrested man would have sent to, among other prominent Democrats, contain explosive material. That's what FBI boss Chris Wray announced during a press conference. The federal police found the suspected sender on the trail of a difficult to find fingerprint on a mail item intended for Congressman Maxine Waters.
A woman who became paralyzed during sex has brought a bed company to court. She was 'catapulted' from her bed, a week after her purchase, after a daring maneuver.
On Mallorca is still looking for the disappeared boy, Artur, of six years that went missing last Tuesday after the heavy weather. According to the Spanish newspaper El País he has a Dutch father.
Two cargo ships collided with each other on the Mediterranean near Corsica.
The Maltese forces have picked up 120 migrants from a boat on the Mediterranean. The refugees in distress were accidentally discovered during a routine check-up off the coast of Malta, let the army of the Mediterranean island know. It is expected that the crew will be brought ashore on Sunday.
A Dutch Kurd has surprisingly seized next to the presidency of Iraq. After a political drama in parliament, Fouad Hussein had to face Barham Salih, who is waiting a tough job to bring the divided and devastated country back on top.
Are you biting off when someone insults you wrongly? Are you going strong in the defense, are you getting out or are you just walking away? Not only in daily life we make continuous choices, also in the Life Strange games from developer Dontnod his pressing questions with ditto answers is extremely important.
Six balloonists were rescued by the fire brigade on Sunday evening after they had been stuck with their hot air balloon for hours in a high-voltage pylon near the German town of Bottrop. Everyone was released with the shock.
A naval ship brought 58 migrants and a dog to Malta in Malta. The migrants were picked up from the sea over a week ago by the rescue ship Aquarius off the Libyan coast.
An F-35 fighter plane, also known as JSF, of the US Navy crashed on Friday due to unknown cause near Grays Hill in the state of South Carolina. According to the authorities, the pilot brought himself to safety with his ejector seat. He seemed unharmed but was examined in the hospital as a precaution for possible injuries. There were no victims on the ground. The jet had no guns on board.
A third woman presented Wednesday with accusations to Brett Kavanaugh. Julie Swetnick, who lives in Washington, said that Trump's candidacy for the American Supreme Court displayed sexual cross-border behavior during his high school time. He participated in the attempts to get girls intoxicated to abuse them afterwards.
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
Iran arrested 22 people in connection with the deadly attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, in the southwest of the country. The Ministry of Information has announced this. Tehran blamed the United States and their allies for the terrorist act that killed 25 people on Saturday, including twelve members of the revolutionary guard.
Norway has arrested a Russian on suspicion of espionage, reported the Norwegian press agency NTB on the basis of the security service PST.
Whether it was seven minutes that changed the world remains to be seen, but it was interesting and emotional. South Korean president Moon Jae-in, son of North Korean refugees, who was this week as a hero was received in a packed North Korean stadium and could speak about the dream of a reunification of the two countries. As a cherry on the cake, his fist was brought in afterwards by dictator Kim Jong-un. Best friends forever?
A Russian military aircraft has disappeared from the radar in Syria when a rocket attack took place on the Syrian coastal town of Latakia. There were fourteen soldiers on board the IL-20.
After your work to relax behind your game computer, there is nothing wrong with that. Some, however, skip this and have no eye for their partner. This means that the first Fortnite divisions are now a fact.
Rain, rain and more rain. Florence has brought more than a meter of rain on some places on the American east coast and it is still plentiful. At least seven people were killed, US media reported.
Miner Henry Dole is worth more than his weight in gold. The drill operator of RNC Minerals found a gold clog of 93.5 kilos at a depth of 500 meters in the Beta Hunt mine near Kambala (Australia)!
The Austrian journalist Max Zirngast has been arrested in Turkey. The police stopped him early Tuesday morning in Ankara. Apart from Zirngast, who wrote several critical articles about the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, two Turkish citizens were arrested.
Hurricane Florence is not only accompanied by the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Americans, NATO is also bothered by it. The transfer of the command from the alliance headquarters to a French air force general in Norfolk in the US state of Virginia has been moved and brought forward due to the expected heavy gusts of wind.
The United States is taking an aggressive stance from Monday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. If matters are brought against US military personnel, the judges will be sanctioned. That would be the national safety advisor John Bolton going to say during a speech Monday afternoon, writes Reuters news agency.
More than seven million Muscovites are allowed to go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new mayor. Although there are five candidates, it is almost certain that the Kremlin-faithful Sergei Sobjanin gets a new term.
