Ghana has kindly requested mosques to use WhatsApp for prayer calls instead of loudspeakers. Day in day out, Africans face a lot of noise from the calls and something has to change.
And again the chameleon has won. Milo Djukanovic, once a communist, later a friend of the rich, first a supporter and later an enemy of the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, rival of Russia and friend of the west, may once again call himself president of Montenegro.
The combination of a warm and strong south wind with Saharazand makes life on the Greek islands in the Aegean for the third day in a row heavy. On the Peloponnese peninsula this weekend was just under 34 degrees. Fire broke out too, Monday morning the fire brigade jerked off for a big fire near Olympia.
In a field on the Baltic island of Rügen in northern Germany, archaeologists have discovered a valuable silver treasure from the end of the tenth century. The treasure consists of necklaces, bracelets, beads, brooches, a hammer from Thor, ring jewels and about five to six hundred coins partially chopped.
Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin has died from his injuries after a fall from his apartment. The authorities treat his death as suspected suicide. His chief editor does not believe that.
All member states of NATO have expressed their full support for the American, French and British attacks on Syria. They did so after the NATO ambassadors of the three countries had given their 26 colleagues information, which they believed to be responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Douma, a week ago, by President Assad's government.
The European Union Ambassador in Russia is back at his post in Moscow. After the attack with nerve gas in Salisbury on former double-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter, the government leaders decided to call the German Markus Ederer back to Brussels for consultation at their top three weeks ago.
At least 500 train passengers in India have been scared to death when the 22 wagons in which they were parked rolled over a length of 13 kilometers at high speed of a slope. The train started to move due to a technical error. Eventually the colossus came to a standstill after bystanders threw sticks and stones on the track to slow down the train.
A German on his way to Lake Garda appears to have forgotten his daughters aged 10 and 14 after a stop at a gas station.
Scientists have ever discovered the furthest star. It stands at no less than 9 billion light-years away from the earth. Until now, there were complete galaxies and supernovas (exploding stars) seen at such distances, but no individual, normally shining stars.
A passion game in the Brazilian city of Nova Hartz was roughly interrupted on Good Friday by a spectator who tried to save Jesus from the cross. He attacked the actors who played Romans with a motorcycle helmet.
Good friendships. No man can live without it. For an investigation, scientists at Kansas University have calculated how many hours you spend on closing a good friendship.
Justin Kluivert (18) may call himself the greatest talent in the world. The Ajax striker received the NxGn award for best teen in the world (born on or after 1 January 1999) on Wednesday.
Three random passers-by turn out to have been the victim of probably the same perpetrator in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. All three were stabbed with a knife on the Jan Evertsenstraat. The police have arrested a 32-year-old man and are looking for witnesses.
A 24-year-old man from New Zealand has a woman with a notable lie in bed. In his own words, the man was forced to drink poison and would die if they did not have sex within 48 hours. And so it happened.
A dog that had disappeared without a car theft in Antwerp Deurne is right again. The four-legged friend was found Amsterdam, about 150 kilometers away.
Suppose you find a lottery of a million dollars on the ground. Do you keep it or track down the rightful owner? A merciful employee of a Clerk gas station in Kansas, America, opted for the latter.
Four EU countries have called on the Russian ambassador in their country. Russian media reports that the ambassadors in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland were called to the Foreign Office there on Monday. The Eastern European countries all have a border with Russia.
The death toll due to a fire in a shopping center in the city of Kemerovo in Siberia rose to 48. That was reported by local media on Sunday on the basis of information from local authorities. Dozens of people are missing. Among the victims are at least eleven children, many of them were on a play deck in the complex.
The newfound parliamentarians of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) insult and denounce that it is a sweet lust. They call CDU chancellor Angela Merkel a 'whore' and a 'dictator', and they place her face on toilet photos.
A teenager from the Australian suburb of Mountain Creek has recently had the fright of his life. He sat on the toilet when he suddenly felt something unknown slipping from below.
Turkey gets a firm blow on the fingers of the 28 EU leaders with 'a sharp condemnation' because of provocations in the territorial waters of Cyprus. At a summit in Brussels, the EU declares 'full solidarity with Cyprus and Greece', according to the draft conclusions.
The Chief of Staff of the White House John Kelly is 'frustrated and severely disappointed' by the leaked message that President Donald Trump had been advised not to call his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the re-election. A spokesman said on Wednesday about the mood of Kelly.
US President Donald Trump has thwarted urgent advice from his security advisors by congratulating his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with his re-election.
A 24-year-old mother who had sex with a minor school student was caught when the two were to be rescued during a flood. They had set up their tent at a river in Wales that was beyond its banks.
The Netherlands is not going to announce sanctions against Turkey on its own as a punishment for the Turkish invasion of the Syrian Afrin region. Such a one-man action would be counterproductive, says Minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not find it an insult that his American counterpart Donald Trump has not called to congratulate him on his re-election. 'We do not see this as an unfriendly gesture', said his spokesman, who stressed that Russia remains open to improving relations with the US. 'There is no need to exaggerate matters. \u0026 # X27; \u0026 # x27;
The US and South Korea start their annual military exercises in South Korea on April 1st. This has been announced by the US Department of Defense. The timing is remarkable, because at the end of that month a summit is planned between the South Korean president Moon Jae-in and his North Korean colleague Kim Jong-un. North Korea traditionally sees military exercises as a provocation.
The only presidential candidate in Russia who did not campaign for the Sunday elections, Vladimir Putin, apparently wins the ballot box. He has been in power for eighteen years and does not have to worry about losing it. If it is up to the current law, the last six years will be his last term.
