A large fire in the vicinity of the Greek tourist town of Kineta causes up to 40 kilometers to the east in Athens, about 40 kilometers to the east. Because of the strong wind, clouds of smoke hang over the Greek capital that obscure the sun. Photo's show the famous ancient temple the Parthenon with a dark, golden-yellow sky in the background.
Jet fighters and armed drones from the Israeli Air Force carried missile attacks on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night. According to reports in the local media and in security circles, military facilities of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas have been hit.
During an unscheduled stopover of a flight from Ryanair in Frankfurt from Dublin to the Croatian coastal town of Zadar, thirty people with health problems were taken to the hospital. It is not known what they are missing.
President Donald Trump had to make it Friday when he visited Great Britain without a ride in a golden carriage through the heart of London to Buckingham Palace. The American president would have dreamed of that after Prime Minister Theresa May had invited him on behalf of Queen Elizabeth for a state visit shortly after taking office. Instead of a triumphal procession Trump was driven to Windsor Castle for a modest welcome in the castle and 'tea' with the Queen.
Two swimming pools in the Belgian town of Ghent are not allowed to keep women out of burkini. The court decided on Friday. In case of a ban, the swimming pools would be guilty of discrimination.
A huge iceberg has been driven to a small coastal village in Greenland. The authorities fear that a tsunami could hit the town of Innaarsuit if the collapse collapses.
Due to an accident on a company site in the German town of Essingen in Baden-Württemberg, at least 17 people were injured, probably by inhaling toxic fumes. Five of them have been seriously injured in a hospital, reports the police.
A 68-year-old man died in Germany in the extermination of weeds in his garden. According to German media, the man caught fire when he attacked plants hurt with a burner between the garden tiles.
The 44-year-old English woman who became infected with the nerve gas Novitsjojk last week has died. That made the British police known.
Like every year, a school in the Swiss town of Strengelbach celebrates the end of the school year with a picnic. The school management had asked parents in advance to bring their own food, but in order to avoid products with pork such as cervelat sausages as much as possible, so that all children could enjoy themselves undisturbed.
At the place where two people were seriously injured by poisoning with nerve gas, four agents in protective clothing investigate how the couple could come into contact with the nerve gas Novitsjok. That is the same nerve gas that the Russian ex-spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in March.
Syrian rebels have reached an agreement on a truce and a phased surrender after a fierce battle on the border with Jordan.
The death toll due to explosions in a fireworks store in the Mexican town of Tultepec has risen to 24. There are also rescue workers among the victims.
In the Mexican town of Tultepec, people were killed again Thursday by explosions in a fireworks store. Local media report that two explosions occurred one behind the other.
The two 40-year-olds who ended up in hospital in the vicinity of the British town of Salisbury on Saturday after coming into contact with a toxic substance, appear to have been poisoned with nerve gas. This happened to the Russian ex-doublespion Sergej Skripal and his daughter.
In the English Amesbury, the police have raised the alarm after an unknown substance put two people in the hospital. Parts of the town and the nearby Salisbury where the husband and wife have been, have been deposed. That writes The Guardian.
A man from the American town of Minersville, Pennsylvania, has paid his parking fine after 44 years. The man was feeling guilty and therefore decided to send the five dollars to the police with an apology letter.
The 3-year-old girl who was stabbed at her own birthday party by a local resident has succumbed to her injuries, reports ABC. At that party in the American town Boise (Idaho), the 30-year-old man put down a total of six children and three adults. Three victims are still fighting in the hospital for their lives.
A girl died in the British resort of Gorleston on Sunday. That reports The Guardian. The bouncy castle on which she was playing would have exploded, witnesses said. The child was launched, says a witness 'twenty meters into the air.'
A councilor from the Belgian town of Lommel has left Friday. She had been arrested for a series of plunks. Behind the home of Anick Berghmans stood an Audi with a Dutch license plate, hidden under a sail. It had been used as a race car by a gang that had been blowing up six cash dispensers since May, including in Lommel.
Vegan food can be very tasty, as evidenced by the rise of many vegan restaurants and food trucks at home and abroad. But not every cook can put a tasty vegan sandwich on the card. That was what the American vegan Taylor Mooney experienced. After two hours of waiting for her vegan sandwich, filled with 'delicious vegetables' she became rather sad of the result. 'This is an insult.'
Justice in Germany persecutes two German treasure hunters who kept an important find of medieval coins against the rules secret. The two found a collection of more than 10,000 silver coins near the town of Ellwangen with the help of a metal detector.
Primary school students have lost sight of a cake that they have sent into space. The transmitter that should have kept the position of the baking is no longer traceable.
An eight-year-old boy from the town of Eschwege has thrown almost all his belongings out of the window. According to the German police, the boy wanted to show his sister how to clean up your room quickly. However, cars were parked under the window. With his clean-up work the boy has incurred 4500 euro damage.
Ignoring overdue maintenance has caused the State Bank of India a loss of EUR 15,000.
On the porch of restaurant Panorama in the Russian provincial town Vladimir, with a train called 'Lastochka' (Zwaluwtje) a little two hours away from Moscow, the Smirnov family is gathering. No, they are not descendants of the maker of the famous vodka brand that dates back to the tsar time. 'Smirnov is a fairly ordinary Russian name', says the 43-year-old Aleksej Smirnov. 'And I am an ordinary man. Russia consists mainly of ordinary people. '
The Turkish resort of Samsun on the Black Sea has devised a very special way to advertise for itself. The town has invited a bunch of stunning young Russian female bloggers who have millions of followers on social media.
A man in a mosque in South African Malmesbury with a large knife cut on believers and two people killed before the police killed him. According to local media, it is not known what the perpetrator moved. He went before he began the stabbing among the believers and also seemed to prepare for a prayer.
On Monday afternoon a man stabbed a 15-year-old girl in a park in the German town of Viersen, just over the border near Venlo. Not much later the girl died in the hospital.
A lying wedding guest who made up a whole story about how he got sick for weeks due to food and drinks in a Mexican resort, has been fined. He has to pay 10,000 pounds to tour operator TUI.
