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US President Donald Trump knows where and when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. 'We have a date, we have a location,' Trump told reporters. He did not go into details.

A poisonous spider of nearly ten centimeters has caused a stir in a supermarket in the southern German town of Esslingen. The animal climbed out of a box of bananas from Ecuador and frightened an employee by crawling on her arm.

About twenty people were killed by an attack on mosque visitors in Nigeria. According to the police, it is a suicide attack.

Calculated on the 'Day of the Wolf', such a predator probably caused a slaughter under sheep in the German town of Bad Wildbad (Black Forest). More than forty ruminants survived. Several were torn apart, others were so seriously injured that they had to be killed. In addition, a still unknown number of sheep drowned because they panicked a stream running alongside.

A caravan migrant from Central American countries has arrived in the Mexican town of Tijuana on the border with the US. It concerns about four hundred people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who are now considering the next steps.

Parents who picked up their seven-year-old son with a friend in Germany did a horrible find on Saturday. They found the boy lifeless in the home of the 69-year-old woman.

The body of the missing Christine Lenaerts (45) from the Belgian Grobbendonk was found by a walker on Thursday evening along a towpath in the Belgian town of Olen. The nurse from the prison in Antwerp was discredited last week after she had taken care of an escaped prisoner at home. Then she disappeared without a trace. The woman may have been killed by force.

The leaders of North and South Korea have shaken hands for the first time in ten years. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un traveled to the demilitarized zone for a special summit in the Panmunjom border town.

After a few days of flirting with the magic limit of 3%, the important American ten-year rate on Tuesday rounded this cape for the first time in four years. 'Such a round number is very important psychologically.'

The leaders of South and North Korea will also have dinner on Friday and then find a menu with a wink to the past. Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un meet in the border town of Panmunjom.

A Medieval pilot balloon in a Mexican TV debate for presidential candidates to cut off their hands with thieves has been followed immediately.

A 41-year-old Canadian was lynched in an Indian village in the east of Peru after the murder of a local medicine woman, Olivia Arévalo. The 81-year-old woman was assassinated last Thursday with a firearm in the town of Victoria Grande.

South Korea temporarily stops the loudspeaker propaganda at the border with North Korea. The move should serve to 'reduce military tensions between the South and the North and create a climate for peaceful talks.'

The SPD in Germany has chosen Andrea Nahles as the new chairman. It is the first time in the nearly 155-year history of the Social Democrats that a woman is in charge.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded with approval to North Korea's decision to stop conducting nuclear tests.

Even though you live in a tight one-room apartment in a deserted industrial town, deep in Siberia and virtually without money, the fairytale can also be reached. 'We have created a special program for these women,' says Marii Boucher in the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Austrian School of Etiquette. 'Elegance does not depend on money, but on knowledge and inner civilization. We are trying to bring this here in Russia. '

The handling of the extradition request for Guus Kouwenhoven (75) has been postponed again. The Dutchman, according to his lawyer, is in a South African hospital because of a serious fracture, the newspaper Business Day reports.

North and South Korea have a direct hotline between the leaders of the countries. The line was opened a week before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae meet in the Panmunjom border town.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is optimistic about North Korea's willingness to phase out its nuclear program.

Tess, NASA's new space telescope, has successfully shot into space. With this the search for new planets can be continued. The launch that took place around 00.50 hours Dutch time went smoothly, reports the American space agency.

An F16 pilot from the military base in Kleine Brogel in Belgium was blinded by the rays of a laser pen on Tuesday evening. A man from the town of Peer is suspected of having blindly dazzled the pilot.

The Syrian armed forces have begun to shoot an encircled stronghold of Islamic State (IS) just south of the center of Damascus. It is assumed that this heralds the recapture of the enclave of fighters of IS and of the al-Nusra front linked to al-Qaeda.

The American space company SpaceX has postponed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the new NASA space telescope Tess. The launch would take place in the night from Monday to Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, but has now been postponed by at least 48 hours. Reason for the postponement are problems with the navigation system.

A market trader in the British Lymington may no longer scream his merchandise. He got a screaming ban imposed after the complaints rained about his pruning sales method.

Two criminals, after a robbery in the British town of Droylsden, could not enjoy their booty for long. One of the men had crammed the stolen banknotes into his pants and then saw them blow away, the regional newspaper Manchester Evening News reports.

She will not find extraterrestrial life. But Tess, a new space telescope, can bring us a step closer to an answer to the question: is there somewhere else in the universe a planet where life might be possible. The American explorer is launched in the night from Monday to Tuesday (Dutch time). The launch is scheduled for 00.32 hours Dutch time.

A burglar in the German town of Hagen has picked the wrong house on Friday. When she had crept in through the open garage door, she met the occupant on a staircase: a policewoman.

According to the Kremlin, London was involved in the scene of an attack with poison gas last weekend in the Syrian town of Douma. According to reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense, there is evidence that the British 'were directly involved in organizing a provocation' where poison gas was used.

A 23-year-old man picked up a strange child at a station in the German town of Wuppertal and then jumped for an arriving train. Because he lay down flat with the child between the rails, the five-year-old boy was only slightly injured and the man remained unharmed.

Netflix has decided not to show films during the prestigious film festival in Cannes. The streaming service does not agree with the decision of the film festival to exclude Netflix from the competitions, reports The Hollywood Reporter.