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The Brazilian police have started an investigation into a famous wonder doctor for sexual abuse. In less than a week, 258 women have accused the miracle worker.

To say that the Uranus Examiner was born under a happy star, well no... The local newspaper of the town of Uranus in Missouri already got a lot of trouble at the start- a few months ago- to name it of the leaf.

The German police have arrested a 35-year-old woman from Duisburg because she may have killed two babies. One of the baby bodies was found last month in a Polish clothing sorting center.

A court in Hamburg sentenced a 20-year-old Syrian to 6.5 years in prison for planning a severe attack. The man wanted a car bomb to explode and kill or injure two hundred people.

A number of workers were killed in Turkey because a concrete block got loose during road works. They were dragged through the concrete block for about thirty meters and ended up underneath.

145 whales have been washed ashore in New Zealand. Some of the pilot whales were already dead before they were discovered on the secluded beach of the southern Stewart Island. Because of the condition of the other animals it was decided to euthanize the rest, reports the New Zealand Herald.

The US authorities have already stopped the border traffic between San Diego and the Mexican border town of Tijuana. This was reported by the American customs.

The west of Iran was startled on Sunday evening by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. According to the local authorities, there have been no deaths for the time being and the quake did not cause any major damage. At least 200 people were injured, but only a dozen of them had to be treated medically. The shock was also felt in the neighboring provinces and in Iraq and Kuwait.

A man in a yellow jacket threatens to detonate a grenade in the western French town of Angers if he does not like to hear President Emmanuel Macron. Minister of Home Affairs Christophe Castaner reported that the man at a gas station had shown an object that looked like a grenade.

Due to the influx of migrants who want to travel to the United States, a humanitarian crisis has arisen in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. That says Juan Manuel Gastélum, the mayor of Tijuana. He asks the United Nations for assistance in supplying food and other relief goods to migrants.

The Public Prosecution Service in Berlin has sued a former guard (95) of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen for complicity in the murder of 36,000 prisoners and incitement to murder. This is what the German magazine Der Spiegel reports.

(ANP)- The protest movement of American students for safe schools and the extermination of gun violence March For Our Lives, is the winner of the International Children's Peace Prize 2018.

Heavy rainfall and mudflows will complicate the search for victims of the forest fire in California. The authorities in California have expressed this fear. From Tuesday onwards, three days of bad weather are predicted around the heavily hit town of Paradise.

The British police are looking for a man who hit a woman with his scooter and then ran off.

The number of missing people after the deadliest and most devastating forest fires in California's history has risen to 630. At least 63 people were killed by the fires that broke out a week ago north of San Francisco.

The fire brigade in California has the greatest difficulty in getting the fires in the American state under control. The death toll due to the fire seas has now risen to 31. Of 228 people, the authorities do not know where they are.

The large forest fires in the American state of California have now claimed more than twenty lives. On Saturday, another fourteen bodies were found, the local authorities report. Dozens of people are missing.

A fast-growing forest fire rages across California and currently covers more than 30 square kilometers. Several regions have been evacuated, people are honking in traffic jams and at least five people have suffered burns.

The Spanish police have, in their own words, prevented an assassination attempt against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The police in Catalonia announced Thursday that the suspect is a 63-year-old man. He would have wanted to kill the 46-year-old socialist prime minister because the government has plans to move the body of former dictator Franco, who died in 1975. His remains are in a large mausoleum near Madrid.

At least six children were injured when an inflatable slide collapsed at a fair in the English town of Woking. This is reported by various English media. How that could have happened is not yet known.

A 68-year-old Dutchman from the German Weilmünster, in the federal state of Hessen, was killed on Saturday by an accident near the town of Wolfenhausen.

The interior lighting of a barbecue is a resident of the Belgian town Herstal fatal. Smoke development in the terraced house was so great that the two residents were seriously poisoned.

The harsh autumn weather is not over in Italy yet. On Thursday, two people were killed again. The car they were in was crushed by a falling tree. The accident occurred at the town of Lillianes, in Valle d'Aosta, north of Turin.

The mayor of the American town of Lantana has been discredited because he asked a female resident for sex in exchange for the setting up of speed bumps in her neighborhood. The woman filed a complaint with the ethics committee of the state of Florida, who takes the matter seriously and started an investigation.

The prime suspect of the bloody shooting in Pittsburgh, according to his neighbors, was completely inconspicuous. 'The most frightening thing is how normal it seemed', the neighbor says to a local station. He says that Robert Bowers moved into the apartment complex in the town of Baldwin about two years ago.

The former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk is hospitalized. The 82-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has a lung disease, reports his FW de Klerk Foundation.

Movie Park Germany at the German town of Bottrop is closed early on Friday night due to a bomb threat. The amusement park, which is located almost 70 kilometers from Venlo, reported on Facebook that the police had been informed about the threat by the end of the afternoon. 11,000 people had to leave the site.

Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The prosecutor completed the investigation six weeks after the death of a 22-year-old man in the East German town of Köthen and indicted two young Afghans. Their common causes of bodily injury with death are charged. The complaint was filed with the district court, the authorities in Dessau-Roßlau announced Thursday.

The prevented junk in the Bavarian Gemering, where two Dutch criminals were arrested, is reminiscent of a feature film. A gang tried to ram a bank with a lightning stolen Audi, but was awaited by the police. This was followed by a shooting and a chase, with four injuries as a result. 'The agents were in mortal danger.'