Tens of thousands of commuters are stranded on their way to work in central London on Monday morning. The busiest railway station of the British capital, London Waterloo, was unavailable due to a technical malfunction.
Tourists and residents of the holiday island of Kos should take into account the possibility of aftershocks and new earthquakes in the next month and a half. That says the Greek seismologist Christos Papaioannou of the Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Thessaloniki.
After the earthquake of thursday night, Kos scratches again slowly. During the afternoon, teams began to clear the ravage. Pubs will open again tonight.
Empel's Dutch Laury was in the center of Kos City when the earthquake hit the same Greek island. 'The floor broke open, people guessed and ran. It was terrible.''
From a first survey of the major Dutch travel organizations in Kos and Bodrum, no landmates were found to be injured. Sunweb, TUI and Corendon still hold a small battle because it's possible that a single at the hospital has not yet been reached.
On the North Sea beach, paraffin was washed on the island of Vlieland. The municipality of Vlieland states that paraffin is not harmful to humans and the environment, but people and animals may get sick when they eat it. The municipality therefore advises dog owners to keep an eye on their four-legged dogs.
Through a whirlwind, 10 bathers on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, were injured on Sunday. Parasols and sunbeds were sucked in more than three hundred meters. According to an eyewitness, it was an 'apocalyptic scene.'
The man who kills two German women in Hurghada invokes Shariah. He explained this according to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk during his trial. In that he has shown that the ideology of the Islamic State terrorist group is based.
The man who killed two German women in Hurghada acted on behalf of Islamic State (IS). The man would have contacted extremists from IS who attacked him as foreigners, according to the German press agency DPA, based on information from security services in Cairo.
The two German women who were killed in a resort in Egypt on Friday were permanently resident there, according to DPA press office.
Certainly two tourists died at a resort in Egypt on Friday. Four other holidaymakers were injured by the attack in Hurghada resort, reported the Egyptian Interior Ministry and sources in security services.
A splendid background picture on the Facebook page of the Austrian police has heated the moods in the Alps. On the scandalous scene, two Austrian agents walk along a beach with two scarce-clad Austrian shoots.
About eighty strangers on a beach in the state of Florida have saved a family of nine people from drowning death by forming a human chain. The family got stuck by the rising flood and threatened to swallow the water.
The British authorities have made an information video for holidaymakers who fear terror attacks. The four-minute movie shows a fictional attack on a hotel and provides tourists with practical tips to keep armed extremists alive.
The air traffic at New York Airport JFK has stopped for a remarkable reason Friday night (local time). Dozens of tortoises were croped from neighboring Jamaica Bay and landed on a runway.
Skin cancer is increasingly affecting young people. 'Forties, thirteen, even patients of the twenty with malignant cancer', dermatologist Marlies Wakkee of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam reports.
Five people, including one child, were killed on Tuesday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli by a grenade that hit the beach. Certainly eighteen people were injured by the impasse near the Mitiga airport.
The governor of New Jersey Chris Christie has made himself as unimportant as possible, by spending an afternoon on the beach during a budget crisis. That's painful because many beaches in the state are closed because of the crisis.
PHOTO- A blue shark of over two meters long has delivered the scare of their lives on Saturday afternoon swimmers on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The animal literally swims a few meters of playing children, the Spanish newspaper Diario de Mallorca, which also has video footage, reports.
A dozen Dutch racing fans have been stuck at Baku Airport for a day because they do not have a visa. They arrived yesterday in Azerbaijan for Formula 1.
While everyone is on the terrace or beach, Saturday after 190,000 financial specialists do year-end examinations. With the CFA paper they get access to the top of Wall Street, City and Zuidas.
Everyone is shocked at the bill on the terrace or in a restaurant. But it can always be worse... An unexpected lifeguard in Monaco had to pay such an astronomical amount after an afternoon on the Nikki Beach terrace, which is the ticket for the whole internet.
The mother of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has come to terms with a tragic boat accident in California.
During the summer weather, there were new files to the beaches on Saturday morning. The ANWB reports big crowds at Bergen op Zoom, by traffic that the A58 will travel towards Vlissingen. The beach traffic is also on the N59 to Zierikzee and the N57 on Voorne-Putten.
Burney Fonseca, aka 'Nini', has been convicted of custody of Helmin Wiels as a murder broker for 25 years. That is what the court in Willemstad announced today. It was this week exactly four years ago that the most popular politician of Curaçao was shot on the beach of Marie Pompoen.
A beach thrown by storms 33 years ago from a remote island along the west coast of Ireland, suddenly returned after the sea deposited thousands of tons of sand on the rocky coast.
The Libris Literature Prize goes to Alfred Birney. He gets the prize for the book The Interpreter of Java. That was announced on the Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam on Monday evening.
Greek tax inspectors exchange their uniform regularly for the bermuda and swimsuit in the major tourist resorts to find financial fraud. The action focuses on bars, night clubs, marinas and hotels with a high turnover. That has announced news site To Proto Theme Sunday, relying on information from police sources.
Justice on Curaçao has demanded 26 years of celestial punishment against Burney 'Nini' F., who is suspected of acting as an intermediary in the murder of politician Helmin Wiels. The shooter, Elvis 'Monster' K., was previously convicted of a lifetime conviction. Before the court in Willemstad he indicated F. as the one who provided him with the order for the murder and paid for it.
A 17-year-old girl was bitten by a shark in West-Australian Esperance. The victim was in the water with her surfboard when she was attacked.
