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A 23-year-old backpacker in Guatamala fell down in the early morning while making a sun salutation.

In the US state of Florida, five people were killed after the plane in which they were in a lake collapsed. That reports the Miami Herald.

A 77-year-old woman from Texas posed on an ice block at Jökulsárlón, the largest glacier lake in the country, during a trip to Iceland, after which the block of ice broke off. The woman drifted and had to...

The driver of a snow plow has saved the life of a woman in South Lake Tahoe, California, after riding his car against her snow-covered car. The woman was...

A major accident abruptly ended a bachelor party, when the 32-year-old Kristina Dejesus got stuck between a propeller of a boat. The 32-year-old nurse from...

The Dead Sea is getting smaller and faster and can not be more than a lake in the middle of this century. Scientists warn that the water level now with one and a half meters per year...

A curious cat from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia accidentally ended up in a box at the beginning of December. The accident caused the fluff,...

The German criminal investigation department will drain a small lake near Bremen to get evidence in a murder case. With this in-depth approach, the Ministry of Justice thinks that the issue of the disappearance 25 years ago by Jutta Fuchs is finally being resolved, reported local media. The main suspect is her former fiancée.

More than 200 people lost their lives on Thursday during the MV Nyerere ferry on Lake Victoria in Tanzania, but one man miraculously survived two frightened days in the hull of the capsized ship.

The Tanzanian authorities have certainly recovered 166 bodies after the ship's drama on Lake Victoria. That said Minister Isack Kamwelwe (Communication), who stated that survivors already started with the identification of deceased victims.

The captain of the ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday is arrested in Tanzania. President John Magufuli said in a televised speech on Friday evening that the captain was not on board at the time of the accident. He would have left the helm to someone who was unauthorized.

The number of deaths as a result of the capsized ferry on the Tanzanian part of Lake Victoria has increased to 136. A high police officer has reported this.

Hundreds of people are missing after a ferry has capsized on Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania. More than forty deaths have already been recovered. The Tanzanian government fears that more than two hundred people have drowned.

The international community wants to spend more than 1.7 billion euros extra for aid to the crisis area around Lake Chad. During a donor conference in Berlin, the needy population of one of the poorest regions in the world was pledged about three times as much as a year ago at a similar meeting in Oslo.

A mother and her five-month-old baby were tragically killed in an attack by a crocodile in Uganda. The 40-year-old woman with her baby on her arm, water from the lake and had overlooked the crocodile.

They went fishing, the two lovebirds, but when the sea blew their rubber dinghy further and further away, they only really came 'close to each other'. Nadezhda Achapkina (35) and her husband Mikhail Alaverdyan survived for five days on wild sea. 'You see your husband asleep, and at that moment the boat turns around.'

The second longest bridge in South America, with the same design as the bridge collapsed in Genoa, has not been inspected for decades.

Rescue workers in Genoa fear that the pieces of suspension bridge that are still standing, will also fail. They have indicated that buildings in the vicinity of the bridge are being evacuated.

Hundreds of firefighters are fighting in California against a fire that threatens thousands of homes south-east of Los Angeles. As a precaution, approximately 21,000 people were evacuated in and around Lake Elsinore.

The high temperatures have led to fish mortality in the Hoogrijn. The Swiss fisheries organization SFV reports that about a ton of dead fish was removed from the water last weekend.

Scientists have found a large lake below the surface of Mars. It is a kilometer-long lake at one and a half kilometers below the ice of the south pole of Mars.

Because of a boat accident in the American state of Missouri, several people died. They were on an amphibious canal boat that capsized on a lake and sank. According to the sheriff, eight people were killed and several passengers were taken to the hospital, local media reported.

Seven black rhinos died after moving to another game park in Kenya. Kenyan media reported that the seven last months have been transferred from a park near Lake Nakuru to the more than 300 km southeastern park Tsavo East. It concerns half of the total of fourteen animals that were moved.

In recreational lake Berkendonk in Helmond, the poisonous and potentially carcinogenic substance PFOA was found during measurements by the water board. PFOA is known as the more dangerous precursor of GenX. The substance was found during follow-up research into the Helmond company Custom Powders that GenX and PFOA processed for the acclaimed Dordrecht company Chemours.

An animal organization in Germany has awarded a reward of 7000 euros to find out the perpetrator (s) of killing a wolf. The dead animal was reinforced with concrete and thrown into a lake near a mine in the Land of Saxony.

Even the ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow dropped tutu's on the wooden dressing room floor during the break of Swan Lake in their tunnels last Sunday. Via the mobile phone of one of the dancers they wanted to get as much as possible from the football shooter of their country against Spain.

The Indonesian rescue service has found human remains in Lake Toba using underwater drones. The remains are probably from passengers of the ferry that sank there eleven days ago.

Anyone looking for a dried-up lake in Australia with the satellite images from Google Earth comes across something remarkable: a fifty-meter-long penis. How the print comes and who is responsible for it is not known.

Indonesian emergency services have located the sunken ferry on Lake Toba in North Sumatra. An official confirms that the ferry has been identified at the bottom with the help of equipment for soil investigation.

On the ferry that capsized on the Tobameer in North Sumatra on Monday, many more passengers were hitherto assumed. According to the Indonesian authorities, 180 people were missing, previously it was reported that the ferry was carrying 80 passengers. The number of missing persons is three times as large as the capacity of the ship.