Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search for survivors of a ferry that sank on Lake Toba in North Sumatra on Tuesday. The bad weather makes the operation difficult. The approximately one hundred rescue workers suffer from rain and waves of about 2 meters high.
On the Tobameer in North Sumatra a boat with around eighty people on board was hijacked on Monday. Nine of them were saved according to local media. Dozens of passengers are still missing. The body of one drowned passenger is salvaged.
The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an agreement on Sunday to give the former Yugoslav Republic a new name: the Republic of Northern Macedonia.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has survived a vote of no confidence in parliament. This clears the way for signing the historic agreement with neighboring Macedonia. This republic of the former Yugoslavia then goes through life under the name Northern Macedonia.
American authorities confirmed Saturday morning that they found the remains of a woman who was killed by an alligator. Shizuka Matsuki was missing since Friday morning.
After centuries of speculation, the final answer is quickly coming: does the Loch Ness monster exist?
The body of Eric Geboers has been taken out of the water, says Alain Remure of the Missing Persons Cell. The ex-world champion motocross jumped out of a pleasure boat at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol on Sunday evening to save a dog, but did not come up anymore.
The famous Belgian ex-motorcrosser Eric Geboers is missing at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol. Geboers jumped out of a pleasure boat Sunday night to save a dog, but did not come up anymore. The local authorities fear the worst.
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 water sports enthusiast, who lost his keys in Germany from a lake, accidentally removed a grenade from the Second World War. According to German media, the man tried to pick up the key with a magnet on a wire, but the grenade remained hanging on his wire.
Roy B., who was arrested on Sunday for involvement in the death of Orlando Boldewijn, has been released.
A German on his way to Lake Garda appears to have forgotten his daughters aged 10 and 14 after a stop at a gas station.
France is under the spell of Nordahl Lelandais (35), the murderer of the French Maëlys (9). He also announced Thursday the murder of a professional soldier. The French fear the worst now: is Lelandais a serial killer? And if so, what else does he have on his or her heigth?
The body of 25-year-old Australian woman Alison Raspa was found four months after her disappearance in a partly frozen lake in Canada.
Customers from an antique shop in Florida looked strange when they suddenly saw a green monster crawling past the store. A lost alligator with good taste ran right past the shop, which caused a slight panic in the shoppers present.
A grandfather was killed in saving his grandson. This had fallen through the ice while skating on a frozen lake near the German town of Creglingen (Baden-Württemberg).
Amusement park lovers pay attention! Disneyland Paris is going to expand. And how! The park announced ambitious future plans on Tuesday.
Large parts of Wales and England were startled by a slight earthquake on Saturday afternoon. According to the British seismological institute, the shock had a force of 4.4 at a depth of just 7.4 kilometers. The epicenter was located near the village of Clydach, 20 kilometers northeast of Swansea.
The German Social Democrats are apparently for the first time led by a woman, Andrea Nahles. German media reported that party leader Martin Schulz gave up his position for a ministerial post in the new big coalition with the Christian Democrats led by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
For the price of a small apartment in Amsterdam you can buy an entire island off the coast of Scotland.
Losing 38 pounds in six months. That was the 39-year-old Jeremiah Peterson from Missoula, located in the American state of Montana. Reason: because he wants to be a better father for his children.
According to the Russian Orthodox tradition, Russian President Vladirmir Putin has taken an ice cold bath on Thursday evening in honor of the Christian Epiphany Feast.
Donald Trump's attorney has paid $ 130,000 in silence to a porn star. The money was paid to actress Stephanie Clifford by this Michael Cohen in October 2016, just before the elections.
A special natural phenomenon in the harsh cold in the United States: the beaches of Lake Michigan are flooded with millions of ice balls. The scene produces beautiful images.
Bystanders have saved a herd of elk from a frozen lake in Wyoming last week. Around 25 residents of the city have together ensured that none of the animals drowned in the ice-cold lake.
Five American friends go back every five years to the place where they took a photo in 1982. The quintet now owns eight photographs. It shows how the close-knit group has changed over time.
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is rigorously cutting across two vast national nature reserves in Utah to stimulate development in that state. He thereby chased the original inhabitants and environmentalists against him. These called the plan an unprecedented attack on crucial landscape protection.
Donald Trump wants to call a halt to the land of the federal government. During his visit to Mormon State Utah Tuesday during the day, the president is very likely to announce that he will significantly reduce the protected ground around the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase Escalante, which will allow uranium to be extracted.
You know them: the perfect holiday slides on Facebook and Instagram. For example, a rock formation in the Norwegian Trolltunga is one of them. The mountain extends beautifully above the lake Ringedalsvatnet. Yet, this tourist plaster appears to be an illusion.
Children of fugitive Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are also threatened by major dangers in neighboring Bangladesh, such as desperate living conditions and diseases. There must be protection for them and their families and support for safe, voluntary and dignified return, UNICEF proposes, the United Nations Children's Fund.
