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Older smartphones from Apple and Google have poorly protected Bluetooth. That is what researchers at the Technical University in Darmstadt say.

The satellites for the BepiColombo mission are on their way to Mercury. The Ariane 5 rocket with a European and a Japanese satellite on board was successfully launched from 3.45 am Dutch time from French Guiana.

More and more debris is flying around the earth. It is now almost 20,000 fragments, which together weigh more than 8 million kilos. That is heavier than the Eiffel Tower, according to the European space agency ESA.

At a major music festival in the German state of Hesse several agents were injured when they were attacked by a large group of party people. According to a spokesperson for the police, about fifteen cops sustained injuries.

A 53-year-old MS patient on Tuesday received a nine-month prison sentence in Germany on appeal because he had caused a fatal accident in June 2015 due to a cramping attack. Because of the cramp in his leg he pushed the accelerator of his car to the bottom, so he drove a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing at Obertshausen with more than 140 kilometers per hour.

A Chinese space station that is on its way back to earth is likely to disappear into the atmosphere on Sunday. Most of the space station will explode and burn. Some fragments can survive and crash on earth.

The end is approaching for the first space station in China. Heavenly Palace 1, as the building is called, will perish in the atmosphere in a few weeks. The European space agency ESA estimates that it will take place between 25 March and 17 April.

'I have a snake in my pants,' said a drunkard last night to agents who asked him for the striking hump in his pants. Until now nothing new, the agents thought, until the zatlap suddenly showed a lifelike baby python out of his underpants.

A young German who was held in Darmstadt on Tuesday night during a drunk change of conversation with the police proved to have a remarkable surprise in his pants.

One child took a bomb from World War II to a daycare center in Darmstadt (Hessen) in Germany on Wednesday. Staff noted the suspicious object and hit alarm, said a police spokesman. Then they evacuated the premises carefully.

If in three years the first self-propelled cars totally independent driving on the road, as hope the creators, they owe it to Grand Theft Auto V. The imaginary streets of Los Santos in the game are realistic enough to test the technology.

The death of a homeless man in Groß-Gerau, which is burning in the street Thursday night was found, the German police baffled. The crew of a passing ambulance saw it happen on a major thoroughfare near the station. Their help came too late.

A former student of the Technical University of Darmstadt would have planned a terrorist attack in Germany. On the laptop's 36-year-old Syrian investigators found instructions on how to make a bomb and a silencer. That left the spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Frankfurt Friday.

A calculation error, the European Mars Lander last month proved fatal. The on-board computer was faulty measurements. The system therefore concluded that the lander was below the surface of the planet. In reality, he was in full flight at 3.7 kilometers.

Also in Germany spread horror clowns fear and terror. The blown over from the United States craze has dozens of imitators with our eastern neighbors. But the police are not charmed.

The Mars Lander Schiaparelli appears to have crashed on landing on the red planet. The probe may be exploded. The fate of the lander was long unclear.

Europe starts Wednesday to double space mission to Mars. A satellite will then enter orbit around the red planet. Simultaneously a lander to be checked be put down on the surface.

Europe has begun to attempt to make a machine on Mars. Those rustic, Schiaparelli, has been released by the probe that has brought him to Mars. In the coming days he sinks slowly to the planet where he must come down Wednesday careful.

Europe is on the verge of another big mission in space. In a few days will be a satellite in orbit around the planet Mars. Which allows a device to gently loosen the surface should countries, and to measure its environment. It all happens at 172.2 million kilometers from the Earth.

Communication faltered from the start, but as of Wednesday the European lander on comet 67P will be silent forever.

The German police have drawn a workaholic behind the wheel at a nighttime traffic on the highway near Darmstadt. The severely fatigued truck driver was found to have sustained drove nearly 26 hours.,, He was the lawmen even grateful that they imposed him a mandatory rest period of nine hours, '' a spokesman said Friday.

The hostage-taker at the movie theater in the German Viernheim was a nineteen-year-old German born in Mannheim. He lived in northern Germany, authorities said in Darmstadt Friday.

The police in Darmstadt, Germany, eighteen women reported sexual assault during a four-day music festival last week. As in the New Year night in Cologne were the perpetrators standing around after they forced upon the victims, police said Tuesday.

It's end of story for the scout Europe has put down on a comet. The comet lander Philae has nothing to long to hear more from him. 'The chances of Philae again contact us, unfortunately zero. We also do not send commands more', the German space agency DLR announced Friday.