The carnival in Aalst, the best known and largest carnival event in Belgium, may disappear from the UNESCO list for intangible cultural heritage. Reason is a float early this month...
Customs in the United States intercepted 538 kilos of cocaine on Tuesday at the port of Philadelphia. The drugs were found by police dogs on a ship en route to the Netherlands,...
A dead sperm whale has been washed up in the Philippines. The animal probably died due to plastic waste. Forty kilos of plastic were found in the animal's stomach. According to conservationists…
A 36-year-old man from the US state of Oregon, together with his dog, spent five days in the car in the snow. The two survived on bags of taco sauce.
A thoughtful mother gave 200 goodiebags to her fellow passengers during a ten-hour flight from Seoul to San Francisco in case her four-month-old baby crying...
For the introduction of bags of heroin in puppies, a Colombian veterinarian gets six years in prison. Andres Lopez Elorez (38) smuggled at the request of a drug cartel the animals of the Colombian...
The Surinamese police found a batch of 'several thousand' kilos of drugs in the port of Paramaribo on Tuesday. The packs of drugs were hidden in containers with bags of rice. That has…
Construction workers who worked in the Indonesian province of Aceh in a housing project were shocked when they encountered 45 bodies during excavation....
The police in Vienna hunt three suspects who stole a painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir from an Austrian auction house. The canvas would be auctioned on Wednesday but was strangely stolen by strangers.
On a beach in Indonesia, a dead whale has been washed up with more than a thousand plastic objects in the stomach. The beast would certainly have swallowed 115 cups, 25 bags, four bottles and two flip-flops.
Once again, a funeral home in Detroit has been discredited because bodies of dozens of babies and fetuses have remained there, instead of being buried or cremated. The Michigan authorities speak of 'gruesome circumstances' and have closed the funeral home for negligence and withdrew the license.
A British toddler with a very rare form of leukemia can undergo specialized treatment thanks to a generous donor. The anonymous lender, according to British media, transferred 100,000 pounds (about 114,000 euros) to the parents of four-year-old Zac Oliver from Broseley.
The Spanish police have rolled up a large drug gang in the province of Alicante, consisting of five Dutch people and a Moroccan. They are accused of drug trafficking, possession of weapons, growing marijuana, and being part of a criminal organization. In addition, they taped electricity on a large scale in an illegal manner.
Malaysian prosecutors prosecute the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak for tax evasion and money laundering. Rosmah Mansor denies the accusations and can wait for her lawsuit in freedom, after she has paid two million ringgit (over € 420,000).
The boss of the German intelligence service had to pick up his bags last night. Hans-Georg Maassen lost the confidence of the Merkel government. But instead of sending him out, the spy boss has been promoted to a much better paid job as Secretary of State.
The police in Norway found the kayak of the missing Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis. The canoe was in the area where other things of his have been discovered before. What these are, the police do not want to say yet. According to good friend Ancilla van de Leest, there would be identity papers from Kamphuis.
The police in the Indian city of Calcutta started an investigation after fourteen baby bodies and fetuses have been found on a building site. The bodies were wrapped in plastic and buried in two large bags. Construction workers did the discovery when they were digging a well.
September starts with good news for Prime Minister Theresa May. Paul Dacre, the dreaded editor-in-chief of The Daily Mail, has taken his bags. He is succeeded by Geordie Greig, until last month editor-in-chief of sister newspaper The Mail on Sunday.
In the Mexican tourist resort Cancún, a fabulous tourist peninsula with white sandy beaches and grotesque hotels, eight (!) Bodies have been found in recent days of people who have been killed by violence. Some of the remains were in plastic bags.
While women can not even lose their smartphone, men easily carry all their essential items into the pockets of their jeans. Of course we have known this for a long time, but we are glad that there is now solid evidence. An analysis of science website The Pudding shows that the pockets of a women's trousers are actually a lot smaller than those of men.
An 18-year-old boy has a girl he met, raped and murdered through social media. He chopped her body into pieces with an ax and threw it away through the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.
Chile was the first country in Latin America to ban the issuance of plastic bags by shops on Friday. In the case of supermarket chains, plastic bags must have disappeared within six months; for smaller shops, a transitional arrangement of two years applies.
In Japan, the former leader of the sect Aum Shinrikyo, who was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, was put to death. Shoko Asahara, is the first of thirteen sect members sentenced to death who were executed, confirmed the secretary of the cabinet.
The Somalian terror movement al-Shabaab, which is responsible for a number of suicide attacks and other massacres in East Africa, is concerned about environmental pollution. Plastic bags are now prohibited.
Closed camps for migrants both inside and outside the EU. After a nightly marathon meeting, this must be the solution before the migration crisis. But there are so many loose ends that no one knows whether a result has actually been booked, or whether only some time has been bought.
Belgian Customs has one of the largest drug seizures ever done in the port of Antwerp. In a container with calcium carbonate that was intended for a company in Kontich, more than 954 kilos of heroin was hidden. The party, which has a street value of 55 million euros, came from the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran.
Tourists in the normally idyllic Corfu see their holidays ruined by a pervasive stench. The reason: the island is largely hidden under a layer of waste. And that starts to smell bad.
The chance of getting sick seems to be the greatest in an airplane where everyone is sitting on top of each other. Recent research has shown that the chances of a cold, for example, increase considerably when you step on board.
A priest has found two bags with a total of 36,000 euros in banknotes in a confessional seat near the Vatican. The enigmatic find was done in the church Santa Maria delle Grazie all Fornaci.
For the third time in a short time an asylum seeker is suspected of murdering a German girl. Yesterday it became known that the body of 14-year-old Susanna F. was finally found. The suspected perpetrator, the criminal offender Ali Bashar, has taken his legs back to Iraq with his family.
