A member of the Delhaize supermarket in Lochristi, Belgium, found eight bags of white powder on Sunday morning between the cardboard of a banana box. 'The police suspect that it is cocaine,' says manager Danny Van Assche. Research must show whether that is correct, and how the drugs have ended up there.
It is known that banana boxes are popular among coke smugglers. But the fact that the bags with the white substance would bring it all the way to the bananas is still remarkable. A Delhaize employee at Lochristi in Belgium did the discovery on Sunday morning during the course.
Thai veterinarians found eighty pieces of plastic with a total weight of eight kilos in their stomach during an autopsy of a dead whale. The beast succumbed during a five-day action to save him.
A whale died after the animal had swallowed more than eighty plastic bags. The Thai Ministry of Public Works has made an attempt to control the life of the mammal, but this was of no avail.
The police in Malaysia found 114 million ringgit (24.4 million euros) in cash when they searched several apartments in the anti-corruption case around the 1MDB state fund. The money was in 35 bags, divided over different houses.
Are the New Yorkers slurping their beloved plastic straws for the last time? If it is up to the municipal administration of the American metropolis. Fast food chains and restaurants may be banned from using plastic straws for longer.
In the case of a major international campaign against the online sale of counterfeit brand items, some 20,000 packages were confiscated. More than a thousand accounts have also been closed.
For the first time, a serious cycling platoon will pull through the holy land. Where the biblical prophets walked around centuries ago, 176 riders in Jerusalem will step on their bikes on Friday for the start of the Giro d'Italia. Israel has pulled out all the stops, and money bags, to win the round. A very expensive promotional stunt for a country that does not have any cycling tradition.
The woman who died in the tragic plane accident in the United States is businesswoman Jennifer Riordan from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Riordan was on his way home after a business trip to New York. According to American media, she worked for bank Wells Fargo and played a prominent role in the local community. She leaves behind two children and a husband.
The Belgian coastal town of Blankenberge wants to reduce seagull nuisance by giving the birds a contraceptive. The town council has already given the green light for the plan.
The marriage of the British prince Harry and Meghan Markle costs tens of millions of heavy security.
A discovered gold vein in Suriname leads to a bizarre run in the area. A video from De Ware Tijd newspaper shows that hundreds of people are displaced in the mud for a lump of gold.
Twenty to thirty thousand 18-year-olds can explore Europe by train this year with an interrail pass paid by the EU. The European Commission is making 12 million euros available for the 'horizon broadening'.
It is to be hoped that the security checks at the opening ceremony of the Winter Games in Pyeongchang will be stricter than Thursday. In South Korea, the Olympic fire is lit on Friday at 12.00 in the Netherlands. But a day earlier it was still possible to enter the imposing stadium without even having to check the baggage. There are two young volunteers in front of the entrance who keep an eye on things. They are not very careful. When scanning the admission ticket, the text No Access Authority appears in full screen. However, the pair does not speak English well and does not intervene. They are not impressed even by the large bags from the three unexpected visitors. 'Walk on.'
Mahmoud Abbas spies on his own rivals and allies with the help of the CIA. Thousands of Palestinians have been tapped for years by a special unit, for which there is no legal basis.
In fact, the highest drivers of the largest car manufacturers in Germany should have known better. Experiments with gasses and people in confined spaces, that's what they do not like in the Federal Republic, and certainly not abroad.
Paris sighs under a rat plague. The animals are now so brutal that they no longer attract passers-by and show themselves in broad daylight, the newspaper Le Parisien reports.
The 19-year-old Quincy S.G. from the Belgian town of Deurne has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He stepped into a police station with eleven bags of cocaine early last year. Another hundred grams of cannabis lay in his Vespa in front of the door.
In Germany, 2017 was the year of cocaine. Never before did the police and customs take so much. In total, almost 7000 kilos were found, hidden in sports bags and furniture or between bananas and- blackened- in a load of charcoal. The Federal Investigation Department (BKA) confirmed Wednesday on the Norddeutschen Rundfunk (NDR) that compared to 2016 three times as many have not reached the market.
A homeless person 'found' 300,000 euros at Paris airport and quickly pushed that money backwards.
The Spanish police have detected € 210 million worth of cocaine between a shipment of bananas from Colombia. It is a huge six-ton lot that was intercepted near the port city of Cádiz.
An elderly member of the American House of Representatives ended up in hospital with stress complaints on Thursday after several former female staff members accused him of sexual harassment. It is the 88-year-old John Conyers, the longest-serving Congressman in Washington.
The London police are looking for men who have stolen prostheses. They robbed the tools from a parked car while the owner sat in a restaurant. 'This is a very low crime in which heartless thieves have stolen the personal belongings of the victim,' the police ruled.
The French maker of luxury goods Hermès booked a lot more sales in the third quarter, mainly due to a strong demand for pepper leather handbags.
The FBI releases the items that remained after the fatal shooting game in Las Vegas. There were thousands of bags, chairs, telephones and other property behind them when they fled for the bullet rain.
A 45-year-old man from Sri Lanka walked against the lamp at Colombo airport after suspected himself in the departures hall. Further investigation showed that there was a kilo of gold in his rectum.
The 44-year-old suspect of the murder of a woman from Amsterdam-Zuidoost may also have been involved in the death of a Romanian woman in 2004. It is about 30-year-old Mirella Mos whose material remains were found in a number of trash bags in South East.
A new cocaine load has been found by the OM in Rotterdam. This time it's 400 kilos worth 10 million euros.
It is today's last princess day for the cabinet Rutte II. In addition to many splendor and praise in the Ridderzaal, there are little big news hidden in the millionth anniversary.
At the Oktoberfest in Munich, the police held a 37-year-old thief whose two hands were amputated.
