A petition from the Dutch Red Cross to help the people of Yemen has been signed by almost 48,000 people. The situation in the country in the Middle East is becoming increasingly acute and...
Australia has officially recognized West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. That is what the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday. The country will not immediately become its embassy in Tel Aviv...
In the US state of New Jersey nearly 300,000 dollars (more than 265,000 euros) disappeared after the door of a truck was opened. This rained the money on the highway, reporting a local...
In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the dreaded deadly disease ebola seizes around him. At least five hundred people show signs of illness. In 452 cases, the disease is...
The current Russian president Vladimir Putin has spied in his youth for the East German Stasi. His former pass has been sunk by the newspaper BILD.
On the east coast of Australia a surfer has been badly injured by a bite from a shark. The 36-year-old has lost a lot of blood and deep wounds in his leg have been left with the attack, according to broadcaster ABC.
Indonesian government forces are hunting a group of armed separatists, who are suspected of having murdered 24 construction workers in the east of the Indonesian province of Papua.
For the second time in a week, in New Zealand, tens of whales have washed up and died. New Zealand media reported that Thursday 80 to 90 were flushing animals on the Chatham Islands, an island group east of New Zealand. More than fifty did not survive.
Certainly 43 people were killed in the east of Syria on Saturday in an air strike by the US-led military coalition. The dead are mainly civilians, including seventeen children and twelve women. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
Nearly three months after a fatal stabbing and subsequent riots in Chemnitz Chancellor Merkel came yesterday to take pole height. The East German city is the symbol of the seemingly torn country, the deep gap between militant right-wing radicals, genuinely concerned citizens and left-liberal democrats: 'I know I have a face that polarizes. '
Hundreds of people on Friday in Chemnitz in the east of Germany argued against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her policies. There were many right-wing populists among the activists. They called, among other things, 'traitors' and 'Merkel has to leave'.
A 35-year-old German woman died Sunday in Sri Lanka when she tried to make a selfie. According to the police she fell, while she tried to immortalise herself on the edge of an abyss. The accident occurred in Horton Plains nature park, about 150 kilometers east of the capital Colombo.
Due to smoke in the cabin, an aircraft with 282 people on board made an emergency landing in Siberia, in the east of Russia.
President Trump has already voted early by post. And with him a record number of Americans. Everything seems to indicate a big turnout for these congressional elections. In spite of rain along almost the entire east coast, polling stations report great pressure.
Islamic State has reclaimed large areas in the east of Syria containing one of the largest oil fields in the country. This is reported by sources within the opposition in the Deir-al-Zor province.
Romania was hit by an earthquake in the night from Saturday to Sunday. The shock with a force of 5.8 was felt in the capital Bucharest. It is not known whether the quake caused damage and whether people have been injured.
A plane with five people on board disappeared from the radar one hour after departure from an airport in South Carolina and probably landed in the Atlantic Ocean. According to BNO News, a search is ongoing but so far without success.
At least 11 civilians were killed Sunday in an explosion in East Afghanistan when a minivan hit a roadside bomb in Nangarh Province. Six children are among the dead.
Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.
The Spanish island of Mallorca has been hit again by severe weather and flooding. This time it was stormy weather in the north of the island, more than 45 kilometers away from the capital Palma de Mallorca. Due to heavy rains from Thursday evening until Friday morning, rivers quickly left their banks.
The Scottish Jenny Graham (38) is the first woman to cycle around the world alone in 125 days with all her luggage. She arrived in Berlin on Thursday evening at the Brandenburger Tor, where she had left in the east on 16 June.
The prosecutor completed the investigation six weeks after the death of a 22-year-old man in the East German town of Köthen and indicted two young Afghans. Their common causes of bodily injury with death are charged. The complaint was filed with the district court, the authorities in Dessau-Roßlau announced Thursday.
In Canada, cannabis was sold for the first time legally. Canadians stood in line to buy the soft drug, media reports in the North American country.
A long fierce heather on a training ground of the German armed forces has finally been extinguished. On Wednesday, the 'Bundeswehr' reported that the fire at the village of Stavern, about 35 kilometers east of Emmen, had been extinguished after five weeks. There are still 160 of the original 1600 firefighters present, but there are no more fires to be seen.
Hurricane Michael approaching the east coast of the United States can become a storm of the fourth category when he lands in western Florida or in the Big Bend area of Florida around the city of Tallahassee.
The east of Sicily was hit by a small earthquake in the night from Friday to Saturday. Because of the quake with a force of 4.8, residents of the volcano were startled by Etna. Buildings suffered limited damage and several people were slightly injured.
Three schoolboys were killed in the east of Ukraine by an explosion of a landmine. It happened in an area where regular battles took place between separatists and Ukrainian troops. The separatist authorities that make up the service reported the deaths on Sunday.
The Icelandic volcano Katla spits out large amounts of carbon dioxide. According to volcanologists, that indicates that the Katla can quickly reach a large eruption.
The party leader of the French populist party Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, refuses to be psychologically investigated as ordered by a judge.
A 22-year-old Iraqi man arrested in East German Chemnitz for a stabbing in which a 35-year-old German was killed last month is released.
