German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not go to the state banquet that German president Steinmeier is offering his Turkish counterpart Erdogan. Erdogan dines Friday evening during his state visit to Germany at Steinmeier in the Bellevue Palace, where the German head of state resides.
A rare find in a garden in the US state of Virginia: a living baby snake with two heads. That the copper head with two heads was found alive, is unique. 'Usually these animals do not live that long', according to an expert. 'Going through life with two heads is usually too great a task for these animals.'
Albert Heijn equips the first AH to go stores with technology for cashless shopping. Customers of the two branches in the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) no longer have to wait in line for the cash register from Monday. Next week the AH to go will follow at the metro station on Amsterdam CS.
The former head of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, becomes a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior. His salary remains unchanged. That said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) after a coalition meeting on Sunday evening in Berlin.
In the run-up to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Germany, opponents of the head of state have planned a series of demonstrations. The organizers have announced protests in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Essen, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Bielefeld for Saturday afternoon.
The Indian police have arrested a Roman Catholic bishop for raping a nun. The nun had said that bishop Franco Mulakkal misused her several times over a period of two years.
Judy Cochran was heartbroken. Three years ago the dwarf pony of this Texan disappeared mysteriously. The woman, who is the mayor of Livingston just north of Houston, had an idea who was responsible for the disappearance.
The British authorities have denied the existence of the so-called 'Croydon cat killer', which is supposed to target cats at Croydon. Research shows that the 'killings' were probably committed by one or more foxes.
Russian authorities have declared the outcome of a controversial regional election invalid. Voters must therefore once again go to the ballot box in the southeastern region of Primorski, where sitting governor Andrej Tarasenko of pro-Kremlin party United Russia previously surprisingly won the election.
A riot around a mobile mortuary has cost the head of two senior officials in Mexico. The authorities have announced that the highest prosecutor in the state of Jalisco has been dismissed. Earlier, the head of the forensic institute also had to clear the field.
Europe and Asia can better connect, not only with better transport links, but also in the digital and energy fields. The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy that should give the connections between both continents a boost.
The Liberian central bank turns out to have lost 89 million euros in cash. The government investigates what happened to the money and has forbidden fifteen people to leave the country. These include the son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the former head of the central bank.
If the United States indeed comes with new import duties on Chinese products, the planned trade negotiations with Washington will not take place. Chinese officials told the Wall Street Journal that Sunday.
In several places in Germany Sunday was demonstrated, by the extreme right and by opponents. In Cologne, for example, 12,000 people took to the streets for a more generous refugee policy.
Israeli soldiers have shot three Palestinians during riots at the border with Gaza, including a fourteen-year-old boy. He received a bullet in his head according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. At least thirty other demonstrators suffered gunshot wounds and had to be treated medically.
The social democratic coalition partner of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the head of the internal security service BfV to resign. 'For the party management of the SPD it is crystal clear: Maassen has to leave', said party secretary Lars Klingbeil. He called Merkel to intervene.
Jan Fabre humiliated and sexually intimidated dancers in his company for years. 'In and around his rehearsal room is humiliation daily costs', twenty former employees write in an open letter. That is what Het Laatste Nieuws reports, which also published the letter.
A man who cut off his wife's head, after finding out that she had gone astray, walked in with head and all the local police station. The bizarre scene was filmed for a policeman. On the images is to hear that the agents call that the man has to put his head back in the bag.
The Turkish president Erdogan has appointed himself chairman of the sovereign wealth fund of his country. The entire management had to clear the field and was replaced by a new board. According to the Turkish government Gazette, this includes the son-in-law of the president, Minister Berat Albayrak (Finance).
A game of football had also been fun, but this boy thought differently about that. Images that show that a toddler on the Indonesian island of Java, with a giant python playing, go viral. The boy is sitting quietly and carefree with the meter-long snake.
Hurricane Florence is rapidly growing into a large and 'extremely dangerous'; Hurricane. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami has announced this. The hurricane would reach the mainland of the United States on Thursday. If that happens, there are very likely flooding. Florence now has wind speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour.
The tropical storm of Florence has sunk so fast in the Atlantic on Sunday that there is now a hurricane with wind speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami expects Florence to develop into a whirling storm of category 3 or higher over the next 24 hours.
The Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, in principle questions the claim of boat refugees for asylum and protection in the EU. 'If you ask me, these are economic migrants- all illegal. Young men who do not go to war for war ', says Babis in an interview with the German newspaper Bild.
A Turkish court sentenced the former head of the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP to a prison sentence of more than 4 years. Selahattin Demirtas, one of Turkey's best-known politicians, was said to have committed terrorist propaganda in 2013, CNN Turk said.
A Turkish filmmaker has been sentenced to a prison sentence of more than six years for membership in a terrorist organization. Ali Avci made a film that was based on the failed coup of 2016.
The head of the German internal security service (BfV) doubts whether right-wing demonstrations in Chemnitz have been a hunt for foreigners. According to Hans Georg Maassen, there is no taxable evidence that such manhunts have taken place. He says that Friday in the German newspaper Bild.
A court in South Sudan sentenced ten soldiers of that country to prison sentences for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in 2016. The prison sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment.
A South Korean delegation met with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday. The South Koreans had brought a personal letter from President Moon Jae-in for the dictator, message Yonhap news agency.
The heavily pregnant Hélène suffered a trauma due to her delivery. During the planned caesarean section, the surgeon of the hospital cut the head of her baby.
France and Great Britain are trying to put an end to a high-level conflict over fishing for scallops. Raging fishermen from the countries this week carried out a sea battle off the coast of Normandy.
