The chief of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, is fired anyway. He would become a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior with retention of salary. That transfer is reportedly unavailable because Maassen in the farewell speech he wrote strongly criticized the coalition. The text of his speech had already been distributed to the BfV.
Former Donald Trump lawyer says that the current US president was regularly racist before he was elected. Michael Cohen told the magazine Vanity Fair that Trump once told him that 'black people are too stupid to vote.'
The Japanese manufacturer of the train that derailed in Taiwan said that a design error was discovered on the train. Due to the error, which probably lay in the wiring, the central control system was not alerted after an automatic safety function was disabled by the operator.
The interior lighting of a barbecue is a resident of the Belgian town Herstal fatal. Smoke development in the terraced house was so great that the two residents were seriously poisoned.
A Chinese man has been arrested because he pushed his newborn daughter from a ravine. The girl survived perfectly, after she hung twelve hours in the branches of a tree.
The Belgian police makes another attempt to find out who is behind the Gang of Nijvel. In the early 1980s, the gang committed a series of thefts and robberies on supermarkets, killing 28 people. The perpetrators have never been caught.
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 organizers of an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday in London expect more than 100,000 worried Britons to respond to their call. The 'People's Vote' campaign demands a second referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Citizens must also be given the right to vote on the final agreement, if it comes.
On Curaçao church leader Orlando B.- who turned out to be a sex-hungry predator who also abused underage girls- sentenced to fourteen years in prison on Thursday. Nor may he exercise the function of church leader for nineteen years.
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.
Multiplayer, playing together with other people from our reality, seems to become a growing agenda item. The most popular games, both played and viewed, are games in which players compete with one against the other.
The well-intentioned idea of Coca Cola to come up with a catchy slogan in Maori and English has completely failed.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who hides in the London embassy of Ecuador, may have a little more contact with the outside world. Assange has not been able to call and use the internet in recent months, but according to WikiLeaks these restrictions are relaxed.
On Mallorca is still looking for the disappeared boy, Artur, of six years that went missing last Tuesday after the heavy weather. According to the Spanish newspaper El País he has a Dutch father.
In addition to being able to count on public holidays every year, you can also count on a new Call of Duty being issued. This year the game only comes a few weeks earlier than you are used to, namely October 12.
There is still no new French government team. President Emmanuel Macron planned to present his new team 'Monday or Tuesday', but Wednesday is still not presented. French media reported that Macron and his prime minister Edouard Philippe struggle to fill certain ministerial posts. At least five times a call on a candidate would have been made in vain.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will shortly talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the occurrence of military incidents over Syria. Netanyahu said he agreed with Putin on Sunday during a short telephone call.
One of the Russian hackers who, according to the US and the Netherlands, are behind the cyber attacks on, among others, the OPCW in The Hague, is registered at an address in Moscow that has been identified by the Americans as a building of the military intelligence service GROe.
A Dutch Kurd has surprisingly seized next to the presidency of Iraq. After a political drama in parliament, Fouad Hussein had to face Barham Salih, who is waiting a tough job to bring the divided and devastated country back on top.
How hard Cristiano Ronaldo screams about fake news and however much his girlfriend can support him, according to a journalist from Der Spiegel, they have enough documentation that would prove the wrong of the professional footballer, and specifically 'a dangerous document'.
A man died on Friday of the consequences of a fight at Oktoberfest in the German city of Munich. In one of the beer tents the victim went after a brief exchange of words, with another man on the fist. He was seriously injured and later collapsed in the hospital.
President Donald Trump instructed the FBI to conduct additional investigations into the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. 'As the Senate has requested, that research must be limited in scope and completed within a week,' the statement said.
Israel has allowed residents of Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar to voluntarily dismantle their settlement until October. If this does not happen, then the Israeli authorities themselves take action to remove the buildings.
A British tourist who visited Tenerife is a big puzzle. After a night out, she got severe pain in her intimate zone. A visit to the emergency room quickly clarified: there was a tortoise in her vagina stuck.
'When I go out, the girls are around me, pleading to take them to Europe. I refuse. I am afraid to die, 'says 42-year-old Patience, who smuggled Nigerian girls to Europe for almost twenty years.
An allergic reaction to a piece of cheese is a 13-year-old boy from London fatal. His classmate stopped the yellow food in the victim's T-shirt.
In the coming period, the Dutch will notice that things are going better. Prime Minister Mark Rutte is convinced of this, on the day that his third cabinet presents a budget for the first time. He mainly cares about international instability.
An employee of the International Red Cross was murdered in Nigeria, half a year after she and two other colleagues had been kidnapped by an armed group. The Red Cross announced on Monday that the murdered 25-year-old woman worked as an obstetrician at the aid organization.
The political opposition in Turkey has strongly criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for accepting a luxury airplane from Qatar as a gift. Erdogan defended himself by saying that the Boeing 747 is not meant for himself, but that it is a gift to the Turkish state.
London mayor Sadiq Khan insists on a new Brexit referendum. According to Khan, the current choice between a departure without an agreement or the in his eyes lousy proposal from Prime Minister May is too risky.
