In Finland, the American President Donald Trump has been complimented with astonishment. He praised the forest management of the Finns, which according to him, among other things, is the 'raking and cleaning' of the forest floor. For example, forest fires can be prevented according to Trump.
A loyal four-legged friend has been waiting for his owner for 80 days. The woman died on August 21 in a car accident in Hohhot, a city in China. The dog has been on the side of the road ever since. Sina Weibo reports this.
The number of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo suffering from severe hunger has increased explosively as a result of the ongoing conflicts in the country. More than 13 million people no longer have enough to eat, compared to 7.7 million last year. Approximately 6 million children in Congo must be considered undernourished.
For the first time in almost a year, a United Nations aid convoy has reached a refugee camp in southern Syria. The 50,000 people in the Rukban camp near the three-country point of Syria, Jordan and Iraq need urgent help, according to the UN on Saturday. In addition to food, medicine and hygienic material, vaccines have also been put in place for about 10,000 children.
Hurricane Willa landed on the Pacific coast of Mexico on Tuesday evening. The storm swept with wind speeds of up to 180 kilometers per hour across the coastal area and was accompanied by heavy rainfall. There are no reports of victims or damage.
Half of the population of Yemen, some fourteen million people, is on the brink of a famine and is in danger of becoming fully dependent on food aid for survival. Mark Lowcock gave that warning to the Security Council of the United Nations on Tuesday. Lowcock is responsible for humanitarian aid within the UN.
After a day of rest tomorrow the heavy weather breaks loose in Spain with great intensity. In Valencia, fellow countrymen are preparing for even more water. 'We have packed enough food.'
The German authorities have established the identity of the hostage taker who was arrested in Cologne. It is a 55-year-old Syrian refugee. The man is still in a coma, but according to the police is no longer in danger of life.
Today we see more and more intrusive screen ads on the street, which can be very tiring. Scott Blew, an engineer from Los Angeles, designed a pair of glasses to escape this screen bombardment. With these glasses all screens, on smartphones and most computer screens, are completely black.
In a pharmacy in the complex of the Cologne central station, the German police put an end to a hostage situation. A man had taken a woman there in hostage. The perpetrator was badly injured in the liberation action. He is resuscitated. The woman was slightly injured in the hostage.
Some forty of the total of 133 prisoners have escaped from the Porlamar prison on the Venezuelan island of Isla de Margarita on Sunday.
A tough climb up the mountain, many tourists do not feel like it during their holiday. They then choose a comfortable ride by donkey. The Greek minister of Rural Development and Food intervenes after animal rights organizations have called in earlier. Overweight people may no longer be transported by the animals.
The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday, is one of the most important political rewards that is being forgiven in the world. This year, the choice seems more difficult than in other years because it is not clear how sustainable current peace initiatives will be.
The Netherlands has made € 1 million available to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This is what Minister Kaag (Development Cooperation) decided on Monday.
The Indonesian authorities supply relief goods and materiel after the earthquake and flood on Sulawesi. The emergency response service says it needs more heavy equipment and manpower to store bodies on the island.
Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen are on the verge of starvation. Their situation is deteriorating by the day. The country still has food supplies for two to three months, while fighting for Hodeida, the most important port city in the country, threatens to put food imports to a standstill.
A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.
The government of President Donald Trump wants to make it more difficult for foreigners to get a permanent residence permit if they receive social support from the government. A proposal submitted in a Saturday states that immigration officials should now consider whether they receive food aid, live in a social housing or use Medicaid, the care program for the poorest.
In Venezuela, 34 managers of supermarkets have been arrested because they are suspected of hiding food and increasing prices. That's what President Nicolás Maduro has said.
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.
The typhoon Mangkhut was pulled from Hong Kong to the mainland of China. There he slowly loses strength. Mangkhut reaches wind speeds of more than 200 kilometers and is the strongest typhoon this year.
The metropolis of Hong Kong has received the full layer of Hurricane Manghkut on Sunday. In the metropolis, skyscrapers swayed to and fro, streets ran, trees were uprooted and sometimes 12-meter-high waves crashed on the coast.
The mystery surrounding the sudden death of two British tourists at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada is increasing. The official autopsy report in Egypt attributes death to an acute food poisoning caused by a 'poop infection', but travel organization Thomas Cook is not so sure.
It's Friday again, so you might want to get a greasy bite after a drink at work. A visitor to the KFC in Australia probably should not think about it anymore. He found a breaded and slimy chicken heart between his crispy chicken pieces.
The British couple John and Susan Cooper on holiday in Hurghada on the Red Sea on August 21 died of acute food poisoning. That is what the Egyptian authorities say in a statement after the autopsy on the bodies.
Discussions between French and British fishermen about the fishing rights for scallops did not work out. That is what the French Minister of Agriculture and Food, Stéphane Travert, said. He warned of new conditions at sea now that the scallop war is likely to continue.
A gruesome discovery for a pregnant woman in a restaurant. During a dinner party she finds a dead rat in her soup.
The conservative EPP group, the largest political family in the European Parliament, is all done with Hungary. This opens the way for sufficient support for a critical Hungary report. The country of Prime Minister Orbán would thus end up on the European criminal court.
It is exactly 17 years ago today and one of the questions that still concerns us: who was the man who jumped down on the iconic photo of the WTC building during 9/11?
Islamic extremists in the northeast of Nigeria attacked the city of Gudumbali and caused a massacre. That's what two residents and a security guard said on Saturday. They said that many people died, but they could not name numbers.
