Several US government agencies in the Washington D.C. region, including two army bases, received suspicious packages on Monday. The FBI investigates the packages, the police have informed.
The United States and China were also the main trading partners of the European Union in 2017. Approximately one third of the EU's total trade is with those two economic superpowers, according to figures from the European statistical office Eurostat.
A letter of application that Steve Jobs wrote about three years before he co-founded Apple, has raised over 141,000 euros on an internet auction in the US.
A Russian airport was dotted with diamonds, gold and platinum on Thursday when a cargo plane lost its cargo- worth 305 million euros. The police and secret services are now rattling everything together.
The European Central Bank has again taken a small step in reducing the incentive program. Since today, the central bank has not reported that it is ready to extend that program.
A worried mother from the British Salisbury freaked out on Friday when she looked better at a selfie of two laughing agents. After all, on the seemingly innocent picture, the car of her daughter was on her head and in the roadside. 'That way you really do not want to know something like that', says daughter Georgia Oak.
The Russian president Putin wants the Russians to enjoy more freedom in all kinds of areas. He said Thursday in his annual press conference that the democratic institutions, the citizens' society and the judiciary must be strengthened.
The police in Albania intercepted a large batch of cocaine. In the port of Durrës the police discovered 613 kilos worth about 180 million euros in the double bottom of a container loaded with bananas on a ship.
The armed guard, who was present at the shooting incident at the Florida school, stood outside the building and stayed outside when the shooter wriggled Nikolas Cruz inside a massacre.
Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz has announced that he has caused the massacre in his former school in Florida. Cruz has known his crime to detectives, reported local media on police authority.
The dollar index lost 0.4% to a three-year low, while US WTI oil rose 1.7% in value.
At the headquarters of the American intelligence service NSA in the state of Maryland, Wednesday may have been shot. Many police units and other emergency services are on site. According to American media, three people were injured. The situation was quickly under control, the authorities reported.
The stock exchanges in New York started on Friday with a profit on the last trading day of a very eventful week.
The Spanish police have rolled up a large gang of drug smugglers. Certainly 43 people have been arrested and about 5000 kilos of drugs have been intercepted. Detectives have seized 15 million euros worth of stuff. At least 139 bank accounts have been frozen. It is called 'one of the most powerful drug organizations in the world'.
The possible leader of a global gang of cyber criminals has been arrested. The 31-year old Russian Sergey Medvedev was arrested in his home in the Thai capital Bangkok. He may be extradited to the United States. The arrest happened last Friday already, but is now confirmed by the Thai police against Thai media.
Russiagate, or the possible interference of the Kremlin in the American elections, has received a spectacular follow-up in Russia itself. Anti-corruption blogger Aleksej Navalny, who is excluded from the presidential election next month, says he has evidence that billionaire Oleg Deripaska was the secret emissary of the Kremlin in 2016 with Paul Manafort, then the campaign chief of Donald Trump.
The smartphones that sponsor Samsung hands out to the athletes during the Winter Games in Pyeongchang cause a remarkable problem. Because of UN sanctions, the athletes from North Korea and Iran do not get one. Iran is now in anger and has called the ambassador of South Korea in Tehran on the carpet.
The United States has resolved a global cyber fraud case. The identity fraud has caused more than $ 530 million worth of damage to consumers, businesses and financial institutions, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday.
An Algerian jeweler was arrested in Turkey because he tried to smuggle 290 banknotes worth € 144,200 in his gut.
Two Britons who thought they had found a Roman treasure look ugly on their noses. The fifty 'golden' coins appear to have been stopped in the ground by the makers of a comedy series, the BBC reports.
The European Commission imposes final import duties on cast iron from China.
The authorities in Côte d'Ivoire have seized 600 pounds of elephants' tusks. They had an estimated value of more than 360,000 euros.
Kim Dotcom, the big man behind the MegaUpload site, is counterattacking. He demands a great compensation from the New Zealand government. There's no amount in the claim, but on Twitter he says it's billions.
One of the most wanted smuggler of ivory, rhino horns and other ground bones of rare animals has been arrested after a manhunt of about ten years. That is what Thai authorities are proud to announce on Saturday at a press conference.
Risks such as years of imprisonment, the death penalty, or a life in exile are worth it to address abuses and leak secret documents. That is what the American whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says in an interview with The Guardian, in which he and Edward Snowden speak.
After Trump took the anger of the world with his alleged statements about 'shithole countries', the American president now gets a biscuit of his own dough. Trump hotels are taken through the mud at the Yelp rating site and flooded with shithole reviews.
The French police found an escape car from the men who attacked the famous Hôtel Ritz in Paris on Wednesday night and seized jewelery. Two robbers are still fugitive.
Part of the millions of the robbery at a jewelery store in the luxurious Ritz hotel in Paris has been recovered. This has reported a source within the police to the French news agency AFP. In total, the thieves went on Wednesday evening with more than 4.5 million euros worth of jewels and other valuables.
In a raid on the luxurious Hotel Ritz in the center of Paris, an estimated 4.5 million euros worth of jewels and other valuables were captured on Wednesday evening. Five armed men rushed into the hall of the hotel and threw themselves with one or more axes on display cases where the valuables were displayed, French media reported.
About two hundred members of one of the most notorious Mafia abbeys in Italy were arrested during a joint anti-mafia operation in Italy and Germany.
