Thailand wants to get rid of its reputation as a tourist destination for sex tourists. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made an appeal to change cities like Pattaya and other popular destinations in 'places of quality tourism', the Bangkok Post reported Wednesday.
Dietitians warn worldwide for the Cinderella challenge, or the Cinderella diet.
The United States recognizes that Turkey has the right to protect its borders. That is what the American minister Tillerson (Foreign Affairs) said on Friday after consultation in the Turkish capital Ankara. Tillersons Turkish colleague Cavusoglu said that steps have been taken to improve mutual ties. They have been under stress in recent weeks.
Last week in Turkey 474 people were arrested, because they have recommended the banned extremist Turkish Kurdish PKK or the main party of the Kurds in Syria, the PYD.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will not only meet the North Korean delegation at the opening of the Olympic Games on Friday evening. His government has informed news agency Yonhap that Saturday he will also have lunch with the North Koreans, among whom Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. She is the first in the family or dynasty who has ruled North Korea since 1949, who visits South Korea after the Korean War (1950-1953).
The billions of the recently deceased Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad remain out of reach of his family. Kamprad, who would have access to an estimated $ 60 billion, had his capital split up over a web of companies.
A court in London sentenced the man who last June with a van to people who left a mosque in the British capital, sentenced to life imprisonment. Because of the attack, a person was killed and nine people were injured.
A gruesome new tactic. Taliban fighters hid a bomb in the clothes and cloths wrapped around a four-month-old baby. The goal was an explosion in a strategic place in Kunduz, with the girl as 'additional damage'.
The EU remains directly behind the nuclear agreement with Iran. This was confirmed by the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain and EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini after the crisis consultation with the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Brussels.
A man in the state of Odisha in North India has built an eight-kilometer-long road with only a pickaxe and a crowbar. He made the way with the goal that his school-age children can come home more often. The BBC reports this Thursday.
A Belgian train driver last week deliberately drove a snail's pace to arrive with a considerable delay. Cedric Grumiaux does that in order to be dismissed as quickly as possible.
The outspoken Eurosceptic Italian MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S- Five Star Movement) has 'converted' to the euro. Party leader Luigi Di Maio said it is no longer a goal of the M5S to get Italy out of the euro zone.
The Christian Democratic CDU / CSU and the Social Democratic SPD want to abandon a climate goal set for 2020 when it comes to the formation of a government coalition. Sources within the negotiating parties announced on Monday that CDU / CSU and SPD think it is not feasible to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40% in 2020 compared to 1990.
A footballer from Saudi Arabia put himself in trouble when, after he scored, he decided to 'dab'. In the Islamic country, 'the dab' is linked to the drug world.
Energy producer Electrabel has not properly maintained the concrete at the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Doel.
A group of 25 one-legged Egyptian footballers has taken the lead and has started to set up a real competition for one-legged in Egypt.
On Wednesday, the German police arrested a 29-year-old man who planned to carry out an attack on the Christmas market in Karlsruhe with a vehicle. The man has ties with the Islamic State Islamic State (IS). That reported German media.
Climate reforestation is becoming increasingly important in the fight against climate change. 'Rainforest can also re-emerge,' said German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks during the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF). All possible seeds are still present in the deeper soil layers. 'If you finally stop mining and return the burnt-out land to nature, the old vegetation will return.'
He graduated from the London School of Economics and is considered the smart, Western-oriented variant of his father. Saif Gaddafi, the son of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, wants to fight the anarchy in his country that has persisted since the disastrous NATO invasion of 2011.
An online petition has been started to save the young Malinois, who bite twelve children on a playground in the Belgian Pole on Friday. Thousands of people have already expressed their support to Uscko in the hope that the dog will not be killed.
Negotiations on the British departure from the EU can go to the next stage. EU leaders agree that the basic agreement on the divorce is now sufficient to talk about the future relationship.
An Indian man who had himself filmed while he was killing a Muslim hoped to get money-lenders. Hundreds of people actually made money. 'The suspect wanted to become a Hindu hero after he killed a Muslim,' said a police spokesman. 'His main goal was to raise money after his hate-induced crime.'
The pharmaceutical company Johnson \u0026 amp; Johnson launches a large-scale test of an AIDS vaccine. The American company will vaccinate 2,600 women in southern Africa. A mix of two developed vaccines is used for this.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced on Wednesday that the nation's nuclear program was completed after firing an intercontinental missile that can reach the entire United States.
For the first time in thirty years, AIDS prevention has gone a long way. According to a new report from the Aidsfonds, this has to do with 'increasing conservatism' in the world, which prevents people living with or vulnerable to HIV, such as homosexual men and sex workers.
The former vice president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday that he would not return to his country. He first wants his safety to be guaranteed there. Mnangagwa said that he fled from the country after he heard that there were 'plans to get him out of the way.' \u0026 # X27;
Israel intends to refuse access to a European delegation. According to the newspaper Haaretz, the government uses new regulations to refuse people involved in anti-Israeli actions, such as a boycott of Israeli products.
The man who killed 26 people in a church in Texas sent threatening text messages to his mother in law. 'We know they received threatening messages from him,' said a spokesman for the Texan Department of Public Security.
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After the scandals around Harvey Weinstein, US authorities also want legal measures to be taken. A member of the New York State Department prepares an amendment.
