More than 200 passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii have returned to the airport on Saturday three times. Twice the device was already in the air, the third time decided...
A court in the Philippines ordered Friday for the arrest of Imelda Marcos (89), the widow of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos has to serve a prison term of six to eleven years for seven convictions for corruption. As governor of Manila she has transferred a total of two hundred million dollars to bank accounts in Switzerland.
Jokers in the US have been diving over each other since yesterday to weather the weather forecasts.
A second woman accuses the American candidate supreme judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Democratic senators started an investigation after new accusations to his address, reports The New Yorker.
Hurricane Lane that passes through Hawaii has been further reduced to the 3rd category. Lane is located south of Hawaii and is expected to head north-west. The hurricane brings wind speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour, reports the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Lane, the toughest in 25 years that threatens to hit Hawaii, was deflected northbound on Thursday and headed for Oahu. That is the most densely populated island of the archipelago. Schools, government buildings and businesses are already closed. The residents have barricaded their homes and constructed emergency supplies.
For the first time in thirty years, a very heavy hurricane threatens to hit the American state of Hawaii. In the cyclone that has been given the name Lane, wind speeds of over 250 kilometers per hour are measured.
Transgenders are working on a historic advance in American politics. This year, 43 transgender people have been candidates for a political office at all levels, according to figures from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a research institute in the field of public health. That is a record.
Sailing day-trippers must now admire lava flows in Hawaii from at least 300 meters away. The American Coast Guard has imposed new restrictions on skippers on round trip boats after an incident at the Kilauea volcano. A lump of hot lava fell on a boat with tourists, resulting in 23 wounded.
Thirteen tourists in Hawaii were injured when the boat they were on was hit by flying lava. The red hot matter landed on the roof of the boat. American media speak of a 'lava bomb'. One person is in serious condition.
Due to the eruption of the volcano Kīlauea about 600 houses have been destroyed in Hawaii. Never before have so many homes been swept away by the volcano in such a short time, said Mayor Harry Kim of Hawaii County.
Lava flows have reached a main road on Hawaii. The authorities have partially closed highway 132. According to local media, it is an important access road to the lower Puna area. Local residents have been called to safety.
In addition to repeated volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, Hawaiians are faced with another danger: 'laze'.
The active volcano Kilauea on Hawaii has made a first victim. A man was injured when he was hit by a hot piece of lava. He stood on the balcony of his house when he was struck. According to a mayor's spokesman, 'the lava slapped his lower leg and shattered everything in that spot.'
The volcanic Kilauea in Hawaii, which has been active for several weeks, exploded explosively on Thursday. There are thick clouds of smoke visible and ashes are thrown into the air for miles. The US seismological service USGS had already warned about this, after last weekend a new 300 meter long crack was discovered from which lava flowed.
The US seismological service USGS warns of new eruptions of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii. On Sunday, a new, 300 meter long crack from which lava flows was created. The authorities have ordered further evacuations.
After the eruption of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii, at least 21 homes have been completely destroyed. There were no injuries. Spectacular images of the eruption have been made from a helicopter. It shows how the lava flow leaves nothing of (holiday) homes with a swimming pool.
The island of Hawaii was hit by a series of earthquakes after the volcanic eruption of a day earlier.
The volcano Kilauea on the island of Hawaii has erupted. Because lava has flowed into the residential areas, about ten thousand inhabitants of the village of Puna have been evacuated, authorities have informed us.
The planet Uranus smells like spoiled eggs. The clouds mainly consist of hydrogen sulphide, which has such an odor.
A 55-year-old man has been terrified when he fell into a narrow crack between two buildings in Honolulu (Hawaii). During a game of baseball on the roof of a building, the man fell into a deep crack between two buildings.
Two stowaways from an airplane from Ecuador to New York have died when they fell off the landing gear when taking off. The airport in the Ecuadorian coastal city of Guayaquil was closed for several hours to get the two bodies of the runway.
A routine test with a weather alert from the American meteorological service NWS led to a tsunami warning on the American east coast. Many people received the NWS trial Tuesday on their phone or through other media as if it were a real alarm.
The employee who sent a missile alarm in Hawaii mistakenly thought a real attack was going on. The blunder caused great panic in the American state earlier this month.
The 66-year-old Marilyn Hartman has flown ten times long distances without a ticket and without a passport.
When Hawaii accidentally rocketed a rocket alarm earlier this month, Governor David Ige knew within two minutes that this was a false alarm. He could not report it to people, however, since he had forgotten the password of his Twitter.
According to the American space agency NASA, an asteroid will fly past the Earth at relatively close distances in early February. The celestial body with the name 2002 AJ129 will rage past our planet on February 4 at 10.30 pm around 4.2 million kilometers. That is about ten times the distance between the earth and the moon.
The authorities in Hawaii appear to have lost a lot of time when they retract a false missile alarm. As the panic seized around, according to the local Hawaii News Now there was also confusion about the guidelines for correcting an alarm.
A former agent of the American intelligence service CIA was arrested at JFK airfield in New York. He is accused of illegally possessing very secret information, according to the US Department of Justice.
The Japanese public broadcaster on Tuesday struck an accident about a rocket launch by North Korea. The alarm was withdrawn within a few minutes.
