A wealthy businessman who was so devastated by the devastating fires in northern California throws money in the disaster area. The 90-year-old Bob Wilson, rich in hospitality and real estate, distributes more than 1000 checks of a thousand dollars to students in the disaster area.
The condemnation of a cleaning lady in Greece to a prison sentence of fifteen years has led to great indignation. That's why the woman was released on Wednesday again, because the Supreme Court wants to investigate the case again, Greek media reports.
A cash machine in the US Houston issued notes of a hundred dollars, while a 10-note note was requested.
Soon after the first demonstrators had set out for high fuel prices in Paris, the riot police had been bombarding tear gas and tear gas on Saturday morning with tear gas and water cannon. According to the police, the target was not in the first place the demonstrators, dressed in yellow vests ('gilets jaunes'), but in black dressed rioters and right-wing extremists.
Carriers who are already suffering major damage due to the yellow-jacket riots in France are also fearful of high fines for violations of the driving-hours decision.
The French violent protest against the high (er) diesel prices is moving to Belgium. On Wednesday night, 'yellow vests' threw petrol bombs and stones on the Walloon motorways.
A quarrel between disappointed anti-Piet activists rises high on Facebook. Lorenzo Brunswijk, who says he speaks on behalf of action group Kick Out Zwarte Piet, accuses members of the much more militant splinter group De Grauwe Eeuw that they are 'cultural terrorists' who, with their extremist statements and provocative appearances in the media, have 'infected' the anti-Piet case. '.
After the massive protests of angry motorists Saturday, there are Sunday actions again because of high fuel prices. French media reported that people in yellow vests have been taken to the streets again and again, even though it is not that massive already a day earlier.
President Donald Trump posthumously honored Elvis Presley Friday in the White House with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US.
The number of missing people after the deadliest and most devastating forest fires in California's history has risen to 630. At least 63 people were killed by the fires that broke out a week ago north of San Francisco.
Thieves have stolen a large gorilla statue from a luxury hotel in London. The two perpetrators unscrewed the image under the nose of a witness. They then switched on helpful construction workers to get the picture down, says the owner of the hotel against British media.
A teacher from the American Missouri is suspended after one of her students appeared in a very controversial outfit during a history presentation. The student wore the white Ku Klux Klan robe for the class.
The Belgian pigeon fancier Gaby Vandenabeele decided earlier this year to stop the pigeon sport. He has auctioned his collection in the past few days and that did not do him any harm. Especially the pigeon called 'New Bliksem' threw high eyes: the animal was eventually bought for 376,000 euros.
Amnesty International has taken Aung San Suu Kyi, the government leader of Myanmar, her highest award. The reason is that, in a shameless way, she has betrayed the values for which she once stood \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
If you want to get a part of the Eiffel Tower, you can contact the French auction house Artcurial this month. There is an approximately 4 meters high part of the old spiral staircase of the colossus under the hammer.
In the collapsed buildings in Marseille, three deaths were found Tuesday. It concerns two men and a woman.
The Congolese authorities raise the alarm about the exceptionally large number of children who die from Ebola. That would mainly have to do with unhygienic methods of traditional medicine.
An American explosives disposal service is investigating a mail distribution center near Miami in Florida. According to authorities, several mail packages with pipe bombs have been processed there.
The United States is under the spell of a series of bombships that were sent to high leaders in the Democratic Party on Wednesday. The US Secret Service intercepted suspicious mail for former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, President Trump's opponent in the previous election.
Germany too needs hundreds of thousands of new homes quickly. The offer is small and the prices are rising. The Merkel government introduced a kind of child benefit for their own home to stimulate the market. Families and single-parent families, provided their taxable income is not too high, can receive a subsidy of 1200 euros per child per year for the purchase or construction of a house. The scheme is guaranteed for ten years.
The accident with a passenger train last week in Morocco, which killed at least seven people, is probably caused by too high speed. The justice system in Morocco announced this on Tuesday.
According to various media, the German authorities have prevented a major terrorist attack by Islamic State. This was preceded by a survey of more than a year. It was intended that in June three jihadist teams would travel to Germany to make the preparations and ensure implementation.
The legalization of cannabis cultivation in Canada Wednesday caused investors headaches on the first legal working day with stock market losses.
36 pupils are pregnant at a secondary school in the northeast of South Africa. The girls are between fourteen and eighteen years old, says spokesman Neil Shikhwambana of the Ministry of Health of Limpopo province.
A number of suspects identified by Turkey in the case of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi comes from the immediate surroundings of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times writes this on the basis of facial recognition, social network profiles, media reports and leaked Saudi government documents.
An Afghan MP was killed Wednesday by a bomb that was placed under his office chair. Three other people were also killed in the attack, which has been claimed by the radical Taliban.
The French president Emmanuel Macron has his new cabinet around. On Tuesday, he presented his ministerial team, later than expected. The recast is an attempt to stabilize its government and revitalize the reform plans.
The French police suspect the Italians of secretly secretly dumping clandestine immigrants across the border in Italy. There is even evidence. The Italian special police unit DIGOS has signaled a bus of the French gendarmerie and even photographed it in Italian territory, while it supposedly left African immigrants out of the bus.
Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.
In the latest opinion polls in Germany, the Greens have outpaced the Social Democratic SPD and the populist AfD (Alternative für Deutschland). The Greens have the support of seventeen percent of the respondents and are in second place in the poll of the public broadcaster ARD. According to the newspaper Bild, it is the first time that the Greens have achieved such a high score in this survey.
