Six people have had the fright of their lives in a skyscraper in the American city of Chicago. The elevator they were in fell down more than eighty floors and stayed around the 10th floor, local media reports.
In an attack by Muslim rebels in a refugee camp in the Central African Republic (CAR) at least 42 people were killed. In the camp, located near a Catholic mission in the city of Alindao, about 20,000 refugees resided. According to a United Nations spokesman, thousands of them fled when the rebels set the camp on fire.
The British police have arrested seventy people on Saturday at a protest in London. Demonstrators took to the streets out of dissatisfaction with the climate policy pursued by the British government. The activists also want a reduction in greenhouse gases.
A 9-year-old boy has scratched fifty cars in Oberhausen, Germany. The damage is estimated at 50,000 euros. The police say the child made the damage with a sharp object.
Nearly three months after a fatal stabbing and subsequent riots in Chemnitz Chancellor Merkel came yesterday to take pole height. The East German city is the symbol of the seemingly torn country, the deep gap between militant right-wing radicals, genuinely concerned citizens and left-liberal democrats: 'I know I have a face that polarizes. '
At least 42 occupants of a bus were killed in the south of Zimbabwe after the vehicle caught fire. At least 27 passengers were seriously injured in the accident near the city of Gwanda, according to the local police spokesman. According to the Red Cross, the bus was on its way to South Africa.
At least seven blue helmets have been killed in fighting in eastern Congo. Ten other UN soldiers were wounded when they were fighting with Congolese troops against rebels, the United Nations announced.
A 59-year-old woman died in the Indian city of Agra from the injuries she sustained when she was attacked by monkeys. The Indian police announced this Thursday. The woman was attacked by the animals on Monday as she walked through a field near her house. That writes Times of India.
The three possible candidates who compete for the German chancellor Merkel to join the conservative CDU are eagerly awaiting. At the election rally in northern Lübeck, they were officially presented to members of the party for the first time on Thursday. According to the latest opinion poll, Secretary General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, nicknamed AKK, has the greatest opportunities.
Dozens of rescued migrants refuse to land in Libya. They have embarked on board a container ship in the city of Misrata, says a member of the Libyan Coast Guard.
The death toll of the forest fire in northern California has risen to 48. On Tuesday, rescue workers found the remains of six people. The fire that Camp Fire is named is already the deadliest and most devastating in the history of the state.
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 demolition of the remains of the collapsed bridge in Genoa must begin on 15 December. If everything goes according to plan, the western part will be the first to be demolished, according to the mayor of the Italian port city, Marco Bucci, in a TV interview.
The Czech capital Prague has been a mayor from the ranks of the Pirate Party since Monday. The new Mayor Zdenek Hrib signed Monday a coalition agreement with a citizens' initiative and a conservative party to govern the city. 'We are really on the threshold of change today,' says the 37-year-old.
Actor Douglas Rain, best known as the calm voice of the murderous computer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, died on Sunday in the Canadian city of Stratford at the age of ninety. That is what Canadian media report.
Employees of a steel plant in the Belgian city of Charleroi went very well last weekend. Their employer accidentally deposited 30,000 euros in salary on their bills. According to the employees, the money received too much has already been spent by a number of them, writes the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
Hundreds of migrants have continued on their way to the north, after having spent a few days in Mexico City. The migrant caravan that currently travels through Mexico wants to reach the United States and mainly consists of Hondurans.
Forest fires are nothing new in Los Angeles. So if it goes on Thursday again in the nature areas around the city, most Angelenos do not immediately notice that. We live in a dry, warm city where a wind from the desert regularly rises. Images of flames in the region are always heartbreaking, but at the same time a 'fact of life'.
An evening dress from the singer Aretha Franklin, who died in August, raised 10,000 dollars at an auction in New York, auction house Julien's Auctions reports. The pink dress, decorated with sequins, wore the Queen of Soul during a concert in 1993.
At least six people were injured when a passenger plane from Fly Jamaica had to make an emergency landing in Guyana. The pilot was reversed shortly after departure because of a technical problem.
The death toll due to the collapse of two buildings in Marseille has risen to seven. That says Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. Two houses collapsed in the French city on Monday. Rescue workers have been looking for victims for days.
The Christian Pakistani woman Asia Bibi, who was on death row for years on suspicion of blasphemy, is still in Pakistan. This is what a spokesperson for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry told Reuters news agency.
An estimated 80 students from a secondary school in the west of Cameroon have been kidnapped. The action has been claimed by armed separatists from the English-speaking minority in the African country.
A runaway freight train has driven about 92 kilometers without a driver in the Australian Pilbara region. My company BHP Billiton Ltd. The train, which consisted of four locomotives and 268 wagons, eventually deliberately derailed.
The first migrants of the procession on their way to the United States have reached the capital of Mexico on Sunday. There they are temporarily taken care of in a stadium. More than a thousand migrants could receive medical help and the kitchens were set up by the government.
Kidnappers in Colombia have claimed 4.4 million euros in ransom in exchange for the release of a great cousin of the world famous writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez who died in 2014. The police announced that on Wednesday.
Because of the suicide attack in the center of the Tunisian capital Tunis, at least twenty people were injured. It concerns fifteen agents and five passers-by, says a spokesman for the security services. Most of them suffered minor injuries.
Underworld boss James 'Whitey' Bulger (89) was murdered Tuesday night shortly after he was taken to another prison.
In the construction of a firing range in the German city of Mainz, construction workers have found a mass grave with probably more than a thousand skeletons.
An earthquake with a strength of 6.7 on Tuesday morning hit the North Island of New Zealand. According to reports in the media, the earthquake lasted about 30 seconds.
