In the Belgian city of Bruges there has been an uproar about the annual Christmas market. From now on it will be called 'Wintermarkt', reports VTM Nieuws. The organizers change the name to not offend people with other beliefs.
It seems that thanks to the pilot's clever behavior the accident with the helicopter from Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has not claimed many more victims.
The attack on the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was intended to inject her with a deadly, slow-acting poison. That is what the former Colombian head of state Andrés Pastrana says.
Romania was hit by an earthquake in the night from Saturday to Sunday. The shock with a force of 5.8 was felt in the capital Bucharest. It is not known whether the quake caused damage and whether people have been injured.
Shocking news from the English Leicester. Near the King Power Stadium, the stadium of Leicester City, the helicopter of owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha crashed Saturday night.
The man who opened fire on Saturday in a synagogue in the American city of Pittsburgh can get the death penalty. He is being prosecuted for several criminal offenses, including a hate crime. That's what Justice Minister Jeff Sessions said.
Mountains of waste, potholes, chaos in public transport: the Romans are fed up and on Saturday thousands of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the decline of the city. Under the motto Roma dice basta (Rome says enough) they went to the city hall on the Piazza del Campidoglio where the mayor of Virginia Raggi sits.
From the Gaza Strip, at least ten and possibly twelve missiles were fired to the south of Israel on Friday night. An army spokesman told the newspaper Haaretz that most projectiles were intercepted by the Israeli defense system Iron Dome.
Can you guarantee that I am still living in three months? 'A member of the gang Mara Salvatrucha asked Bishop Emiliani in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. He was tired of the violence and bloodshed and wanted to break with the gang.
The authorities in Mexican coastal areas are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Willa. The governor of the western state of Nayarit says that more than 10,000 people are being evacuated. Schools must close the doors.
The school in Crimea where twenty people were killed last week, has opened the doors again. The students have received psychological help, reports the Russian news agency TASS. The lessons are being resumed in another school building, say the regional authorities.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The ruling party Justice and Justice (PiS) has made a small victory in the regional elections in Poland on Sunday. An exit poll shows that the party received 32.3 percent of the votes, against 26.9 percent four years earlier. The Civic Platform, a coalition of opposition parties, would amount to 24.7 percent.
In the event of flooding after severe storms in the Malaga region in the south of Spain, a firefighter died on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump has credibly called the declaration on the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. The president does not believe that the Saudi authorities lied to him.
The Saudi authorities have confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Saudi prosecutor, there is a fight between him and people he met out there at the consulate in Istanbul that led to his death, reports Saudi state television.
Thousands of people have paid the last honor to victims of the Crimean massacre. According to local authorities, around 20,000 people attended funeral ceremonies on a square in the city of Kertsj, news agency TASS.
In Canada, cannabis was sold for the first time legally. Canadians stood in line to buy the soft drug, media reports in the North American country.
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.
The horse with carriage has been part of the streets of Rome since Roman times. For centuries the horse was by far the most used means of transport, but even now tourists are still comfortably leaning back around the Roman city center.
The German authorities have established the identity of the hostage taker who was arrested in Cologne. It is a 55-year-old Syrian refugee. The man is still in a coma, but according to the police is no longer in danger of life.
Working in the City of London demands the utmost of people- trainees at a law firm have again experienced last week. Their boss sent them an e-mail on Friday at a quarter to five with the question if they could work through the night. Those who refused, had to provide 'proof' to legitimize the failure.
In a pharmacy in the complex of the Cologne central station, the German police put an end to a hostage situation. A man had taken a woman there in hostage. The perpetrator was badly injured in the liberation action. He is resuscitated. The woman was slightly injured in the hostage.
The votes in municipal elections in Belgium have not yet been counted everywhere, but in Antwerp mayor Bart de Wever and his N-VA can continue to rule the city with the Christian Democratic CD \u0026 amp; V and the liberal Open VLD. The coalition provided some, but retains the majority of board seats in the port city.
Turkey has given a new name to the road leading to the new American embassy in the country. The road in the capital Ankara is now called the Malcolm X road, to the leader of the militant civil rights movement for black Americans who was murdered in 1965.
A man from the American city of Bristol (Tennessee) lost his leg after his son was driven over him with a lawnmower. The 76-year-old man would have attacked his son with a chainsaw. The 76-year-old man has been charged with attempted manslaughter and violating his probationary period.
In the case of air strikes in the Yemenite region of Hodeidah, according to Houthi rebels, at least nineteen civilians were killed on Saturday. Jet fighters from the coalition fighting against the rebels under the leadership of Saudi Arabia attacked a checkpoint in Jabal Rass when two buses passed by.
At least sixteen people were killed by a double suicide attack on a popular restaurant and hotel in the Somali city of Baidoa. About fifty others were injured. That reports the Somali police.
Under massive police protection, approximately 1,500 people held a march for the equal rights of homosexuals through the streets of Lublin in eastern Poland for the first time. The police used tear gas and water cannons to get around 200 aggressive counter-demonstrators who threw fireworks and stones under control. That is what the Polish news agency PAP reports on Saturday.
The death toll by the devastating hurricane Michael in the southeast of the US has since risen to eighteen. Of hundreds of people is still unknown where they stayed, the authorities reported Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated before the hurricane came ashore, but not everyone left on time.
