More and more refugees drown children in the Mediterranean. Conclude that some refugee organizations Friday. According to UNICEF, the UN refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organisation for Migration IOM die an average of two children every day during the crossing.
The European Space Agency on Tuesday launched a new satellite. The artificial satellite should help scientists in the future to follow the global warming and weather phenomena and predicting El Niño.
Unknowns have large amounts of debris dumped in the ancient Roman catacombs. Police discovered the illegal landfills Monday. She has the cavities, closed in order to allow an investigation.
The US city of Seattle in Washington State on the west coast looking for a writer who for three months in a tower of the Fremont Bridge wants to live. It may be a poet, but also a novelist or a writer of creative non-fiction is welcome. The bridge across the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 2017 comprises one hundred years and that must festive and especially described literature, finds the city council.
Austrian judges think a murder and a suicide preceded the mysterious discovery Monday of a corpse and two bags with body parts in Traun. This preliminary conclusion draws prosecutor Birgit Ahamer.
The discovery of a corpse and two bags with body parts in the idyllic Lake Traun Monday put the police of Austria with a mystery. After the discovery of the bags with body parts found on Monday divers also the corpse of a man, police said.
One of the gunmen in the massacre in the American San Bernardino has Facebook promised its support for Islamic Jihad. Also let them know ever wanting to join the armed struggle. Tashfeen Malik about it certainly sent two messages in 2012 and 2014, to a small group of friends from her native Pakistan. This writes the Los Angeles Times on Monday (local time).
Divers have after days several "items" in the lake found in San Bernardino. That let the FBI. Divers search for information about the shooting, in which two terrorists shot dead 14 people.
Divers from the FBI have a more Thursday in San Bernardino investigated near the spot where last week was a shooting. The couple living in the Californian city fourteen people shot dead and 21 others wounded, would have been at the lake.
An American intruder who was trying to appear before the police came brutally to an end.
On the island Kouloukoua in Lake Chad are Saturday at least thirty people have been killed and more than eighty people were injured in a triple suicide attack on a market. This was reported by the French news station Radio France Internationale.
A Canadian student has to court in the US state of Michigan various charges of animal smuggling known. He admitted between April 2014 and September 2014 more than 1600 turtles have been smuggled or attempted to do so have done so.
Due to the strong population growth in Africa are getting more girls forced to marry there as a child. According to the UN children's organization UNICEF, the number of child brides in 2050 to more than double to 310 million.
The US Chrissy Turner is barely eight years old and already ill. The girl was recently diagnosed with breast cancer ; According to experts, the youngest patient ever with the disease.
At least ten people have been killed by a suicide bomber in northern Cameroon. According to security forces dozens of people were injured by the bombing in the village Nigue.
Despite progress made since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, the world is still an unfair place for children from the poorest countries. This is contained in a report by the UN children's organization Unicef that Friday- on the Day for Children's Rights- has been published.
Two planes of Air France that were en route from the US to Paris on Tuesday (local time) to make an emergency landing after a telephone bomb scares. On that American media reports.
Six US states say they no longer want to accommodate Syrian refugees because it would be dangerous to offer his people from that country in war shelter. Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Alabama and Michigan responded thus to the attacks Monday in Paris.
Authorities in Byron Center, a place in the US state of Michigan, found the bodily remains of the missing since 2006 Davie Lee Niles. The victim was found after ten years by a technical employee of a funeral, which saw outdoor Christmas lights at high altitude and hung a wrecked car in a nearby pond. In retrospect, it appears that this can be seen for many years on the satellite images of Google Maps.
The new Microsoft datacenter in North Holland was put into operation, as well as a similar building in Ireland. The American company announced Tuesday to want to come up with data storage in the UK. The press release also reported the opening of the centers in Central Lake and Ireland.
In the fight against the terrorist group Boko Haram, the government in Chad Monday in the border area with Nigeria declared a state of emergency. Thus, the security can make it easier searches, to find as terrorists or weapons that have come from Nigeria, said the Minister of Information Hassan Sylla Bakari.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is absolutely certain : the pyramids were no graves but intended to store grain in. The retired neurosurgeon, which in the polls now Donald Trump has become outdated, is still haunted by that statement he made in 1998.
Condemned as a witch, Mary Bertoletti Toldini di Pilcante was beheaded nearly three hundred years ago and burned. Now the northern Italian place Brentonico again bring to court the case.
The first day of the World Solar Challenge in Australia went well , certainly for the Delft Nuon Solar Team . The solar car Nuna eight of the team started in fourteenth , behind the Solar Team Twente. But after a day of driving , the Delft team is now third in the standings and needs only the teams from Michigan and great competitor Tokai letting go .
