Anyone looking for a dried-up lake in Australia with the satellite images from Google Earth comes across something remarkable: a fifty-meter-long penis. How the print comes and who is responsible for it is not known.
Indonesian emergency services have located the sunken ferry on Lake Toba in North Sumatra. An official confirms that the ferry has been identified at the bottom with the help of equipment for soil investigation.
On the ferry that capsized on the Tobameer in North Sumatra on Monday, many more passengers were hitherto assumed. According to the Indonesian authorities, 180 people were missing, previously it was reported that the ferry was carrying 80 passengers. The number of missing persons is three times as large as the capacity of the ship.
Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search for survivors of a ferry that sank on Lake Toba in North Sumatra on Tuesday. The bad weather makes the operation difficult. The approximately one hundred rescue workers suffer from rain and waves of about 2 meters high.
On the Tobameer in North Sumatra a boat with around eighty people on board was hijacked on Monday. Nine of them were saved according to local media. Dozens of passengers are still missing. The body of one drowned passenger is salvaged.
The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an agreement on Sunday to give the former Yugoslav Republic a new name: the Republic of Northern Macedonia.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has survived a vote of no confidence in parliament. This clears the way for signing the historic agreement with neighboring Macedonia. This republic of the former Yugoslavia then goes through life under the name Northern Macedonia.
American authorities confirmed Saturday morning that they found the remains of a woman who was killed by an alligator. Shizuka Matsuki was missing since Friday morning.
After centuries of speculation, the final answer is quickly coming: does the Loch Ness monster exist?
Michigan State University has reached a settlement with the victims of sports doctor Larry Nassar, who for years has been guilty of sexual abuse of often young girls. The lawyers of both parties announced on Wednesday that they had reached an agreement in principle on payment of 500 million dollars (almost 425 million euros) in damages from the university.
A 47-year-old woman from the American state of Michigan was fired after she had put laxative in the brownies for her colleagues. The delicacy was meant for the farewell party of a colleague.
A man who was filming when he shot a woman was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States. 20-year-old Anthony Gelia kicked the door of a house two years ago and opened fire, reports American media.
The body of Eric Geboers has been taken out of the water, says Alain Remure of the Missing Persons Cell. The ex-world champion motocross jumped out of a pleasure boat at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol on Sunday evening to save a dog, but did not come up anymore.
The famous Belgian ex-motorcrosser Eric Geboers is missing at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol. Geboers jumped out of a pleasure boat Sunday night to save a dog, but did not come up anymore. The local authorities fear the worst.
While young people remain virgins for longer, sex for older people is an important part of their lives, new scientific research suggests. Yet rarely is talk about sexually active elderly people- not even by doctors.
Calculated on the 'Day of the Wolf', such a predator probably caused a slaughter under sheep in the German town of Bad Wildbad (Black Forest). More than forty ruminants survived. Several were torn apart, others were so seriously injured that they had to be killed. In addition, a still unknown number of sheep drowned because they panicked a stream running alongside.
A water sports enthusiast, who lost his keys in Germany from a lake, accidentally removed a grenade from the Second World War. According to German media, the man tried to pick up the key with a magnet on a wire, but the grenade remained hanging on his wire.
The meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place within three to four weeks. That, in any case, is Trump, who told his audience that Saturday at a meeting in the state of Michigan.
Roy B., who was arrested on Sunday for involvement in the death of Orlando Boldewijn, has been released.
In the mid-west of the United States, a record amount of snow fell on Sunday and extremely low temperatures were measured. In addition, the eastern part of the US suffered from tornadoes.
A German on his way to Lake Garda appears to have forgotten his daughters aged 10 and 14 after a stop at a gas station.
France is under the spell of Nordahl Lelandais (35), the murderer of the French Maëlys (9). He also announced Thursday the murder of a professional soldier. The French fear the worst now: is Lelandais a serial killer? And if so, what else does he have on his or her heigth?
Consumer confidence in the United States rose to the highest level since 2004 in March, according to a final figure published by the University of Michigan.
The man who had to supervise gymnast Larry Nassar, appears to be prosecuted for sexual misconduct. William Strampel is suspected of, among other things, being touched by a student and making sexually explicit remarks, the American newspaper Lansing State Journal reports.
The former dean of the University of Michigan who should have supervised the gymnast Larry Nassar, who has been convicted of the abuse of hundreds of American girls, has been arrested. Nassar worked as a sports doctor at the university and also abused young athletes.
The body of 25-year-old Australian woman Alison Raspa was found four months after her disappearance in a partly frozen lake in Canada.
A Michigan Libertarian who wants to go into the US Senate has suggested in his campaign to raise money to buy hunting rifles for homeless people.
Customers from an antique shop in Florida looked strange when they suddenly saw a green monster crawling past the store. A lost alligator with good taste ran right past the shop, which caused a slight panic in the shoppers present.
The American police have arrested a student on Saturday who is suspected of murdering his parents. He would have shot his parents Friday in a student apartment on the Central Michigan University campus in Mount Pleasant.
According to US media, the University of Michigan is in 'lockdown' after reports of a shooting. According to witnesses, shots would also have been fired.
