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The explosions at an ammunition depot in eastern Ukraine, leaving two people dead Thursday, presumably caused by an attack.

US researchers have developed a device that uses wireless signals to see through walls and can identify the people behind it. The device RF Capture was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Activists for human rights in Myanmar demand that all political prisoners be released in the country. In a statement Tuesday local time, let them know that the Government of Myanmar would thus show a democracy to want to build.

A Catholic priest was sentenced in Peru to 35 years in prison and pay a compensation for sexual abuse of a child. This took place at a private school where the man worked as a chaplain.

ISPs should make all online traffic basically the same speed. They differ from them only when there is a threat of congestion in the event of a cyber attack.

Slovenia switches private security firms to guard the border and the flow of refugees under control. That the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the more than 2 million inhabitants country announced Monday.

Despite fear and protests among the population Japan will weather a nuclear reactor in southwestern startup. The governor of Ehime, Tokihiro Nakamura, has already given the green light for 3 reactor of the power plant in Ikata, the Japan Times reported Monday.

Off the west coast of Canada, on Vancouver Island, Sunday is a tourist boat capsized and sank. At least three of the 27 people on board perished off the coast of the village of Tofino. The passengers went whale watching, Canadian media reported.

The enigmatic pictures of the Nazi train with chests full of bullion in a Polish real tunnel or a fine piece of ' photoshopping' ?

Wacom is best known for his drawing tablets. With the new Bamboo Spark, the company focuses on people who prefer to take notes or draw on plain paper, but soon will be able to digitize and store the result.

The plague seems to be much older than previously thought. Investigation of 101 skeletons brought in seven cases traces of the disease to the Bronze Age ( 3000-800 BC. ) To light.

The famous 'bad ' bible from 1631 will be auctioned in November at Bonhams in London. In the extremely rare English tome is a world famous misprint. Between "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not steal " is the seventh commandment : Thou shalt not commit adultery. The mere absence of the word 'not', the Bible is unique.

Call without phone and without having to reveal your identity. The Dutch call app Warble says the first to truly anonymous to call. A tapverzoek government therefore makes no sense.

A former chairman of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday along with four others officially indicted for corruption. It involves John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda, which from 2013 to 2014 was president. He would have received more than $ 1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen to give them the construction of a conference center in Macau.

European countries must live up to previous commitments. Only if the refugee crisis can be tackled. Netherlands does more than average ,null, '' said Prime Minister Mark Rutte before the summit of EU heads of government and heads of state.

A Syrian woman gave birth on the beach of Lesvos , just after they had arrived at a rickety dinghy on the Greek island. Mother and son are doing well.

The Australian police accidentally discovered footage of the gang rape of a teenage girl in Sydney. Therefore could still be arrested five suspects, reported The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday .

The Mexican writer Marlon James on Tuesday won the British literary Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings ( Brief history of seven murders ) . This was reported by the BBC.

At temperatures approaching the freezing point , stays in Germany thousand asylum seekers in tents that are not calculated it . According to German media, the at least 42,000 people are housed in tents by the Länder.

These days it seems almost anything can be controlled with an application , from thermostats to security cameras and lighting to the locks on the front door . New in this category is the Biopod , a complete biotope in a terrarium that too with a smartphone to send .

Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence in 1962 escaped from the infamous Alcatraz prison on a small island off the coast of San Francisco. Always it was thought that they did not survive the dangerous crossing. Unfairly , say relatives of the three who even claim to have proof.

Violence in Turkey for weeks - if not months - to the order of the day . But as if the bloody attacks perpetrated Saturday in Ankara , it was not long. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the main railway station of the city . Certainly 86 people died and another 186 were wounded. The attacks are not claimed , so the Turkish government still impaired in the dark about the angle from which the attack came .

After years of cease-fire flared last summer's conflict between Kurdish fighters and Turkish police and army units in unusually fierce . Since late July , the number of bombings and attacks mutual rapidly. Saturday gathered near the main station of the capital Ankara people to protest against the armed conflict between the PKK and the Turkish government. The explosion that took place at that time, took at least thirty lives. A survey from July :

At least 120 000 repeat offenders in Belgium have been possible to impose a light sentence because certainly 310.000 rulings are missing in the central criminal records. That writing the Belgian newspaper De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws Saturday .

The family of a black man who was killed in April by a policeman , gets a compensation of $ 6.5 million ( 5.7 million euros). The city council approved the settlement in the North American site Carleston .

Europe was slow to recognize that the tragedy in North Africa and the Middle East also had an impact on Europe . That said, French President Francois Hollande Wednesday during a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. He was referring specifically to the problems in this region that led to massive fled , with Europe as final destination.