The European Court of Justice has condemned Germany because the government has done too little to reduce nitrate levels in drinking water. The pollution is mainly caused by manure that ends up in the water from agricultural land.
Football and beer drinks go hand in hand. International football fans have drunk so much since the start of the World Cup in Moscow that there is a shortage of beer in the Russian capital.
The Mexican football supporter Javier, who was not allowed to join his wife with his friends to the World Cup in Russia, is- thanks to a creative and hilarious solution of his buddies- a little bit more. His friends made a cardboard sign with his photo in lifelike format and now drag them everywhere. The images they share on social media work well on the laughter muscles.
On the internet, poignant sound recordings have surfaced of children crying for their parents at the Mexican border in Texas. The children are separated from their fathers and mothers by the policies of US President Donald Trump.
On the porch of restaurant Panorama in the Russian provincial town Vladimir, with a train called 'Lastochka' (Zwaluwtje) a little two hours away from Moscow, the Smirnov family is gathering. No, they are not descendants of the maker of the famous vodka brand that dates back to the tsar time. 'Smirnov is a fairly ordinary Russian name', says the 43-year-old Aleksej Smirnov. 'And I am an ordinary man. Russia consists mainly of ordinary people. '
More than thirty years after finding a deadly abused little girl along the French motorway A10 south-west of Blois, the parents have become obsolete and arrested. This reported French media. The mystery of 'the little martyr of the A10' has been clarified. The parents will be brought in on Thursday, according to news channel Europe 1.
The father of the 4-year-old Addy Sooter shared a heartbreaking photo on Facebook. The little girl was dying, and her older brother Jackson (6) did not want to leave her side. 'A little boy should never say goodbye to his 'partner in crime', his playmate, best friend and little sister.'
The capital of the Canadian province of Québec, also called Québec, may have smothered violent protests and riots in the bud. Anti-capitalists and other left-wing radical activists had announced that Friday would be 'a Day of Disruption' in Québec, but the riot police, which had been extorted on a large scale, prevented that.
The International Criminal Court ICC in The Hague has reversed the war crimes judgment against the Congolese former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba. In June 2016, it was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for crimes against humanity because, under his command, militia members had murdered and raped in the Central African Republic.
One in six young people check their mobile during sex.
Germany pulls out extra billions for defense. The move was warmly welcomed by NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg on Thursday at a meeting of NATO Ministers of Defense.
The American president Donald Trump says he 'does not really have to prepare' for the summit with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea. 'It is mainly a question of attitude and a willingness to get things done,' he explained.
A member of the Delhaize supermarket in Lochristi, Belgium, found eight bags of white powder on Sunday morning between the cardboard of a banana box. 'The police suspect that it is cocaine,' says manager Danny Van Assche. Research must show whether that is correct, and how the drugs have ended up there.
An endearing photo of an American fire brigade commander who lulls a baby to sleep after an accident passes the world. A girl less than four months old was involved in a car accident with her older sisters and pregnant mother. The girl was completely upset and found peace in the arms of fireman Chris Blazek. 'This is what it is all about.'
It is known that banana boxes are popular among coke smugglers. But the fact that the bags with the white substance would bring it all the way to the bananas is still remarkable. A Delhaize employee at Lochristi in Belgium did the discovery on Sunday morning during the course.
Facebook has given access to data from its users around sixty companies, including phone makers such as Apple and Samsung, including their religious beliefs, relationship status and friends' data. That writes the New York Times.
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Eurocross emergency center are going to investigate rabies or rabies. In the Netherlands, the disease is rare, but around 60,000 people die every year from infection with the virus that is transmitted via bites from dogs, cats, bats and monkeys.
Fear of spiders. It happens to many people, but with the 22-year-old Demi Sweeney the fear was so great that they invented a very special way to get rid of the spider.
Two climbers were killed in the American Yosemite National Park. The victims fell when they climbed the El Capitan rock, reports American media.
The court in the German city of Meiningen has lifted the ban on the right-wing extremist rock festival 'Rock against foreigners'. The Hildburghausen district had banned the festival in Themar (8-9 June) because rare bird species on and around the site raise their young. The court found the ban invalid, because there is insufficient evidence that the festival violates nature conservation laws. An appeal can still be lodged against this decision.
A 32-year-old man admitted before a court in London that he had made an appeal for an attack on Prince George, the 4-year-old son of Prince William and Kate. The trailer of terrorist movement IS did so via the messaging app Telegram.
A gay couple was severely mistreated in their own street during Ramadan in Schaerbeek by their own Turkish neighbors and a large group of sympathetic bystanders.
Researchers have found a decapitated body at excavations in Pompeii, which was buried under Vesuvius ash in 79 AD and stones from the volcano. It concerns the remains of a man who was probably about 35 years old at the time of his death, message news agency ANSA.
The British doctor who treated the Russian ex-double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia did not expect them to survive. The doctors and nurses who supplied the nerve gas poisoned Skripals told the BBC how they dealt with the special situation.
In Italy it is good practice to name your children after their grandfather and grandmother. And so a very proud couple recently could not name anything other than their newborn son Benito.
In North America, the hurricane season was officially opened on Friday with the warning for Alberto. That is still a tropical storm that has developed a little 100 kilometers south of the Mexican tourist island of Cozumel.
The British government believes that Russia should 'be accountable' for the role it played in the MH17 disaster. 'The Kremlin thinks it can act with impunity,' said Boris Johnson (Foreign Affairs).
A man who, in his own words, '14 months in a washing machine' put a 14-month-old toddler in a washing machine and spun several times, was sentenced to three years in Perpignan in France.
Germany is struggling to get rejected asylum seekers out of the country. In the first three months of this year nearly half of the expulsions failed. In most cases, the persons were untraceable. There is also a growing number of pilots who refuse to take expelled migrants on board.
