New Year's Eve at high altitude
December 31, 2018 23:00For eight visitors to a fun fair in the west-French Renner, the New Year's Eve went a little different than expected. They got stuck in a fairground attraction at about 50 meters.
For eight visitors to a fun fair in the west-French Renner, the New Year's Eve went a little different than expected. They got stuck in a fairground attraction at about 50 meters.
A little miracle in the French Alps. A 12-year-old boy was rescued from it after forty minutes under a thick layer of snow.
It will be very difficult for British Prime Minister Theresa May to add something to the agreements the UK and the EU have made about the Brexit. Minister Stef Blok...
A waste installation that flew into Rome last night caused a gigantic cloud of smoke above the city. The waste facility is located on Via Salaria, not far from the center of Rome.
The largest city in Alaska, Anchorage, has been hit by an earthquake. It had a power of 6.7. The epicenter was 12 kilometers north of Anchorage, at a great depth.
Dámaso López Núñez, the former right-hand man of the Mexican drug criminal Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in America for involvement in drug trafficking. He was seen as the successor of the fugitive Guzmán as leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
A little boy who escaped his mother on Wednesday on the stage where the Pope held a public audience, went on to play there.
There will be a little more clarity next week about whether the United Kingdom can unilaterally decide to withdraw the announced departure from the EU. The most important adviser to the European Court of Justice will give an opinion on Tuesday. The court often follows such advice.
The Chinese government has ordered 'immediate investigation' to a Chinese scientist who claims to be responsible for the birth of the first genetically engineered babies in the world. The authorities are going to see whether the case is legally sound, according to a statement from the National Health Council.
The use of 1 and 2 euro cent coins is also coming to an end in Belgium. Cash payments at the cash register must be completed on December 1st next year, the government decided on Friday.
A Japanese mother has been hiring an actor for 10 years as a father for her daughter. And she will continue to do so for as long as possible.
Policemen have handed out brochures to tourists at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona on Wednesday to make it clear that they have too little manpower to guarantee the safety of the city's visitors. The folders contain tips for tourists to prevent the theft of their property.
An American couple visited the whole living room last week with a metal detector, looking for the wedding ring. It did not go off until... the device came close to puppy Bella.
The rust ghost in the car is back again. Some modern cars are affected very quickly.
It is almost certain that the air disaster with a brand new Boeing 737MAX from the Indonesian prize fighter Lion Air last week is due to a fatal 'cover' by the pilots. The acute problem was possibly as unexpected as unpredictable in spite of all training in the cockpit.
The shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh could have ended differently, according to President Donald Trump, if the house of prayer had been better guarded. 'If they had been protected, the outcome would have been much better,' concluded the president, who continued that this protection was not present.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
A Brexit summit has failed again this week. The British Prime Minister Theresa May had a quarter of an hour to explain her requirements. She spoke so quickly that the other government leaders hardly understood her. 'It is still a mystery what the British want,' sighed one of those present against Bloomberg.
With a memorial service in the Mare de Deu dels Dolors church on Mallorca, the inhabitants of the island said goodbye to thirteen people who were killed by flooding. The Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia mourned with them on Wednesday evening. Françina Armengol, the Prime Minister of the Balearic Islands, also attended the meeting.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who hides in the London embassy of Ecuador, may have a little more contact with the outside world. Assange has not been able to call and use the internet in recent months, but according to WikiLeaks these restrictions are relaxed.
On Mallorca is still looking for the disappeared boy, Artur, of six years that went missing last Tuesday after the heavy weather. According to the Spanish newspaper El País he has a Dutch father.
The Flemish government must make a plan within a year for better air quality in the entire region, otherwise a penalty of 1000 euros per day will be imposed. The court in Brussels determined that in a case that Greenpeace had filed.
The introduction of new IT systems for customs services in the EU is experiencing significant delays. The 2020 deadline will not be met and may have to be moved up to 2025, reports the European Court of Auditors in a report.
The popular diesel engine is, after Hamburg and Frankfurt, also in the German capital under the spell. A court in Berlin ruled Tuesday that only the air quality in the metropolis will improve. Around two hundred thousand motorists with cars up to the Euro 5 standard are affected.
The United States and North Korea are making progress in their negotiations on the dismantling of the North Korean nuclear weapons arsenal. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reported this via Twitter on Sunday after consultation with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
A woman who had taken 'too much' water over the Belgian border has been fined up to 414 euros.
An 18-year-old woman from the United Kingdom who suffered brain damage as a baby due to a medical mistake received a compensation of 20 million pounds (22 million euros). As a five-month-old infant, she was given too little oxygen during an operation on her esophagus.
Are you biting off when someone insults you wrongly? Are you going strong in the defense, are you getting out or are you just walking away? Not only in daily life we make continuous choices, also in the Life Strange games from developer Dontnod his pressing questions with ditto answers is extremely important.
It is the day of truth for two prominent men in President Trumps entourage. It is determined whether Deputy Minister of Justice Rod Rosenstein still has his job at the end of the day and Trumps candidate for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, is trying to survive a hearing about allegedly sexually transgressive behavior in his teenage years.
Premier May has threatened with harsh words not to make an agreement with the European Union about a Brexit. She demands a new proposal from Brussels, which is not flexible and would show too little respect for the British referendum result to leave the EU.