After the collapse of a dam in the southeast of Laos, around 3,000 people are still waiting for rescue. The authorities reported Wednesday to the newspaper Vientiane Times that many people are stuck in trees or on roofs of houses because the area where they live after the collapse of the dam was flooded by water.
Eleven Thai football players who have been rescued from the cave, have their first initiation ceremony to sit as a novice, a kind of 'junior monk', to live in a Buddhist monastery. They stay there for nine days and shave their heads tomorrow.
Botswana, the country with the world's largest elephant population, is considering lifting the ban on the pleasure hunt for elephants. The government of the country in southern Africa says that harvesting small farmers is threatened by the thousands of elephants living in the wild.
The twelve Thai big boys and their coach are not allowed to watch the final of the World Cup live. That is what the hospital in Chiang Rai determined. According to the hospital, the duel between France and Croatia starts late in the evening.
'My name is Garrett Michael Boofias, I am five years old, I am a bulldog and my favorite color is blue... and red and black and green.' That is the beginning of the letter with the funeral wishes of the 5-year-old Garrett Michael Matthias from the American state of Iowa.
Everything for a nice Instagram photo? The 19-year-old Katarina Zarutskie thought so. During her vacation in the Bahamas she saw a group of people swimming with sharks and jumped into the pool to shoot a nice picture. A few seconds later she was bitten and pulled under water by a shark.
In the event of attacks or major natural disasters, YouTube will now also publish written news reports. That news comes from reliable websites such as The New York Times or CNN. With this new feature, YouTube wants to counter the spread of fake news.
The whole of Belgium turns black-yellow-red again, because our southern neighbors play a blood-curdling semi-final at the World Championships against France. Reporter Niels Kalkman mixes between the festivities.
A huge crocodile that roams through inhabited territory in Australia is finally captured after a manhunt of no less than eight years. The saltwater crocodile of five meters long and 600 kilos heavily ran into a cage. On pictures you can see how the big animal is tied to a trailer.
An isolated Indian tribe in the Amazon forest has been hit by an outbreak of measles. 23 members of the Yanomamö are admitted to the hospital and hundreds more are threatened by the highly contagious virus, CNN reports.
A 92-year-old American woman shot her 72-year-old son on Monday because she wanted to prevent him from sending her to a nursing home. US media reported that.
The Swiss police have arrested one of the most popular fraud suspects in Great Britain. The 45-year-old Mark Acklom would have paid a woman 850,000 pounds (about 960,000 euros) by pretending to be the intelligence service MI6, reports British media. He then left with the northern sun.
The 3-year-old girl who was stabbed at her own birthday party by a local resident has succumbed to her injuries, reports ABC. At that party in the American town Boise (Idaho), the 30-year-old man put down a total of six children and three adults. Three victims are still fighting in the hospital for their lives.
Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.
It was another week of lows for Venezuela. The economy continues to deteriorate, Venezuelans flee the country en masse and those who still live there have lost some liberties, such as being able to surf the internet anonymously.
The 28-year-old left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx gave a resounding surprise in Democratic primaries in New York. She defeated the 56-year-old veteran Joe Crowley, who has been in the House of Representatives in Washington since 1999.
The death sentence against a nineteen-year-old Sudanese who killed her husband in self-defense was destroyed by a judge. Noura Hussein has been sentenced to five years in prison instead. Amnesty International has informed that.
After months of debate and consultation, an American organization for youth libraries (ALSC) has renamed a prestigious book award named after Laura Ingalls Wilder. The organization decided to do so because Ingalls Wilder would have used racist language in her book series Het kleine huis on the prairie.
If Macedonia has solved the name issue with Greece and continues as Northern Macedonia, the European Commission sees no objections to start negotiations with the Balkan country on accession to the EU. Before the European foreign ministers decide on further enlargement Tuesday in Luxembourg, the Macedonian minister Nikola Dimitrov makes one final appeal to the Netherlands not to block the accession talks.
A 32-year-old woman came to the doctor with complaints. She had a moving bump in her face for weeks. First under eye, then above her eyelid and then in her lip. What turned out? It was a living parasite, which can be up to 30cm long.
Five Tigers who have been rescued from a circus in Spain have been given a new place to live thanks to the AAP Foundation. The animals move to a zoo on the English Isle of Wight.
The non-party Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has retaliated his right-wing populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Salvini with his party, the Lega, especially against immigration, illegal immigrants and the EU, this week suddenly wanted to know how many Roma live in Italy. To get a picture of the situation, 'we have to do what was once called counting', he said on the TV.
The oldest Sumatran orangutan in the world died at the age of 62 in the Perth zoo. That is what Australian media report.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants to know exactly how many Roma people live in Italy. To get a picture of the situation 'we have to do what was once called counting', said leader of right-wing populist party Lega on TV channel TeleLombardia. As far as he is concerned, counting may also be called 'personal registration' or 'snapshot'.
The French customs has rolled up an illegal online marketplace on the so-called darknet. The forum, known as the Black Hand, offered forbidden products and services for sale for more than two years. This is reported by the French Ministry of Budget.
A Russian politician in charge of family affairs has well-meant advice for Russian women: do not have sex with foreign men during the World Cup. And if you have to, with someone of the same breed.
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A record amount of plastic is floating around in the Mediterranean. The flow of tourists will further worsen the situation this summer season, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It is high time to put an end to this flood of plastic, says the WWF.
Suffer from snails in your garden? Instead of eradicating them with poison, you can also simply serve them on a plate.
Two criminals have robbed an Australian reporter and her cameraman in London. Because the camera was still running, images of the robbery were shown live in the control room of the television station in Sydney.
