Three new crew members went to the international space station ISS. These are Alexander Gerst from Germany, Sergey Prokopyev from Russia and Serena Auñón from America. They were launched on Wednesday from space base Baikonur in Kazakhstan. They arrive at the floating lab on Friday, where they will live in the coming months.
Police officers, politicians, relatives and friends in Liege have paid the last honor to the two agents who were shot a week ago in the center of the Walloon city. Many hundreds of agents were present at the funeral in Liège.
A woman with terminal cancer has been cured using a new therapy. US researchers report this on Monday. Judy Perkins (49) had three months to live when she started the experiment with body immune cells. She is now two years later and there is no trace of cancer in her body.
Zimbabweans can go to the polls for the first national election since the departure of President Robert Mugabe this summer. His successor Emmerson Mnangagwa (75) announced on Wednesday that the presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on 30 July.
The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has received Israeli nationality. The 51-year-old businessman, owner of, among others, the London football club Chelsea, is officially immigrated on Monday, according to Israeli television.
Two Ebola patients who had left a Congolese hospital attended a prayer meeting shortly before their death. As a result, dozens of people may be exposed to the deadly disease, a health care worker said.
Brazilian Nara Almeida was 24 and shared her fight against cancer with her more than 4 million followers online. Even after she had been told that the cancer would be terminal, she remained positive: 'It's just a phase.' Now her friend has announced her death.
Does Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dare to commit more concretely in Brussels to stricter privacy protection for his users than he did in the US Congress? According to privacy experts, this question is crucial if Zuckerberg does not want to run into new investigations by European supervisors.
South India is struggling with an outbreak of a deadly virus that is spread by certain bats. In a few days time, at least ten people died, the authorities in Kerala state say. People get the Nipah virus by consuming fruits and juice that have been infected by the bats. The virus causes, among other things, flu and brain damage.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday at 6 pm to explain the misuse of personal data from some 2.7 million Facebook users in the EU. The American is received by President Antonio Tajani.
The conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament can be seen on Tuesday for the public. Parliament President Antonio Tajani announced that on Twitter.
The vaccination program to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo starts Monday. That's what the Ministry of Health said on Sunday. There are 4000 doses of vaccine on the way to Mbandaka, where the first cases of infection in urban areas were detected last week. The dangerous virus infection struck earlier this month in a village about 70 kilometers to the south.
Saudi Arabia has approved the release of about one thousand Ethiopian prisoners, who are detained in the Gulf State for various reasons. Addis Abeba said that in the media on Saturday. The Saudi decision was the desired response to a request from the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who this week paid an official visit to Riyadh.
Experts investigating the deadly fire in the London Grenfell Tower are not for a ban on flammable siding. Survivors insisted on such a measure, but the principal investigator told the BBC that especially the lack of compliance with the rules is a problem.
Gaming is becoming a growing source of income for tech companies. Internet company Tencent recorded a record quarterly profit of $ 3.8 billion and a 65% increase on the wings of mobile gaming.
'Long live a free Catalonia!' Were the first words of the new Catalan regional president, the separatist Quim Torra, put forward by the deposed Carles Puigdemont. Torra was chosen yesterday in a second round of voting with a very narrow majority as the successor of Puigdemont, ending a five-month political impasse in Catalonia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin first crossed the 19-kilometer bridge to Crimea. He climbed himself behind the wheel of a truck.
It is the nightmare of all parents: a seven-year-old girl went to the door in Vienna to play. A stranger killed the child with a stitch in the neck and threw it in a garbage container.
British student organizations that together represent almost 1 million young people have joined forces to enforce a referendum on a future Brexit agreement. The students ask the MPs in the area where they live to support the call for a plebiscite.
At three churches in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, bombs exploded on Sunday morning. According to the police, these are suicide attacks. At least six people were killed and at least 35 were injured, including two police officers. At a fourth church, the police could defuse a bomb.
Charles Aznavour was hospitalized in Nîmes (southern France) after a severe fall in his home. The very elderly Armenian-French chansonnier (93) has broken his upper arm according to French media.
The Japanese professor Hiroshi Ishiguro became famous with spectacular robots that he accurately modeled himself to the pore. 'The more human the robot, the easier we communicate with it,' he says.
The Indonesian authorities have ordered people who live near the Merapi volcano to leave their homes because a dangerous eruption has to be taken into account. The almost 3000 meters high mountain on the densely populated island of Java emits ash and steam. The airport of Yogyakarta is closed as a precaution.
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.
An American soldier was able to follow the birth of his child via FaceTime after his flight was delayed. Brooks Lindsey waited for the airport of Texas on his flight to Mississippi when his wife gave birth. Thanks to his mobile phone, he could follow the birth live. 'A comfort,' says Brooks.
Three babies who were found abandoned in the Berlin region have the same mother. That has shown research. The police have now set out to find a woman who was pregnant three years in a row in the summer and gave birth in August or September, but was never seen behind the pram. A spokeswoman said on Monday that a valuable tip has already arrived.
Last winter 3226 animals died in the Oostvaardersplassen. That is considerably more than last year when 813 animals died between 1 December and 30 April. Most grazers (89 percent) were shot down because they were too weak to survive the winter, reports Staatsbosbeheer Monday. It concerns 2684 red deer, 75 Heck cattle and 467 konik horses.
A bitcoin blogger who spoke a little too much about his successes was robbed, deprived and later found dead.
Almost fifty years after the extinction of the black rhinoceros in Chad, the reintroduction of the animals into the African country is started. Six rhinos are flown in on Thursday from South Africa to Chad to be released there in the Zakouma National Park.
Physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a scientific article just before his death. That is now posthumously published in the journal Journal of High Energy Physics. The article was approved for publication shortly before his death. Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76.
