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Visitors were eyewitnesses of a gruesome scene in the zoo in the Chinese city of Pingdingshan. Zoo workers fed a living puppy to a python.

The stay of Carles Puigdemont in Belgium can go into the papers, because according to the Belgian business newspaper L'Echo he is going to rent a pricey villa in the Belgian town of Waterloo.

Turkey has reached a population of 80 million. The Turkish statistical office reported that at the end of last year the country officially had 80.8 million inhabitants, nearly one million more than a year earlier.

The 21-year old Laurent from the Belgian Marche will remember his last trip to Brussels for a long time. After a night out with friends, he jumped last week for the joke on the trailer of a truck waiting for the traffic light. He should not have done that better.

Donald Trump will be holding his first State of the Union next night, say the American version of the Dutch throne speech. The American president seizes this opportunity to raise money for his re-election campaign.

The lawsuit about the high-profile diamond robbery at Brussels Airport in 2013 will start on Wednesday. In the raid in Zaventem by at least eight armed and masked men, the perpetrators went off with 37 million of diamonds from a Swiss airline.

This year, 2.9 billion euros is needed to provide life-saving humanitarian aid to 48 million children in need. It concerns children who are victims of conflicts, natural disasters and other emergency situations in 51 countries. That is what UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, says in a report.

Via the globally popular running and cycling app Strava, users can share their locations, but an interactive map of the app suddenly endangers the safety of American soldiers and other military personnel. The 'Global Heatmap' shows locations of military bases in conflict areas such as Syria and Iraq and this was discovered by a student.

Angelina Jolie, the special envoy of the UNHCR refugee organization, has called on the world community to dedicate more money to the reception of Syrian refugees.

In the Vatican there will be an exhibition next year about the American pop artist Andy Warhol, reports The Art Newspaper. The museums of the Vatican would be in full discussion with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the birthplace of the artist.

A very scary stalker has started building a house next to his female victim. The judge has now stopped construction.

Dutch people living in Great Britain do not have to fear that they will be expelled from the country when the Brexit finally comes into effect. That is what the British minister David Davis promises during a press conference.

A deaf woman in the UK has sued a concert promoter because there was no provision for the deaf at a concert by the girl band Little Mix. The woman claims that she, and two other deaf mothers, could not follow the performance- in Sussex- now. In advance the women had asked organizer LHG Live for such a provision, but that went wrong from all sides, reports The Telegraph.

Residents of parts of San Francisco must prepare for a possible evacuation due to a tsunami that may have been caused by the Alaska earthquake. That is what the San Francisco crisis management department reports on Twitter.

The Netherlands is among the world leaders in countries that are good at educating, retaining and attracting talent. The Scandinavian countries score even better from the European countries.

The Turkish army claims that it has hit 108 targets of Kurdish militants in a military operation. The army reported this a few hours after the announcement of the beginning of the Olijftak campaign. It is aimed at Syrian-Kurdish militias in the Afrin region in northern Syria.

The children of the American horror couple David and Louise Turpin, who were arrested this week in the American town of Perris, were so bad that neighbors compared them with vampires.

Shortly before the visit of Pope Francis three Catholic churches in Chile were attacked. The attacks with incendiary bombs on churches in the capital Santiago caused damage to facades and broken windows.

The customs in Singapore caught a man who tried to smuggle bird spiders into the city state. The Singaporean illegally turned many dozens of the beasts, which can grow to 28 centimeters, in his house.

'Fast' Eddie Clarke, the original guitarist of metal band Motörhead, died on Wednesday at the age of 67. That reports the official Facebook page of the band Thursday. He died of pneumonia

The spouse or spouse of an EU citizen of the same sex from a non-EU country has the right to stay with his partner throughout the European Union. That is what the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice says.

Meghan Markle has closed her accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That has confirmed Kensington Palace.

With a nice talk about investment opportunities, a 58-year-old Flemish hairdresser has wrested the savings of dozens of customers for years. He became two million euros richer. 'We thought he was a friend', angry former customers say.

Last year, more than 19,000 migrants from Greece returned to their homeland. In December alone, there were 1412 migrants who left the Southeast European country with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched in the night from Sunday to Monday. The first mission of the American rocket builder in 2018 is a mysterious one.

A footballer from Saudi Arabia put himself in trouble when, after he scored, he decided to 'dab'. In the Islamic country, 'the dab' is linked to the drug world.

Harlow Star is not just a local newspaper in Essex in England, but also the name of a girl in a few weeks. Just before Christmas the baby came into the world in Somerset. Her parents did not know that the name was the same as the local newspaper more than three hundred kilometers away.

The meeting of President Trumps son Donald Jr., son in law Jared Kushner and the then campaign boss Paul Manafort in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer affiliated with the Kremlin, was 'treacherous, unpatriotic and bad shit'.

Unfiltered water seems to be a new trend among health freaks in the United States. Fanciers are willing to pay almost 40 dollars for about 4 liters of 'raw' water. But according to experts, the hip drink is better not to be drunk.

There is a chance that there will be no more chocolate in stores in thirty years. The cocoa plantations suffer heavily from global warming and if a solution is not found quickly, the tree could die out. And chocolate too.