A 57-year-old priest from Bruges has been sentenced to one month of conditional cell punishment due to 'guilty negligence' in a suicide. The clergyman did not help when a 54-year-old man...
A 25-year-old New Yorker earns a hefty 3500 euro every month by streaming his life live and begging donations.
A woman who must miss her arm after being crushed by an army vehicle demands $ 35 million from the US Army.
The seven-year-old girl Jakelin Caal, who died after she and her father were detained by American border agents, was healthy and had eaten and drunk adequately.
A car driver died in Belgium when he drove a truck behind on a blockade of the Gele Hesjes. The accident happened at the border with France in the town...
A 'hi-tech robot' that was presented on the Russian television channel Russia24 this week turns out to be a man in a suit.
The morning after a terrible night and night, life in Strasbourg seems to have resumed. But appearances are deceptive: it is much quieter than normal in the French city in Alsace. And…
The 27 EU countries want to help Prime Minister Theresa May get the Brexit deal through the British Parliament. 'The question is how,' EU president Donald Tusk tweeted after his 'long and fair...
China has launched a spaceship towards the back of the moon. It is the first time that a country has started such a mission. The Long Mars 3b missile with the Chang'e 4 probe departed Friday from a start platform in South China Xichang.
A Spanish warship has provoked the British authorities on Tuesday by entering the territorial waters of Gibraltar and letting the Spanish national anthem blow through the speakers on deck. A small boat from the British navy escorted the Spanish frigate on its challenging trip along the rock.
The euro area finance ministers (Eurogroup) support the European Commission in its approach to Italy. This is stated in a statement that the Eurogroup will release on Monday, insiders say. Ministers call on the Italian government to take the necessary steps to bring its draft budget for 2019 in line with the European rules, otherwise a criminal procedure is justified.
Family man George Herbert Walker Bush will not mourn about it, but the 41st President of the United States, who died at the age of 94, will certainly be the man who did not finish the war against Saddam Hussein for younger Americans. That task was later reserved for his son, George W. Bush.
French parents are not allowed to give their children a suit on the pants anymore.
'Not only cats have multiple lives,' writes the German police after an accident on Twitter. Dog Tero spent hours stuck in the bumper of the car that had driven him. The driver did not know anything.
Cees Nooteboom receives the Horst-Bienek-Preis, a German award for his complete work.
A cash machine in the US Houston issued notes of a hundred dollars, while a 10-note note was requested.
Italy mourns. 'The last great master is dead,' headlined the newspapers. Bernardo Bertolucci, known worldwide as the director of the films The Last Emperor and Novecento, died in Rome after a long illness.
With a dull thud, a long crossing will end on Monday. After flying 484 million kilometers, an American laboratory lands on Mars. The InSight must, as the first explorer ever, go digging meters deep into the ground of the planet. This allows scientists to learn what is under the surface.
What did Jesus Christ look like? That age-old discussion has been revived by a rare find in the heart of the Negev. A team of Israeli scientists recently discovered a mural of the Christian messiah there. Not with long wavy hair, as we know him now, but with short curls.
Donald Trump's government wants the Supreme Court to rule on its decision to ban transgender people from the US military. Three lower courts had previously prohibited the government from implementing the measure. That is why Washington has asked the court on Friday to examine that case.
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.
Matt Hedges knows the United Arab Emirates well. The academic born in South London grew up in Dubai, where he visited a branch of the Cranleigh boarding school. No Eton, but with annual costs of 37,000 pounds nowadays it is not much cheaper either.
The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has risen to a new record last year. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) of the United Nations reports that in 2017 405.5 ppm (parts per million) of CO2 were measured. A year earlier that was still 403.3 ppm and in 2015 was 400 ppm measured.
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.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May may shake hands in Brussels from her now EU colleagues after they have mutually stamped the negotiated Brexit agreement. May is expected at 11:00 am in the Europage building where the special Brexittop will be held. The 27 EU heads of government, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will start their meeting at 10 a.m.
According to British media, the British Prime Minister Theresa May should get more done at the EU than last week about the Brexit. The dissatisfaction with her Brexit policy has long been great within her own Conservative party, but her hope that there will be supporters in other parties seems to be fading.
Google has put the Dutch speaking Assistant on the market last month. This is the first step in a long discovery journey that many of us sooner or later have to deal with. At home, at work or in public life. Whether you jump on that train is up to yourself, but if you take the jump, you enter a new intriguing world.
Against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, a secret charge has long been filed in the United States.
A new scandal is playing around Facebook. The company would have tried to put critics with fake news in a bad light, to divert attention from perils about, for example, the lack of privacy security on the social network. Facebook denies having done something wrong. The ties with the lobbying company in question have since been broken.
There will be a transition period from 21 months to the end of December 2020, when the United Kingdom leaves the EU on 29 March next year. At that time, an agreement on the future relationship should be concluded between the Union and the UK, but this period may be extended if necessary.
