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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.

Forget what you know. That is what Robin Hood asks the viewer in the first minutes of this brand new film, from next week in the bios. Not without reason, that request. Because Taron Egerton (29) joins in a long line of actors who have played the mythical title hero before.

A pilot with fear of flying has been falsely dismissed by his employer. He has to go back to work.

In the first year after its opening, the Louvre has attracted more than one million visitors in Abu Dhabi. Museum director Manuel Rabate wrote that on Twitter.

'On 11 November, exactly 100 years ago, the Armistice went into Paris, like everywhere else in France,' said Emmanuel Macron this morning at the Arc de Triomphe. 'That was the end of four long and terrible years. In those four years Europe has almost committed suicide. 'In the presence of nearly eighty government leaders, the French head of state commemorated the 'armistice', which marked the end of the First World War.

The homosexual man who, through a women's profile on Tinder, was able to get four men in bed, gets a long-term prison sentence. His victims only learned that he was a man when they were blindfolded during sex- or, in one case, with a second appointment.

In the river Chobe along the border between Botswana and Namibia 400 buffalo drowned. The animals may have been running out because of lions. That says the Ministry of Tourism.

For the island of Malta, 149 refugees were rescued in the Mediterranean on Tuesday. The group was in a big dinghy, which had been 'in trouble' about 60 nautical miles from Malta, the Maltese forces said.

Ten men were arrested in Pongwe, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, because they would be homosexual. This is what the human rights organization Amnesty International reports on Tuesday.

Nine British tourists were rescued from a burning yacht off the coast of the Thai island of Phuket. The fifteen-meter-long vessel was hit by lightning and caught fire, the BBC reports.

Is winter in Iran starting today? From today onwards, strict American sanctions against the country, announced by Donald Trump with a combative 'movie poster' and a reference to the fear of the harsh, long winter in the popular TV series Game of Thrones. But there are plenty of doubts whether the sanctions will be effective enough to force the Tehran regime to its knees and agree with twelve strict American demands.

An earthquake with a strength of 6.7 on Tuesday morning hit the North Island of New Zealand. According to reports in the media, the earthquake lasted about 30 seconds.

The long political career of Angela Dorothea Merkel (64) is slowly coming to an end. On Monday, the German CDU-cheffin told fellow party members and the equally bewildered journaille in Berlin that she stops as a powerful chairman of her own Christian party: 'There is a need for fresh wind and space for the future.'

Bali is completely sick of tourists who dishonor sanctuaries on the island. The popular Indonesian holiday destination is going to introduce strict rules to enforce respectful behavior among visitors.

The suspicious packages that an arrested man would have sent to, among other prominent Democrats, contain explosive material. That's what FBI boss Chris Wray announced during a press conference. The federal police found the suspected sender on the trail of a difficult to find fingerprint on a mail item intended for Congressman Maxine Waters.

Rusk with rainbow mice in the aquarium of Australian Sydney. The male penguins Sphen and Magic have become the proud dads of baby Sphengic after a long journey and with the help of the caretakers.

A gang of young people, mainly teenagers, pushes prostitutes into Brussels and demands money to 'protect' them. As soon as the prostitutes do not pay, they become victims of cynical harassment with far-reaching consequences.

Donald Trump is furious at the New York Times, which revealed on Thursday that the US President's iPhone is being tapped by both the Russians and the Chinese. He is working hard to the newspaper. 'Fake news', he calls, as often. A more remarkable thing is his claim that he hardly uses smartphones. He tweeted that Thursday... probably from his iPhone.

The authorities in Mexican coastal areas are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Willa. The governor of the western state of Nayarit says that more than 10,000 people are being evacuated. Schools must close the doors.

The hurricane Willa, which races towards the Pacific over Mexico, has increased in strength so far that it now falls into the highest category. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami reports wind speeds of 260 kilometers per hour with highs. Willa lands in the course of Tuesday afternoon or evening (local time). That will be accompanied by abundant rainfall, up to 450 millimeters.

Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.

The Spanish island of Mallorca has been hit again by severe weather and flooding. This time it was stormy weather in the north of the island, more than 45 kilometers away from the capital Palma de Mallorca. Due to heavy rains from Thursday evening until Friday morning, rivers quickly left their banks.

On Curaçao church leader Orlando B.- who turned out to be a sex-hungry predator who also abused underage girls- sentenced to fourteen years in prison on Thursday. Nor may he exercise the function of church leader for nineteen years.

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.

The South Korean authorities have rejected the asylum application from hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers. They had traveled to the popular Jeju island because they could go there without a visa. That measure was actually intended to attract more vacationers.

Ten days after the collision between two cargo ships in the Mediterranean near Corsica, oil run away washed ashore on southern French beaches. The smeerboel ended up in Saint-Tropez and two neighboring municipalities. That is what the Prefect of Toulon said on Tuesday. It is an area of ​​16 kilometers long.

The horse with carriage has been part of the streets of Rome since Roman times. For centuries the horse was by far the most used means of transport, but even now tourists are still comfortably leaning back around the Roman city center.

The Chinese brand Huawei has not been a small player for a long time. Last week, Bloomberg Intelligence even reported that the brand in the home country had overtaken Apple. Yesterday, Richard Yu presented the Mate 20 Series smartphones and a new smartwatch at the London ExCel Arena. Both with impressive and striking specifications and possibilities.