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...
The Queen Emma Bridge Bridge, the Handelskade and Kleine Knip- exploring the most beautiful places in Curaçao is a lot easier. The Caribbean island is now also on Google Street View, making it easier to navigate the streets of the island and find local businesses.
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.
For the second time in a week, in New Zealand, tens of whales have washed up and died. New Zealand media reported that Thursday 80 to 90 were flushing animals on the Chatham Islands, an island group east of New Zealand. More than fifty did not survive.
Jamaican reggae music is included on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage. That was decided during a meeting of the cultural organization of the United Nations on the island of Mauritius, where other traditions won a coveted place on the heritage list.
'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.
Attempts to retrieve the body of the evangelist John Allen Chau murdered by the natives from the remote island of North Sentinel have been halted for the time being. Authorities do not know what they can do to get the body of the American from the island without bloodshed.
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.
A team that wanted to secure the body of the evangelist John Allen Chau (26) murdered by natives, returned to safer soil during a reconnaissance mission.
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.
145 whales have been washed ashore in New Zealand. Some of the pilot whales were already dead before they were discovered on the secluded beach of the southern Stewart Island. Because of the condition of the other animals it was decided to euthanize the rest, reports the New Zealand Herald.
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.
Certainly 631 African migrants died this year when they tried to reach Spain via the sea. That number is nearly three times as large as last year and the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) calls the situation alarming.
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.
The Andaman Islands authorities have begun preparations to remove the body of John Allen Chau from North Sentinel Island. The 26-year-old missionary from the US was killed there last week by members of a tribe that lives isolated from the 'civilization' on the island.
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.
An American who had been smuggled to a remote Indian island was probably killed there by the indigenous population. The hunter-gatherers on the isolated North Sentinel Island have already attacked visitors before.
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.
A Ikea subsidiary on the Italian island of Sicilia houses stray dogs that are part of the retail decor.
Because of an accident with a refugee boat off the coast of Sardinia, at least two people drowned and eight others are missing. This was reported by the Italian Coast Guard on Saturday.
