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.
A 35-year-old German woman died Sunday in Sri Lanka when she tried to make a selfie. According to the police she fell, while she tried to immortalise herself on the edge of an abyss. The accident occurred in Horton Plains nature park, about 150 kilometers east of the capital Colombo.
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.
At least six children were injured when an inflatable slide collapsed at a fair in the English town of Woking. This is reported by various English media. How that could have happened is not yet known.
Movie Park Germany at the German town of Bottrop is closed early on Friday night due to a bomb threat. The amusement park, which is located almost 70 kilometers from Venlo, reported on Facebook that the police had been informed about the threat by the end of the afternoon. 11,000 people had to leave the site.
A man and a woman have died after falling from the world famous cliff 'Taft Point'. Parkrangers started to recover the bodies on Thursday.
Christmas is being celebrated more extensively than usual this year in many homes in Wimbledon. The 750 members of the Wimbledon Park Golf Club will receive a one-tonne douceur around that time. Nothing seems to stand in the way of the takeover of their golf course by the adjoining All England Tennis Club- the club of the grass tennis tournament.
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 twenty-year-old man suspected of the murder of the Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova admitted to the German police that he had attacked her. But the Bulgarian denies having raped, robbed and robbed the thirty-year-old TV presenter.
A large natural fire broke out in a national park on the coast of Portugal. The newspaper Jornal de Notícias reports that more than five hundred firefighters fight the conflagration spreading over the natural park of Sintra-Cascais, west of the capital Lisbon. The inhabitants of neighboring villages are evacuated as a precaution.
At least 23 protected Persian lions have died in India in the last three weeks, including a rare disease. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has called on the government to take immediate action to protect the species.
Former president Lee Myung-bak of South Korea was sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption on Friday. He must also pay a fine of approximately 8.5 million euros. The court in Seoul ruled that Lee was guilty of, among other things, abuse of power and taking bribes from companies.
Where can you park your car safely? Mercedes will answer that question in the future. The German car manufacturer is working on an application that checks the available parking spaces at the final destination on the basis of public crime statistics.
The grizzly bear is the center of a media hype in the United States. American nature lovers and environmental organizations celebrate the court ruling that at the last minute banned the hunting of grizzlies around the Yellowstone Park. But not everyone gets happy about it at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Orca Morgan gave birth to a calf on Tenerife. According to Loro Parque, the sea park where mother and young are staying, they are doing well. The animals swim together through the basin.
The Colombian municipality of Medellín has closed the museum dedicated to its most notorious resident, Pablo Escobar (1949-1993). Escobar was a ruthless drug lord who at the height of his power held more than three quarters of the world's cocaine trafficking and smuggling. He was the founder and the boss of the gang called the Medellín Cartel.
Two thousand euros per bottle! You can not do that to a customer! Daniele Di Guiliomaria has just tasted a bit of whiskey from 1988. It is not easy for him. 'Pretty flat. Should have been bottled ten years ago. '
Hundreds of mountain goats are evicted from Olympic National Park in Washington state because they pose a threat to visitors to the park. The goats have become so addicted to the salt in human urine and smell of sweat that they aggressively approach unsuspecting walkers.
After a music festival in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, seven people probably died from an overdose of drugs. Five people are in a coma.
A cop with a knife was stabbed in Brussels Monday morning. He was slightly injured. The attacker was shot by the police. He was hit in the chest and leg, according to the parquet.
The Belgian amusement park Bobbejaanland stays closed Sunday, because of safety reasons \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;. That reports the park via Twitter. On camera footage from last night, one would see how a masked person with a backpack left things behind at the theme park, according to Belgian broadcaster VRT.
A hairdresser from the Belgian town of Zaventem who showered a woman with petrol and threatened to set her on fire was arrested. The 34-year-old Vanessa E. was convinced that the woman had stolen 7,000 euros from her.
The American authorities are going to prosecute a suspected North Korean hacker. This Park Jin Hyok is associated with cyber attacks on Sony Pictures and the central bank of Bangladesh. He would also be behind the distribution of hostage software Wannacry.
Instagram has made a special manual for the parents of teenagers. They can thus learn what is the app where their child spends time.
In Beijing Wildlife Park, a zoo in the Chinese capital Beijing, young lions, tigers and hyenas are looked after by a special appearance. A Golden Retriever mothers over the boy as if it were her own.
Because of a collision between two recreational boats on the Colorado River in the west of the US, at least thirteen people were injured and two passengers were missing. One of the wounded was injured to a hospital in Los Angeles, 340 kilometers to the west.
A wounded baby rhinoceros, which watched over his dead mother, was saved by conservationists in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The white rhino was killed by poachers who were out on her horns, and injured her baby during the struggle.
The VDNCh park, where from 1959 until the end of the USSR in 1991 the so-called 'achievements' of the Soviet economy were exhibited, is fast becoming one of the most interesting parks on the whole globe. That is what the Moscow mayor Sergei Sobjanin says.
About twenty important people and organizations in Myanmar can not be on Facebook for the time being. Their accounts were removed on Monday because they spread 'hatred and misinformation'.
Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on appeal. That reports news agency Yonhap. She was found guilty by the court of justice for abuse of power and bribery.
