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.
Facebook has removed a quiz from the network because it may have misused the data of about four million users. This is my Personality, which was mainly active for 2012. Users could answer questions about their personality. That was combined with personal information, after which people got a kind of psychological profile of themselves.
Previously, the referee was Nick Clark, now she goes through life as Lucy. And that may not matter if you are a taxi driver- that is Nick / Lucy- but perhaps if you are also a semi-professional referee.
The Zaryadye Park, a 35-hectare attraction just a stone's throw from the Kremlin that was opened last winter, has been lying on the lips of many Russians for days. The reason? The carnal love. 'We have an unprecedented number of people who have had sex in the park,' reports Sergei Kuznetsov, Moscow's chief architect. 'We have recordings of it.'
The fact that life continues after a drama, is now revealed by the apartment of the world famous TV chef Anthony Bourdain after his unexpected suicide comes in the rental.
In the French amusement park Puy du Fou, crows help to clean up waste. Puy du Fou at Les Epesses in the Vendée department is the second most visited theme park in France. The park has history as its theme, with shows in which trained animals often have a role.
A black rhino, the only one of a group that survived the move to another national park in Kenya, has yet come to an end. Poachers killed the animal Monday, according to the national wildlife agency.
