Men without jackets! This week is an unusual sight on Lord's, the prestigious cricket stadium just a stone's throw from Regent's Park in London. Because of the extreme heat wave it is in exceptional cases allowed to enter the holy cricket ground without being dressed in a 'decent' manner.
The former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, who is serving a prison sentence of 24 years for abuse of power, has gained another eight years in prison. A court sentenced her this time for causing loss of public money and interference in the parliamentary elections in 2016.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire. In an interview about misinformation he uses the Holocaust as an example.
Seven black rhinos died after moving to another game park in Kenya. Kenyan media reported that the seven last months have been transferred from a park near Lake Nakuru to the more than 300 km southeastern park Tsavo East. It concerns half of the total of fourteen animals that were moved.
WhatsApp now shows it when someone has forwarded a message from someone else. Cursor is 'forwarded' above the message. The feature is in the latest version of WhatsApp.
The crash with the historic Convair in South Africa has demanded a second life. It is a South African who was present in the building against which the plane crashed. That is what Peter Mashaba of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SAACAA) says. This service investigates the accident.
What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
The British police assume that the couple who came into contact with the nerve gas Novichok was not the target of a conscious attack. According to Secretary of State for Security Ben Wallace, the police assume a form of contamination with the nerve gas. This was what Wallace said on Sky television Thursday morning.
The Swiss police have arrested one of the most popular fraud suspects in Great Britain. The 45-year-old Mark Acklom would have paid a woman 850,000 pounds (about 960,000 euros) by pretending to be the intelligence service MI6, reports British media. He then left with the northern sun.
The stopped concert by the British superstar Ed Sheeran moves to Gelsenkirchen. The organizer FKP Scorpio reported that on Wednesday evening.
The city council of Düsseldorf does not give permission for an open-air concert by the British superstar Ed Sheeran. For his performance in the car park of the trade fair, 104 trees would have to be cut down to make room for the stage.
A 60-year-old woman was killed in a luxury holiday bungalow due to a bizarre incident.
Osteria Francescana in Italy has again been voted the world's best restaurant. The modern restaurant in Modena by chef Massimo Bottura was also the best in 2016, last year it had to be satisfied with the second place in the election of William Reed Business Media.
The ticket system of Disneyland Paris has been hacked. The hacker, who calls himself Artex, succeeded in cracking the FastPass system. With these tickets, visitors can skip the queues at attractions in the Disney parks. By looking at the QR code, the hacker managed to secure an unlimited number of FastPass tickets.
A 23-year-old woman joking at family: 'he's going to ask me to marry if he throws me off a cliff', was found dead shortly thereafter.
Anyone visiting Bobbejaanland can be asked to stand on the scale. By weighing visitors to the amusement park, the theme park hopes to stay below the weight limit at the attractions concerned and to make the theme park safer.
A man who wanted to take off his drone at Disneyland Paris was immediately expelled from the park. That reports the account of Disney fans, @ ED92live, on Twitter.
The Mars trolley Opportunity can not do any research for the time being because there is a huge dust storm on the red planet. In an area that is larger than North America, the sun is currently being darkened. Space Agency NASA decided to park the vehicle, which sent a signal to earth last Sunday, because the batteries are no longer being charged.
On Monday afternoon a man stabbed a 15-year-old girl in a park in the German town of Viersen, just over the border near Venlo. Not much later the girl died in the hospital.
American authorities confirmed Saturday morning that they found the remains of a woman who was killed by an alligator. Shizuka Matsuki was missing since Friday morning.
'You put me aside? I left you! 'When Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) visits the man with whom she escaped the broken dinosaurs on Isla Nublar three years after the closure of the Jurassic World amusement park, former dinosaur trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) appears to have to hold other truth than she herself. Yet the two in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom are shifting their differences for a rescue mission. For whoever plays for God, of course, also bears responsibility for his creation.
Two climbers were killed in the American Yosemite National Park. The victims fell when they climbed the El Capitan rock, reports American media.
A slightly too enthusiastic parking assistant has folded a Porsche Carrera cabrio under an SUV.
Measures must be taken against so-called 'gold visas' in the EU. The European Parliament wants rules to be put in place for the 'sale' of residence permits, visas and passports in a large number of Member States to wealthy foreigners who, in return, pay tons and sometimes millions.
The large German theme park Europa-Park opens Sunday 'just' the doors after the devastating fire of Saturday. During the fire, the Dutch theme section of the park was largely put ashore. Lovers of the park express their horror at the devastation on Twitter. The Scandinavian part was also hit hard.
A big fire rages in an amusement park in Germany. This confirms the captain of the Europapark.
A 7-year-old boy, according to the German police, supposedly prevented the rape of his mother. He hit the attacker off with his scooter.
An Australian nature reserve has built the longest anti-cat fence in the world to protect endangered species. The electric fence is 44 kilometers long and must ensure that foxes, wild cats and rabbits are kept out of the reserve. According to the BBC, the project ensures that populations of some animal species will double.
A group of adults from Atlanta, Georgia, have been chased away from the swings in a park by two children. The boys- one of six and one of twelve- had a pistol and stones with them.
A hiker found the lifeless body of a newborn baby in a park in Schaerbeek near Brussels on Monday afternoon. That reports RTBF.
