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Climbing Mount Everest will find a stiff-frozen mountain climber just before the summit. His green boots serve as a directional sign for those who want to reach the top.

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After the sudden eruption of Mount Etna on Monday, it is still uneasy around the mountain. There are hundreds of light and some heavier earthquakes registered around the mountain in Sicily.

A sudden eruption of Mount Etna has messed up air traffic on Sicily on Monday afternoon. The airport of Catania was closed as a precaution for incoming and outgoing flights.

Israeli soldiers have shot a Palestinian man on the occupied West Bank Monday who attacked them. An army spokesman told the Haaretz newspaper that the perpetrator at a checkpoint near Hebron pulled a knife and went off with the guards. These opened the fire in a reaction.

An action to raise money for a helpful homeless man has resulted in a legal joust. The 35-year-old Johnny Bobbitt drags a couple to the court that over the internet retrieved more than $ 400,000 (over € 341,000), the BBC. They would have put money in their own pocket.

Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world, is about to begin. From Sunday evening to Friday evening, the Saudi city of Mecca will visit around three million Muslims from all parts of the world, including several thousand pilgrims from the Netherlands.

Israeli security officials killed a man in the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem who had an attack in mind.

Two Americans who had Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painted on their house, have come to the end in a conflict with the municipality. He had fined the duo of 10,000 dollars (more than 8600 euros), the BBC reports.

A Japanese climber died on Monday at his eighth attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The 36-year-old Nobukazu Kuriki is the second man to leave this climbing season on the dreaded mountain.

Sherpa veteran Kami Rita (48) has reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 22nd time in his career as a mountain guide. He is now only record holder. The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism announced this on Wednesday. The routinier stood in the morning with a group of Chinese people on top of the highest mountain on earth, on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

Ready with the crowds and high rent in the big city? Then it is time to live as 'god in England'. One is looking for a lord of the castle who works as a Visitor Services Manager on the English island St. Michael's Mount.

The most active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna, glides very slowly towards the sea. According to scientists, the mountain on the Italian island of Sicily moves 14 millimeters per year to the Mediterranean.

An Israeli was stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday and was badly wounded. The attacker was shot dead by a security officer. The incident happened at the entrance to the Temple Mount.

The American police have arrested a student on Saturday who is suspected of murdering his parents. He would have shot his parents Friday in a student apartment on the Central Michigan University campus in Mount Pleasant.

Wreckage pieces of a Sunday crashed Iranian plane have finally been traced in the inaccessible and snowy Zagros Mountains in southern Iran.

North Korea has canceled a cultural event that would hold up in the north with South Korea this coming Sunday. The South Korean authorities have announced this on Monday, according to news agency Yonhap.

Several people were injured, probably after a volcano erupted at a ski resort in Japan. One skier was surprised by an avalanche after the eruption on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, but he is now in safety, reports national broadcaster NHK.

The United States braces itself for another cold wave. The American weather services have predicted an icy weekend with dangerously low temperatures up to-29 degrees. Ice-cold air from the North Pole then enters the country.

People who want to climb Mount Everest and other high mountains in Nepal are no longer allowed to go up on their own. Nepal has decided to reduce the number of accidents among mountaineers. Since 1920, at least two hundred people have died on Mount Everest.

Israel has arrested three Turkish tourists in East Jerusalem. Two of them also have Belgian nationality. The Belgian Consulate General in East Jerusalem has announced this to the Flemish broadcaster VRT Nieuws on Saturday.

The North Korean army is not at all as professional as it seems. That image stems from photos that a photographer could smuggle the country from.

The 53-year-old Jack Dellepoort from the Brabant Ulvenhout died on Friday morning while climbing the Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. After the highest mountain of Africa (5895 meters) was climbed, it was at the top of the horrible mistake.

Not only Donald Trump has condemned North Korea's nuclear bomb trial, but Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron do that in a joint statement. The EU must take steps, say the two.

After a careful restoration of peace on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, there are still collisions between the Israeli police and Palestinians on Thursday. According to the relief organization Red Half Moon, fifty were injured by rubber bullets and tear gas. The agents would also have used the weapon.

Muslim leaders in Jerusalem called on believers on Thursday to pray again on the Temple Mount, now that rest would have returned. Israel has removed all additional security features that it had installed at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after an attack.

An Australian woman was scared when there was a huge spin on her house on Sunday night. The beast was as big as a small cat, and although the spider sat outside, Lauren Ansell was terrified.

In Jerusalem, it has again come to confrontation, although Israel has taken away the controversial metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount. During collisions with the police, sixteen Palestinians were wounded on Tuesday evening, three of them seriously reported the Palestinian Red Half Moon Wednesday.