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Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The Italian cabinet has approved its own budget for 2019 on Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. The document is now being sent to Brussels where the European Commission will look into it. Conte told reporters that the budget 'keeps our promises while keeping the public accounts in order.'

A 34-year-old Briton was shot dead with his mountain bike during a trip to the French Alps, presumably by a hunter, reports the French police on Sunday. The police assume that there is no intent in the game.

Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.

The parents of pastor Andrew Brunson had initially missed the news about his release. Mother Pamela Brunson heard in her own words from a journalist from Reuters news agency about the ruling of a Turkish court.

A tough climb up the mountain, many tourists do not feel like it during their holiday. They then choose a comfortable ride by donkey. The Greek minister of Rural Development and Food intervenes after animal rights organizations have called in earlier. Overweight people may no longer be transported by the animals.

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.

On Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, enormous dust storms have been seen. Until now they had only been observed on the earth and on Mars.

The leaders of North and South Korea visit a volcano on the Chinese border on Thursday. The active volcano is called the Paektu Mountain and is revered by many Koreans as a spiritual source of the country.

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.

The police in Norway found the kayak of the missing Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis. The canoe was in the area where other things of his have been discovered before. What these are, the police do not want to say yet. According to good friend Ancilla van de Leest, there would be identity papers from Kamphuis.

A 21-year-old Samantha has recovered her missing dog three weeks after a heavy car accident in which she lost her mother. The four-legged friend was thrown out of the vehicle and was left without trace for more than twenty days. Images of the reunion between the two are a real tear-jerker. A heart warming moment for owner and dog.

After the discovery of a mountain of love letters from their deceased mother, a few sisters from Scotland were just as happy. However, the vote soon turned around.

Two mountaineers and a hiker died in the Austrian Alps on Wednesday. According to the police of the Ellmau region, the duo wanted to go up along the so-called Kopftörlgrat in good weather on the Wilder Kaiser, without a fuse by ropes. They plunged hundreds of meters into the depths.

In the Italian Alps a man was killed after a landslide. A woman who was in the car with him is still missing.

Two aircraft crashed in Switzerland on Saturday. As a result, at least four people were killed.

Several people were killed in Switzerland when a historic plane crashed. The plane crashed into inhospitable mountains and was completely destroyed, authorities say. None of the occupants survived the crash, but the precise number of victims is not yet known.

During a walk in the Bavarian Alps, a 84-year-old man was killed. According to the police, the man was on his way to the Brecherspitz, a mountain near the Schliermeer. Presumably he lost his balance and was plunged 100 meters in depth. The man died on the spot.

A Belgian boy (6) who was on holiday with his family in Switzerland was killed in a mountain walk. The child received a broken piece of rock on the head. He died from his injuries.

YouTube has a new feature for people who want to watch videos, but do not want them to show up in their search history. It is an incognito mode. It already exists in the Chrome browser.

The rescue operation to liberate the twelve Thai footballers and their trainer from a flooded cave has begun. Eighteen divers have been sent into the cave to save the boys. This was communicated to the manager of the operation at a press conference.

Three dogs were taken from a sweltering car in Bruges on Saturday night. The dogs had been in the vehicle for 5.5 hours. A Bernese Mountain Dog had already died from dehydration when the animal was taken out of the car. A dog of the same breed was still alive, but collapsed shortly thereafter.

A bicycle thief in the German city of Kassel has found a very remarkable way to get a bicycle. The thief has cut down a tree to steal a mountain bike.

It is no longer possible to book a ride with Uber directly via Google Maps. The option has disappeared, the website Android Police discovered. It is not known whether the change has been made by Google or Uber and what the reason is. It is still possible to book with an intermediate step, via the Uber app.

Tourists in the normally idyllic Corfu see their holidays ruined by a pervasive stench. The reason: the island is largely hidden under a layer of waste. And that starts to smell bad.

The Hawaiian volcano Kilauea is still spitting fire. On Wednesday morning a new eruption was signaled at the top. The villages in the area can expect an ash rain again according to the authorities. Lava runs up to 50 meters into the air from gorges on the eastern slope.

Sponsorship Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes has raised 11,230,804.79 euros so far. That is more than a million more than last year. The race, in which cyclists, runners and handbikers conquer Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez in the French Alps one to six times, raises money for research into cancer.

The plane that disappeared from the radar in Kenya on Tuesday crashed. None of the ten occupants, including two crew members, survived the disaster. That made airline Fly-SAX known after a rescue team found the plane.

Around 4500 participants will participate in the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes on Thursday. Under the motto 'Giving up is not an option' they climb the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez, the famous \u0026 # x27; Dutch \u0026 # x27; mountain from the Tour de France. With this they want to raise money for research into the cure of cancer.

The director of the Guatemalan Institute of Volcanology assumes that the energy of the erupted Volcán de Fuego will decrease further, but the danger for local residents has not gone away. 'In general, he is still more active than usual. Very hot gases can still be emitted ', warned Eddy Sánchez.