The approaching winter has caused snow and avalanche danger in a large part of the Alps. Austrian and Swiss media speak Monday of a very high avalanche danger from 1800 meters altitude where 50 to 80 centimeters of snow lies.
'I can not breathe', these were the last words that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi repeatedly spoke at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. That would appear from sound clips.
Five large gondolas collided on Sunday morning in the Austrian ski resort Hochzillertal because of the strong wind. Because of the turbulent weather, the gondolas were empty. Nobody was injured.
Scientists from Singapore have found the solution to get rid of the huge mountain of plastic PET waste. The researchers at the National University have succeeded in transforming the plastic bottles into a new revolutionary material that is very sound and heat resistant.
The leaders of the 'yellow vests', the nickname of the spontaneous French protest movement against making diesel and petrol more expensive, said Wednesday that the organization is not going to talk to Édouard Philippe in the short term. The Prime Minister had invited a representative delegation of the 'Gilet Jaunes' to a conversation before the demonstrators took to the streets again on Saturday.
Hungary must stop smear campaigns against those who express their views on the rule of law in the country. Minister Stef Blok (Foreign Affairs) asked the Hungarian Secretary of State Szabolcs Takacs (European Affairs) during a meeting on the situation in the country.
The death toll due to a landslide in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro has risen to fourteen. On Sunday morning four bodies were recovered, reported the newspaper O Globo.
At a landslide in a suburb of the Brazilian metropolis Rio de Janeiro, at least ten people were killed. On pictures you can see how the ground was beaten away a few meters.
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.
The US wants to send inspectors to North Korea to view nuclear complexes there. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that he would like to discuss this next week during a meeting with his North Korean colleague.
A Chinese man has been arrested because he pushed his newborn daughter from a ravine. The girl survived perfectly, after she hung twelve hours in the branches of a tree.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The vote in the Macedonian parliament supporting the change of the name of the country has been manipulated by a combination of blackmail, threats and buying votes. That said the Russian Foreign Ministry Monday.
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.
A Mexican governor who had two billion euros disappeared from the treasury of the province of Veracruz receives punishment. A fine of, converted, 2,645 euros and nine years in prison.
Municipalities have to make a list of the most risky buildings of Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Interior) in connection with the fire in the Grenfell Tower in London. It must also be investigated whether the façades of these buildings comply with the building regulations.
The European Parliament was entitled to refuse access to documents on the expenses of MEPs. The European Court of Justice ruled that in a case that a group of journalists from all 28 EU countries had filed.
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.
US President Donald Trump has pledged full support to the states of North and South Carolina inflicted by Hurricane Florence. 'We will be 100 percent,' said Trump on Wednesday in a short speech after his arrival in North Carolina with a view to post-storm reconstruction.
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 journalistic research network Bellingcat has found, in cooperation with The Insider Russia, indications that the suspects in the Skripal case do have links with the Russian secret service.
The Kremlin would seriously consider a British request to allow the two men suspected of the poison-murder attempt at Salisbury. So far, however, London has not reported.
A man was driven into passersby on his night in the night from Thursday to Friday in Nîmes.
The Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis, who was missing in Norway, was seen on 30 August in company of two men in Vikesa, in the southwest of the Scandinavian country. That's what a witness told the Norwegian newspaper VG.
