One in five men enjoy their car more than their partner. This is shown by research by an English lease company. Men use the washing of their car or 'refuel' even as an excuse to avoid their wife.
One of the most notorious drug criminals in Europe, Naser Kelmendi (61), has been sentenced to six years in prison in Kosovo. He had also been charged with murder, but he was acquitted of it.
After ten hours of technical presentations during the North American Bitcoin Conference, five thousand investors in crypto coins were invited to 'network' for a while. In a strip club.
The well-known Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, a former professor at the Erasmus University, is detained in France on suspicion of sexual abuse. He is suspected of the rape of two women.
During the peace conference for Syria, held in Sochi on the initiative of the Russians, an agreement was reached on the formation of a constitutional committee. In Geneva, he is working on the renewal of the Syrian constitution. That is what TASS news agency drew from Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov's mouth.
The American president Donald Trump is holding his State of the Union Tuesday night (Dutch time), the annual 'throne speech' in which he can roll out his policy and know all about it. In Washington, there is plenty of speculation about the content of the speech- there is remarkably little leak this year.
Russian President Putin is sad that his name does not adorn an American list of 'Russian oligarchs'. This was reported by the Russian news agency Sputnik on Tuesday. Putin reacted so jokingly to a 'Kremlin list' published by the US Treasury Department with the names of business people close to the Russian power center.
Just three years before Presidential elections in the United States, President Donald Trump has already begun raising money for his re-election campaign.
The United States has tightened up the entry requirements for refugees from eleven so-called risk countries. Refugees from certain countries are subject to additional screening measures, said the US Department of Homeland Security Monday.
Mohamed Bakkali, suspected of helping with the attacks in Paris in 2015 and the foiled attack on the high-speed train Thalys earlier that year, was handed over to the French authorities on Friday. This is reported by the Belgian federal prosecutor. Bakkali was in Belgium since last year. France had requested its extradition for both cases through a European arrest warrant.
The approaching premiere of a controversial Bollywood film leads to riots in India. The police have acted against rioters in several places.
The net is increasingly closing around bitcoins. Countries restrict trade in the so far unregulated crypto coins and financial derivatives. That can lead to a crash, warn asset managers.
According to the American space agency NASA, an asteroid will fly past the Earth at relatively close distances in early February. The celestial body with the name 2002 AJ129 will rage past our planet on February 4 at 10.30 pm around 4.2 million kilometers. That is about ten times the distance between the earth and the moon.
Facebook wants this year to employ 10,000 additional employees who must ban hate and propaganda messages from the social medium. That is doubling the number of employees with that task.
An Italian chef who wanted to prepare an entire sea bass in the oven, released the animal in the sea when he found out at the last minute that the fish- which had been water from the water for hours- was still alive.
A 22-year-old British vlogster who hoped to spend four nights for free in a hotel in Dublin, has instead received an account of € 5,289,000.
A mafioso who had been fleeing since 1993, has been arrested by the Spanish and Italian police in Alicante. This Fausto Pellegrinetti lived under a false name in the Spanish city. Two years of investigation preceded his arrest last Sunday, the police reported Monday.
A four-year-old boy who smokes cigarettes as if he does nothing else. It looks like a badly invented advertisement from a tobacco producer, but it is the sad reality in a village in the south of China.
The 39-year-old porn star Stormy Daniels, who had an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006, now seems to be capitalizing on the resulting media storm. On Saturday evening she started a tour through the United States entitled: Making America Horny Again (Make America horny again, ed.).
An Iraqi court sentenced a German woman to the death penalty. The woman with Moroccan blood had joined Islamic State. That reports a spokesman for the court.
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President Donald Trump has announced the winners of his own 'Fake News Awards'. On the website of the Republican party he announced that among others The New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News and CNN were winners of the 'long awaited 2017 fake news awards'.
Cyber security guard Kaspersky has discovered new espionage software. It affects devices with the Android operating system. The spyware has been given the name Skygofree. He can listen to unsuspecting people through the microphone and record conversations.
A Walloon agent has been suspended by the management of his corps because he is suspected of having an additional income as a pimp. An investigation has started, the newspapers of Sudpresse report.
Almost no day passed when the 45th President of the United States was not in the news during his first year at the White House. Everyone has an opinion about Donald Trump, not always flattering.
The 65-year-old Johannes De Wapenaere, who considers himself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, should soon appear before the Belgian judge. The man was guilty of assault and fraud. He himself is convinced that he has magical powers and can deliver people from their suffering.
The new Miss Belgium Angeline Flor Pua, daughter of Filipino parents, receives a lot of unconvincing reactions. 'Hopefully no ladyboy', someone wrote. 'Miss poepchinees', according to another.
Donald Trump's attorney has paid $ 130,000 in silence to a porn star. The money was paid to actress Stephanie Clifford by this Michael Cohen in October 2016, just before the elections.
His name is not so popular. Because when it is pronounced it is usually when a situation does not go as hoped. Edward E. Murphy was the creator of perhaps the world's best-known law: Murphy's Law. The American aerospace engineer would have become 100 years today.
A video showing how an American woman in hospital clothes is put out on the streets in the freezing cold arouses anger in the US. The video was posted online by a passerby who helped the woman.
