On a popular beach in the southernmost part of Thailand, 23 tourists with poisonous jellyfish have come into contact in recent days. They had to be tormented to hospitals by pain. The local authorities reported Tuesday that the 23 were hit by a so-called Portuguese warship, a collection of poisonous polyps that are also called jellyfish by their appearance.
Maya Bay in the bay of Koh Phi Phi is perhaps the most famous tourist attraction in Thailand. Thousands of tourists a day visit the beach and come back with a jealous photo that quickly becomes a jealous postcard. Those hordes of tourists also have a downside: the coral is in danger. That's why the beach closes.
Pita Taufatofua (34) from the warm Tonga has once again waved his body with the flag during the opening ceremony of the Games.
Pita Taufatofua (34) from the warm Tonga did not make much impression at the 2016 Olympic Games as taekwondoka. As a flag bearer- shiny from the oil- the muscular sportsman made an unforgettable impression. And also in Pyeongchang, Pita knows how to surprise the viewers.
Three people died when a helicopter crashed in a residential area on Newport Beach in California. According to the police, four people were on board the helicopter. Two people were also injured in the accident. Nothing is known yet about the condition of the wounded.
The highest boss of the famous water sport brand Quicksilver is missing at sea. His sailing boat was found empty Monday on a French beach on the Atlantic coast near Hossegor. Quicksilver is part of the surfing company Boardriders.
Half a century after the mysterious disappearance of two sisters and their little brother in Australia, it seems that the case is solved.
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is not a racist. Last week, Trump became discredited when he called countries such as Haiti and El Salvador 'shithole countries'.
The belly full of another holiday in Benidorm or Salou? Note: a small 10,000 kilometers to the east, a seaside resort has to be erected in which virtually all Spanish Eldorado's pale. The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un wants to attract tourists from all over the world with a billions of euros of super deluxe project. The only downside: atomic rockets can be launched right next to the beach.
The truck driver who is suspected in Peru of being involved in a serious bus accident has known that he drove the bus off the cliff with his truck. No charges have been filed against the man, but a judge ruled that he should remain in custody for nine months, the BBC reports. In the accident, 52 people were killed last week.
On the beach of Egyptian Alexandria, a dead whale washed ashore. According to the Minister of the Environment, Khaled Fahmy, the mammal might just have committed suicide.
In the heavy bus accident in Peru, at least 52 people were killed in the end. The emergency services have announced this after the rescue operation has ended. The bodies of a 79-year-old and 22-year-old woman were the last to be recovered. At least six people survived the accident and are treated in the hospital for their injuries.
The death toll of the bus accident in Peru has risen to 36. This was reported by the Ministry of Health of the South American country. A bus with about fifty passengers hit a road along a rock and landed one hundred meters lower upside down on a beach near the town of Pasamayo, north of the capital Lima.
More than forty people were killed by a road accident in Peru. A bus with about fifty passengers hit a road along a rock and landed one hundred meters lower upside down on a beach near the town of Pasamayo, north of the capital Lima.
The offer is exclusively in bitcoin: for 400 of these digital coins you can buy the 'pristine' beach paradise Bloody Bay on Union Island in the Caribbean.
Russian opposition leader Alexej Navalni has been nominated by his supporters as presidential candidate, even though he does not stand a chance. The authorities refuse Navalni to participate in the elections on 18 March because he has a criminal record. Nevertheless, so-called initiative groups came together in twenty cities, from Vladivostok to Moscow, to support the candidacy of the anti-corruption activist.
And again a severed foot washed up on the Canadian coast near Sooke. Since 2007 it is the 18th foot that ended up there. For local residents and the police it is still a mystery how this can be done.
Verona Koliqi and her fiancé Mirand Buzaku met in 2016, at least, they thought. When they browsed a photo album on the couch, Mirand's eyes suddenly fell on an old beach photo.
The 10-year-old William was quite disappointed that he lost his waterproof video camera off the English coast, but is now very happy that the actioncam is washed up on a German island 800 kilometers away.
32-year-old IT man James Howells was the nagging of his girlfriend about his noisy laptop, so he decided to sell the thing. He kept his hard drive: after all, there were 7500 Bitcoins on it. When years later he had forgotten that he had parked the fortune on the disk- which had meanwhile become a big one- and threw it at the garbage, he could hit his head afterwards. The inhabitant of Wales now wants to dig a rubbish dump to find the hard drive.
In the American Santa Ana a man was arrested who was begging for money for petrol. That was no reason for the police to arrest him. The fact that he drove a very expensive Ferrari and nevertheless was begging anyway.
The late sixties of the last century were a time of love and peace and flowers for part of Western humanity. From this subculture of the colorful hippies also less peaceful types came about and the last Sunday died Charles Manson is the most famous exponent of this.
The 40-year-old Ryan Boylan from Florida has gone to court to stay alive with his squirrel. From his landlord in Clearwater Beach, he can not keep an exotic animal in his apartment, but according to Boylan, the squirrel helps him recover from a post-traumatic stress disorder.
A half-smoked cigar from former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has spent more than 10,000 euros on an online auction in the US. The 10 centimeter cigar stump copper was a collector from Palm Beach (Florida).
The Thai authorities are smoking in the ban on twenty beaches. Anyone who smokes a cigarette from next month, according to the Bangkok Post, is raising a serious penalty or a cell punishment.
A plane with two people aboard crashed on Monday in Uruguay during the commemoration of an airplane in the Andes in 1972. The passenger did not survive the crash.
TUI travel organization is working closely with price fighter easyJet. The number of holiday destinations in Europe will be expanded in the coming winter. 'A summer test with five city trips has been completed,' said TUI.
The British police arrested a 17-year-old boy in southern London in connection with the bombing in the London subway. That happened in the Wednesday night on Thursday in the Thornton Heath district.
A 79-year-old man from California has known that he shot his urologist in 2013, twenty years after his urine tube was removed. Ten bullets fired the retired Stanwood Elkus to the doctor. The reason? Revenge. According to him, he was not inexcusable and became lifelong.
Due to the bombing in the London subway, two arrests were held again on Wednesday morning. In total, five suspects have now been arrested. In Newport, police captured men aged 48 and 30 after an invasion of a home. In the same city in Wales, someone was arrested on Tuesday evenings.
