Snowboarder (17) falls asleep and wins gold
amsterdam February 13, 2018 12:27The American snowboarder Red Gerard is only 17 years old, but already has a golden medialle. And that even after he got lost and forgot his snowboard jacket...
The American snowboarder Red Gerard is only 17 years old, but already has a golden medialle. And that even after he got lost and forgot his snowboard jacket...
The stock exchanges in New York are expected to open on Monday with considerable profits. Friday was already a clear recovery on Wall Street of the heavy price falls earlier in the week.
The American defense group General Dynamics is taking over € 9.6 billion (7.8 billion euros) from IT service provider CSRA to strengthen its IT activities.
A Nigerian plane has lost a door just after landing, which according to passengers was already 'the whole flight' loose. The airline company has a dubious past with a horrible crash six years ago, but refuses to confess guilt.
A 35-year-old man who was sleepwalking and fell from the eighth floor of a building, has survived this wonderfully. A scaffolding in the second floor broke the fall of the unfortunate American, Randy Phothisane, last Sunday.
An American veterinarian has recovered two bears with third-degree burns quickly, thanks to a special experiment. The circumstances necessitated creativity- and that turned out to be a blessing.
Losing 38 pounds in six months. That was the 39-year-old Jeremiah Peterson from Missoula, located in the American state of Montana. Reason: because he wants to be a better father for his children.
A Boeing 737-800 from the airline Pegasus was shot off the track on Sunday after landing in the Turkish town of Trabzon and nearly plumbed in the Black Sea. However, the aircraft continued to hang on the shore on the coast next to the airport. All 168 occupants could be evacuated unharmed, Turkish media reported on the authority of Trabzon governor, Yücel Yavuz.
13,000 winter sports enthusiasts in the Swiss ski resort Zermatt have been cut off from the outside world. Due to the heavy snowfall the avalanche danger has been raised to the highest alarm level. As a result, the roads and the track to the area are closed. How long the closure will take is not clear.
More than three months after the elections, the German cabinet talks are entering a new phase on Sunday. Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with the Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz and with Horst Seehofer from the Bavarian Christian Democrats.
It is an old saying that, no matter how bad you are, there is always someone worse off. A Russian woman discovered the truth behind it when she literally met a lost child.
In large parts of the Belgian Ardennes it snows so hard that the motorways are virtually impassable in some places. According to the ANWB it is on the E411 that leads from Namur to Luxembourg. Especially around the Duchy, traffic is stuck in many places.
Two men from the American Falls Church were arrested last week because they had stolen a car. One of the two perpetrators, Wilmer Lara Garcia, wore a shirt with the text 'Trust me' when he was picked up.
The huge tulip tree at the White House, which was planted by the then president Andrew Jackson in memory of his wife, who died in 1828, falls over and has to be cut down.
A Russian stewardess has fallen from the plane during the preparations for the start at an airport in Moscow. She had slipped and collapsed when she wanted to close the back door, airline Utair said according to the news agency Tass.
Once migration is on the agenda, the EU falls apart again. 'How is it going to go on with a European asylum system?' Was the question on the first day of the European summit in Brussels.
Here we have to do with possible winter showers, but in Belgium it is really snowing. For the coming weekend, no less than five centimeters are expected.
The restriction on slaughtering animals in accredited slaughterhouses without ritual is not contrary to freedom of religion. The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has ruled this. The court often follows such conclusions.
In the Flemish city of Ghent, a young child fell meters down when it fell into an apartment building from the window. The current state of the child is unknown.
Already 100,000 Kurds flew from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, says the Kurdish Regional Council (KRG). On Monday, the Iraqi army left the area. The tensions have risen high after the march of Iraqi forces earlier this week.
Chiropractor Arleen Scholten is suspected of killing after an 80-year-old died from her.
The United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that he must take priority from President Donald Trump with his diplomatic efforts to address the crisis in North Korea. 'These diplomatic efforts continue until the first bomb falls,' Tillerson said on Sunday against CNN.
The German Social Democratic Party SPD won an election victory on Sunday in Lower Saxony on Sunday. According to forecasts from public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, the party received over 37 percent of votes, a clear profit over the previous elections in 2013 (32.6 percent). The CDU falls back 35 percent (2013: 36 percent).
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From our editors abroad
The European Union fears the fall of the British Conservative government from Prime Minister Theresa May, and therefore intends to consult intensively with the British opposition party Labor on the brexit. The English newspaper The Telegraph announced Saturday that the EU wants Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn to guarantee that the negotiations on the brexit will not have been for nothing, as May's government falls before those have been completed. Corbyn should then respect the results obtained.
Buying a phone of over € 250 on payment, has automatically led to a BKR registration since this year. The Dutch Go Lemon offers an alternative: the lease phone.
Childhood is easy to play after you have been ravaged by an amateur association by a violence incident.
Architect Sjoerd Soeters (70) received the reward of Zaanstad. Soeters designed the town hall of Zaandam, the largest city of the municipality of Zaanstad. The town hall falls because it is made up of eight vastly enlarged houses, with the appearance of typical Zaanse green wood construction.
Donald Trump once again caused a stir on Twitter. The US president retweette a video to see how he targets a one-hit hit golf ball on Hillary Clinton.