Strong winds have led to chaos at the two busiest airports in Australia. Thousands of travelers were stranded at the airports of Sydney and Melbourne after many dozens of flights were scrapped.
In Sweden, more than two months after the elections, there is still no prospect of a new government. An attempt to get a broad coalition with left and right from the ground has now also failed. This increases the chance that the Swedes will have to go to the polls again.
The number of wolves in Germany is growing steadily. The Federal Office for Nature Conservation (BfN) saw 73 packs at the last count. That was thirteen more than the year before.
The death toll due to murder in Canada has risen by 7 percent in 2017 to the highest number in ten years. The number of firearm-related deaths last year was the highest in 25 years, according to the statistics bureau of Canada in a report.
The death toll from the forest fires at Paradise in California rose to 83. After the fires now floods and mudflows threaten the area, warns sheriff Kory Honea of Butte County.
The Libyan authorities have taken dozens of migrants from a cargo ship after about a week and a half. They were rescued at sea and refused to disembark in the North African country because they wanted to be brought to Europe.
The number of deaths from the forest fires in northern California has increased again. After the discovery of five charred bodies, 76 remains have been recovered, according to local authorities.
The number of missing people after the deadliest and most devastating forest fires in California's history has risen to 630. At least 63 people were killed by the fires that broke out a week ago north of San Francisco.
Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were convicted of genocide by a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday. It is the first time that someone has been convicted of genocide from the regime that was in power in the country almost forty years ago.
The number of deaths from forest fires in northern California has risen to 56. At least 130 people are missing, according to a new list of names published by the authorities.
Employees of a steel plant in the Belgian city of Charleroi went very well last weekend. Their employer accidentally deposited 30,000 euros in salary on their bills. According to the employees, the money received too much has already been spent by a number of them, writes the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
In a fire in a budget hotel in the South Korean capital of Seoul, at least six people were killed and twelve injured on Friday. According to local media, the authorities take into account that the number of victims continues to increase.
In the mid-term elections in the US, 38.9 million people voted in advance. This often happened by letter. The ElectProject research institute reported that this number is considerably larger than at the ballot box four years ago. Then there were about 20.5 million voters who voted early.
With the mid-term elections, the Americans can make it clear that 'undermining the democratic institutions and values' must be stopped by the Trump government. The Democratic former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave her compatriots that message via a few messages on Twitter.
President Trump has already voted early by post. And with him a record number of Americans. Everything seems to indicate a big turnout for these congressional elections. In spite of rain along almost the entire east coast, polling stations report great pressure.
The British army opens the door wide for immigrants. It is planned that 1350 immigrants from the Commonwealth will be welcomed annually. In this way the shortage of soldiers in the British army must be discharged.
The number of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo suffering from severe hunger has increased explosively as a result of the ongoing conflicts in the country. More than 13 million people no longer have enough to eat, compared to 7.7 million last year. Approximately 6 million children in Congo must be considered undernourished.
Twitter has destroyed more than 10,000 accounts that have been distributing automated messages to discourage US voters from voting in the Congressional Congress this week. The senders did whether the messages came from Democrats.
New Caledonia will vote in a referendum on independence from France on Sunday. About 175,000 inhabitants of the archipelago in the Pacific may vote. The strongest advocates for independence are the Kanaken, the original inhabitants. They have been waiting for the referendum for more than three decades.
Up to now, 34 people in the Philippines have been killed by typhoon Yutu. The authorities gave up hope after days of searching to find another seventeen missing men and women alive.
A cut off head in a cool box. Subsequently passers-by were treated near the busiest border crossing between America and Mexico last Sunday. It meant murder number two thousand-many this year in Tijuana. Drug boss El Chapo Guzman may be trapped in New York, Mexico sighs under a successor who is even more bloodthirsty.
The Congolese authorities raise the alarm about the exceptionally large number of children who die from Ebola. That would mainly have to do with unhygienic methods of traditional medicine.
Harvey Weinstein's legal team works with the attorneys of a number of women who accuse him of abusing a settlement. The film producer wants financial compensation to prevent women from bringing him to court in a civil lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reports on the basis of insiders.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
In the dispute with the United States about the termination of the INF disarmament treaty, Russia is prepared to work on resolving mutual grievances. This was announced by the Russian Security Council after a meeting of security advisor Nicolai Patroesjev with his American counterpart John Bolton.
In the center of London, tens of thousands of people took part in an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday. The demonstrators want a new referendum about the brexit. According to the British media, the organizers say that as many as 500,000 people took part in the demonstration. Beforehand, they had announced that they expected 100,000 people.
A Brexit summit has failed again this week. The British Prime Minister Theresa May had a quarter of an hour to explain her requirements. She spoke so quickly that the other government leaders hardly understood her. 'It is still a mystery what the British want,' sighed one of those present against Bloomberg.
Nearly three hundred Syrian White Helmets have left Jordan. They are taken care of in Western countries, reports the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
36 pupils are pregnant at a secondary school in the northeast of South Africa. The girls are between fourteen and eighteen years old, says spokesman Neil Shikhwambana of the Ministry of Health of Limpopo province.
A number of suspects identified by Turkey in the case of the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi comes from the immediate surroundings of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The New York Times writes this on the basis of facial recognition, social network profiles, media reports and leaked Saudi government documents.
