The number of deaths caused by the earthquake on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has more than doubled. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday that at least 16 people were killed.
At least twenty people were killed by a bloody double attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. Another seventy people were injured, the authorities say. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior stressed that the number of victims is likely to be adjusted.
Uber now sends a message when it appears that one of his cars had an accident. The passenger must answer a few questions via his app. If something has indeed happened, Uber recommends calling an emergency number.
At least fifteen men around the 9/11 attack near the World Trade Center have contracted breast cancer.
The public prosecutor in Los Angeles has dropped a charge of sexual abuse against actor Kevin Spacey. Also two cases against Steven Seagal and Anthony Anderson are not continued, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
In the Indian city of Calcutta, a busy highway bridge collapsed during a heavy rain shower. Several vehicles have been dumped in depth. Nothing is clear about the number of victims.
Tens of thousands of music lovers and activists have committed themselves to xenophobia, racism and right-wing extremist violence during a concert in Chemnitz. Under the slogan 'we are with more' bands such as Die Toten Hosen, Kraftklub and rappers Marteria and Casper performed in the Saxon city on Monday night.
The Argentine president has proposed a new austerity program. That must restore the confidence of foreign investors and reverse the fall of the peso.
At least four hundred prisoners were escaped from a jail in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday after a prison revolt. That reports the local police.
In the fight against peeping, the South Korean capital Seoul is going to inspect daily whether there are no hidden cameras in public toilets. The city council has announced the ambitious plan on Sunday, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
The number of cases of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Chile is much greater than expected. The Public Prosecution Service announced Friday 119 cases, three times as much than a month ago.
A man has broken into a funeral director in the English city of Kent, to steal the body of his mother-in-law. The man feared that the entrepreneur would go bankrupt and that he would not be able to get the body in time for the funeral.
The restart of two of the four reactors at the nuclear power plant in the Belgian Doel has been postponed. Instead of October, it will be December, operator Engie Electrabel reports.
Hundreds of agents from all over Belgium have formed an honorary hedge at the farewell of the Saturday night at Spa Amaury Delrez. They all wore a mourning band and saluted when the funeral procession passed by.
Drivers who work via Chinese taxi apps have broadcast images of unsuspecting passengers live via the internet. A Chinese video site is now taking action against such practices and is forbidding the drivers from making such clips from customers any longer, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper.
The coffin in which Aretha Franklin is located, has just arrived at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, accessible to the public. The deceased queen of soul will stay there for a few days and people are already queuing en masse.
A few dozen boat people have succeeded in making the long dangerous crossing to Australia, but the question is how happy they should be. They have landed in a remote swamp area where it is teeming with crocodiles.
Counterfeit webshops are a big problem in Germany. More than four million Germans have ever fallen victim to fake web shops. This is shown by a study by a number of consumer organizations. The study will be released on Monday evening via the broadcaster ARD.
Two witnesses of the murder of policeman Amaury Delrez (38) reported to the Belgian police.
More and more Turks are fleeing their country and applying for asylum in Greece. In July alone, that happened 687 times, reports Greek media. Since the beginning of this year, Athens has already registered almost 2,000 Turks. According to a Coast Guard officer, the actual number is much larger, because many do not report to the authorities. They travel to Western or Central Europe.
Pope Francis refuses to accept accusations that he has covered up abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church. During his return trip to Rome, the spiritual leader on the plane said that the document with the allegations 'speaks for itself'. and that he does not want to elaborate on it.
After Jerusalem, the United States is still hiding a pillar under the Palestinian struggle for an independent state: the right of return. According to Israeli media, the Trump government is announcing in the short term that the descendants of the Palestinians who fled the establishment of the state of Israel can not 'return'.
This is perhaps the reason why sex education is so important. A married couple from China did their utmost for four years to get pregnant, but in vain. For advice they made an appointment with doctor Liu Hongmei, who, to her great surprise, quickly found out the problem.
The European aid of € 18 million to Iran gives 'the wrong message, at the wrong time.' That is what the American special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, who calls on Brussels to help the United States end to the Iranian threat.
Some of the people who had to leave their homes because of the large forest fire in southwest Brandenburg can return home. The evacuation of the village of Frohnsdorf was lifted on Friday afternoon, said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the German state during a visit to the area.
Coincidentally such a sense to cycle through the dunes? World star Justin Timberlake cycled Friday on a cargo bike through the dunes at Schoorl! He placed a photo of his cycling adventure on his Instagram account with more than 50 million followers.
The European Central Bank (ECB) prefers a woman when looking for a new head for banking supervision. That is what insiders tell Bloomberg news agency. The deadline to apply for the post ends Friday.
The fire brigade succeeded on Friday to protect the three villages threatened by forest fires in the German state of Brandenburg against the flames. About five hundred residents of the villages of Frohnsdorf, Klausdorf and Tiefenbrunnen had to leave their homes on Thursday evening because of the fire about 50 kilometers south of Berlin.
A US legal nationalist who was involved in the violence in Charlottesville last year was sentenced to eight years in prison by a court. During a demonstration of extreme right-wing alt-groups, he and a number of others have beaten a black man.
Where Nintendo has been sending a heroic plumber on the road for years in video games, SEGA does that with a lightning blue hedgehog. Last year, the hedgehog got a downloadable platform adventure called Sonic Mania.
