Experts investigating the deadly fire in the London Grenfell Tower are not for a ban on flammable siding. Survivors insisted on such a measure, but the principal investigator told the BBC that especially the lack of compliance with the rules is a problem.
London City Airport was evacuated on Wednesday evening after a fire started in one of the buildings at the airport. Outside, amidst the planes, about six hundred passengers are waiting.
People from outside Europe who have to apply for a visa to visit the Schengen countries will be checked more thoroughly in the future. Especially due to safety and migration risks, they are taken by various information systems.
The European Union has called on Montenegro to thoroughly investigate the attack on a journalist. Reporter Olivera Lakic was injured when she was attacked on Tuesday outside an apartment complex in Podgorica. The 49-year-old journalist writes for a daily newspaper about organized crime.
The shooting incident at the South Station of Brussels on Wednesday is probably due to years of family feud. The identity of the archer is known according to the Brussels public prosecutor's office but he has not yet been arrested.
It can take weeks or even months before it becomes known what the exact cause was of the leak in the nuclear part of the nuclear power plant in the Flemish Target at the end of April. This was stated by the head of nuclear watchdog FANC Frank Hardeman in the Nuclear Safety Chamber Committee.
In the US state of Georgia, a forty-year-old man was executed for the murder of a prison guard in 1996. Robert Butts Jr. was put to death by a lethal injection in a jail in Jackson. He is the tenth person to be executed in the United States this year.
Physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a scientific article just before his death. That is now posthumously published in the journal Journal of High Energy Physics. The article was approved for publication shortly before his death. Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76.
The walkman, the CD player and the floppy disk, they all came up and disappeared again. These six things are according to trend watcher Michael McQueen also on extinction:
Filip Dewinter has pulled out on Twitter into the 'learning disadvantage of immigrants'. The Vlaams Belang-foreman did so in response to a billboard with a photograph of himself that has been edited with graffiti. The remark, however, rebounded like a boomerang in his face by a reaction from an alert reader.
In collaboration with the French secretary of state Marlene Schiappa, the Cannes Film Festival establishes a telephone line for reporting sexual abuse. That reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The seriously ill British child Alfie Evans can not be treated in Italy. The parents of the 23-month-old boy wanted him to be admitted to a hospital in Rome, but a court stuck to it, according to British media, in appeal.
A seriously ill British child has received Italian nationality. This should enable the parents of the 23-month-old Alfie Evans to bring their son 'immediately' to Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan also wants to campaign abroad for himself and his party in the run-up to the early Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections this summer.
A driver of a truck that smuggled dozens of migrants into his vehicle in the US state of Texas last year was sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten occupants of the 61-year-old driver's truck did not survive the ride in the hot vehicle.
Four baboons chose the hares, when they saw an opportunity to escape from a laboratory where researchers perform animal experiments. Thanks to a large blue barrel, the four smart monkeys could hoist themselves up. They went straight away and even walked for a while on public roads.
The EU must draw the wallet for aid clubs promoting European values like democracy within the EU. The European Parliament demands that the European Commission come up with a concrete proposal for this.
About thirty tough motorcyclists from all over Belgium have shown their softest side. They have escorted a girl bullied at school to her school in Liège. And because the girl would still be bullied by students from her previous school, a stopover was also made there. 'That's how we want to support the girl and give her self-confidence a boost.'
Facebook is taking measures to prevent almost all of its users coming soon under the new European privacy legislation. The internet company wants the regulations to apply only to European members. Facebook confirms that decision to Reuters news agency.
The boy who was molested in Berlin because he was wearing a yarmulke, says he is an Israeli boy from an Arab family, and that the yarmul was meant as an 'experiment'.
Action has the name in the Netherlands, but can not keep pace with the pace at which Chinese JD.com stores open: one thousand a week.
The American telecom watchdog FCC has imposed a fine on T-Mobile USA for tampering with calls from customers to outside areas in the United States. Instead of improving accessibility, the sister company of Dutch T-Mobile added a fake phone tone, making it seem like it was not being recorded.
The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.
In the abuse case against Bill Cosby it was Friday to Andrea Constand to tell her story to the jury. Her case is central to the process. Constand said during the session that she would like to testify because she wants justice for the victims of fallen comedians.
Holiday flights to Cyprus and Israel from the Netherlands will continue as usual. The rising tension due to the Syria crisis does not yet have any influence on the operation
Russia is questioning a statement by Joelia Skripal, published by the British police. The daughter of former double spy Sergej Skripal, among other things, did not want to use the services of the Russian embassy in London. She also does not want to talk to the media at the moment.
Netflix has decided not to show films during the prestigious film festival in Cannes. The streaming service does not agree with the decision of the film festival to exclude Netflix from the competitions, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
The German military security service MAD is afraid of attacks on vehicles of the German army. In an internal safety advice, the service says that 'it must be assumed that it can lead to further attacks' in response to the Turkish offensive in Syria against Kurds.
